Show INVESTIGATION Of Coroners Jury Probes Mystifying Mystifying tying Case and Hears Testimony HUGH MEYERS STILL HELD TWO MEN WANTED WANT D BY POLICE STILL AT LIBERTY Palpably plain and yet t mystifying m Is the evidence so far obtained in the murder case of f John C Barnett Darnett Barnet tle young yng n man an who ho was wan wa so EO cruelly put to death in the American house on Commercial street shortly after midnight Wednesday A perfect description of at least two of the men m b to be Implicated in m inthe inthe the murder is I possessed by b the pollee but the men have have disappeared Hugh Me Meyers Ie er erthe e ethe the time cripple who was In the company of ot the supposed murderers and whose who shoe IhO hat and crutch bear ber telltale evidence in contradiction to his story stor has ha not yet been able to satisfy the officers of nU n hi complete inno innocence ince and Is still sti held hel in custody Above that and as as evidence of the deliberate manner in Barnett was murdered is I the opinion opinIon ion given glen by Drs Dr Odell and Kirtley last I night night after an that Barnett Barnet had been ben killed by b strangulation and ami an then beaten with some weapon which might have crutch been ben either a beer b r bottle or a Testimony at Inquest The ThE Th coroners Inquest yesterday morn morning mornIng ing log developed but little additional information information mation maton to that hat already in the possession of the police polee The most important testimony I was presented by b V Bambino th th the bar bartender br bartender tender who last saw Barnett in company com i with Philip Phlp Mann Iann and an his companion I Charles Charle Krumbein night clerk at th tip American house and Hugh Meyers leTe the theman thelan milan man lan in custody custod The prime bit of evidence having a bear bearing bar barIng bearIng ing on the Innocence Innocenc or guilt git of ot Meer Meyers Me e lay 11 in the contradictory statements made by b Krumbein and Meyers 1 regarding the th time of evening Mey Meyers ra let left room r 4 4 Meyers leer said he left the room at exactly 70 i and the night clerk cerk s he h was wa in inthe Inthe inthe the room at 9 when wh n he conducted a tall tal stranger to the room at the request The clerk cerk said Philip Mann en engaged engaged f gage the room rm earlier earler In the thc evening and stated at that time that three men would probably occupy It Krumbein said Hid he h had heard no unusual disturbance during the night V Y Bambinos testimony agreed agre with that of Krumbein as to the description of the men who met mat Barnett Barnet in the saloon He lie stated that after Barnett Barett hud had hd changed a 5 gold piece at the bar br one of or the th men Invited him to go to his hi room rm saying there were women omen there Barnett Barnt left the saloon In company compan with the two men at about 1230 12 Bambino says sy the themen themen themen men returned to the saloon alon at about abt 1 lO 30 and the man man with the red r beard berd left a bloodstained hat in exchange for fo Barn Bam Bambinos B m binos cap Bambino said he be It that the th mans hands were bloodstained Meyers Testimony Me Meyers Ie ers on the time stand appeared apper at a dis disadvantage disadvantage advantage His statements in many mn re respects reSPects lets were contradictory or at least lest seemed seme so 0 in view Ie of th other testimony temon offered In general he hE related how he be had met Boston Joe Shorty Short Black Bl Blacky k kand and other members of f the hobo ho gang at Park Cuy CI on Wednesday It I had hd beer boen r their intention to catch a freight fright for Salt Sai Lake City but missing it I he 1 bought a 8 ticket while Boston JO J took tok the According to Meyers though although there ther had been be n no former forer acquaintance in Park City fity he and the others had agreed to meet at atthe atthe atthe I the American merican house Meyers Meer was wa the thE nr t t tto tto to arrive arrie and rented a hall ball hal cot This Thin Thi hall bali hl cot tot was located locate about twenty feet from the door of room rm i 42 Meyers told substantially the thE same story stor he related to the police on the th night of his arrest arest that he lie had gone s ne there the early arly In the evening then had gone into room rm 42 4 only to leave lea there thee the p upon the th arrival arval the other men HP lie could not not how however however ever eer explain why wh he had gone there ther and andas was as vague in much of his information Ho lie I Insisted as he had told the tile police plC that he had retired to his own on cot at about abt 7 and that he hI knew kne nothing of the mur murder murder murder der until the body bd was ws discovered discover He made no attempt to account for the th blood bloodstains bl bloodstains stains on 01 his shoe crutch and an hat ht ne tie said the hat belonged to Boston Joe Joeand Jo Joeand and that it I had been ben traded trade for fo his hi own The coroners inquest was adjourned un until until til t 10 this morning pending the th re ye f results fuJs of the held last lat night nigh To oay ca an examination of ot the room rom at the th American house will wi be made A bottle or OZ 0 morphine was wa introduced at th ti hr hear hearing ing ins yesterday This was found fond setting on the dresser dreser in room 42 4 |