The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-20
H0tMDEAfH
 VERDICT E
 FOR SUICIDE
One legged Miner Made Will. Bought Weapon
 on Same Day


 Channel mircr, whose body was found in his apartment yesterday died of inflicted gun SAot wounds, motives unknown.
 Many elements Of evidence con- fused the chain of evidence leading up to Holm's death. Wounds made .ty a ,32 automatic revolver found in closed drawer in the apartment were declared net to have been in- stantly death- dealing and further evidence revealed that Holm must have shot himself somewhere out side Of the, apartment and come home tc die. sMar M
 Will Is Revealed
 l. was also revealed at the inquest that Holm had made his last will and 1 \ ment cn Saturday, leay- ing his entire estate, totalling sev- cval thousand dollars. tc Mrs. Lily Lorraine, niece cf Mrs. Lena Perelle, who. recently died here, leaving a sister, me,har of Mrs. Lorraine, and Holm, her estate, valued at approxi- matcly ssOoQO. m sse,u
 \, s Purchases Gun at
 On the same day Holm made his will. he. also purchased a, second- hand .32 automatic. pistol from Steve Stanworth, who identified, the weap- cnr found in the death apartment as probably the same gun ,Y Helm told. Stanworth, the latter said, that he just wanted it around the house for ,protectioa,' and had no use for. a, hclster. he H <, Further examination Of the body showed peculiar stains on the. lips and stomach analysis made by Warren Eveland of the Division of Public Health Laboratories, found traces of 4mercnry compound in his tests. supstantiating belief that Holm. had also drank from. a half full bcttle of mcrcurcchrcme, found beside the bed on which he was oiiscovered dead. 4.~s aste
 s.,s She's Net Fatal Ones
 pr. w. M. Whitehead after con- ductins his autopsy. said none Of the three gunshot wounds was a fatal shot. The paths of all three bullets which entered the hp@ mira culcusly missed any vital IciEer. such as the heart or lungs. '
 One Of the bullets which should have definitely pierced the heart and which first gave rise. to the puzzle as to how Holm might have moved frem the kitchen to the bed- room. was found to have struck a rib, glanced downward and then struck anot,ler rib. going back through the body, passing below the heart. E
 Hcles in Clothing
 The hard-nosed bullets left tiny holes in Holm's clothing and it was not until late yesterday that holes were found in his outer clothing which was covered with mess and dirt and soaking wet, indicating Holm had shot himself somewhere in the woods near town.
 The bullets for his gun he pur- chased Saturday on the day he made his will, from William Geddes al the Junea Young Hardware Geddes said Holm did not say what he was going to do with the shells and Geddes had to show Holm how to lead the weapon
 One Shell Missing
 Eight shells were gene from the box purchased at the hardWars store when officers found the box in the apartment. Four shells were yet. in the gun, and there were thros bullet holes in the body. One shel s vet unaccounted for,
 Where Helm was shot, is still un- ,nown. but the nature of dirt or his clothing, and the testimony oi Marko Dapcevich who said he saw Holm sort of pale sometime aftei dinner Wednesday night. ccming down the Basin Road towards his 1cme, indicates the shooting hae taken place. somewhere up the Ba- 'in Road.
 Home to Die
 Unfamiliar with the gun, it is be- lived Holm accidentally slipped he safety catch on possible only when loaded) after firing the las shot, could, fire the gun no more and went home to die CT make fur ther attempts to take his life. pr. Whitehead said that a normal man might live for "a considerable length of tine' with the three wounds Holm had, and could prob ably have been saved, had he beer given m dical attention SCOT enough Whitehead said he believed Holm died of shock resulting from his wounds. n. y., | a. Warren Eveland.. who cpnducteC the stomach analysis, said the mer- curochrome probably could not have been fatal and declared "a man would probably have to drink about pint of it before it had any effect. ,
 Fingerprints Taken Fingerprints on the gun were talk en by FBI Agent Ralph c. Vogel and will be checked later.
 On the jury were Stanley Nowicka John Monagle, Walter H. Robinson