The Washington times., 1910-09-29

then lying dead at the point claimed
cy the police
These Witnesses whose fes-5--o-7,- .--
at naught the contentious of .be NO.
ice, who are insisting that Harris EiIIe,7
hiIlselI. were Elmer Wallace ana
StFother Davis engineers on Potomac
llFer boats, who passed through T street
shortly before ] ? o'clock. ana al,
shortly after / O'Clock on rba no.
tiist Harris committed suicide or v-az
murdered.
AheI Testimony Unshsken.
HE testimony Of the two ufsuaesas
conceded in every detail. and 0ons ~
the questions asked by the Assistant
District Attorney and the Coroner sba.l-
II IN the slightest
just after Wallace and Davis. bs,5 f-r,
the stand the police, with their suicide
t'ieoTy, produced several witnesses v-h,
'eSIiIleo that they heard the shot SUD-
posed 10 nave taken the life Of Harris
oeeWeen u-50 and i O'Clock
ms oiscrezr ranCy raises the potD- .,r
'ne possibility that Harris was sho- s+
a oiHerent spot than that r1on v-bir-,
MS BODY was found the next rDorn5ur
aiio that Il was placed there subsesuenf-
y oS some midnight assassin
Clash Of Attorneys.
The dangers o. the lonely soo+ --r..--
Harris met an untimeIy death 7-a-s
portrayed today by more than ono u-f--
ness Evidence was presented 10 zbov,
tnat the 5lace IS much fnfes-sd 5,- NJ
desirable Characters, and that tho-e
nave been hOId-Ups about the lur,b.r
YARD surrOJ nding I street
In this connection .1,
sion OF the inquest was enliveDeF M "a
clash between Assistant Dfstrirr A-for-
ney Turner and Attorney Tambarf the
latter representing the brother and sis
ter OF the deceased.
During this clash NIr- T.arg1ert 5..,f-
mated that the Assistant District Attor-
ney was not really in search Of a..
truth concerning the manner of Harris
death. but that ne was vvorzyfr- rs,,5 =.
hand with the police. who stl,I r,--z5s-
IL their efforts 20 show suicide.
'croner hewitt over the r--otest .,r z1-
Turner. permitted Attornev T.srrf..-+ M.
ask questions showing thar tine 7-i-.-
borhoOd in question was = ,T,n--s-[,,-s
one
Two witnesses. Strother Davis --- o.
New York avenue northwest AMI 81
msT y. Wallace, an engineer ,,r -r,s
capital Yacht Club. were called fr7s
before the Corcner-S i.rry-- v-r~-
1t resumed. AT II O'Clock. tire taking oil
testimony IN the Inquest 10 determine
how End where NorvaI T. Harris met his
death and gave evidence strongly, dis
creditinE the theory OF the police tP4r
Harris body Iav on street betv-aan
ll-51 and 1l-l5, Saturday night. August
..
Roth OF these Witnesses teStined en-
that they passed I'D zrrser
over the SPOT n question between. IL 81
and E=5o. and that the BODY uas nor
there then.
Both further testified thar rI,av osSS15
down I street about midway between ~
curns few minutes after O'Clock y
next morning, and that the7 did notZ
am body Wing there They saiS<
thought they would have seen il -ii7
last trip it it had been there
Positive Body was NOSEheTe-
Davis and waIHce Ieft Yacht an
chOred at the foot Of IIeee' al ~
nighr and waeed I'D j street
to seventh They tosf q car and rode
to New York aveuF TO change tnei@
clothing. They refined together 10 the
boat. arriving uere little after I
o. clock
IT, time of s5eir departure from the
800 vas fxA BY the fact that before
- 1af+ ~ heard seven bells from
, boar nssr BY which ring at u-S9
80 r5o-st. and by the additional fact
nat wien they boarded the car at
ss1-s,,fT and I streets il was 2 very few
,,fn7ITss short Of u o clock
wallace looked at his watch when
f7ev reached Seventh and I streets en-
-g51te hack 70 the boat. and noticed thas
! Wss ave minutes past O CLOCK They