The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-09
DIED BY OWN HAND Coroner Mix Issues a State ment Indicating That Edwards Committed
 Suicide.
POLICE SURVEILLANCE OFF
DETECTIVES FOUND LAUDANUM BOTTLE, REVOLVER AND
 BLOODSTAINS.

Discovery of Blood Spots on Back
 Stairs in Hitler Home Held to Indi-
 cate That Edwards Went Upstairs
 After Shooting-BeIief That Re-
 voIver and Bottle of Poison Were
 Thrown Out Into the Yard--Inyesti-
 gation Not Yet Completed but Pre-
 Iiminary Statement Indicates That
 Edwards Killed Himself.
 By the preliminary statement issued late yesterday afternoon by Coroner Mix, the main details which have been brought out in the long Investigation into the death of the late Charles Ed wards were made public. The report gives a hard blow to the theories of murder which have been entertained on all sides, the coroner indicating by the statement that the deceased committed suicide As the result of this outcome of the examination the strict police surveillance at the home If Allan Max cy Hitler, which was inaugurated about midnight last Thursday night, was or dered discontinued shortly befort 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and MT. Ii1ln,s i,7 f,.pa ba police guard at the Hitler homestead on College street was likewise discon- tinued at the same time.
 The coroner's report reads thus:
 Recent developments, after long in- Nestigation concerning the cause of the death of Charles A. Edwards, which occurred on the morning of Wednes- day. January 3, 1906, including the find- ing within the body of quantity of morphine, possibly sufficient to cause death, and the discovery of a bottle of laudanun in the rear yard of the Hil- Ter residence within easy throw of the back door, and including the finding of a revolver in such yard, within easy throw of the back door, of .22 caliber, Colts new .22. No, 9S,974, which was sold by the Colts Firearms company May 3, 1880, to John Moore & Sons, New York, and shipped to them in case No. 141, together with 179 re- volvers to said Moore & Sons which revolver appears to have had little use, the chamber of which revolver contains two empty shells and five loaded car- tridges, also including the finding of bloodstains from outside the rear din- ing room door up the back stairway and to the landing leading to the front hall, indicates suicide.
 In consequence of such developments all surveillance of Allan Maxcy Hitler has been withdrawn.
 The investigation has not been con- cluded, and final report is not yet suicide.
 The finding of this evidence, Coroner Mix said. was the result of dihgent search made by Detectives Daley, Ward and Donnelly.
 The Colts revolver, with which the coroner is convinced the shooting was done, was found by Detectives Ward Donnelly and Daley, as they were working together on Saturday search ing the back yard of the Hitler home. The revolver was about twenty-two feet from the back door of the house, and was concealed by shrubbery and deep weeds. The bottle of laudanum mentioned in the report was found quite near the revolver. It was one half pint flask containing when found about one inch of the poison in it. There was no poison label on the bot tie, which had originally been used for some other purpose. This bottle was found Saturday by Detectives Donnelly and Ward, and was about thirty feet from the back door of the house. This hottle was submitted to Dean Herbert Smith of the Yale Medical school for his analysis.
 If is stated that quantity of mor- phine sufficient to cause death was found in the dead mans body. This was revealed by the autopsy
 A second revolver which has caused confusion in accounts of the finding of the revolver was found in the Hitler home early in the search, but on ex- animation it was found that the car fridge cells were cobwebbed, ard that this revolver could have no connection with the case.
 On Saturday Detective Daley discov- cred on the stairs in the back of the house leading down to the back door spots of blood, which gave an import ant olew to the case. The stairs are of very dark wood, and the s.ains were almost imperceptible. These were gradually traced up stairs, the spots appearing on the stairs all the way up, and they had dropped in a zigzag fashion, indicating that the man had gone up stairs slowly, holding to the banister and staggering. The blood spots lead from the stairs in the direc- tion of the dead mans room, but stop ped before reaching the room. The stainsbegan right outside the rear door
 The belief is that Edwards threw the bottle and revolver out of the rear door
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