DEATH WAS DUE TO AN ACCIDENT

Coroner's Jury Finds That Thomas White Was Killed Through Mishap.

MURDER IDEA NOT PROVEN

RESULTS OF INQUEST CAUSES DISSATIFACTION

The coroner's jury yesterday returned a verdict of accidental shooting in the case of Thomas White, the blacksmith for the Bingham Central mine, who was believed to have been murdered early Saturday morning at Bingham.
Six witnesses were examined at the inquest held before Justice Lee, and the evidence showed that White came to his death by a bullet fired by his own gun as he sat in the office of the mine superintendent. No one heard the shot fired and White had been dead about an hour when the body was found. There were no signs of a struggle and the body lay across the floor in a position that blocked the doorway so that it would have been hard for a murderer, if there was one, to escape from the room after the victim had fallen.

VERDICT NOT POPULAR

There was no evidence that anyone other than White had been seen about the office that morning, and the jury concluded that while White was handling his gun it was accidentally discharged and the bullet inflicted the fatal wound.
In certain quarters the verdict of the jury is not approved, and many of White's associates still cling to the theory that he was murdered. They point to the fact that the gun was found twelve feet from the body of the dead man, and contend that from the nature of the wound it would have been imossible for White to have thrown the gun that distance after it was fired. Moreover, the Austrians living near the mining camp are known to have been hostile toward the officers of the mine, and especially toward White. Some of them are said to have threatened the murder of the blacksmith.

TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATION

The investigation in the case will, however, be continued despite the findings of the jury. Deputy sheriffs are still at work in the case and are looking up the whereabouts of all the Austrians in the community at the time the crime was commited.
The verdict of the jury is as follows:
"State of Utah, Tenth precint, County of Salt Lake:
"An inquest having been held in the justice court of the Tenth precinct, county of Salt Lake, on the 26th day of November, 1906, before George E. Lee, Justice of the peace of the Tenth precinct, in said county, upon the body of Thomas White, therelying dead, by the jurors whose names are herto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said Thomas White came to his death by the accidental discharge of a revolver."
The members of the jury were W. H. Myers, John Falconer and L. T. Crane

The Salt Lake herald November 27, 1906