New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07
NOT KILLED In SLEEP.
SHOT STANDING
Blood on Socks Alters Theory of
Nesc-HaUen Murder.
TBy Telesraph to The tribune. ]

New-H Haven, Conn. Jan. 6.-The inquiry into
the mysterious murder of Charles A EDWARDS
of New York at the Hitler homestead III TINS
city, Tuesday night. brought out mass OF ne"
and important information to-day, chlef OF
which was the statement that the murdered man
had a eliot of blood on his right stocking ana
that this could not have come there had he not
been standing up when shot This is taken 10
prove that Mr.. Edwards dragged back to
his bed after being killed his left stocking heel
also showing marks of carpet dirt.
This was new view of the circumstances
surrounding the actual murder, and it opens
new field oS theory to how the murder was
committed. Tt goes to show that Mr. Edwards
was not asleep I'm his bed was believed, when
attacked. but must have been standing UP IN
his room in another room.
Still another important cew came out to-day
when it was found that tobacco had been found
snrinl,led tbnlv over the surface of water
standing in a bowl near the bed. There was a
slight sprinkling Of this. the specks having
reddish tinge. Medical Examiner Bartlatt
studied the tobacco closely and decided that it
was perque.
Mr. Edwards himself did not smoke SO that
the presence of the tobacco is regarded as
highly important clew to the identity OF the
murderer. Mr.. Charles Hitler, in whose house
the murder was committed. is a pipe smoker.
A Marcy Hitler is cigarette smoker
An official statement given out Tonight
for the first time says that when found MI
Fdu-a ras was lying on his back near the outside
of the bed and one of his feet was protruding
There was a thin stream of blood tTlckilng from
the bullet wound in the left ear ana bioooy
handkerchief was wadded up and placed unaeF
Mr. EdwsFds's right cheek. This handkerchief
was of coarse texture and somewhat soiled. 1t
is now in the possession of the coroner.
HANDKERCHIEF A NEW CLEw
The finding of the handkerchief is held by the
police to be a strong clew. The dead man wore
his undercIotbes and stockings, There was
spot of blood his face and more on his shirt
front and large boteh on his left instep
where it had soaked through his stocking from
his wound possibly when he was in a standing
position. There was no blood anywhere on the
floor. which was covered with carpet dust. as it
had not been swept fo months. There were
no evidences of a struggle in the room.
AT her examination Mrs. Edwards said that
her husband often slept in his underclothes
because Of a rheunhs tic trouble he mad. The
coroner then asked her how the blood came TO
be on her husbands stocking. Mrs. Edwards is
said to have answered.
TT came from the hand of the n1urderer--
And she then mentioned name
Both A Maxcy and Charles Hitler We're put
through rigid examinations again to-day by the
coroner.
no POISON IN BODY.
The runaor that poison had been found in Mr..
Edv ardss stomach was to-day denied explicitly
bv DR. Jay ". Seaver, the expert who was
called in at the autopsy He said,
There were no signs of poison irritation in
the stomach whatever The position of the
bullet in the brain and its path seem to preclude
the possibility OF suicide
A development Of to-days inquiry was that the
bullet extracted from Mr.. Edwardss head pen
etrated but short distance ard did not reach
the brain It formed clot the brain, which
rendered Mr. Edwards unconscious from the
moment of firing and which caused his death
The position of the bullet and the finding of the
brain clot is said by the medical experts to
prove oonclusively BY that the case not one
of suicide but of deliberate murder.
The State Attorney said tonight that unless
the coroner was able to produce evidence that
A. Maxcy Hitler out Of his house the night
Of the murder the case which has been building
against him could not be successfully pushed to
a conclusion. The alibi sworn to by Mrs A.
Msxcy Hitler has thus far proven indestruct-
ible
From excellent sources comes the statement
tonight that Mrs. Bezernos the elder Mrs.
Killers nurse, testified Yesterday and to-day be-
fore Coroner Mix that A. Maxcy Hitler had re-
peatedly threatened the life of his mother be
cause he could not secure enough money from
her 1t is also stated that Mrs. Edwards had
also been threatened with personal violence and
that this had Frustrated her in her home in
New-York just previous to her husbands visit
10 this city 10 meet his death.
1t was stated tonight by Postmaster James
NJ Howarth that A Maxcy Hitler had ordered
him some time before Mrs. Killers death TO
send all her letters TO him. This Mrs. Hitler
objected to and it not done.
The Charles Hitler servants stated TO the cor
oner that when they found the doors unlocked
the morning of the murder they told MT Hitler
that burglars had been in the house. and that
he laughed at the report and made no effort TO
look into the affair
The funeral of Mr.. Edwards took place ycster-
day morning at the Church Of the Heavenly Rest
5th-ave. and 45th-st., of which church the dead
had long been prominent member. The
services conducted by the Rev. u. Parker
Morgan, the rector of the church. assisted by
the Rev. Herbert Shipnap and the Rev. Sydney
K Evans
The widow OF the dead man, his two daughters
Sarah and Katherine, and about hundred
friends and relatives were present None of the
Hitler family. from New Haven. attended The
pallbeareTs Caldwell Brakeman James Smith
Judge George { Holt. Edward CasweI and j. X.
Cherry.