Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-02-16
VERDICT OF CORONER's JURY.

NEhDlCI Of COhONEh . jury.
The tragedy that occurred at Hotel
Dietrich Tuesday in which James A.
Jones was shot to death caused a re-
markable furore Of excitement about
town yesterday, and the shooting and
the possible outcome of the situation
was almost the one topic Of discussion.
Peter Dietrich in the Montour coun-
ty prison is bearing up as we'll as can
be expected under the terrible strain.
Early yesterday morning after he had
been incarcerated his nervous condi-
tion was shattered, but last evening he
had quieted down considerable and
was resting much easier.
The coroner's jury held an adjourn
ed session at o'clock yesterday after
noon at the Office Of W. V. Oglesby,
Esq, where complete testimony and
the result Of the doctors autopsy was
held. The facts as related in the News
yesterday were substantiated, but in
addition the testimony taken yester-
day afternoon brought out several
significant facts.
The first witness called was Andrew
Rogers who had testified before the
jury at its first meeting. He told the
story Of the shooting as on the pre-
vious occasion. DR.. Paules and DR..
fatten were then called and gave the
result Of the autopsy that they had per-
formed in the morning. 1t was their
opinion that death had been caused in
simultaneously by the bullet, which, en-
tering half inch below the left eye,
had ploughed a course through the
brain and lodged in the bones of the
skull.
John Woll, the only other eye wit
ness of tie shooting beside Andrew
Rogers. was then called. He said that
he and Jones had come to Hotel Diet
rich together, and that after a while
the talk drifted to shooting The wit
ness stated that Jones had "dared"
Dietrich to shoot, and that the report
of the pistol had followed closely upon
the dare. Woll, however, did not see
Dietrich fire the shot.
Chief of Police Mincemoyer told the
jury Of his going to Hotel Dietrich af-
ter the shooting and of his taking
Dietrich into custody. He said that
when Dietrich surrendered himself It
was with the words:
81 shot the man but did it in self
defense.
Upon question, however, both Woll
and Rogers stated that neither had
Jones a weapon about him nor had he
made threatening move of any kind.
The jury after deliberatlon rendered
the following verdict:
"An inquisition taken at Hotel
Dietrich, on Upper Mulberry street in
the Fourth Ward of the Borough of
County aforesaid, on the
Fourteenth day of February, A. D.
1905, upon view of the body of James
A. Jones, then and there lying dead,
before William v. Oglesby, a justice |
Of the peace in and for said County,
there being no lawfully appointed
Coroner for said County, upon the
solemn oaths respectively, of John L. |
Russell, William E. Young, John G.
voris, W. Dosh Holloway, John Doster
and Theodore R. Angle, six good and |
lawful men Of the County aforesaid,
charged to inquire on the part of the
Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania, when
where and by what means the said
James A. Jones came to his death,
who, upon their respective oaths, do
say, that it appears from the view of
the body and from the evidence pro-
duced before them, that the said James
A. Jones came to his death, on the
day Of February, A. D.
1905, at the said Hotel Dietrich, on
Upper Mulberry Street in the Fourth |
Ward Of the Borough Of Danville,
County of Montour and State of Penn
sylvania, as the result Of wound in
iicted by bullet discharged from
revolver in the hands of one Peter
Dietrich, proprietor of the said Hotel. |
"In witness whereof, as we'll the |
said acting coroner as the said jurors. |
have to this inquisition- set their hands |
and seals, on the day and the year first |
above mentioned.