Show THE INQTJIRY1 J TH CORONERS INQUIRY The coroners jury continued its investigation into the killing of Nellie S Wilder on Monday the examination of witnesses as heretofore here-tofore being conducted at the City Hall Several witnesses were examined ex-amined and one very important item drawn out which accounts for the disappearance of the second pistol which at first was assumed to have been used and which was latterly lat-terly proven to have been employed by the extraction of the bullet irom the head of the dead woman and the discovery that it was of a different differ-ent calibre from those carried by the little revolver found near the dead woman Dr Disbrow who was practically arrested on Friday his attorneys guaranteeing that he would be present when required was examined and he produced the pistol which had been sought for His name was engraved on both sides of the handle and he had endeavored to deface it so that it could not be recognized The doctor accounted for his possession of it in this way He had gone to the house to make a professional pro-fessional visit to the girl Jessie Jes-sie as before stated and on looking in saw Nellie Wilder lying dead on the floor with the pistol beside her Entering and seeing it to be his he picked it and and went to his office How the pistol came to be there he explains thus He had promised the girl Jessiethat he would give her a nistol oMifir thnn the one she had = the small one = the girl being dissatisfied dis-satisfied with it and stating that as the improvements were making and the house more or less open she wanted a pistol that would be of good service He therefore gave her his own pistol which she must have used and dropped beside the dead woman when she had done the shooting The statement that he entered the room first controverts contro-verts the one made by the colored girl Jenny who states that when she reentered the lot the doctor was just stepping on the porch The pistol was examined and the bullet found in the brain was on examination proved to bean be-an exact fit for the pistol of the doctor The reason he had not surrendered it before was because he did not want it known that the pistol was his The surrender of the weapon clears up whatever of mystery may have attached at-tached to its disappearanee confirms con-firms to a considerable extent the story of the gIrlas far as it is madethat she shot Nellie Wilder but did it in selfdefense The persistent per-sistent unwavering statement of the girl too that she shot the deceased de-ceased exonorates any person from active participancy in the affair but her determined declination to give details leads to the suspicion that all is rot yet told The coroners coro-ners jury continues its investigation investiga-tion teday S Jessie Walton was taken before Justice Spiers on Monday but her examination before the magistrate was deferred with a view to awaiting await-ing the decision of the coroners jury |