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4 ssailant’:Story T old at InquestWiltrout Hoped for Death. ChiefSavsFirst degree murder charges were filed against ClarenceCooney” Wiltrout. this afternoon, in the court of J C. Coster, justice of the peace, by Harold E. Wilson,county attorney. The action fol-«c *lowed an inquest this mornmg over the body of Daniel Lee George,-who died Friday night at Herskey” hospital Wiltrout is to be arraigned at 10 a. m. Tuesday before Judge Coster.According to reports obtained byt police. Wiltrout and George engaged in a fight late Thursday afternoon or early that evening at tha ( eoig. home on First avenue just outside the city limits and Wiltrout stabbed George three times, once on the left arm, once in the left breast and once in the abdomen.According to. the testimony ofDr. W. S. Norton, county c rontr and physician, and Dr. L. C. Howe,who attended George Thursdaynight, the wound in the abdomen, a deep jagged cut, was the Immediate cause of death.Perform Operation.George was rushed to the Her-shey hospital Thursday night inthj Hoffman ambulance and Drt. Norton and Howe performed an operation seeking to save the man’s life. So great was the loea of blood and the shock, however, that all their efforts were futile.t)nly four witnesses ware heard at the inquest this morning a* the Hoffman funeral home. They wlt; * Drs. Norton and Howe, Mark Taylor, chief of police and Menao Grady, hU deputy.i of I Taylor answered the ambulance jcall Thursday night and told the 60 • coroner's jury composed of EdSanders, J. H. Harris and F. G. Bilkey, that, on the way to the hospital, George told him thaw Wiltrout was the man who had stab-reet 1 **** him*itionrand'ourt Wiltrout after the latterre 0f v \s arrested at a river cottagag 3^. | known as Fishvilie, Friday morn-►olice 1 inS- W'iitrout freely admitted the Prmv stabbing, Taylor declared, and tn-s re- quired if George was still alive.Answered in the affirmative.Admitted Stabbing, Claim.ay lor also declared t^at he hadafter Taylor said, Wiltrout declared, uarts ‘ “Well, I hope he dies.” Grad:'substantiated Taylor’s testimony.thatliber-Page
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1930
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