Republican farmer., 1920-05-21
Several
 Took E art
 Iu Crime
Witnesses At Inquest Trace Wanderings of
 SckineOvich.

More than one person was impH- cated in the brutal murder of Stanis- law Sckineovich at Rooster river, Fairfield, last Friday night, in the opinion of Medical Examiner William P. Donaldson of Fairfield, who per formed the autopsy on the body, Sat urday afternoon and who testified at the inquest held by Coroner John J. Phelan today.
 The Medical Examiner bases his opinion the fact that about six feet from where the body was found there was a. pool of blood which was con fined within an area of two feet and that the blood came from the gaSh across the throat of the murdered man.
 The doctor says the blood would not be confined to this small area unless someone held the body wIni1s his neck was, cut and for the two or three minutes while the hemorrhage lasted, from the severing of the jugu- i lar veins in the neck. The arteries 1 the doctor said the hemoTrhage 1 would have taken a much shorter | time.
 The doctor also testified that in his 1 opinion the long gash in the abdomen and the cuts the knee were made after the man was dead there was l no hemorrhage from either of these wounds would be the case if made while he was alive.
 The body had been dra agged down l the hill for about six feet from the place where the man died to the place | in which it hay when first discovered | That the clothes had been hurriedly torn from the body was shown from the fact that the shirt was turned in- fside out and the shoes and stockings i lay beside the body. The rest of the clothes were piled the lower part ! of the body and set on fire by the | below the chest was Scorched from tn Q I burning clothes. From all the facts it could not have been a suicide. 1 Other witnesses traced the wander ings of the dead man from the time he i left the Crane factory and went to a saloon on Main street where he had several drinks of whiskey and beer and made a loan of s5 to Frank | Wornscke of 367 Main street out of in the saloon and showed his friends that he had received $37 for his last weeks work.
 1 He afterwards went to a restau. rant next to the saloon with Wornscke
 and after eating went to another sa- loon where he had four or five more drinks. While Wornscke was shak- ing dice with some other men the de- 1 ceased left the last saloon, saying that he wanted to take a North Main
 street car and go home, as he had
 to go to work in the morning.
 The bartender and cook in an- 1 other saloon testified that about Il
 o'clock Friday night, a man who
 they believed was Sckin eovich came
 into the saloon and was so intoxicat- ed that he was told to leave as he
 would not be served there.
 It was stated that it would have been impossible for the murdered
 man to reach the spot where the
 body was found unless he took 2
 Brook1awn car and these stop run
 ming at 1 o'clock. It is the belief o: l the witnesses that he could not have
 walked to Fairfield in condition he
 was in that night.
 John Petritis, a brother of the men with whom Sckineovich boarded , l lived out near where the body wa: 1 found and one of the witnesses wa. of the opinion that John might have
 seen him after he left the saloons, a: i Sckineovic had visited him before.
 The hearing was adjourned unti tomorrow morning at g o'clock bJ ! the coroner