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Show MR3.IL IS ED FOR BOfl'S DEATH Coroner's Jury Makes Inquiry In-quiry Into Circumstances Attending Killing. WOMAN IS SUFFERER Is Required Merely to Answer An-swer Question as to Her Own Identity. "Amy Helen Hill" was the one answer an-swer required of and given by the slayer of Ross M. Bunny at yesterday after- ' noon 's inquest into the circumstances of , the attorney's death. J With the concurrence of Assistant ounty Attorney Harold 31. Stephens, who conducted the inquest, acting Coro-! nor L. li, Martincau, Jr., excused Mrs. . Iill from further testimony after she , had answered the question as to her ! correct name. ' The note of suffering in the woman's voire made everyone in the courtroom grateful to the court and the prosecutor i or rcfraini ng from further interroga-tioti. interroga-tioti. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that Bonny came to his death from gunshot wounds inflicted by Mrs. Jiill. The inquest was carefully conducted 1 o eliminate any suggestion that t lie ulayer was on trial and with equally careful attention that all facts of the tragedy of the attorney's death should become a matter of record. During the proceeding Mrs. Hill sat in an agonized 1 ension, suppressing occasional par-oxys-rns of grief to a point to where only a smothered groan could be heard from "between her clenched teeth. Sister Testifies. The story of how Bonny was shot in hU offieo on the tenth floor of the 1 Kearns building was elicited from gov- eral witnesses and written into the offi- 1 rial record, the principal witness being Mrs. Winnie Vincent, sister of the dead man. Sho told of having seen Mrs. Hill go into the Kearns building, of being ap- ! prehensivo and of having found Mrs. Hill and Bonny there a few minutes : later. I Mrs. Vincent testified that Mrs. Hill i asked Bonny to go home with bor, that j he refused, that she tried to got Mrs. Hill to leave the room while she should appeal to her brother to be considerate of Hrs. HiU to the point of marrying her. But Mrs. Hill refused, according to the man 5s sister, and when Bonny reached for his hat after saying that he must go to Midvale on business, Mrs. Hill shot him; said the sister, the one ; shot being fired into the attorney's, head an he stood and tho second after be had fallen to the floor. ! Ralph V. de Camp, elevator operator ', in the Kearns building, and Robert C j i'ody, starter of the elevators, told of the going of Mrs. Hill to Benny's of-I fice about ti o'clock Thursday evening. Beniamin I). Hamill and W. T. Beards-Jny Beards-Jny told of being stopped in the hallway by Mrs. A7inccnt after the shooting had occurred and asked to assist her. They : lold of being shown by Mrs. Vincent j into the office of Bonnv and of finding find-ing his; body there on the floor. Takes Revolver Away. lam ill testified that a few minutes later he met Mrs. Hill in the hallway and took from her the cheap little re-volvpr re-volvpr from which she f i red the two shots that resulted in Bunny's instant death after he had refused to marry her. He said that he was not aware until afterward that she bad done the shooting, but was afraid that she might harm someone with the weapon. He said that he had always known the woman as Mrs. Bonny. Patrolman Lester F. Wire of the police department testified that he arrested Mrs. Hill and received from Mr. Hamill ; the revolver with which the shooting was done, Drs. W. R. Tyndale and . Scott Keyting testified to the nature of the wounds inflicted in the head of the victim by the bullets, giving opinions opin-ions to the effect that death must have been instantaneous. Before the verdict was returned the . coroner's jury viewed the body at the undcrtaki ng establishment, where it is being prepared for burial. The jurors were KmiJ S. Lund, C. L Harmon and Andivw Adamson. f uneral services for Mr. Bonny will br held at Springvillc at 1 o'clock tomorrow to-morrow afternoon from the Presbyterian c:uu'h. The bodv can be viewed" at the funeral chape! of M. Taylor & Co. ' after .'1 o'clock this afternoon. It will l e sent to Springville at 8 o'clock to- morrow morning. |