Pueblo chieftain., 1921-02-15

February II, 1921, at or near 127 Spring
street, Pueblo. Colorado, as a result of
knife wound inflicted by w. a. Tay-
lor with felonious intent"
Above is the vital portion of the YER
dict of the coroners jury yesterday
afternoon after two and a half hours
of evidence from just twenty one per-
sons, brought out thru careful ques-
tioning by Coroner Dibble. Deputy
District Attorney Taylor. Assistant
District Attorney Langdon, and almost
every member of the jury.
"Taylor-why did you decide to make
a confession of stabbing Mr.. Breet-
wor?"
This question was put point blank to
the prisoner by member of the jury
just at the close of the investigation.
When l heard them making the
charge that the old gentleman had
been robbed, l decided to tell just
what I did; didn't rob him OF any
thing"
Even after the inquest was supposed
by the large crowd attending, to be
closed the jurymen kept the negro
under a stream of rapid fire questions,
and thru it all he remained cool ana
collected, ans--ering every question IN
an apparently full and complete man
ner: looked his every interrogator
straight in the eye and never fllhcheo
from start to finish. %
Even more remarkable was his sell
control when under gruelling IRE Oh
questions by Coroner Dibble, and when
on n half dozen OCCASIONS he was told
TO stand UP and put on his hat in order
that witnesses might test their aoility
TO identify him. The fact that wit
nesses told of his statements atteI
the killing; of his having been seen
going to and coming from the Breet-
wor store, never seemed to move him
in the least. :.
Taylor is a fine looking negro OF
more than the average height; he Is
more than the average heiShth; ne Is
we'll proportioned. has good face ana
head, even features. He is very DARK
chocolate in color and acts ike
man who had mixed much OF his I've
with an intelligent class OF white
people
large clasp variety, the blade is more
than three inches long, has a razor
edge and is opened by means OF
spring in the end of the handle.
DR.. w. r. Kidwell, who had per
formed the autopsy, stated that the
knife entered the victims breast
about three inches to the LETT OF inc
left nipple. Practically severing inc
third rib, perforating the left lung ana
passed into and thru the left ventricle
of the heart From the point OF S,ado entlS
to the past point reached by the olaoe'
was a distance OF I inches or fraction
more The surgeon pointed out that II
would be impossible for the three and =
iran inch bladed knife to have penc-
trated thus far by indenture OF .he
body of the victim and the force be
hind the blow having in all prooaointy
| ,or,od +, por.ion NJ the handle into the
wound.
In essential facts tho stories told by
the many witnesses made up the same
account as had been published. inc
negro was seen going toward the store
OF Mr. Breetwor; was seen running
went to the home Of a colored family
named Tillman. 100 Beulah avenue.
where he boarded and roomed; got ..
W. Tillman to go down town WIN
him; visited Irene Holloway at 100
Hobson avenue, and at that place sec
ured a Jumper belonsine TO anoInnr 1,,,,r
colored man: on the way back TO III III,
mans, 100 Beulah avenue. told TIL
man that he had stuck man up at
the Hobson avenue place told inc
Holloway woman he had killed q man
The police officers told OF TAYLOR S
Voluntary confession. and this docu-
ment as signed by Taylor was read by
the Chief. just as 1t appeared in The
Chieftain yesterday morning. The let
ter written by Taylor to some woman
at Kansas City and found In dresser
drawer OF his room at the TillnAh
home, he said, was written to throw a
girl off the track from writing him
further. as she did not know he was
married. In this letter he stated that
an awful murder had been committed
in this city and several men arrested
on suspicion but he did not think the
officers had the right man yet.
Those who testified at the inquest
were City Detectives Mcdonald. Grady,
Walton: Chief DAILY, Police Officers
Olson, Pezoldt, Carlson, Wciner: DR..
w. r. Kidwell, Pete Gonzales. delivery
man for the Breetwor store; lrene
Holloway, 1874 Hobson avenue: Andy