The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-29
C0GERTY
BLAMED
BY JURY

Testimony introduced I'm
coroner's inquest Tuesday to the
effect that the alcohol used in
the drunken orgy which resulted
in the killing of Robert Baney at
742R Court ID Saturday evening,
was purchased from Tacoma
druggists, led to an investigation
by the prosecuting attorneys Of
flee which may result in prosecu-
tons.
The statements of big I'D"
Taylor, In whose rooms the kill
ing occurred, and the introduce
ton OF Is empty alcohol bottles,
some of them bearing the label
OF Victor Malstrom's drug store.
were the chief evidence on which
prosecution may be based.
Where did you get the alco-
hol?" big Ed was asked by
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Cra-
mer.
Just Got It."
| 81 got most Of the booze from
Malstrom's,' he replied. 81 got
some of 1t from two or three
other places. I got It in pint bot
ties, paying from rs cents to q
dollar for II.
big Ed" declared he couldn't
say for sure" Just how the pur-
chases were made.
Il didn't care how | got IL, Just
so long as | got it," he said.
Part of the time / told them
what I wanted 1t for and part Of
the time | didn't.
ANY time | wanted II I went
and got it. At Malstrom's ! usu-
ally got 1t from one of the clerks.
don't think | ever got II from
Malstrom himself"
Bring In Verdict
The verdict of the jury. return
ed this afternoon, was that 1.-THE
deceased came to his death as the
result of stab wound inflicted by
Frank Gogerty"
big Ed" and Little Ed" Tay-
lor, who have been held In connec-
ton with the killing, we're releas-
ed by the police.
Each of the witnesses who was
present at the time of the killing,
testified they were drinking raw
alcohol and that they we're all
practically out of their senses and
didn't know what they we're do
ing.
During the inquest Frank Cog
erty, held by the police in con-
nection with the death of Baney,
sat silently. He was still par
TALLY under the influence OF the
poison.
DR.. Harry G. willard, the first
witness described going to big
Eds" rooms shortly after the
killing.
He said that Little Ed" Tay-
lor came to his office Saturday
evening and asked him to go to
the room, saying, 81 have killed
a man; come and see him."
Woman There Then.
When he entered the rooms, he
said, he found Baney and big
Ed" Taylor, Gogerty and a woman
lying there in stupor.
He declared that later on the
way 10 tne polce StatiOn LlttI0
Ed" Taylor denied his former
statement that he had killed
Baney.
II didn't kill this man; Gogerty
did it," the doctor quoted him as
saying. II took the knife away
from him."
When he returned from the po-
lice station, the doctor said, tho
woman had gone.
Tells of Debauch.
Little Ed" when he took the
stand. described the alcohol de-
bauch in big Eds room, and
declared flatly that he saw Cog
erty do the stabbing.
He said the party had been
drinking alcohol all the afternoon
and that most OF them had had
"all they could hold"
I'VE are investigating the sale
of this alcohol, but l don't know
whether 1t will be possible to
prosecute any druggist In connec-
ton with 1t, said Deputy Prose-
cutter Selden Tuesday.
"A druggist has full right un-
der the law to sell alcohol for me-
chanical purposesn