The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-10

the body was found.
 There were other stains upon fur nishings in the house and all these were subjected to close scrutiny. It is understood that samples of the blood spots were scraped up and were taken to the laboratories for further inspec- tion.
 That the bloodstains were not found before is not considered surprising. The interior of the house had been neglect ed for months and dust laid thick on everything in most of the rooms when the officers first made a search. The rear stairs are poorly lighted, and the rail easily took up the fresh blood stains. Detectives Donnelly, Ward and Daley were instructed to make another examination of the premises after the finding of the bottle. It was this ex- animation which altered the character of the inquest.
 1 At A. Maxcy Eiller's home, at 433 { Temple street, yesterday morning the statement was made that MT. Hiller had nothing yet to say on his exonera- | tion. MT. Hitler sent word to the door that he did not wish to talk about the matter. Many letters and messages { were received at the Hitler house yes terday congratulating MT. Hitler, and his friends renewed their expressions of i loyalty to him.
 Judge Hitler was seen at the College street house yesterday morning and he was asked what he thought of the cor oners statement on the case. t''I haven anything to say about it whatever" was MT. HIller's reply. Then he closed the door, gently but firmly.
 l Further as to the finding of the pistol and explanatory of the delay is as fol- lows
 The detectives were hard at work for days, with little time for rest, looking up this or that clue and examining everything in the Hitler house which might tend to throw light on the trag- edy A cursory examination was made of the Hitler backyard, but it brought nothing to light The yard was in a state of chaos, not having been cleared up for years, and bushes and rank growths were there in plenty. When the final search was made the pistol was found under mass or leaves, and from it's position the theory is that Ed wards, after shooting himself, when at the back door gave the revolver a throw and it slid under a mass of leaves in the rear of the yard, the barrel go- ing completely under, while the end of the handle was barely in sight. The pistol had slid along the hard earth and passed under the leaves, and there it lay. A chunk of dirt chung to the handle, which had stuck to 1t when 1t slid, the ground not being frozen. The pistol was picked up by John Mulvey, a laborer, who was helping Detectives Ward, Donnelly and Daley in the search. The find was carefully treas ured and passed over to the coroner, The name of the New York firm that sold it was John P. Moore's Sons, not Moore & Son, as the papers had it. and this firm went out of existence very soon after the time of the sale of this pistol.
 Detective Donnelly picked up the lau- danum bottle It was, as before stated, labelled rock and rye.' Detective Donnelly smelled of it and was satisfied from the smell and the color of the liquid that it was something else than rock and rye. The bottle had no cork in it, and when slung into the backyard no doubt slid along on its side, which would account for small part of it's contents remaining in 1t.
 The bottle and contents were given to the care of the coroner.
 Nothing has been done in the way of opening the old safe of the late Mrs. Hitler in the Hitler home. It is a small, old affair and not very valuable.
 As to the remarkable story of the finding of suspicious papers in the eel lar in a pipe or pipes, that must be lrelngated 70 the series of pipe-dream stories which have appeared in con- nection with the case, as also the story of an alleged stateLs1nt by an alleged former servant girl, in recent years, oi the late Mrs, Hitler, which, if true, wa quite damaging to the defense No servant girl of the name given eve lived at the house designated, and non of the neighbors had ever heard of any such person.
 Additional remarks by the coronc yesterday were as follows:
 "I said yesterday, and 1 say it nov, that the facts obtained tend to the tha ory of suicide.
 MT. Mix said that the state attorney office will not investigate the case, as the decision of the coroner's office Would be accepted as final.
 As to the diary which was supposed to have been stolen from MT. Edwards pocket, and which was in his safe at present, MT. Mix said: This is the diary kept by Mrs. Bezanson, who was a nurse for Mrs. Hitler, and is supposed to be a record of financial transactions between Mrs Hitler, the mother, and members of her family, more particu- larly A. Maxcy Hitler, who had charge of her real estate and personal prop erty. It is also supposed to contain minutes of incidents which occurred from time to time within the Hitler family circle"
 The coroner was asked as to the con- dition of the bedroom occupied by MT. Edwards when the body was found. He said that the bed clothing had rot been carefully drawn up about Edwards shoulders. The clothes were somewhat disheveled and did not come up above the waist In fact, MT. Edwards, as he