The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-18

He turned MT. Edwards head around and called to him, as the face was lying upward; upon releasing the head it went back again to it's former posi-
 tion. There was apparently no breath ing, and he detected no pulse or heart action; he saw what he thought was bruise upon the left ear. He then bathed with wet towel his forehead and cheek; he noticed his right arm was extended, his left being parallel with the body. He also observed handkerchief, with blood stains upon it, wadded up. as if 1t had been crushed between the hands, and lying about an inch to the right of the right cheek, a little above the nose. Dr. Metcalf thinks he brushed the handkerchief away from where 1t originally lay He observed no blood upon the bed eloth- ing, or pillow, but did observe blood on the left side of the neckband of the combination suit, and upon the whis- kers on the left side. He also noticed a vessel beyond the foot of the bed, containing what he supposed to be urine in it, and what he supposed to be blood stains. He remarked to MT. Hil-
 Ter. that 1t was a case of apoplexy and , physician should be summoned. Mr. Hitler summoned Dr. B. H. Cheney,
 who arrived at about 9.30 a. m., and found Mr. Hitler and Dr. Netcalf awaiting him. He observed Mir. Ed wards lying upon the bed, with the
 tongue protruding, and also noticed what he then supposed to be a bruise
 upon the left ear. He thought it was case of apoplexy, and that the bruise was the result of a fall He prepared tion of strychnine and nitroglycerine in the arm. He also resorted to arti- ficial respiration. He noticed the bed- clothing was down below the chest, and that the combination suit was unbut-
 toned and tHat it had short sleeves.
 He the noticed blood was upon the neck and whiskers of the left side, but none upon the bedclothing. He direct ed his attention to the left ear and found a pistol shot wound ir the ear, with numerous powder grains about the wound, clairly indicating that the shot must have been fired with the pistol close to the ear. He introduced probe into this wound, and found that the course of the wound was obviously
 through the ear and into the scalp, it's direction being upward slightly back ward and inward toward the skull He then examined the pupils of the eyes, and found them dilated. He made search about the room for pistol but found none He observed near the foot of the bed vessel containing what
 he thought to be water and spots of blood, these 'spots" on more careful examination were found not to be blood; he also observed & wet towel,
 which he was informed had been used by Dr. Metcalf, which had blood upon 1t. He then remarked that the case was one for the coroner, and police should be summoned at once.
 About 10 o'clock a. m., Dr. Charles ]. Bartlett, medical examiner for the town of New Haven, was summoned, as was also Deputy Coroner Philip Pond, They went to the house, IF College street, where they found the body of the de- ceased lying in the bed in the front room upon the second floor of the house. The body when seen by Dr. Bal tlett was upon it's back, turned a | little toward the right side, the face being turned to the right, the right arm extended outward, somewhat downward, and lying upon the bed clothes covering the body, the left arm | being nearly parallel with the body at it's side. The bed clothing was turn ed down so that the upper chest was uncovered. There was towel behind the neck, with some blood stains upon 1t, which Dr. B. H. Cheney said he had put there. There was a bullet hole 1 passing through the left ear into the scalp, the upper end of the wound on the front of jhe ear being one and one stxth inches from the upper end of the ear. and one-half inch from the | back edge of the ear, There were num- erous powder stains upon the ear, chiefly above and behind this wound, the grains being close together iimme- ] diately around 1t, and the edges of the wound blackened, indicating the weap- on firm which the bullet was shot was | close against the ear. No powder grains were found elsewhere than on the ear. A probe had been inserted into the 1 wound by Dr. B. H. Cheney. There were no other external injuries upon | the bcdv. The body had on a thin combination undersuit and black stock | ings, which stockings were wrong side out. No night shirt or pajamas were opon the body, and I was informed by Mrs. Edwards that her husband usu- ally were his stockings turned inside i out to ease his feet. Two of the four upper buttons of the undersuit were off, and the other two were unbutten- ed. There was dried blood upon the in- side of the neck band, both upon the right and left side of the combination suit in front, and streaks of blood down upon the front of the right and left side of the upper front of the undersuit. 1 The location of one of these streaks up- on the front side of the under suit in- | dicated that the suit was unbuttoned | at the time the blood stains were re- i ceived. There was a drop of blood on | the upper part of the left stocking, and a little blood upon the sole of the right