The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-15
SLEEVE HAD RUST STAINS
BLoODY SHIRT IDEA VANISHED
 ON ANALYSIS.

Dr. Bartlett Says that stains Were An
 cient--Coroner's Report Delayed Un-
 til Wednesday--Some of the Testi-
 mony Taken at the Hearings Made
 Public-What Various Witnesses
 Said About the Shots--Charles Hil-
 Ier's Answers to Question How 1t
 Was He Did Not Notice Edwards
 Condition at First.
 Another supposedly great addition to the mystery of the death of Charles Edwards went up in thin air yesterday, when the important find of shirt sleeve supposed to contain blood stains which was discovered by Thomas A. Thacher, sophomore at Yale and a news heeler, proved to be very ari- cient piece of shirt sleeve with no evil dence of any shirt pertaining thereto, and bearing not blood spots but sim ply stains of rust. The sleeve was found by the Yale man. who was an in- spector of the house Saturday after noon. On opening a closed blind the sleeve lay disclosed to view, and he went off with his prize to the Yale Med teal school for bacteriological examina- tion, It was dark when he arrived, and he was told that the professors had gone away. He was advised to take the exhibit to the house of Professor Charles Bartlett, medical examiner, but he said that he knew Dr. Lafayette Mendel of the Sheffield Scientific school, a skilled baeteriologist, and promised to take the shirt to his house, and left the school
 The sleeve was handed over to Dr. Bartlett for examination yesterday. When he looked at it he declared that without minute examination he could tell that the stains on the shirt were not recent, but had been there for sev- eral months. This would take away at once any connection with the death. He then subjected the sleeve to micro scopic and chemical analysis, with the result that the stains were found to be the result of rust, exploding the bloody shirt theory.
 Many new matters of interest have been brought out in the hearings by the coroner which have been held since the case opened. One of the bits of testi- mony which was brought out by the witnesses was that when Charles Ed wards came here on the trip which re- suited in his death he forgot his money and had only a small amount of cash on his arrival. A small collection of silver constituted his possessions. He had a communication ticket between New York and New Haven, which he used in getting here. In his pockets were found only about a dollar. His wife found the roll of loose bills which he always carried in his pocket In his bu- reau drawer at his home the next day after she was notified that no money had been found on hls person.
 By some of the detectives who have been at work on the case this has been thought to have indicated that Ed wards came here to commit suicide and perhaps throw suspicion that he was robbed, but as his watch was not taken this theory is strong only when backed by corroborative evidence which some of the detectives have pointed out.
 The nature of the so-called diary kept by the nurse of the late Abagai Killer became known Saturday night The affair is really a series of letters which contain the record of the threats | YCo,,+i,,,o5 o,, caoend rorvo ' -