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Show WHS HE MURDERED? The Mystery Surrounding the Traffic Death of Young- Warner Agrain Being Probed. Counsel for Plaintiffs Present a Sett-sutioual Sett-sutioual Statement of the Awful Affair. CLAIMS HE WAS SHOT. Surprising a Marauder the Latter Tiimed and Fired Grief of a Wounded Mother. A BUSY DAY IN COURT. The Jury Hrlng In a Verdict in the Berry maii-If nli'nian Case Not s Jt'roiu all the Chambers of Justice. The mystery whjch has enveloped the tragic death of .1. Harley Warner and iu the solution of Which the adroitness of some of the most experienced detectives was battled is now to be fathomed. The dramatic task wajp begun before d . 1k" Anderson, whose chamber presented a dc. cidedly theatrical aspect at 10 o'clock this moruin.- when the case of M. Rush 'Warner, nduiiui.-drator and father of the young man, whose death awakened awak-ened such profound sorrow throughout tha city, againt the United States Accident Insurance In-surance company was called. Messrs. Rowers Row-ers it Ililes represented the administrator and Messrs Baldwin Jc Tatlock the defendant defend-ant company. It was said the curtain would raise oa sensation aud it did. A jury having beea secured, Judge Powers deliberately stopped before it aud said the plaintiff would show that young Worner was murdered! The defense, including counsel who are generally prepared for a bold coup at tho hand - of counsel for the plaiutiff, was now staggered, aud eyed the speaker with even, keener interest as he tripped along with tha opening statement. The judge callen attention to the fact that deceased was insured at the time of hii death, with the defendant company iu tha sum $5000 and added that while tha testimony upon which they depended wi of a circu!nstantial nature, they would prove that deceased oied from violem inflicted in-flicted by jiersonal hands and not as the defendant de-fendant contends, by suicide. They would show that he was murdered. At the time of the tragedy Harley Warner was 26 years of age, and just entering the gateway of a future that was rich with, promise and preferment. He was not only enjoying a lucrative patrouage at that time but walked iu the sunshine of popular pop-ular esteem. On the afternoon of the tragedy trag-edy which the defendant posted as a suicide he left his office at 3 o'clock intending to fulfil an engagement with a yoimg ldy lie litopy at the barber's where he was shaved and where he betraid the same jovial spirit that characterized charac-terized him at all times. He then pushed on to his home at the comer of Fourth East and Seventh South. His mother had gone aud the dwelling was for the moment mo-ment found temporarily deserted. Tho defense de-fense would show that at the time the city was being swept by a reign of the most demoralizing de-moralizing lawlessness. That it was infested in-fested by tramps. That unwary travelers travel-ers were everywhere being confronted con-fronted by the footpad, that houses were everywhere being gutted by the marauder, that honest citizens wera crying for additional patrolrnon, and that the most alarming conuilion of things existed ex-isted everywhere. That it was during this, reign that Young Warner went to his own home us free from care as any young man, and that suicide was remotest fman his thoughts. That as he entered thr. dwelling in which he wa the idol of the iontieet ol parents he deteotcd a burglar in tho act of rilling a drawer in which, he as treasurer of the Baptist church, had. placed a small annouut of money. That find, iug himself discovered, the naauradar showed fight, and grasping the young man's revolver, revol-ver, which rested od the dressing case.ihot him down with it. That the position of. tho deceased upon the bed when found by hia distracted mother was wholly inconsistent with any position that could havoheen occupied occu-pied by one who had passed away in fdo fc sc. That his mother returned to find the body lying athwart the bed in his room aud spoke to him. There was no answer the voice had passed beyond the range of mortal car. She shook him. There wa3 no stir, placed her ear to hia bosom. There was no stir, no heart beat life had flown. Frantic, siie opened the overooat that was yet unbuttoued and staggered at a hole in its folds. She sought further there, a bleeding orifice iu his body. No use nor ueed to recite the woe that shook tha heart of that idolatrous mother soul. The case went to the authorities, and ''fl to the coroner'; jury. The latter sat 'Wr met his death at an unknown hand. TTio sleuths were bewildered. They were convinced con-vinced that it was a cold blooded murder. There was no other theory for reasonable mankind to accept. Who was the murderer? This is the question that has haunted them by uight aud day, and which now confronts the parties in court, though that problem, the plaintiffs claim, they are not called upon to solve. The evidence was begun with Doctor Foster Fos-ter in the chair, tin- doctor testifying upon the scientific distinctions between a corpse that had been produced by suicide and oue that had resulted from the murderer's murder-er's bullet. The evidence is now in progress and until its conclusion conclu-sion which implies a large number of witnesses, there will be but little Ue of interest before Judge Anderson. Short Orders. The following were made during the day: A. J. Stark k Co. vs. C. E. UeWitt; verdict ver-dict for the plaintiff in the sum of $533.50. Rachel A. Wilcox vs. A. F. Wilcox, divorce di-vorce ; decree granted on grounds of desertion deser-tion and non-support. The case of Philip Speckart against Hen'y W. Weiler, iu which a transaction over a meat market is being ventilated, is on trial before Judge Zane. |