The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-15
SLEEVE HAD RUST STAINS

Continued from First Page.) made by Maxcy Hitler against his mother during her last illness. Eyi- dence was introduced In the case that hard threats were made, and that Mrs. Edwards had made arrangements with her mother for having the nurse, Miss Besanson, write to her everything Max cy Hitler said of importance. Mrs Ed- wards the story goes, sent to the coro- ner the threats as soon as they began to be mentioned in the case as a possi- ble motive for a murder, and they will be given to Mrs. Edwards as soon as the coroners investigation is over. They may figure in the litigation which, in some quarters, is expected before the Hitler estate is probated
 During the investigation Coroner Mix but the question to Charles Hitler, How does 1t happen that you did not see that Edwards was in physical dis tress, had been bleeding from a pistol wound. and was really dying, when you went into his room the first timer"
 Hitler, who says that he went into Edwards room at eight o'clock without noticing that his brother-in-law was in distress, stuck to the following testimo- ny in all the coroner's investigations which have been had:
 When entered Edwards room about eight o'clock he was breathing, although thought rather heavily. It was a rather dark, foggy morning, and the blinds were closed anyway. It was dark in his room The first thing mo- ticed was that he left the gas burning when he went to bed I thought this a little queer but regarded 1t as an act of thoughtlessness on his part and turned out the gas. l went to the shut ters to open them with the idea that the light coming in at the windows would waken him gradually. l did not look particularly at his face, but went down stairs to breakfast. l would have awakened him then had he not told me the night before that he wanted to sleep late, although he did wish to catch one of the morning trains home. 1 The second time I went up l took him by the arm to awaken him and saw that he was in a serious condition
 Those who think that Edwards plot ted suicide with Intent to throw suspi- cion on others point out his remark that he wanted to sleep late" as a sig nhcant remark.
 From two sources the coroner has been able to get evidence about the shots which were fired which ended Edwards life. The first testimony or this point was given by Margaret Key holds, one of the servants in the Hillei household. She testified as follows;
 T heard shots between five and si1 O clock on the morning of the death.
 was not awake and went to sleep agail after hearing them The first shot wa
 as if you fired your pistol, loaded tn
 gun and handed 1t to someone else wh
 fired 1t for the second shot They di
 not seem like very loud shots to me.
 Miss Reynolds testimony Is corrobc
 rated by Professor Taylor of Dart
 mouth, who testified
 q was sleeping the night of the tras
 edy in the Graduates club. Betwee : five and six o'clock l heard two shot
 They appeared to be from a weapon ( y small calibre and in the open. M a window was open. There was quite T little time which elasped between u n firing of the shots"
 e Anson Stanley, the night watohma r. at the Graduates club, who was awal if all night, and who might naturally ,s supposed to be surer of the time ths V persons awakened out of sound slee If told the coroner that he heard one sh l. at two o'clock in the morning. It
 understood, however. that the coron Id is inclined to accept the story of Il 2 others.
 B. The corroborative evidence on tn Id point is thought to establish a gre lc deal. 1t settles the time that Edwar, E. was shot. It evidently makes it su m that the shooting was done in the HI g. Ter backyard, for the sleeping room le Professor Taylor in the Graduates ell 2 is hardly a stones throw from q h backyard, while the room in which E
 wards slept is around the corner al S- the windows were nearly all close n only one having been up few incht ,e Margaret Reynolds, who sleeps dov
 stairs, would not have heard the sh ,s had it been fired upstairs in Edward l. sleeping room, while Charles Hill re could not have helped hearing it. MI le Reynolds sleeps in the basement tn It is positively known that Edward S. in his talk with Charles Hitler, gave $. intimation that he intended to comm
 suicide He complained of feeli
 tired, and testimony has been giv Id that he lay down at Mrs. Harris a ,d also at the Hitler house while he W c waiting to go to the party at Preside
 Dwight's.
 The report of Coroner Mix, which
 expected to give out to-day, has be
 delayed, and it is now probable that
 will not appear before Wednesday IL perhaps Thursday. This report, whi te goes to State Attorney Williams " ly cover all the testimony taken by es coroner, and also the report of tn Charles J. Bartlett, the medical exa t. tineri, who conducted the autopsy