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Show MONTANA INQUEST COMPLETED I MRS. CARLETON I DERANGED, SAYS JURY'S VERDICT I , Inquiry Into Deaths of Pastor Pas-tor and Woman Ends At Midnight ! FULL DETAILS GIVEN Widow Retains Calm As She Recounts Events Before Tragedy vil Li BH HAVRE. Mont , Oct. 28 By the 1 Associated Press.) Temporary men-tal men-tal derangement on the part of Mrs. Margaret Carleton was rc3ponslbb-for rc3ponslbb-for the tragic death of herself and the Rev. Leonard Jacob Christie r. pastor of St Mark's Episcopal church early Friday morning, according to the verdict of tho coroner's jury which conducted an Inquest Into the deaths and returned Its verdict shortly short-ly before midnight. J For the first time the full details raMlfl of the shooting and conditions lead-, lead-, ing up to the tragedy were recounted by Mra. Anna W. Christler, widow ! of the rc-i tor, when she testified nt I tho inquest. In a calm, modulated voice, full of feeling, she told th i story of the shooting. At times she paused to control herself yet throughout through-out the ordeal she maintained the, stole attitude that has characterized her actions thr past two days. Tho Jury which heard - the testimony testi-mony viewed the scene of the shoot-rng shoot-rng this aft-rnoon and reconvened this evening to hear all available testimony tes-timony bearing on thn matter. Mrs. Christler was the first witness. She was dressed In mourning. DESTROYS PICTURE Returning to her home about in O clock In the evening, she was surprised sur-prised ti see a light in the house. She told the jury, and called to '. Ilauge. a next door neighbor asking ask-ing him to stand on his front porch while she went ln Entering, she found Mrs Carle ton there, she stated d Btroylng a picture of Dr Christler. I She admonished her for the net. ac-cording ac-cording to her testimony, and added that Mrs Carleton seemed anything but in her right mind Mrs ( brlstlor told the Jury that sho finally prevailed upon Mrs. rVton the how:.- .villi h.i They started to walk toward the husl- 1 ness section of the town, she said and met the Rev. Mr. Christler and the- Rev. Mr. Chapman of Butte They ail proceeded to the corner of Thlrl avenue and First street, leav-lng leav-lng her there while they w, to M.e j station with Mr. Chapman. Mrs. Carleton saying she, would wait for them, the wltnt sa I stifled , KNOCK AT DOOR On their way back, which aho thought must have been after midnight, mid-night, they did not meet Mrs. Carte-ton, Carte-ton, Mrs Christler said; but went on home, thinking she might have pro- Th v had bc n home only a short time, the witness proceeded, and The had looked to the furnace and seen that the house was locked, when there was a rap at the door. She admitted Mrs. Carleton, she said Tlic three went Into the living room Mrs. Christler did not give the jury full of the conversation, but isMfl In answer to a question she said that -Mrs Carleton declared "that I (Mrs. Christler) had no place In H Mr. ChrJstler's life." ' Mr. Christler arose and started for his sle-plng room. Mrs Christler MONTANA JURY GIVES VERDICT (Continued From Pace One ) testified, and Mrs. Carloton also aroso tin if to depart. Mrs Chrlstler eald she went to ttio front door and opened It, with lir hack to Mtb. Carlcton, who had followed Mr. Chrlstlcr. Then came two revolver shots In Quick succession, Mrs Ohrlstler told the Jury She turned In time to see Mrs. Carleton fail In the doorway of a very Email hall leading Into the bathroom and into Mr. Chrlstlcr's room, she testified. Mrs Chrixtler said she saw that Mrs Carleton was dead and. step, ping over the lator's body she trh-rl to pet to Mr. Chrlstlcr, but he had fallen In such a manner as to partially par-tially block the door. Bho said. She 1 1 n went to the telephone and asked central to call some doctor and the chief of police, she stated. CORONER DISPLEASED. Activities of press correspondents here do not find favor with Coroner Holland, who expressing resentment aid : "All thoy uant Is something sons.i-'tlonal," sons.i-'tlonal," and ho followed his statement with the Intimation that the killing of tho noted minister, suppose db. , he said, by a member of the mini. t r's parish, was not particularly the public's pub-lic's affair. Coroner Holland said that when .Mrs Carleton who, according to his Iverslon, shot the minister and thn turned the gun on h rs. If, ending her own life, came to the Christie r home at 1 o'clock Friday morning she acted demented and that In vlnv of this and statements made to him by Mrs. Chtiotltr, he was con Inced no Inquest was necessary as he said, "l know and all the officials know how the killing came about." When asked to state what Mrs jChrlstler had told him to convince him that she killed him, that tho killing Was a murder and suicide, Coroner i Holland said again It was not the public's pub-lic's business and that he would not make Mrs. Chrlstlcr's statement public pub-lic unless he should receive the consent con-sent of Mrs Pyle, mother of Mrs Carleton. felVIX RKCTOR LOVED. While Dr Chrlstlcr was best known In northern Montana, his activities had taken him to other parts of tho state and he was widely known In Dutte and Helena. When he came to Montana the ca-loon ca-loon was an established Institution and ganlbllng was not uncommon. The rector seemed to accept theso things as part of tho west; indeed, ho often was found in bar rooms with friends at all times of the night, und while he did net drink, he seemed to have patience .ith those who did His : friends said ho felt he was needed 111 I such places and ho exerted his Influence In-fluence for good without attempting any of the methods of the ordinary reformer. A3 a missionary (Dr. Chrlstlcr took a prldo In his wajk. His territory embraced an urea of about 600 miles long and 300 miles wldo. In It were the Little Rockies, the Bear Paw mountains nnd other regions notorious for the desperadoes they had produced pro-duced He know these remote camps well and visited them as ofetn as his duties would permit. He came to the state at a tlmo when the groat cattle ranges of tho north began to contract under tho activities of the dry land farmer, a period of transition In which tho stgck growing industry changed its character charac-ter In large part. Ho saw certuin sections proldfcl homes for many settlers, but for tho most part hfs district Is sparsely inhabited and the towns small and widely separated! The countrv appealod to him and ho loved the title "bishop of all outdoors," out-doors," glyeq him by Stewart Edwari White in a novel. CHIEF TELLE STORY. GREAT FALLS. Mont.. Oct. 28 Chief Of Police Moran of Havre announced an-nounced that following the shooting he looked up the room of Mrs. Carlo-ton Carlo-ton in a Havre hotel and found a small rallbro revolver in the room. "I believed that Mrs. Carleton killed kill-ed the Rev. Chrlstler and thun kill -d herself." said Chief Moran. ' but In protection to all allied In the tragedy because of its sensational foatures and tho prominence of the people, it should be fully Investigated by law and tho findings should bo made public pub-lic Other action only gives a dlf- ferent Impression to the outside worl 1 and Is unfair to the Innocenl " Chief Moran was probably the lai person, besides th" Reverend Chris-tier Chris-tier and Mrs. Chrlstler. to see Mrs. Carleton alive. Chief Moran said to- la that he met Mrs Carleton on Third street about five blocks from the Chrlstler home about 12 ji o'clock Friday and went over to her. not knowing who she was. Dlsco -erlng It was Mrs. Carleton he spoke I to her and she remarked: "I sup-i sup-i pose you are surprised to see me at this time in the morning" When the chief admitted he was surprised, Mrs. firlcton said. "I am waiting lure to moot a party." Moran loft her therv |