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Show " AN JNNOGENT MAN Huntington, the Council Bluffs Suicide, Was Such. THE UTE COMMISSIONERS I6ft Denver for Utah Yesterday "Dick" Bland of Missouri Has a Free Coinage Bill to Present to Congress Other Tele-Graphio Tele-Graphio News Council Bluffs, la., Dec. 18. The theory that Huntington, the bank clerk who ehot the two bond company examiners and then committed suicide, was shot by other hands than his own Sunday, was exploded today and the jury so decided. The jury went to the hotel to hear the testimony of Ilayden and Cromwell, Crom-well, The former teemed to be in good spirits, but the latter was not resting so easily as on Monday. Both described the conversation that Ltook place in the priyate office of the bank in the same way as it has already been given to the public by the papers Both said they were uaarmed and did no shooting. Cromwell's testimony did much to strengthen the belief in Huntington's innocense of any financial crookedness. He said that he could not specify any particular check that was missing, and so far as he could see the bank had not .lost the $500, excepting so far as the bookkeeping vaa concerned. The mystery surrounding a note about which the inspectors questioned Huntington Sunday morning was cleared up this afternoon.' The note was lor $50 and was paid thiB. month, although. Huntington could not tell where he got the money with which to pay it, Judge Bennett, the cashier of the State Savings Bank, testified that on the same day when the note fell due, Huntington borrowed at his. bank fhere is now no doubt that the whole miserable affair resulted from Huntington Hunt-ington getting his accounts mixed and that he was not a thief, but thought he was to be so branded. |