The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-14

coroner had made his final report and finding in the case. procured the ser vices of Mr. A. William Sperry of New Haven, and he prepared for me detail- ed drawings of the entire Hitler house.
 One of these drawings is a detailed drawing of this rear stairway, the hallway at the head of the same, the library and front hall on the parlor floor.
 In accordance with my request, MT. Sperry located and marked on the plan of the stairway, hallway and rooms above enumerated, the exact location of every blood spot found, each being placed on the plan with mathematical accuracy at the point which 1t actually occupied on the ground.
 Drawings of Interior of House by A.
 Tracing the Blood Stains.
 On the treads of the stairs of the stairway referred to, twelve in all, there were seventeen spots of blood. On the left hand of this stairway, as you pass down, or on the right hand as you pass up, is hand rail fastened to a wainscotted wall by iron brack- cts. If you bisect this stairway from top to bottom, between the two walls. 1t will be found that ten of these blood stains are on the right of the central line and seven upon the left passing upstairs. right and left hand being of course reversed If passing downstairs. If, on the other hand, you bisect these stairs from the inside of the handrail to the opposite wall, 1. e.. bisectlng the actual space through which body could pass if moving up or down stairs. 1t will be found that eleven of these blood spots are to the right of the central line and six to the left as you pass up- stairs.
 In coming to the head of the stair way there is group of seven spots close together. There is then sin gle isolated spot about twenty one inches nearer the door opening into the library from that hallway. So | far as have been able to learn, these are all the spots found in the coron- er's investigation on the back stairs and on this landing.
 In addition to these spots there was one other spot in this hallway at the head of the back stairs, namely, sin 1 gle isolated spot to the right of the doorway leading Into the back par Tor, Then passing through the lbra- | IT towards "a 70 |, the right hand side of the doorway leading from the library into the front hall, four feet four inches above the floor, partly on the beading of the door casing and partly on the edge of the fiat strip of wood beside the beading, was finger mark in blood, somewhat faint but easily dis tinguishable. This was on the side of the door casing toward the library and the only conceivable way in which it could have been made was by a man passing from the front hall into the library, 1. e., in the direction of the stairs leading to the basement. placing his hand uon the casing of the door as he passed through.
 Passing through the front hall to the front door, and examining that door carefully, there was found a faint, but easily distinguishable streak of blood to the right and below the keyhole, sweeping from the right to the left as you face the door and forming segment of a circle of which the key would be the center, exactly as if the door had been unlocked and the little finger of the hand with l which 1t was unlocked had swept the door and left this streak of blood. Turning to the right at this point. you are at the foot of the stairway leading from the front hall to the floor above, on which Is the room In which MT. Edwards body was found.
 Shepticism About Certain Stains
 l am aware that the authorities are inclined to be skeptical about the ad- ditional blood stains which l have just enumerated, which were found on the premises. However, there were present at the finding of the ones just enumerated, MT. Sperry, Doctor Wolff, l MT Webb MT. Leete and myself,
 Before leaving this floor of the house, we will return to the rear stair way. Here Dr. Bartlett is reported to have said that There was a little blood on the railing at the right of the stairs" that is the right of the stairs coming up and the left going down
 There were six separate blood stains not on the hand rail but on the vain scotted wall numbering them from the top to the bottom. Of these I had flashlight photographs taken and they all show up in the photographs dis tinctly. The first one Is near the hand rail on the top of the vain scouting above a point almost on a perpendicular line drawn from the front Of the tread of the eighth step of the stairs from the bottom, Num- Der two is over the seventh step: numbers three and four are over the fourth step; Number five is over the third step and No. six is over the sec ond step The largest and most dis tinct stain is number one and the stains decrease in distinctness from the top of the stairs downward. 1t is Dr. Wolff's opinion, as stated in his report to me that these stains were wiped on the wood from the top of the stairs towards the bottom. This opinion was given after minute and careful examination of these stains under strong light. It is also the : impression that an ordinary layman would Immediately receive from a cas- ual examination of the stains.
 Returning for a moment to the bloodstains on the treads of the stairs, there are only two steps which are entirely free from blood, i e. the second and fourth from the bottom On the first tread is one spot; on the second tread none; on the third tread | IL