South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-14
CONCLUDE INQUIRY
INTO SHOOTING OF
WISNIEWSKI YOUTH
Grand Jury Probe Only Ger
tain Result of Inquest
Doubt Exists About Bullet.

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them 20 sign their respective state
ments made on the witness stand
The results OF tho quiz are expect
ed TO have but one certain result
an order for an Investigation by the
county grand jury In the mean
time however. Pros. Floyd O. Ielli-
son has the authority 20 at once
bring the subject % the attention OF
that body. now i'm session Whether
this will be done or that official viii
await the certified copy OF Hos.nski's
finding and postpone grand jury i'm
vestiration until later time has not
been learned
Expert testimony tending 70 prove
that the fattened lead bullet ex-
tracted from the brain OF Zigmund
! Wisnlewsk was fired from a IS
/ calber special revolver featured
. Saturday mornings session of the
/ inquest being conducted by Justice
/ Hosinski 10 ascertain the cause Of
Wisniewskis death
The inquest was concluded. so far
rs the taking OF testimony is con-
| cerned. after Frank Strzelecki. soft
drink" parlor proprietor had been
I recalled 20 the stand 20 answer the
] accusations of whisky selling made
against him Friday afternoon by all
legged customers" OF his establish
ment
Recall Omcers.
Roy Poure and Herman Schricker
police officers. Russell 2 Meyers.
county patrolman. were also recall
ed 20 subsantiate former state
ments they had made in an effort by
Justice Hosinski TO corroborate tes-
timony given by others. The respon-
sibility for wisniewski's death was
again denied by both Schricker and
Meyers.
" z. straub. sos s. Michigan St,
testifying to having SO years exper-
ience as a gunsmith. declared that
while he was positive the bullet
which killed Wisniewski was not a
80. expressed doubt whether the
pellet OF flattened lead was a stand
ard IS or a 80 special
In my opinion. however" stated
Straub "all dimensions of this bullet
would identify It as a IS special
Eliminates Rokop.
Straub based his reasons upon the
still intact condition of half OF the
bullets base. characteristic with ITS
rings and hole in the base of a bullet
OF that calibre.
Straub's testimony linked up those
portions Of previous testimony hav-
ing 10 deal with the guns carried by
the two officers and Andrew Rokop,
driver of the car which carried the
arresting party TO the Strzelecki es-
adjustment, sworn by witnesses to
have been fired by the three men.
lie practically eliminated Rokor
from those who fired and whose bull
let hit its IA ark. Rokop admitted
firing one shot but in a westerly di-
rection away from the fleeing Wis
niewski AMI toward the ground
Rokop had .32 revolver.
Myers Again Denies.
Myers upon his third appearance
before HoSinsk. maintained his IN
nOcence claiming he had not hret
a shot and that he had used his CUR
~ no time that night. Witnesses. in.
Guiding other officers and bystanders
previously testified that while Myers
fred four times he had an automat.
ic revolver OF 80 calibre which sho
only steel-nosed bullets
Schricker admits IS special re
volver, but denied that he shot IN
the direction of the fleeing man.
Seek Fourth Revolver.
Both Schricker and Poure testi
naH D,
yer which Strzelecki claimed TO po
sess was not brought out or dis
played 10 them during the time the,
were at his place. either before OF
after the shooting His admittanc,
Of ownership of a IS revolver nrin
leaden bullets had aroused som
, question as 10 whether fourth re
volver had entered into the cas-,
. The three officers absolved stree
: leck entirely in this connection