Show I WARDLAW V ARDLA W IS S I EXONERATED BY JURY JUR Y OFFICER WAS JUSTIFIED IN KILL KILLING KILLING ING DOMINICK VIRGIL Coroners Jury Listens to Story of the as Related by Eye EyeWitnesses Witnesses oooo oo o o o 0 0 o 0 We the jury to 0 0 hold an Inquest over the tho body 0 o 0 of Dominick Virgil who was 0 o 0 shot to death Monday 0 o 0 her ber 1909 find that the said I Io 0 o 0 Dominick came to hIs 0 o 0 death by a gunshot wound from 0 o 0 a pistol in the tho hands or of Police 0 o 0 Officer George B Wardlaw and 0 o 0 that said shot was fired by Of 0 o 0 George B Wardlaw while 0 o 0 in the discharge of his dut duty 0 o 0 and while lr to arrest said 0 o 0 Dominick VIrgil That saId 0 o 0 officer George B Ward 1 ao Is 0 o 0 fully ju justified and exonerated 0 o 0 from rom all blame 0 o 0 Signed E M Allison Sr 0 o 0 John Douglass Doulass A W Rankin 0 o 0 0 After Actor viewing the bod body of DominO Domin DominICk ICk Virgil il and hearing the tho testimony regarding his d death ath the tho jur jul render rendered ed the above verdict The case caso was heard by the Jur Jury In the police pollee court courtroom courtroom room at 11 today Judge Mur Murphy Murphy phy presiding The story of the killing as related by Officer Wardlaw and corroborated by Officers Cooney and Sul SuI Ilvan was that Officers and on the morning of b bier r GUt were called to a shack In the roar rear of the Utahna Coffee coffeo house on lower street between Lincoln and Wall Vall avenues tJ ta attend to Lo a man who had been badly slashed with a knife knite by br some or of his country countrymen men italians The wounded wounder man was sent to the J police station for fOI treatment and or Of ficor Wardlaw being advised b by an Italian near the place that Ute the per perpetrators or of the deed would undoubtedly edly soon return to the shack It be beIng being Ing the th sleeping place of the wound wounded ed man and the two follows fellows responsible responsible sible for his condition remained at atthe atthe the place to capture the tho men In the meantime Officer had been called to another locality and Mr Wardlaw was loft left alone on on the premises The Tho Injured man had given the tl a pretty good do de of the man who assaulted him saying that he was an Italian or of medium height with a lark dark moustache and wore dark clothes a whIte vest and tan shoes Wardlaw sta stationed himself In a dark darl corner and told Ute the italians there to turn off I their lights He had not walterJ more than ten minutes when two men came camo stealing their wa way through tho weeds In the tho of the block toward towar the tho quarters formerly oc ec ocI ecI I by the woun wounded ed man manThe manThe The two men walk walked d a short diG dis distanCe I tanCe and then listened for sounds When within close range the om omI I ocr or the men to throw up their I hands stating he was nn an officer of tIme the law and that lie he wanted them at the station One man ran away while the tho theother oth other l man wearing the white vest est and answering the de deScription deScription of the fellow accused of as assaulting the wounded a hand upon his hip pocket et and wu was ion spon In a scuffle th officer The I two men wrestled and tugged at each other ether for a distance of 75 feet the thc officer the while trying to stun the desperate man with bl vs from his I revolver that thal he might arrest him I without further trouble The Italian the he muzzle or of his re revolver I volver against the tho officers right cheek check but the weapon was vas fir fired ed Cd Wardlaw In pushing the gun away from his race face and when it itI was discharged the bullet ploughed Its J I way vay through the officers left arm he tween the elbow and time shoulder At this point Officer fired a ashot ashot shot Into the tho left groin of oC his an antagonist He then shoved the fellow away from him evol every moment ox ex fleeting to receive another bullet from his pistol and fired another shot which tool took effect In the loft side Ide of the Italians head The man fell dead at the officers feel The officer pick kud up the muns gun and carrl carried tl It to the tho police station It was In evidence before the jury today and wa Was found to be a caliber Colts er City Cily physician Wm Vm tos tes testified tilled as to the nature of time tho wounds In Ia DominIck bod body and head stating that thal ho he was called lA to the skin side of the map man In the yard urd where the tho shooting occurred The Tho man mah was dead when ho he reached him and the tho wa or of the tho opinion that al a instantaneous most Aside from Crom the vindication given gion Of hoer fleer Wardlaw by the jury jun Chief and an all the offic Officers s of the polIce dep department exonerated ed and commended him In what ho did |