The sun., 1917-09-22
MANIKIN TO 'SOLYE'
MRS. KINGS DEATH
rapt. Jones, New York's Pistol
Expert, Takes Dummy to
Concord. N. G..
CONVINCED OF MURDER
Two ~Unknown' Persons Also
10 South With Dooling
and DR.. Schultze.

queer shaped bundle was carried |
yesterday aboard a Baltimore and Ohio
knin uhercon at 4 80 p. M. Assistant
nistrict Attorney Dooling and his party |
VT for Concord. n. c.. TO testify Mon !
Aav in the reopened inquest for evidence !
hsesrd,ng the death of Mrs. Maude A.
xins. who was shot near Concord Au-
gust 80.
The man who had the bundle was
capt. william a. Jones Of the New York
Police Department. whose uncanny
knowledge OF what pistols and revolvers
viii and will not do has made him the
to,ntrv's first detective authority In the
matter Of small arms and bullets. In
wrapped his package would have re-
walled a dummy human figure. II the
North Carolina authorities permit II. this
nxure will be exhibited by Capt Jones
IN the Coroners court room at Concord.
and with its help he Will give the Jury
his theory Of the shooting Of Mrs. King.
With pistol and revolver, duplicates OF
those carried by the target shooting
PARTY Of which Mrs. King was Il member
on the evening Of her death at Black
welder Spring. Capt. Jones has been eN-
perinentins day after day at New York
Police Headquarters. He has fired his
weapons at many distances at angles
He has held them close to the head OF
hts manikn. he has lain ON the floor. re
has measured of distances correspond
irg 10 those on "A chart of the dell that
enclosed Blackwclder Spring. and done
his shooting In every conceivable way.
Has studied All Data.
Capt. Jones has studied every scrap OF
data bearing on the death of Mrs. King.
These include the record OF tho first in
quest, which resulted in a verdict that
the woman had either shot herself while
carelessly handling an automatic target
pistol or had been Killed by the ac
cidental discharge of the pistol "a II fell
from the crotch OF a tree where her busi-
ness adviser. CASTOR u. Means. said he
placed 1t before stopping to drink from
the spring
capt Jones also knows by heart the
report of the Chicago Coroner. who,
after the body had been taken from a
vault September s. telegraphed that Mrs.
King had been murdered With motives
and personalities Capt. Jones has had
nothing to do. He has restricted him
self to study of the possible manner
Of the actual shooting.
The result Ia. il was said yesterday
after DOoling and his party had gone.
bat Capt. Jones is willing to stake his
reputation on hts belief that Mrs. King
could not have been killed accidentally
in the manner sugg ested by witnesses
before the Concord Coroner on the day
following the event.
With pooling also went DR.. Otto II.
Srhultzc medical assistant to the Dis
trct Attorney. As a Caroner's physi-
clan he has made countless autopsfes
and has testified In many criminal
trials Ne has been quietly at work on
the "kirg case" He is ready to testify
that tie bullet that penetrated Mrs
King's skull back of the left ear took
a Downward coures.
Dr. S"hultzc will give his opinion tha,
t'iis fact and the absence OF powder
marks indicate that Mrs King was not
holding the pistol: also that the course
of the bullet indicates that the p.sto
vas not fred from or near the ground.
Two "JnknOwns'' In Party.
Other members Of the official part!
bound for Concord are Detective Johr
cunnf. who has been helping in Dool
inC's investigation, and two other per
sons whose identity was not disclosed
On tho same train. as II happened. wen
CASTOR Means's brother. Alton. anC
Henry Deutsch. father Of Mrs. AftOI
Means and an assistant Of Castor
Means in his business affairs.
Alton Means was member Of th'
f4rget shooting party at Concord OF
August 90 but he and others have testi
fed that he did not see Mrs King shot
He viii repeat his former testimon.
Monday peutsch Is likely to be a wit
ness If the Coroner admits testimony re
ssrding the business relations Of Gas
ton Mean. and Mrs. King. Having beel
subppnaed he has spent his days an,
evenings lately with Dooling
For nearly two weeks vague report
have sprung from Concord and else
where that the authorities had found a
eyewitness to the shooting Doolin
and District Attorney Swami have re
fused to answer questions about thi,
II was learned yesterday. however, tina
while the New York Investigation wa
gong on public officer received a lei
Ter from somebody whose name
hidden and who asserted that he-o
may be woman-had seen Mr.
King killed The signature was sur
posed to be "phony."
Many Anonymous Letters.
" is believed here that the perso
VINO wrote IT has been found b,
whether he really saw what he says h
- q tH-'licll " DC dHSWtTcu tate
IL should be said that the authoritie
nave received an extraordinary numbs
or ANONYMOUS and falsely signed lie
,erS 1t developed yesterday that II
telegram received in New York on IL
night OF Mrs Kings death. saying
vas peculiar" and suggesting invest
cation, VAS signed Sanford" tt
sender has been run down and "Sal
ford' IL not his name.
poolins is taking to Concord sever
hand grips full Of papers most of whit
came from the apartment of CASTOR
Means al 1855 Park avenue. He W
reach Concord this morning and Ii
MS evidence before Hayden Clemer
solicitor OF Cabarrus county. In tel
gram to District Attorney Swami ye
'erday Clement asked that the mo
pertinent documents be brought
Oooling and said he was glad that Cav
Jones and Or. Schultze were also goiI
90 Concord
More letters indicating the metho
o. Castor Means and his associates we
made public here yesterday. In Jan
airy last man who figures In the cal
writing from Chicago to an intima
IN this city, said
of course avoid II possible comi
Ill contact with Newspaper reporters.
YOU or anybody associated with I
there In New York should by any chan
oe subp9naed as q witness to appe
oe'ore either the county District Att<
hey or a Federal District Attorney,
oi YOU take the position that you kn,
absolutely nothing about my busine
out advise any such OfYicials that tn