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Show iiv."' , , .,L liiiii,' ::x::i:ic qman says -D?2icl I- Qi'fca Talks cf , Victim- of ; the ' Tragedy In ... - Vrliicb His Wife Is a Patty.. ' , A Coroner's Jury, comprising' Alexander Alexan-der Cowan, D. W. Gamble," and J. II. Newton, began an Inquest before Justice Jus-tice P. M. Bishop, In the office of Chief of Police W. J. Lyhch Saturday .afternoon .after-noon at 4:30 o'clock,' to Inquire into the facts surrounding; the .death of Frederick Fred-erick W. "Nutting-, who was shot Friday Fri-day nlg-ht. . The first - witness was Mrs. Mattle Quinn, who . told ' virtually the same story that she told to Chief ,of Police Lynch Saturday morning, and which was printed In full In Saturday's Tele-i gram. . A number of other witnesses were examined, but nothing was brought out .that would tend to discountenance dis-countenance aha woman's story. . An autopsy has been performed on ,the body, of Nutting, and it was determined deter-mined that the bullet entered the right side Just below the last rib, ranged upward up-ward knd back, lodging against the cartilage of the spine.; Passed Through Liver. , The ball passed throughUhe liver and death was caused by Internal bleeding. The inquest will Be resumed tomorrow. Nutting's body will be shipped to Kansas Kan-sas City, , his , former home, where his 'wife now lives. JI1S personal effects. Including a . Jlne gold watch, some money and a chain and locket, are. in the hands of the court and will be sent to the widow. ' - . . Daniel J. Qulnn, husband of the woman wo-man under arrest, called at the police station Saturday afternoon to see Chief of police Lynch. 1 - ' "When a man - baa been In the railroad rail-road business for seventeen years," he said,, "he gets, pretty good control of himself. He has to have good control, for his life and the lives of others de-Pnd-upori'his eteadiness. "It was not that it did not .hurt, that I showed "io signs of worry ;lt was be-cause be-cause 1 had my work to do, and did not dare to give way. - .. ., Knew' Nutting Well. . ' . . "I knew Nutting years ago. He went to work In the switchyard at Kokomo, Colo., under me six years ago. He came to me and made a proposition for me to gp into a. scheme with him to rob the" company? He, sal we could get all kinds of merchandise, and whisky and everything else that we wanted from the cars. I tpld htm I would have nothing noth-ing to do with his scheme. "Then he and two other fellows went into it, and later Chief Detective Brown of the Denver & Rio Grande put men to work in the yards with these fellows. When everything was ready, Brown stepped in and pinched them. Nutting got out on $350 bail, which a saloonman furnished. Then he jumped his hail. i "Whan he came here he was put to I work on the engine, and I kept my eye cn him all the time. ' I half -expected he would get Into trouble, for I knew his record." Woman Still In Jail. V Mrs. Quinn is still in a cell at the city jail, where she will remain until after the findings of the Coroner's Jury that is examining into the circumstances surrounding the death of Nutting. The woman expresses confidence that when the Investigations of the Copo-nir.Vury Copo-nir.Vury have been completed, .she will be found to have told a true story of the cause of Nutting s, death and the attendant circumstances. Mrs. Qulnn's husband has not been to see her at the Jail, but has stated that he would supply her with an attorney, ' or with the funds to secure the services ser-vices of an attorney to fight her case if i one. were needed. j |