The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-06

 night of the crime, Now, reduce this to simple formula. Find the man who has the motive plus the opportunity plus the unusual knowledge, and you will have the person who killed Charles A. Edwards.
 Tn this analysis I have assumed ab- solutely that the crime is an assassina- tion. The position of the wound, just behind the left ear; the position of the body when found, the fact that the re- volver is missing, the absence of impor- tant documents bearing on a family in- heritance which are missing from the l dead mans clothing, and dozen other important factors absolutely preclude ! the idea that Edwards committed sui eide
 Edwards was killed by man of in- telligence. He was killed because of knowledge or documents that he had which would have injured the slayer 1 When this statement was called to the attention of MT. Arvine he thus commented upon it: "The fool part of that is that Hitler had no motive and | could not have a motive" | l A statement in reply to MT. Osborne | by Rev Dr. Smyth on this subject ap- pears in the earlier part of this report l of the case.
 1 EDWARDS BODY SENT HOME, Coroner Mix yesterday morning gave | permission for the remains of MT. Ed 1 wards to be sent to New York city for interment in the Edwards family plot at Woodlawn.
 The body was embalmed and was shipped on an early train from the un- dertaking rooms of Burwell on Chapel street, where it has lain since Mir. Ed wards death.
 It was stated at the residence of ex- President Dwight, of Yale that Mrs. Edwards and her two daughters left
 here on a later train yesterday after noon for their home in New York city.
 Mrs. Edwards has already given her
 testimony at the Dwight lome to Cor oner Mix, so that it is felt that she can
 be excused from further testimony at present She can be recalled to this city if needed to state facts relative to
 the case.
 It was stated yesterday that arrange ments for the funeral of the late Mr.
 Edwards at his New York home, $50
 Park avenue, were not completed.
 Mrs Jonathan Hitler kept some val- ruables in a safe that has not yet been
 opened, and while it is generally be- lieved by the members of the family
 that she left no will, they say that it
 is possible that the document may be
 there Mrs. Hitler rented safe de-
 posit vault and there she had most of her valuable papers and securities
 stored
 Shortly after her death members of the family went to the safe deposit vault and had it opened. This was done in the presence of Allan Maxcy Hiller and his brother, Charles A. Hill
 CT. Mrs. Charles A. Edwards, daugh- ter of Mrs. Hitler, was not present, but she was represented at the time by Attorney George D. Watrous. The
 will was not found in the safe deposit vault, and since then it has been con : cluded by the members of the family
 that there was no will. Maxcy Hitler,
 however says that he once drew will z for his mother
 II. lA IluWdIuS, UI NGW 1OTk Clly, nephew of the murdered man, arrived
 in this city Thursday evening. He was
 driven in a hack to the coroners office. He went in for a few minutes and dis l cussed the case with Coroner Mix, try ing to throw all the light possible on the family troubles of the three chil-
 dren of the late Mrs. Abigail Hitler. [ Then he was driven to the residence of } ex-President Timothy Dwight, of Yale, t where his aunt, Mrs. Charles A. Ed . wards, lies prostrated by the terrible
 death of her husband, the detention , by the police of one of her brothers, the ransacking of her glrlhood home, 3 and the suspense which hangs over her t two brothers in connection with the event.
 : Thursday evening the nurse who at- s tended, at her fatal illness, the late
 Mrs. Abigail Hitler who was Miss E. M. S Benzonas, now in Bristol arrived here :. and her story was told to the coroner. r She related the condition of strained r relations existing between members of Q the Hitler family.
 Coroner Mix In his efforts to find the causes that led to the mysterious death . of Charles A. Edwards at the Hitler
 homestead in College street on We'd nesday morning, evidently struck 8 snag when he took up the case yester- day morning. It had bee narranged , and planned according to programme ! that Maxcy Hitler should be taken from his home and presented at the
 coroner's office in the morning soon aft :. CT o'clock for a resumption of the 5 hearing before the coroner Hitler
 did not appear, the formal investigation before the coroner was declared off e temporarily, and there was nothing do-
 ing at the coroner's office in the way of a examination of witnesses until after the
 noon hour. In the meantime the coro- '. ner had consultation with States At Q | torney Williams. MT Hitler remained
 at his home with a police detail there. e He was in frequent consultation with
 his counsel during the forenoon and it !, was very apparent from the turn af- Q fairs had taken that his legal advisor Y had cautioned him against all further |. discussion of the case, even before the coroner, without his counsel having an . opportunity to be heard
 . Attorney George E. Hill of Bridgeport, Q county health officer for Fairfield coun-