The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-11

let him go. as he had two months in jail. released him. Wheeler aga'n called upon them as he ran to catch the man. whereupon the said Kerekes benter, started after him. He ran into vacant lot on the east side of Sedgwick street, and towards the back fence. This lot slopes to the rear and there is a rubbish heap near the back eence. When Schmidt reached this. he stumhled and fell head1ong, and Kere- kes fell on his legs.
 Upon personal inspection, I found this dunp had stones bottles. tin cans, ashes. and other similar things strewn- around where Schmidt fell. peared drunk, and that he thought he was drunk, and Mrs. Jennie Gay. who was looking out of the window in the house immediately adjoining and not more than twenty or thirty feet away, says. He appeared as if he was dazed. that is the way he appeared. I thought probably that he was intox- -cated. but of course afterwards when I heard I knew that he couldn't have been, but that is the way he appeared when he got up. so kind of dazed. as if he really didn't know what he was
 "A little blood was noticed on his thumb When he got up. both We'll ler and Kerekes took hold of him and held him until Wheeler. came up. He didn't attempt to get away, and Wheeler asked him if he had shot him. Schmidt made no response and Wheel CT then grabbed his left arm with his left hand and I find from the testi- mony of these two men Wheeler said something to Schmidt and then struck him with his right fist just back of the temple on the left side of the head. It was not a very severe blow, as Schmidt didn't fall, and Wheeler was somewhat exhausted at the time. As to the jail. Frederick B. Nichols, the engineer at the jail. who had joined Wheeler in the chase, came up and took hold first of his belt and then his right arm. whereupon Schmidt said that he needn't take hold of him too. Wheeler and Nichols, the former hold ing his left hand and the latter his right. led him back to the jail. As Schmidt started to walk, his legs seemed to give out. so that they had to support him on the way and he he'd led. he attempted several times to put his hands to his head, if something hurt him. When he was brought in to the jail office he was placed against the rail, and was almost in state of collapse. Officer Finnegan then came up to hi1l and asked him if he were hurt and he made no reply, but kept his hands to his head all the time. Finnegan forced his hands down to his sides several times and Schmidt fell over there from exhaustion, but Finne- gan didn't strike him.
 ttFinnegan was looking to see if he had been shot. and could find evi- dences of his being shot. but he said he was. After the usual questions had been asked him by Assistant Jail CT Alexander Watt. Assistant Jailer Steele said to him to come on and opened the door to the cells. He didn' t start and Finnegan started him on. He went to one side and Ffnnegan gave him a push and said Go on in.' He fell in a heap. and struck his head against the corner of the medicine chest and cut his upper lip. which b1ed quite little-. He went down stairs, however, and later was found in an unconscious condition and taken to the hospital where he died.
 tI find that Andrew Schmidt met his death by falling and striking his
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