Show DEATH MURDER THEORY GAINS STRENGTH Various Circumstances and Conditions Said to Point V Very cry Strongly to Killing of Pocatello Physician EXPERTS CONVINCED SUICIDE IMPROBABLE J Automatic Gun Has Four Tou Loaded Shells in M Magazine Magazine Maga Maga- ga zine but Chamber Is Is' Empty Fact Significant POCATELLO Ida March 11 n. Dr H. H Smith Woolley was murdered Th Is the p positive assertion of invest gators Vila virn lor tor more than two mont months s have been probing suspicious cIrcumstances circumstances circum cIrcum- stances surrounding the finding of his hia body on the morning of January 9 Those directing the probe announced yesterday that an arrest may be made mad madat at any time although they will not divulge dh the Identity of the suspected parties other than to say it was someone someone some some- one who vho had free access to the theoffIce office of the prominent local physician ian an In InControvertible Incontrovertible Incontrovertible In- In controvertible proof against the theory of suicide is claimed by the Investigators investigators gators and they asse assert the existence of a motive for tor the murder is known to them Dr Woolley's body was found In his office in the First National Bank Dank building the morning of January 9 fl He Ho was seated In his desk chair his feet on the seat of another chair A 25 Colts Colt's automatic was clutched In In his right hand Two bullets from this weapon had shattered his heart and cut his aorta The first Impression was that of suicide But lack of any motive for self destruction and a closer examination of the body wounds and setting developed some startling discrepancies pointing plainly to mur mur- murden der den denIt It Is said sai I At lI the coroners coroner's Inquest h Into m Dr is UL me tue jury lanea allea to fix the th manner manner In which death had been accomplished The Th verdict t merely stated the fact of death and gave the gency agency as ci undetermined Following up what they considered as ns positive Indications of ot murder the Immediate family opened an Investigation that they believe will result In the murd murderers murderer's mur mur- d derer's arrest MEDICAL OPINIONS Eminent medical authorities called 4 in i o uLy 1 cAi AU U ail au opinion that Dr Woolley could not have fired both shots that either would have hae proved Instantly fatal paralyzing the h hand nd muscles beyond the to fO Inflict the other These also pointed out that the course of the bullets was wa downward through the body to a ade degree de de degree gree not possible had the doctor fired the shots while sitting as he was' was found The fact that about one w powder burns were found while the theother theother theother other was free froIn from su such h marks tended further to support the tho th theory ory that whoever fired the shots was adt ad- ad van ing upon the doctor as he sat there unsuspecting that the first was fired from some distance and the second second sec sec- ond at nt extremely close range to to make certain the tho victims victim's death But Dut aside from froni these opinions ns th the Investigation has uncovered still more startling evidence in the statements made b by gun experts of ot the tho Browning plant in Ogden manufacturers of the weapon used It appears that- that tue pistol was the tho property of Dr Woolley When It was found there were were four loaded shells In th the magazine and five empties on the floor two at the right of the he chair and three to the left But there was no cartridge In the chamber and this the Browning people believe Indicates that the clip was loaded after the doctors doctor's death t MECHANICAL POINT They explain this opinion on th the me me c chancal re requirements of the weil weapon n I I welch so long Jong as us there was a live ave shell in the tho magazine would replace e e each shell as emptied with a loaded cartridge In the firing chamber Both medical and gun experts have expressed ex- ex ex expressed x pressed an opinion that the gun Inthe In Inthe inthe the position found could have r been fixed in the doctors doctor's hand after d death and before rigor mortis had set set In If It the killing had been planned the investigators say the murderer c could uld have accomplished this upon lh the Ins in instant In- In s stant ant following the second shot and nd even cven before the l last lit bit of life ute had fled the he victims victim's body And there ther Is absolutely ly no way of explaining th the five flye emMy emNY shells scattered to either side of ot th th dead man on the the- theory of eQ him having havin been alone and the only one to fire tire the experts declare Basing their investigations up upon n those these discrepancies pancie the investigators feel certain that they have built up a a. case They claim to have established a possible motive for the crime They They- point out that the person under suspicion sus susi could have consummated d th the crime crimi without any attempt to resistance resist resistance ance on tho the part of Dr Woolley N The dead man was prominent and and- wealthy He had an exceptionally wide acquaintance throughout Idaho Idahoan an Utah He lie conducted a clinic with witha a a. staff starr of severAl professional meri neni His business connections took him Into the confidence of practically everyman everyman every everyman man man of means In this section And from this wide acquaintance he was c con continually n receiving visitors at his of ot flee rice It Is from among these that th the Investigators expect to pick the murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer but the tho list Is so long that until an an arrest is made no intimation of their suspicions can be gained a- a j BEST BEST OF SPIRITS As those working on the case ha have e reconstructed the cri crime e It t may mar fit al si- si most anyone until the tho detectives 01 di divulge di- di the motive they have uncovered It has developed t that at D Dr Woolley had bad ad C Continued e on p page pago go 3 3 3 h WOOllEY DEATH Continued from page 1 always kept his pistol lying near one end o of his desk On the night of Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day January 8 he left his home for a professional call caU At that night he was seen to be in the best of spirits Before midnight he was dead And the investigators declare that the murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer came to the doctors doctor's office probably by appointment sometime before midnight o of January 8 This party they say had hidden his motive and Intention under a guise o of friend friend- ship The murderer they believe picked ed up the pistol and shot the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor down without warning and then fixed the weapon of destruction in the dead mans man's grasp grasp Among the mass of 01 information affidavits affidavits affidavits af af- af- af and opinions secured by the investigators that signed by M. M Bendixen Bendixen Ben- Ben dixen chief of police describing the circumstances surrounding his first viewing the body Is the base on which the investigators have built up their case The affidavit follows State of Idaho County of Bannock s. s ss l M. M Bendixen being first duly sworn deposes and says That he is now and at all the times hereinafter mentioned was chief o of po police police police po- po lice of the city of Pocatello Bannock county Ida that on Monday mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing January 9 1922 at about the hour o of affiant was at the office of Dr H. H Smith Woolley in the First National National National Na Na- bank building in said city o of Pocatello and that the only other persona persons persons per per- sons sona in said office when affiant ar arrived arrived ar ar- rived were Dr H. H C. C Irwin and the Janitor of th the building Harry I Kilgore the latter being in the hall that affiant affiant affiant affi affi- ant at that time and place saw the dead body of said Dr H. H Smith Woolley Woolley Woolley Wool- Wool ley and took from said decedent a 25 automatic Colts Colt's revolver which was firmly clutched In the right hand of said decedent whose thumb was on the trigger and whose fingers were beSt bertt oyer the back o of the handle of said revolver that it was quite difficult difficult cult to take the said sald gun from decedents decedent's decedents decedent's decedents decedent's dece dece- dents dent's grasp on account o of the fact that the hand was cold and stiffened that affiant immediately made an examination examination ex ex- of ot said revolver and ascertained ascertained ascer ascer- tamed from said examination that said revolver contained in the clip cUp or magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine four 4 loaded shells and that there was no shell either loaded or empty in the chamber or barrel that affiant subsequently saw and took into his possession five 5 empty shells which were upon the floor two 2 at the right of the chair in which the body was sItting and three 3 to the left of said chair Further affiant not Signed M. M BENDIXEN Subscribed and sworn to before me methis methis methis this day of January 1922 Signed R R. D. D MERRILL Notary Public Residing at Pocatello Ida My commission expires August 16 1925 S This affidavit was not Introduced at atthe atthe atthe the coroners coroner's inquest when the Jury returned a verdict of death from an unknown agency |