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Issailant9Story T oldat InquestIWiltrout Hoped forDeath. Chief*First degree murder charges were filed against Clarence“Cooney'* Wiltrout, this afternoon in the court of J C. Coster, justice of the peace, by Harold E Wilson*countv attorney. The action fol-mt *lowed an inquest this morning over the body of Daniel Lee George,* who died Friday night at Hershey hospital Wiltrout is to be arraigned at 10 a. m. Tuesday before Judge Coster.According to reports obtaimd by*police, Wiltrout and George engaged in a fight late Thursday afternoon or early that evening at the ( home on First avenue justoutside the city limits and Wiltrout stabbed George three times, once on the left arm, once in the left breast and once in the abdo-lin.men.According to. the testimony ofDr. W. S. Norton, county c ironer and physician, and Dr. L. C. How#, who attended George Thursday night, the wound in the abdomen, a deep jagged cut, was the immediate cause of death.fromghts.Perform Operation.George was rushed to the Her-shey hospital Thursday night in thj Hoffman ambulance and Dr». 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.itneases ware heardIU at the inquest thia morning a* the IIV! Hoffman funeral home. They wlt; i ■I I Drs. Norton and Howe, Mark Taylor, chief of police and Memotiro60npedGrady, his deputy.Taylor answered the ambulancejcall Thursday night and told the corftner’s jury composed of Ed Sanders, J. H. Harris and F. G« Bilkey, that, on the way to the hospital, George told him tha*. Wiltrout was the man who had stabbed him.Admitted Stabbing, Claim.ay lor also declared t*at he hadstreet,ninationie grand, , .....r’s court quisled Wiltrout after the latterlarge of 1v ’* arrested at a river cottageance af- known *ui Fishville. Friday morn-v police ! inS- Wiltrout freely admitted the ' Prow stabbing, Taylor declared, and in-r his re- quired if George was still alive.Answered in the affirmative,19 after Taylor said, Wiltrout dec!- red, g quarts i Well, I hope he dies.” Gradyed. He I substantiated Taylor’s testimony, thaton at liber-Page
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1930
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