The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-02

years and had known Mir. Lilienthal all of that time. He stated that du- ring all of those years that he had not seen Mir. Iilienthal under the influence of liQuor and that when he discovered him unconscious last night that he could not detect the smell of any for eign substance about him.
 MT. Burfitt said that between and o'clock he had passed and spoken to MT. Lilienthal within a block of where he later found him and that he did not then appear to be under the influence of drink. When he cESried him to po- lice headquarters he did not know who his prisoner was until after the city hall had been reached and that he had made no suggestions about notifying relatives or sending him home but that about 1 o'clock this morning when he returned to police headquarters he ask ed Captain Miller to make out a war rant charging Mr. Lilienthal with hav- ing been drunk and down.
 Captain Miller Examined.
 Captain Miller was next examined. He said he had been connected with the police force about twenty two years and that during that period he had known MT. Lilienthal but had never known him to get drunk.v With some exceptions he told practically the same story as Police Officer Bprfitt about the arrival of that officer at headquarters and how he had been placed in prison and left to the care of the trusty.
 Early this morning when he found that MT. Lilienthal had not regained consciousness he had telephoned for City Physician Skinner and then had told Newton Cothran In the city mar ket of the facts concerning MT. Lilien- thai being placed in the prison and asked the latter to telephone to some of his brothers. Captain Miller fur ther stated that after MT. Lilienthal had been carried into the prison he started to search him and get his val uables when MT. Lilienthal reached in- to the right hand pocket of his trousers and taking out a small purse seemed to take something from 1t and swallow it. He did not know whether there had been anything in the purse and did not know whether MT. Lilienthal had swallowed anything for when he took the purse a moment later there was nothing in it.
 The trusty in the city prison, Carl Johnson, a negro, told of how the un- conscious man had been brought in and how he had been left in his care and the negro hackmen.
 ~ Major Boswell told how he had driven MT. Burftt and Mr. Lilienthal to police headquarters.
 On account of the absence of some witnesses the Coroner's jury adjourned at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon until o'clock when the examination of addi- tional witnesses was taken up.
 Died of Natural Cause.
 A new feature developed this af- of Ralph Lienthal in front of the store of T. P. Donovan last night.
 The belief that Lilenthal met his. death from dose of poison administer ed by some unknown person has been exploded and 1t is now the opinion of all that it resulted from d natural cause
 The new feature which developed at the session of the Coroner's Jury this afternoon was the fact that the posi- ton in which the body was found last night was an unnatural one. It Is believed that 1t would have been impossible for him to have been sud- denly seized with cerebral hemor- Thage and to have fixed himself as comfortably upon the sidewalk as the position in which he was found The police as well as Coroner's Jury be- lieve that he was seized with the hem orrhage a short distance from where he was found and that he was car ried to the fron2 of Donovan's store by some one and placed in an easy po- sition and left for someone to discover his condition.
 If he had. suffered the attack in front of the store it Is thought that the sudden fall on the stone pavement would have made some bruise upon the body and no such hruise was found. When this conclusion was reached by the jury 1t adjourned at o'clock until tomorrow afternoon and in the meanwhile a large num- her of the negro residents of that section of the city will be summoned to appear before the jury. The police force will try to ind where Liltenthal spent the hour or hour and a half ba- tween the time he passed Officer Bur fit a block further up the street and where he was. later found lying un- conscious upon the sidewalk in front of Donovans store.
 The principal witness at the after noon session of the Jury waS Police Officer Burftt who was recalled to verify what seemed to be some con tradjctory facts between his evidence and that of Police Captain Miller
 Frances Weaver. a negro woman told how she had identified Mir Lilien- thai before he had been placed in th' hack.
 C. H. Hooper, told how he had aEsis- ted the officer and J, Newton Cothrar told how he had come to find Mir. LiI. ienthars condition this morning and had notified his relatives.