The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-05

also left the door of his room open, yet he did not hear any report If some one pressed a revolver against Mr. Ed wards ear you would expect some sort of a noise to be heard.
 But he (Charles) heard nothing. Mir. Edwards had asked him to allow him to sleep late, and he did not go into his room until about clock in the morn- ing. Then, he says, Edwards was breathing faintly, and he called in Dr. Metcalf. a dentist, from next door. Both he and Dr. Metcalf thought Ed wards had been stricken with apoplexy, but when Dr. Benjamin H. Cheney was called, he said he thought there was a wound under the left ear.
 ''The back door of the house was found open, and the theory is support able that the murderer might have come in that way. Still, my brothers cook Margaret Reynolds, is very care- less and might have left the door open
 T was nome on Monday evening at o'clock, and spent the evening with my wife and three children. I went to bed early and did not leave the house until nearly 10 o'clock the next morn ing.
 Even then my brother had not sent me word of Charley Edwards death not word of it did hear until almost noon, though before then he had neigh bors and doctors in the house. It was very foolish of him to allow all these people in the house to stir up all the clothing and effects of my brother-in- law, for then 1t couldn't be made cer- tain that a burglar had not come in the house and committed murder. But that is terrible end.
 Here is another strange thing My brother told me at midnight Wednes- day that he believes the detectives think Edwards committed suicide, and that Charles had the revolver I don't know, really, what to make of that, though as I said before, I think they ought to look into MT. Edwards affairs wit hthe Central Chemical company.
 My brother had been out in Kansas with his family until my mothers health began to fall, year ago, Then he left his two grown up sons out there and came on to New Haven to visit my mother, and remained with her util she died"
 The coroner with Deputy Coroner Pond, went early yesterday forenoon to the house, and with the aid of plumbers and detectives instituted a thorough search for the missing revolver with which the deed was committed.
 The plumbers were put to work at the drain, sewer and furnace pipes, and there was scarcely an inch of these which was not examined, but up to a late hour without result. The stoves and furnaces were cleaned out and a search made of the ashes and the house generally ransacked from cellar to at tic, but no trace of the missing gun could be found.
 The outside of the building was also oVerhauled ard large patches which ap- parently had not been disturbed in years were pulled out and the debris collected and overhauled. Holes under the Tagging beneath the steps were poked into, the yard raked over, the rose and other bushes growing, about almost uprooted, but still without re- suit.
 Inside the room where MT. Edwards had slept Tuesday night the coroners and detectives were busy taking meas urements and gathering any other facts that might aid in a solution of the mys- tery, Evidence was taken as to the po- sition of the bed and the articles in the room and of the position of MT. Ed wards when found by his brother-in- law, Charles A. Hitler.
 The bed is situated in the southeast corner of the room and the foot is all most directly opposite the door leading to the chamber from the hallway. MT. Edwards was found lying on his right side with his face towards the east wall, according to the testimony. This would bring the wound under the ear right in a line that would in iicate that if 1t was a murder the murderer had walked Into the room and up to the bed and fired the shot.
 ! There is no other entrance to the room in use than the one at the foot of the bed. In the northwest corner there is small hall chamber. the entrance to which is through the room in which Mir. Edwards was killed. There is also another door leading to this chamber fro mthe hall, but, according to the evi- dence secured, this has not been in use | in years and has been kept bolted. All efforts to find a. motive for the crime or suicide have apparently been futile thus far, although it is intimated by the investigators that here have { been some slight clues gained that may l lead to startling developments at any moment.
 1 When the coroner and deputy coroner l had completed their investigations in the house, they went to interview the i members of Mir. Edwards family, who are stopping at the residence of ex- l President Dwight of Yale in Fillhouse I avenue.
 Mrs. Hitler, wife of Maxey Hitler said yesterday that she was at loss