The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-05-28
NJ DEVELOPMENTS IN WALTER MURDER Many Clues Run Down by Po-
 lice and Coroner ANOTHER BLOODY SHIRT One Was Left at the Dude Saloon Friday Morning Wrapped Up,
 and Package Was Opened
 Yesterday.
ANOTHER BLOODY SHIRT

The police, the sheriff's office and the coroner spent yesterday looking for a clue which would lead to a solution of the Woodlawn murder case, but without avail. Half dozen or more clues were traced down by the officers, hoping that they would lead to the murderer of Isaac W. Walter. who was found dead near his home Friday morning, but at o'clock this morning no clue had de- veloped anything that gave promise of dissolving the mystery.
 Probably the most startling of the en- tire number of rumors which were run down by the police came last night about 10 o'clock, when a report was circulated that white man with bullet through 1lIs breast and without hat had been found in Louisville and Nashville freight car in the yards here The re- port spread rapidly that the murderer had been caught but the police found no truth in the report.
 Again yesterday morning a bloody shirt which was left in the Dude salon early Friday morning caused much speculation among those working on the case. About daybreak, just after the saloon had been opened. a white man walked in and asked Adam Wheat, the negro porter, to keep a package for him. The package con sisted of a shirt wrapped in brown paper, and the shirt had blood on it in a num- Der of places The detectives and off- cers from Woodlawn examined the shirt and the latter have it in their possession as possible clue. In view of the belief that the man who killed MT Walter was wounded, this was considered as an im- portant find. The negro told the follow ing story of the package being left:
 "The white man walked into the saloon and asked me to keep the package, that he would be back after it later I hand ed him a pencial to write his name on the package and he started writing, but changed his mind and did not He walked out and has never come back after the package I opened it out of curiosity this morning Saturday, and then showed 1t to the police"
 Croner's Jury Meets.
 The coroner's jury held a session yes- terday morning and obtained some addi- tional evidence. none of which seemed, however, to have any direct bearing on the matter. Among Otner lhineS tne piS- tol lying by the side of the corps was tested, to see if it would shoot. It failed more times than it fired. This was done in order to weight the chances or whether Mir Walter was shot by the highway mans pistol or by his own. Judging from the wound some are inclined to think that the bullet might have been from Mr. Walters pistol which they state the highwayman might have wrenched from the dead mans hand.
 Many are lead to believe that there were two highwaymen instead of one, and one theory is that the second high wayman might have killed MT. Walter and not the one who dropped the pistol and hat.
 It is the belief of the officers and the coroner that one hghwayman was shot and probably badly wounded. The bloody piece of shirt found south of the rail- road tracks caused this belief, and also one that the highwayman escaped on a train.