The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-08
CORONER'S REPORT
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A new theory has arisen, that Ed wards was dead, or nearly dead, be- fore he was shot Death, it is said, might have been due to poisoningt or some other cause, and after the man was dead, or about dead, he vas shot. The shot being fired at this stage, would, it is said, account for the ab- Sence of hemorrhages, and convey the impression that death was due to apoplexy. Much interest is felt among those who have been closely following the case in the disclosures which Dr Herbert E. Smiths analysis of the con tents of the stomach will reveal.
 The authorities have some reason tu think that Edwards was not shot as he lay bed in the guest chamber where the body was found, but that he was carried into the chamber after the shooting and placed in the bed.
 This theory is based on the discovery of several blood spots on one of the stockings worn by Mir. Edwards. He was found in bed dressed in his under clothes and stockings. The left stock ing was wrong side out, as if the wear CT had put it on that way by mistake, and at the top of the instep were a number of small drops of blood.
 On the bottom and side of this stock ing there was considerable lint, while there was no lint on the other stocking. The inference which the detectives have drawn is that the man was carried from another room to the guest chamber aft CT the shooting, and that the left foot trailed along the floor. The blood spots, if they came from the wound in the head. could reach the stocking only when the man was standing erect.
 Bearing on this subject Mrs. Edwards said that MT. Edwards was In the habit of sleeping in his underclothing because of a rheumatic trouble which affected his knees. Edwards wore fine mesh underwear.
 Mrs. Edwards was then asked how she supposed the carpet dirt came to be found on her husbands stocking, She replied that he was frequently up in the right, and as the room had not been swept recently she assumed that the dust came from this source. As to the blood on the stocking, the theory she gave was that it must have come from the hand of the assassin.
 The bullet entered the upper part of the left ear, and if the victim was standing the drops from the wound might fall on the left foot.
 A new witness has been found who will come forward and swear in cor ,fk kI,ac fn T tn thra coroner by Lena Besanzon, the nurse who attended Mrs. Hitler in her last sickness, that Maxcy Hitler made threats against his mother and brother ir~laW.
 These threats were made, it was tes- tified by Miss Besanzon, because the mother would not turn the diary over to her son.
 The existence of this diary was the cause of bitter contention between the Hitler brothers and MT. Edwards In fact. the latter stated before he was murdered that his brother-in-law threatened to kill him if he brought forward the book to show a debt to the estate.
 The testimony of Miss Besanzon is  sensational The nurse told the coro- ner that shortly before Mrs. Hitler passed away she had charged her to give the diary to MT. Edwards so that it might be used to show how much money Maxcy Hitler owed to her.
 q was afraid to leave the side of Mrs. Hitler while Maxcy was in the house." the nurse testified, flor I believed that he would kill her. His mother was so afraid he would take money she had in her possession that she kept it hidden in her stocking"
 Miss Besanzon declared the aged woman was so fearful of her son Maxcy that she sent word to her son Charles to come on from Kansas. Even after