Show STRUCK ND i i i HE IS 1 DEAD l t I jj tf Woman Relates Story of ot Having l 1 Hit With j 11 ti Pick Handle F Y HI 1 X r BATTERED VICTIM AT MORGUE f i o It MU be Coincidence But Inv In ery er Who Vho Died of C 8 Description M An interesting question for or police In tjuI Is III tho the matter of tho th death of ot u ii uman 1 man named whoso bod bodY lies lIe at und par parlors lors 1018 with a ii death record showing that ho came camo to his lits end nd through alcoholism lBs His lIs age ng Is 1 given shon ns liS 15 45 1 years and II nd ho ro roo rodd dd at 31 Second East The matter mattor to determine Is la l whether this death hns anything to lo ilu with other causes than alcoholism The Tho face 2 Is b badly l battered and niu discolored as its It If Itu itIL u IL club had been blon used usel In producing a II hastening end there thoro would bo be evidence enough nough on In tho face to convince a rt t jury JUl that tho club had hUll been used well 1011 and This ThIll morning a II conversation was wn overheard on 08 o l a Il First South street stroet car westbound by b a Il reporter of ot the tho Now and und It lead lend to Inquiries at ah all au of oI the thu local undertaking establish month meritS for tho the body of ot a II man who had been beaten benten about the tha taco face and andI head I I CORPSE Com SE Late this afternoon the tha body bod of ot o Lav Lw Lavery ery cry was wa found answering the description tion While the tho matter may be entire entirely ly 13 ha a coincidence and may have ab absolutely I no connection with tho the con conversation on the street car still there thero therel I Is l room for Investigation which could not bo ho carried to completion this aft afternoon afternoon I I I 1 1 tell ui you yoi ou sold one of ot the tho three on the tar car this morning to her com corn companions como o when a l man comes cOllies home homo f drunk and starts Ii tn to abuse his wife Ite I think sheli he u a perfect right to tu defend herself It If sho dio took look a 11 pick plok handle to toh h him and 11 Iid I his h 18 head In with It Its it her own affair and I dont think UiO tho ho police ought to bo be told anything about l It Il To thin thia tho the man answered Te Yes I think that way tl too I was going down downto lo to tell the tho police but Ill never flavor do It MO ho tar far na aa n I am lIn concerned A k has hL lIa n a perfect P t right to use us any uny weapon we r eho sho ho can got get hold of ot on a Ll man mall t C comes home homo drunk and she aho ought nuver flayer n er erto r to get Into trouble over ov r It II either cHhor MRS ns LA SILENT At tills thIs afternoon tho tim News located Mr Mrs at her homo home on south Second East street Shi Sho was WIlS In n a high of ot nervous nerous excite excitement ment and refused to answer questions inferring the Nos to Dr Douglas All that could bo be learned from rota her yas that her husband had long been licen given to drinking at such times would woul remain away froth from homo home Friday shu Ehu hunted hInt him up UI and succeeded In locaL locut locating ing log him She brought him homo home Sat Saturday Saturday Saturday evening 1 and then Ihen alto tho he says ha lie took sick nick finally dying Monday I turned turne tho body ody over to tho Knights of ot lodge l dge to which ho he belonged she sho said taid and they thoy got Dr Douglas to examine him Dr Douglas DougIa testified that he died of ot pneumonia and ho was WM sent fent to under undertaking undertaking taking parlors Efforts to get tho the to say moro more than this vero unavailing and she sho declined to answer questions Tho Th couple wore were married nine nino months ngo and that time Lavery has baa been a constant carouser while Mrs VOy ha Iia worked to support both oth bothi herself i r l and tho the man VERSION EllSION Doctor C I Douglas was located In J his attica In tho the building I j was suspicious of ot the tho case calle ho Fald FaldI I was WM wa by b no means that the thu j death was front from alcoholism and I Idid Idid Idid did not certify that It was WIlS from I I was first called In Saturday even ovon evening ing lug and noticed tho ho j Blon aWn of the patient I thought he ho was tas it netting getting over a Il Jag and would recover c I again called and ho hu seemed scorned Improving Monday noon they tho tele lelo telephoned phoned mo me he WitS was dead deull I turned the tho j ease over tn to Dana ana T Smith acting coroner and anti not heard of ot It since Did you know anything of at an nn en encounter encounter counter Well I understood that the tho woman som aona Instrument on him a II picket from a fence or soma such Imoh Instrument I 1 did not know tho the details |