The Alaska daily empire., 1922-10-24

place, the dog had been quiet and
showed no signs OF being disturbed
On going ashore he had discov ered
the body lying close to path lead
ing from the cabin. to the beach
He called to Beaudfn and showed
HIM the body and both men then re-
turned to the Sheep Creek power
house and notified local Federal
authorities of their discovery. Beau
din's testimony was virtually identi-
cal with that of Holbrook.
Paine Tells of Inquest.
V. A. Paine, u. S. COMMISSIONS
and ex-officio coroner, testified TO
being notified of the finding of a
dead man below 'Thane; his sum
moning "a coroner's jury and going
to the scene; of bringing the body
TO town and the inquest. The fact
that Lott had been murdered, he
said, was i.eve aied I'm the subse-
Quent pip at ion TT and was not
known until the morning of July 81.
Deputy n o. Hardy, called for
the Government this afternoon.
identified photographs taken by him
on September 9th, of the cabin, sur
roundings, interior views of the
home of the murdered man, and Of
the spot on which the body lay
when it was discovered.
Wounds Are Described.
W. F. Fry, employee of the C..
W. Young Company, told OF going 70
the scene of the murder with the
coroner's fury and bringing the body
back to the undertaking parlors OF
his company where 1t was turned
over to c. w. Carter, undertaken.
Mr.. Carter was called and testi-
| fed to the wounds discovered by
him. He said the head was crushed
and the skull broken, and submitted
diagram of the head showing the
approximate posi- ion of the wounds.
| He found two punctures in the
skull penetrating about one-half
inch into the head and the right
side of the head so badly battered
it was impossible to tell into how
many pieces it was broken. The
left side was fractured in three
pieces. he said The nature and
! position of the wounds, he testified
indicated Lott had been attacked
from behind. AS he remembered It,
the body when he took charge OF it
was clothed in under garments, with
unlaced shoes on the feet.
On cross exanf nation he said hi
only found one indication of decom'
position that being on the chin
where apparently it had rested il
4 pool of blood The body, he ad
ded, was in state of fair preserva-
ton.
Physician Takes Stand.
DR.. t. P Dawes was called tc
the stand late this afternoon. He
told of examining the body at The
time of the inquest. Death was
; caused, he said, by blows on the
head by some blunt weapon having
projection that had punctured thu
skull. 1t was evident from the con
di ton of the head, he said, tina
yeveral blows had been struck. Three
punctures were found in the heat
from which brain tissues protruded
Any of these blows, he testified
were probably of sufficient force t.
have knocked down the victim o
the attack
i DR.. Dawes declined to state posi-
lively, ON cross examination, tn
time elapsing between death and hi,
examination of the body. This, HI
said, would be merely a relativt
guess. At the time OF the inquest
he added, he had estimated Capt
Lott had been dead from one to two
days.
Pictures of the gasboat Taku, or
which Jackson is alleged to have
made the trip to Thane when he is
charged with having killed Lott
were introduced and identified by j
w. Levers, photographer. d. w
Flanagan was testifying for the
Government late this afternoon.
Court Room Crowded.
All during the day the court
room has been crowded. BY far the
larger portion OF those present were
Indians. Standing room was at a
premium during the afternoon SEES
sion.
Jackson was on the surface the
most Indifferent person in the room
Seated with his attorneys, H. l.
Faulkner and w. L. Paul, he listen
ed apparently unmoved to the testi.
mony of all witnesses. During the
noon recess, he sat for a short timt
with his wife and two children, one
a baby which he held closely in hi
arms. while the other, little girl
cuddled closely to her mother.
The jury trying the case is com.
posed of: Andrew Berentsen, Franz
II. Pearce, Wallace George. d. M
Boutwell,, Martin Lavenik. Simon
Rosholm, E. NJ Richardson, George
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