The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-11
-four SHOTS KILLED THE Two
ONE BULLET DTD Nor COHE
FROM DR. CANYONS PISTOL.

baruas nentmE-illndu Friend 81
Benam TaIks % IadIan ReNUnsr%
The forty detectives who were pa;
yesterday 70 tho solution Of tho doab's
murdor that was done n the homo Of Dr.
Mott d. Cannon. at iSi West i22d strest.
some time on Monday afternoon came
TO q very nearly unanimous conclusioa
on one point. No ordinary or professional
burglar. they believs. would have hOAton
and mauled the bodies Of Miss Margaret
Meehner. the hounekeeper. and william
Benan. tho Hindu butler. a. was done
Although about 500 in coin and some
cheap stickplns were missing from the
bedrooms occupied by Dr.. Cannon. thai
room and the others in the house did nos
show evidences Of the careful Cleaning
Of q burglar who had his field clear before
him. valuable gold watch which Was
lying In the same drawer that contained
the revolver with which most Of thu
shooting IL presumed to have bean done
was not touched. There was silverwars
lying open to the thief where Benan. the
butler had been cleaning IL; the silvet
polish was on his hands when bis body
was found.
Il came out a. the autopsy that four
shots. not three. were fred: one was IN the
head Of tho Hindu butler and three
wounded the feeble hOuseksepsr. Dr.
CannOn's revolver. which had noe hesn
fred before in ten years. lay by the side
Of the butler. only three Of lie i've cham
hers emptied. Three Of the bullets which
were found In the bodies Of the murdered
servants were Of 10 calibre. tho same a.
that Of the revolver: the fourth bullst was
40 splintered that lee original siBe has not
yet been determined. No other revolver
has been found on the place.
CorOner's Physician Schultzs performei
the autopsy. CoToner's Physician O'Han-
Ion assisting. Dr.. Schultzs's invsstiRa-
ton I'D him 10 the belief that both ths
hOOsekseper and the butler had hem
shot down first and that then their nun
dsrer had crushed in their heads with
heavy blows The physicians found ths
following wounds on the bodies:
Below and behind the night ear Of Benan.
the Hindu. was a bullet wound which
courssd upward through the brain. tn
bullet touching the inside Of the skull
on the left side. Over thu night sids %
the forehead just below the scalp lins
was a large triangular wound which cus
through the 2esh and produced a fraa-
turs Of the skUli beneath. Over the right
ear was a smaller wound. The loft eida
Of the skull was crushed over an extended
area There was a superficial wound
on the night side Of the neck at the has,
Of the skull Across tho back Of the skup
over the Occipital bone there were tW5
wounds. each three inches In length gn3
made with some implement which Wouii
crush az the same time that IL cut
In the case Of the housekeeper there
was a bullet wound through the left cheek
into the mouth; the bullet was stopped
by the plate of her false teeth and lay
on the tongue. A second bullet had
entered the night side o. her neck two
inches below the back Of the skull and the
skin abOut the wound was burned. show
ing that the revolver had been fired a.
close range This bullet penetrated tho
neck and made its eNit under the left sda
Of the Jaw The third bullet wound was
IN the middle Of the spine an inch and a
half below the base 81 the skull This
had shattered tho vertebrB and had
been torn into shreds Itself The skull
between the top Of the head and ths
left ear had been driven in by two blows
with some fat weapon that did not pro-
duoe clean cuts through the flesh
DR.. Schultze said that in thu cnss 81
Bennn the single bullet wound would
have produced almost instant death
ANY Of the three shots fired 40 Miss Mech
ner would have caused her 20 collapse
where she stood. hs thought, and eithor Of
two Of them would have caused her death
instantaneously.
Helen Hammond. the daughter " Dr
Frederick Hammond. who lives az 10
West i27d street. has told the detectives
that she went 70 DR. Caanon's front door
about s.1D O'Clock on Monday Eftcrnooa
20 leave there some flowers for Miss julia
Freedom. her schoolteacheT. who Ewes
in the family Of DR. Cannon. She says
that she rang the bell three or four times
without any response and that finally
she heard the basement door In the area-
way, out Of sight. open and a mans voios
said roughly: Get away from here
There's nobody AZ home This frightened
her. Miss Hammond said. and she vent
away from the house. She did not sec
the face of the man who had called %
her from the areaway.
The detectives satisfied themselves
that entry 70 the premises was not pos-
sibls by way n the roof and there wa
no sign Of prying on any Of the around
ioor windows or on either front or hack
door. The marx on the drawer that had
been forced was 90 small a. % LEAD .
the belief that a stout knife blade had
been used
The body Of Miss Meshnsr lay within
q foot % q Whits denim sofa oover and
nearer than that was . frAil tabourst sup
porting q heavy lamp. There was no
hood on the cover Of the sofa nor had tbs
lamp hsen Disturbed.
There d one man IN New York and onlY
one Who knows much about Bsnan. the
Hiadu. That person 10 A. r. Tulsis. an
educated Hindu who lives at 20 East
FiIty-third street. and who Eaid last nieht
that he himself had been responsible Coz
Bsnan's coming 20 New York frOm Trini-
dad In April Of last year.
Tulaie aaid that thu dead buffers