The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-01-09
EDWARDS
A SUICIDE
Remarkable Finding In New
Haven Tragedy.
coRoNtRS UNIQUE IDEA
Fatal Weapon and Poison Bottle
Found uoss 10 Rear Door Of
iiilIsf Mansion.
coR0NtR'S UNIQUE IDEA

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The coroasr,s bret rvIsou dos ~,
disiscl the mystery IN tie d-aih q Mr
Edwards. snd until the complete nnd.
ms IL ready probably no pubic solution
ran 10 found as 10 Why Me- Edwards
"a ? O'Clock on Wednesday morning
last. clad IN he undcrcioshes. isft his
chamber and Descended 70 the basc
meni. lighted ~. sas unisoli~i and
niss7i~i the rcsr door. then twice de.
charged n revolver AZ himself. the bal
Jet going into the ear. then. failing TO
LII himself. Threw the weapon away.
drank laudanum aud tossed the bottle
after the pistol aud with blood flowing
from n wound In the car and head
dragged himself back 90 his chamber.
got Into bel. drew the bcdcloihe- over
hir shoulders aud after placing n hand
kerchief under his bead 10 sthnch the
How Of blood lspsed into unconscious.
ness, death coming sin hours later.
Coroner Mix ~ described the actions
Of Mr.. Edwards on the night Ia aucs.
ton.
Maxcy Hitler took his release from
surveillance calmly. hut denied himself /
to all callers. By advice OF his counsel /
he has refused to make any statement
whatever.
The finding OF the coroner has Arous.
Cd even greater interest In the reports
OF the autopsy and Inquest. neither OF
which. however may be made public
In detail. Some Of the inquest evidence
Is understood 10 be startling. almost
beyond belief. the coroner himself adj.
mitting this. For this reason II IL not
expected that State Attorney Williams
will allow the evidence 10 be opened
for publication.
Coroner Mix said that one bullet
went wild, being imbedded in the door,
while the other made the wound. In
an ordinary man this bullet would
have brought on unconsciousness, but
probably with Mr.. Edwards 1t simply
had a deadening effect.
Tue hand rail on the stairs and tho
wall show bloody hand marks, as IL
had first put his hand to the
smearing 1t with blood before
starting upstairs. That Edwards had
disrobed before going down
stairs is shown by the care taken in
folding up and laying aside his outer
garments. Besides, according to
Charles Hitler he retired about mid
night The time of the shooting IL
liked by maidservant next door and
BY the Waterman at the Graduates .
hub, In the rear, both of whom heard
,wo pistol shots about 2 o'clock.
Charles Hitler slept through this noise
He added: 'The chamber Of the re-
oliver found contained two empty
'hells and five loaded cartridges. The
blood stains ran from the outside Of
he rear dining room door, up the back
tairway and to the landing to the
ront hall. The blood stains formed a
rail, but stopped at the landing. He
lsed two handkerchiefs to stop the
bleeding In my opinion the man shot
himself first and then took the poison.
after taking the poison he threw both
ev0lver and bottle away and pulled
himself upstairs. Under certain con-
litions either the pistol wound or the
lose of poison would have killed a
nan, but in this case 1t is my belief