Arizona republican., 1914-03-31
HOW CH|CK|NNY
 CAME ID DEATH
His Brother Formally Charged With Murder Following Conclusion of Inquest Into Circum- stances of the Tragedy

That Charles Chickinny died last
 Saturday night of a knife thrust in
 flicted by his brother, Lewis Chick
 inny. was the verdict of a coroners
 jury before Coroner Johnstone yester-
 day afternoon and immediately after, the slayer was taken before the su- perior court and formally charged with the murder of his brother.
 The testimony at the inquest de- scribed a sordid, sickening scene at the Chickinny home on Saturday night where it appeared that every body was drunk and that the most nearly sober of all was the murderer when he was arrested few minutes after the killing.
 The wife of the murdered man said
 that her husband and two other young
 men came home between seven and eight o'clock and a little later Lewis Chickinny came. The party with which Charles had come had brought bottle of whiskey which was set on the supper table and all took one or more drinks from it. The wit
 nesses said that her husband began quarreling with her and then turned upon his brother. After a vile eX- change they clinched in the kitchen and in the struggle, while both were on the floor the stove was overturned and both of them were drenched about the head with hot water.
 They were separated and the wit ness said that she got her husband into the front room. She bolted the door between it and the kitchen. The witness was not quite clear as to what ensued but her narrative was resumed with a renewal of the struggle in the kitchen. She saw
 Lewis seize a knife and an instant later she heard her husband eXclaim,
 You've got mel" He ran intoS the front room streaming with blood and sank into a chair. The witness went to a house nearby to call a doctor but the telephone would not work. Then she started to the police station and lost one shoe in the mud on the way Arriving at the station she was taken back in the patrol wagon by cou- pie of officers who later returned her to the station. They would not allow her to enter the house where her hus- band was now dead.
 The next witness was the mother of the brothers She describcd the incidents up to the fatal encounter
 but she would not speak of that l though she kept repeating to the cor oner that she had already told him
 that on Sunday morning. Replying to the question whether she had not told the officers when they came to the house that there had been no trouble there. she replied that she
 could not remember that.
 Other witnesses were Officers Thur , man and McGrath. They said that called. at the station and asked for | doctor at first she refused to tell where the doctor should be sent. | When they started with her in pa l trol wagon to the house she gave them at first. the wrong address and
 when they stopped at the Chickinny | house and were told that there had l been no trouble there, she told them | that her husband was at @ house on | the next street Arriving there she | told them that the first house they
 had stopped at was the right one.
 | It was while the patrol wagon was
 enroute to this house that the officers
 saw Lewis ChiclIinny passing along | the street They took him into GUS