Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-04
HAND OF GUILT
POINTS TOSTONE
DECLARE JURORS
WOULD HOLD MAN AND WIFE
IN MURDER CASE
DETECTIVES DISCOVER BLOODY
FINGER PRINTS
More Evidence Gathered in EndeaVor
to Find Person Who Murdered .
Morgan Shiveley at
San Gabriel

After having viewed the home of Mr..
and Mrs. G. A. Stone, located at San
Gabriel boulevard and Broadway,
San Gabriel, and in which it is
believed that Morgan Shiveley re-
ceived wounds early Sunday morning
which caused his death, the coroner's
jury returned the following verdict:
Morgan Shiveley came to his death
on the second day of January, 1910,
by hemorrhage following the cutting
of the ulnar artery, said cutting in
fiicted by person or persons unknown
to this jury, and we recommend that
Mr.. and Mrs. Stone be held to the
higher court"
The jury, with Coroner Hartwell in
charge, convened early yesterday
afternoon at Alhambra. Three wit
nesses were called. They were Fred
r. Donaldson, the motorman of the
Pacific Electric car of which Shiveley
formerly was the conductor; Frank
Fowler, a resident of Alhambra and
one of those who found the body of the
dead man and viewed the house early
Sunday morning, and DR.. A. D. S. Nc
Coy of Pasadena, who performed the
post-mortem examination.
Repeats Sunday Statement
Donaldsons testimony was identical
to the statement made by him Sunday
morning. He related how, in company
with Shiveley, he had ridden to Shive
leys home and had then gone to his
own room for the night "Stone came
running in about 4:45 a. m.,'' continued
Donaldson, "and said the MexicanS
have gotten Shiveley.' We then went
to Stones house and ended by finding
the body"
Frank Fowler, who is one of the
claim agents of the Pacific Electric
railway, corroborated Donaldson's tes-
timony regarding the condition of the
house and the finding of the body.
The last witness called was DR.. A
D. S. Mccoy of Pasadena, who stated
that Shiveley met his death through
| hemorrhage caused by the cutting of
| the ulnar artery. The cut which
caused the genial conductors death
was inflicted just below the elbow of
the left arm on the inside.
Verdict Soon Returned
| Only a few minutes were necessary
| for the jury to return the verdict after
| having heard the testimony and having
viewed the blood bespattered kitchen
of the Stones home at San Gabriel.
Meanwhile Stone occupied a cell at
the county Jail and expressed little
concern at the damaging evidence
which hourly was being gathered. Late
in the afternoon Sheriff Hammel and
S. L. Brown, chief of thu. detectives
bureau, were closeted with Stone, but
little was gained from the interview.
Stone idly toyed with match and
refused to answer any but the sim
plest of questions. He denied and af-
firmed nothing beyond clinging to his
theory of Shiveley having been at
tackled by Mexicans. Who the MeXi-
cans are, why they chose Shiveley for
their victim and why they overlooked
a gold watch and money in plain sight
upon a shelf Stone would not answer.
Although no definite charges have as
yet been preferred against either
Stone or his wife, it is believed by
nearly every person who has visited
the scene of the crime that Stone in
flicted the wound which caused Shive-
ley's death. AS under the questioning
of Sheriff Hammel and the detectives
Stones defense slowly fell to pieces
he became more and more reticent,
finally refusing to answer the simplest
of questions.
Finger Prints Copied
All yesterday was occupied by Chief
of Detectives S. L. Brown at the scene
of the tragedy, and much satisfaction
was expressed at the results obtained.
Prints of the thumbs. fingers and
hands of both Stone and Shiveley were
made and the window shade through
which Shiveley leaped in his effort to
| escape was taken to Los Angeles.
Smeared and daubed with blood, from
which Brown hopes to obtain finger
prints tallying with those of the un-
fortunate Shiveley, and with but one
small silver of glass left to which ad-
here bits of human hair. this piece of
aNri6nnpa nTaSantS most PrnaSOnG
appearance.
Careful search of the Stone home
and the premises failed to reveal a
medium sized kitchen knife with
which, it is believed, Shiveley's wounds
were inflicted.
To those familiar with the details of
the crime Stones theory that Shive-
ley was assaulted by an outside par
ty appears nothing short of absurd.
Stone claims that he fired a shot from
his revolver in order to let persons
know that Shiveley was in trouble.
Why he did not attempt to defend
Shiveley, why he did not follow Shive-
ley's supposed assailant when he fled
through the window, and why the bull
let was found to have been fired from
an altogether different direction than
that given by Stone the prisoner could
not or would not answer.
Exit Was Cut OH
From the kitchen, where Shively
slept, the only possible exit in case of
emergency is the front door, That
Shively was cut off from this door is
evident from the fact that there are
no blood stains in the hall leading to
the front porch.
In an endeavor to follow out stones
story that Shively was being attacked,
no possible entrance for his assailant
has been found. Every door of the
house either was locked or barricaded.
Every window, with the exception of
those in the kitchen, was in the usual
condition Both kitchen windows were
broken, one by Shively when he
plunged headlong onto the wet ground,
and the other by numerous articles
belonging to Shively which were hurled
through it. The window through which
Shively escaped was the only one of
the two kitchen windows large enough
to admit the body of man.
If stone had befriended Shively, why
did he not run to Stones room or to
the front part of the house instead of