The sun., 1908-12-25

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Az he had any message for his mother and
fhat he replied: "You take care OF mother.
Make her happy Tell Kirk to bS good TO
mamma.
Kirk Ia sheidon's brother. The tears
IRAN down Mrs. SnoYs fse9e a. she re;
Tented the words. She said that she had
ASKED the dying boy then if he had any
message for his father
Il Yes she said Sheldon told her. Tell
bim to get that man Then a moment
Halter in whisper he added: 'Oh, don't
ilet them kill Miss Gould
III Mrs. Snow was very weak when the
Questioning was over, but she sat with her
tcr,itches beside her through the rest OF
1.-THE afternoon Dean Snow was the next
witness Coroner Mcdonald seemed to
Think that the dean should have asked
1.-THE boy how 1t happened.
Il HE was such dear boy that | should
think you would have tried to, talk to
him. said the Coroner once when the
dean had asserted again that he hadn't
lspoken to him Il think II was abso-
tlutely inhuman and remarkable,
4 Il accept your opinion think deeds
tare better than words, sir" said the dean.
The dean said that no had not discov--
tered that Il was Sheldons own pistol
until the next morning. He then found
that Il was a pistol Kirk Sheldon owned
when he was a clerk in a bank and which
he had left in the house. Coroner McDon-
aid asked the dean what his theory was.
Il believe" replied the dean, that
some one killed him. do not think from
my knowledge of tho boy for six years
that he killed himself. We teachers base
sour opinions on what we see, 1t would be
utterly foreign to this boy to cause
HronbIe. II he had intended to kill him
self he would have gone long way from
the house in order not, TO cause my wife
hrouble"
Sheldon. DR.. Snow admitted. had been
rather morose and was deficient in his
studies. 80. -"
do you think that this boy atlO o clock
In the morning put in the Coroner.
Event downstairs, met a burglar who
Ned him up and then shot himE
4 1T is not reasonable that that boy tied
himself" answered thepeans
Or. N. r. Van ,Etten, told ef q e2nver-
2xhen he was on the bed. The boy said
PIE had been attacked by man. "He
4fied to put overalls over me. but he was
roo much for me-" were, bis words Shell
don also said that the man had cut him
with a knife, that the gun was his and that
he had been keeping il down cellar
/ The doctor said that around the wound
were powder marks showing that the
Revolver had been held clcss. He had
Intended the boy for five years The boy
fRas anemic and had been in poor con-
Aition DIVER since he had been attacked
Iif9 Iiocaor. fiit not sem to- have any
doubt Of the genuiheness OF this attack
OF of the one on Wednesday. .-y
In. describing the manner in which
Sheki6n had been tied Miss Iarkin said
tbatA piece of hemp rope had been wound
twice saround his hands and that the knot
wassvery hard TO undo. His feet were
bound in a similar manner. She and the
servant girl were the firstto reach Sheldon, |
apfl Miss Larkin after sending the girl
9dfsthe dean busted herself at once with |
the rope.
of the opinion that il was suicide. Sergt !
elieridah. the first policeman to get to !
the honss.c said thHt Sheldon had teld |
hinbtlIat -a big man shot me- Sheridan |
searched the cellar and found no evidence |
Qf+a, struggle, The collar found was in !
R0bd condition with only frayed button |
hole. & sheldon described the man as hav-
ing light mustache and being an Ameri- |
CEN. To Others he said that heswas an
Detective Patrick Cdriey of the Bronx
bureau said that he had interrogated the
that the servant had told him that she
had gone down Eve minutes after Sheldon
TO mat coal and. wood and had been all
thfodgif the cellar and had seen no one.
Sna passed Sheldon in an ante room, she
eaid. and he spoke to her and asked, her
Whit she was doing Mrs Snow told
him that the cellar door had been found
ehlit after the shooting with heavy
board placed against 1t from the inside.
Z. Lieut., Colby, in charge OF the Bronx
Bureau. Who got there soon after the
shoofinsy said that there were seventeen
e,fss on fShedon's waistcoat. seven on the
coat and two ON thetrousers They we're
"a inch TO two inches in length, They
Bad apparently been done with knife.
but be couldn't find knife anywhere.
think that the cuts were inflicted
before he.put the clothes on, said Colby
tEnrthermore. a burglar would hardly
throw his pistol away few feet inside
The door, 1t was done by some one inside
tte house In my opinion the wound was
AedT- inflicted and was case of suicide
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E.f6,olby said that he had investigated the
first attack on February 2 last and had
made up his mind that there was no
ifR lar there AT alt and that the boy that
qfle tS1so had cut his own clothes
= That ended the examination The ,
Coroner said that he would hold an
IfldJiest.' ? 80 -- af't
CORONER Mcdonald was elected on the
Msion ticket in 1905.