The Coconino sun., 1921-08-19

skull. He had his companion, Leo
 Salas, watch the place while he went
 home and told his father.
 Leo Salas, twelve-year-old boy,
 the next witness, corroborated this. Billy O'Brien, who was deputy sher- if under Sheriff J. o. Harrington at
 the time, who was one of the first at
 the well after young Hoffman had re-
 ported his gruesome discovery, told
 what he saw there-the skeleton,
 clothing, travelling equipment, etc,
 and identified various articles of
 clothing found in the well.
 The clothing, which had been
 brought in wrapped up in many thick
 nesses of paper, was in a partial state of decay. Covered with grave mold, grimed with dirt and in several places plainly showing blood-stains, it was not pleasant to view and was much more unpleasant to handle.
 Jack Wilson, of Wilson & Coffin, Flagstaff, and also assistant to Under taker Edgar Whipple, helped dig out and most of the clothing had remained since that time. With Mir. Harben ex- amining, Mir. Wilson showed each ar ticle of clothing in turn, each being tagged and numbered as exhibits.
 Schwab's Skull Exhibited.
 The skull of the dead man was la beled exhibit No. 23. The large hole in the right side at the ear, and the fracture extending from that to the nf tho nf tho oGrtt noted.
 MT. Wilson said the body when un- covered in the old well was found to be partially bent, the hips being low CT than the head or feet. There was about foot and ahalf of dirt over the middle of the remains and six inches or so over the ends. He described the appearance of the top of the well. and the marks of the small round- nosed shovel-perhaps an automobile shovel, with which the dirt had been pushed from the edge of the well to cover the body.
 Charles F.. Mason, of Flagstaff, identified two photographs he had talk en at the well before the body was re- moved. One showed the skull stick ing out of the dirt at the bottom of the hole, the other the marks of the shovel around the edge of the hole.
 Charles F.. Tyler, of Upland, Calif., travelling salesman for the Champion Register Co.,, under whom Schwab identified the model register. The serial number on the register case could not be found, the bottom of the case, on which the numbers were al- ways stamped, being gone.
 Tyler said Schwab's territory in- cluded Northern Arizona. In May, not having heard from Schwab since April, Tyler came here. He employed Bill Conley and the latter's car and visited Holbrook and Winslow trying | to get trace of the missing man, but | avail. All traces ended here at Flagstaff.
 Heretofore, neither c. B. Wilson nor | Paul w. Schenck, attorneys for the de- fense, had cross-examined any of the witnesses. Mir. Schenck, however, asked Mir. Tyler few questions about the serial number on the sample case.
 Two Fatal Wounds.
 Dr. Felix Manning, county health | officer, and Dr. E. s. Miller, both of whom had been at the grave when the were exhumed, both having partially examined them there and more carefully later at the undertak- ing parlors, were in turn called to the stand. A fragment of lead had been found in the skull at the grave and another fragment at the undertaking parlors. At the latter place there had also been found a 38 special revolver bullet in the clothing, imbedded in a mass of partially decomposed tissues inside the clothing. The bullet and fragments of lead were identified by each witness as the ones they had talk ,n from the remains Each identified the skull and said that the shot that blew the hole in the side of it would nave caused death. Both also agreed that the bullet found in the body, which from holes in the clothing they decided had entered the body just to ,he left of and above "the top vest ,utton"--or from three-quarters of an nch to an inch and half to the left ,f the medial line-probably would nave caused death, though there being nothing to show exactly what di- rection the bullet had taken neither could be certain whether, if 1t had ,oaJa l, ,vo,nJ ,,,N3c;opf fn cousa