The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-10-09
Member of Republic Crew Succumbs Enroute to Ju-
 neau-Y Yakutat Shooting
CORONER'S INQUEST
 HELD HERE SUNDAY
Kicking Over Bucket of Halibut Leads to Trag-
 edy to Westward

The Seattle hallbut schooner Republic, Capt. H. B. Hegge, came into Juneau Sunday forenoon, it's flag at half-mast, bearing the body of Ole Stortset, member of it's crew, who died enroute to Juneau from the effects of a gun- shot wound received at Yakutat Friday night.
 The Coroners Jury, presided over by United States Commis- sioner John F Mullen at Carter's Mortuary Sunday afternoon at o'clock, found that he died as result of a gunshot wound, re- ceived at the hands of "a negro woman, to the jury unknown" Death occurred as the Republic neared Juneau, off Douglas Island at Outer Point, twenty hours af- ter the schooner left Yakutat.
 None of the crew of the Re- public witnessed the shooting.
 Details Are Lacking
 After the closing of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Yakutat at the end of the can- ming season, there is no telegraph ic service at the settlement. The name of the woman accused, and details of any arrest will not be available until Commissioner w. H. Dugdell at Yakutat finds some means of coming to Juneau or sending word here. The first mail boat from Yakutat will be the Yukon which will return to Ju- neau October 20.
 According to Capt. Hegge, who before the Coroner's Jury as a witness, the Republic got nto Yakutat Friday. Stortset, who is 29 years old and has been a of the schooner's crew for ] year-and-a-half and a few of he thirteen members of the crew were playing cards aboard the boat during the afternoon About o'clock Stortset went ashore.
 Bucket of Halibut
 It was about 2 o'clock Friday night when a man boarded the Republic and told Capt Hegge that . member of his crew had been hot uptown.
 They found him in the house of | colored woman. Commissioner 0ugdell was there and govern nent nurse, Mrs. Dorothy w. Huff nan, was giving medical aid. The ,olored woman was helping her. 3tortset kept saying "T'he nigger hot me-" and claimed that "aD le had done was to kick over a bucket of halibut standing on the loor inside the door"
 There is no doctor at Yakutat. md Capt. Hegge, with the choice ,f taking the wounded man to Jordova or Juneau for medical at ention, brought him here.
 The Republic left Yakutat at midnight Friday. Stortset lived intil yesterday morning.
 Course of Bullet
 The bullet which caused death. entered the bdom e n, passed through the left lung and through he body.
 Dr. L. P. Dawes, physician of ' he Public Health Service, Capt. 4egge and Emil Johansen were witnesses before the Coroner's Jury. Jury members were O. Bo- hello, John Marshall. w. J. -hilds, M. H. Truesdell, L. Mo- xinnon and Guy McNaughton.
 Stortset was member in good standing of the Fishermen's Un- on. Two uncles living in the vic- nity of Seattle survive him.
 No action will be taken by the District Attorneys office until word S received from Yakutat. Probab- ably no knowledge of Stortset's ieath-he was alive when the Re- public left Yakutat-will reach the village until the Yukon arrives ,hers from Juneau Wednesday or of this week,