The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-24
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that ths man had asrt ~ sum" mytcrious
metsnEe
Then camc Mrs. spief. drea-"d In drcp
mourning With her veil thrown hack. She
waa oompoaed, but under = hard strain
Her answers were olear and sharp and her
mind acted drIcb n o flash. She insisted
on having all tho questions made absolutely
clear before ahe would answer. She told
how her husband came N her room. got the
revolver and dog. how abe followed him
10 the hall and was lighting The gas when
he ran down stairs. rhan Abe Attd
Il heard a shot, then a crash. which waa
evidently the falling silver, thcn another
shot, " .
She ran down stairs. she teetihed, lighted
the Raa over her husbands body. went TO
the door and screamed for help. She could
recall little Of importance after that. When
she Was asked lis this your hushand's
revolver7- Mrs. Spier tool the weapon,
broke il open, exa mined the cartridges. the
ha and the trigger, snapped n together
again, cooked the weapon. raised i IN the
air and snapped IT, Then abe replied In n
Arm voice: yes. ,
the dog growing az he went down stairR.
Did you hear any footstepe?' asked the
coroner
NO, Mr.. CahiIl.- was the arswer, Il
simply saw my husband dying Mrs;
Spier said her husband had been in good
spirits and she declared hat on SATURDAY
he had given her about 81 900 for household
expenses. as he had often dore tefore.
She had il put in the bank the day he was
After Mrs. spier had finished Walter c.
Kerr Of the Jury wanted TO know how long
they were to Re kept there. He said il was
an outrage TO he held longer without a
recess.
the case snapped out the Cororer. Dis
Mr.. Kerr. He said the Coroner had full
power to do as he pleased.
'Thon, he's a king said Mir. Kerr.
Not necessarily said the Coroner
Mr.. Kerr declared that he had never
heard of a case 20 long dragged out. He
said that questions were asked on the mt
or miss plan. that most of them were ir-
relevant, and that he did't intend a. stand
1t il he could help it.
"We have been here for more than FIVE
hours he declared, .and the questio Ms
could nave been asked in two hours. I
have had a lot OF court experience. and |
.-,.. 80, th,t I ,,,ar l.fAr.l go N Loo 80
more immaterial questions in my life
The Coroner then delivered u speech in
which be said he would go on as he had
been doing, and he called several wit
nesses TO testify that Mr.. Spier had left New
York about 4:3o O'Clock in the afternoon
on the Saturday before he Was killed. Sew
eral jurymen wanted TO know the import of
these questions, but got no sa~tisfa ction.
Then officers Of several trust companies
were asked TO tell Of minor financial trans
actions on the part of Spier and finally
II. H. Rogers, Jr., was called.
Mr.. Rogers said that on March "a his
father had given Spier 500 600 worth of
bonds on the Seacoast Transit Company
and $50, 900 worth of bonds of the Asbury
Park and Sea Girt Railway Company,
$40, 600 of which belonged to Daniel Day,
to take to the Central Trust Company, to
be exchanged for bonds of the Atlantic
Coast Electrical Railway. He also gave
him on the same day 900 sha res of the Sea
coast Traction Company stock.
On May 2 the elder Rogers had given
Spier 900 shares of Asbury Park and Sea
Girt stock. all Of which was to be delivered
to the Central Trust Company. Mr.. Rogers
said that Spier on May 1 delivered the bonds
Mr.. Rogers wanted to Mr.. Rogers. The
younger Rogers said he had no personal
knowledge as to what Spier had done with
the securities in the meantime.
Frank p. Keech then said that Spier
had brought the bonds to his firm, had
told them hat the bonds belonged to him
and that he had built the railroads they
represented with money belonging to
Mrs. Spier. The firm held 1000 shares of
Anaconda mining, stock for spier and just
! before his death he was indebted to them
for more than $500 600, but the actual
loss through the s,llingof certain securities
they held was only $4,000
MIR. Keech said that when Spier got the
bonds from them to exchange for new
! securities he said he would bring back either
new bonds or casa The firm slid they
preferred the cash and he promised to
bring it to them on Monday morning.
let Spier nave the securities 40 easily.
Alfred Lauterbach was then called to
explain about the t%rusteeship in the s75.-
600 life insurance which Spier had caused
his death. Mr.. Iauterbach took refuge
in the relations between counsel and client,
and refused to disclosethe nature OF he trust.
He said that hs personal and official rela-
tons Whisper were 30 meAtTlCa oly woven
that he could not tell anything Of Importance
about what business matters had been dis
oussed between them.
Otto Hansen, Spier's stenographer, told
how Spier had inEtructed him to tear up
a letter on the following morning which
he expected would come to Spier's office
from Keech, Loew d Co. Spier said that
he had already seen the original. Then
II. s. Marshall Of the law firm of Marshall
a Battle told Of the YetIran Transmitting
I - Lad - 81. I- had ann
counsel for Spier. and declared thu there
was nothing in it TO make 'Spier weaken
at all.
Coroner Cahill instructed the jury as to
their duties and gave them a lecture for
their characterization, which he repeated
when they returned with their ~veraict.
This was the full verdict Of the jury:
"The jury finds that Charles J.. Spier
came to his death by a bullet wound in the
! chest. as described by the Coroner's ply
stefan and that the shot was fired by his