Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-16
VERDICT BLANES MRS. MOTT
CorOner's Men Say She Shot Hedy in
His Home.
MANY WITNESSES ARE HEARD
Contradict Dead Man About His Little
Son Being Present at the
Time Woman Fired
Revolver.

The verdict Of the coronor's jury in the
Otis Hedy case blames Mrs. Bertha Mott
for the shooting, holding that Hedy was
shot in his own house at S2S South Nine
teenth street l-,..e..
The evidence o. &bs witnesses at the in
quest held yesterdEsssq tended strongly to
show that the shooting Of Hedy occurred
as he asserted in his ante-mortem state
ment Thirteen witnesses were put on the
stand and those who were In thd build
ing at the time gave the most damaging
evidence to the defense. But those who
testified were almost certain that Mr..
Hedy's son was not in the, room at the
time of the shooting as Hedy swore.
Mrs. Mott still holds to her original story:
That Hedy came to her room, insulted her,
and that as he was leaving, she shot She
was not placed on the stand yesterday,
though she was present at the investiga-
ton. Mrs. Hedy gave evidence. and after
testtfying to what her husband had told her
at the hospital, seemed in a state of col
lapse.
Heard voices In His Room.
Alice Williams, who lives on the second
floor of the building, and over the Hedy
apartments, said:
THE first thing that my attention was
called to was the sound of voices in Hedy' s
room. was sitting beside an open window
In my room, and next heard footsteps be-
low and then the shot / saw through
the porch floor, where boards were gone,
that Hedy had fallen to the floor.
Upon cross-examination, this witness
admitted that while she thought the voices
came from the Hedy room, they might
have come from some other place.
Mrs Rose Fuller lives in the basement
beneath Hedy's room. She was sitting In
chair in her kitchen at the time OF the
occurrence She said II heard scurtle
of footsteps at the Hedy door. There was
next a dun thud as the screen door was
opened and knocked against a washtup,
which stands beside it on the porch. /
then heard the shot and someone fall upon
the porch Going to my door, saw Hedy's
arm protruding over the edge OF the porch,
and the blood from his wound triclsling
down into the areaway, which leads to
my rooms"
II was testified that the little Hedy boy
had gone to nearby grocery store but
a short time before the shooting, and was
not present when It occurred. Those who
testified gave it as their opinion that the
how was in the front yard. This is contrary
10 the statement made by Hedy to his wife
when he said the boy was witness to
the affair Aside from this the testimony
seemed to uphold Hedy's version Of the
shooting
The Verdict.
Following is the verdict given by the
coronor's jury after the inquest:
1--WE, the jury, according TO the evidence
find that Otis Hedy came TO his death by
a Runshot wound by the hand of Mrs.
Bertha Mott at s2S South Nineteenth street
Of Omaha, County OF Douglas State OF
Nebraska The deed was committed on
August II, 1910 between the hours OF and
D. m, and the victim died August lS'
1910 at $40 p. M"
Mrs. Hedy who is griefstricken ana sur
fering greatly. stated she would leave Mon
day evening for her fathers home In
Granite, Ia, where she will probably re-
main until the case is brought up In dis
trict courts this fan.