Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Elliott, Percy D. December 1889
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Delta (CO) Independent (Weekly) December 29, 1889
Killing of Percy Elliott Pronounced Justifiable.
On Monday morning at ten o'clock Coroner Glenn impaneled a jury and held an 
inquest over the body of Percy Elliott, killed in Turkey Creek basin Friday 
night by Tom Donovan. The jury was Jake Miller, Chris Geyer, C. Harding, W. L. 
Townsend, W. H. Gordon and L. Hendrickson.
Thos. Kelly, Ed Finns, Ellie Hedding, John Hall and Al Filmore, all of whom were 
in Kelly's place when the shooting occurred, were the witnesses who gave 
evidence before the jury, which evidence was practically the same statements as 
published in last Saturday's issue of the Examiner. Upon the evidence given, the 
jury decided that Elliott came to his death from a shot fired from a revolver in 
the hands of Donovan, but that Donovan fired in self-defense.
After this verdict had been rendered, District Attorney Howe had no grounds upon 
which to file a complaint in the district court, and Donovan, who was in jail 
only on his own request, having come to town and given himself up immediately 
after the shooting, was at
once released from custody, and so another murder goes into history in San 
Miguel county with no punishment attached to the taking of a human life.
Upon the request of the parents of Elliott, who live in Norfolk, Va., the 
remains were shipped Wednesday morning to that place for burial.
While the evidence adduced before the coroner's jury could scarcely permit of 
any different verdict, there are those who insist that there is no evidence that 
Elliott fired first or at all, save the evidence of the witnesses named, and 
that there is no place to be found in the room where the bullets from Elliott's 
gun lodged, and Coroner Glenn states that he failed to find them after a search 
or the course the bullets, if fired, took. But the last of the matter has 
probably been heard, and the verdict above the end of it. —San Miguel Examiner.

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