Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
DIssENsIoN ENTERS PROBE.
Medical Examiner Refuses to Reveal
Whole Findings at Inquest.

Whole Findings at Inquest.
HUNTINGTON. N. r, September
20 (P1.-With the strange murder of
Sound at midnight, September Q, still
unsolved, a ripple of dissension today
began to disturb the heretofore unified
forces. OF the investigation intoN the
mysterious Staying.
The first inkling Of a clash within
the ranks Of the investigators came
Saturday In the midst of the coroner's
inquest when DR.. Otto H. Schultze was
called to the stand to tell the findings
Of his autopsy on Ceilings body. DR..
Schultze defied the coroner and dis
trict attorney of Suffolk County. rat
tied of a bathing list of numerical
symbols, declared they definitely proved
that Ceilings death was caused by
drowning, and then abruptly left the
inquest room
He declined TO go into complete re-
port OF his findings, indicating that to
make It public at this time might
hinder justice.
DispIeased With Probe.
The attitude of Or. Schultz. who Is
medical advisor to the district attorney
OF New York County, mystified the
SUFFOLK County coroner and district at
torney Tor whom he had agreed to
perform the autopsy.
And not until today did it become
known what lay behind DR.. Schultze,s
action in the inquest room and the
curious list of symbols he read.
The doctors attitude, it was authori-
tatively learned, was occasioned by his
strong dlsapproval OF the manner in
which the investigation was proceed
ing. He had to be served with a COM
pulsory subpoena before he appeared.
Wnen ne did appear, he merely gave
his perfunctury conclusion about the
cause of Ceilings death. recited sir
symbols, and orefuSed to answer uues-
tons about the evidence of blows fond
on Ceilings head and believed to have
been struck before the man was bound
hand and foot and tossed from his
cabin cruiser into Long Island Sound.
Symbols Referred to Salt.
AS for the mystic symbols, it was re-
vealed today that while no one in the
inquest room could decipher them they
were simply labels for varying ouantf-
ties OF one simple substance found In
various parts of the victims body-salt.
The presence Of salt in all the or
gans and its correspondence to the salt
found In Long Island water was the
Sho~AASAeAA RAQ0A s0ROA4 WIQCll LIT. OCHulLZE
based his conclusion that the cause of
death was drowning and that Ceilings
was alive when he was thrown into the
water.
DR.. Schultze's refusal to 20 into his
findings about the incidental blows on
Ceilings head, 1t was learned today,
was due to his belief that the coroner's
inquest was entitled to know merely
the cause Of death and that other de-
tails OF the autopsy which may prove
important In efforts to solve the crime
should not be made public there.
Course Not Revealed. q
And SO when he left the court room
he took whatever secret his findings
may still shield with him. Whether
they viii be made available to the off,
Gals Of Suffolk County or whether the
doctor contemplates turning them over
to certain private investigators as pos
sible clues to the murder could not be
learned.
That he displeased Coroner William
Gibson and District Attorney Alexander
Blue IF Suffolk County by his attitude
was evidenced by their declaration that
they win subpoena one of Dr. Schultze's
assistants in. the autopsy to testify at
the next session Of the coroner's inquest
Friday.