Clancy Inquest Adjourned

When the inquest opened in the afternoon yesterday it was néarly three o'clock. Five witnesses were examined and at 5 :30 it was decided to adjourn till Friday. Sevcral jurymen asked that this be done on account of business reasons, others - names the Courier withholds - wish to take their children to the circus today. The principal reason was however tliat P. V. Boyle, on whorn suspicion was first directed, was absent. The Toledo pólice are to Mame for this absence of Boyle. They seem to have swallowed down his far from plausible stories and in their own minds relieved him of all culpability. Bo3'le borrowed a dollar of the Toledo Chief of Pólice, with candor beaming froni li is honest eyes promised to attend the iuquest and help find the murderer - and then skipped the town to the great surprise of the astute and far-seeiug Toledo officers ! Deputy Sheriff Wood went to Kalamazoo in search of him yesterday as soon ashe failed to appear, and he will, if found, be forced to account for hiinself before the coronor's jury. "Doe" Naegle, the picturesque old attendant at the medical college, was the first witness put on the stand in the afternoon session yesterday. His memory would pennit of his givingpositive answers to very few questions. He said he must have got the bodies mixed; he didn't know how; he had shown Hasenack the body afterwards removed as that of Frank Clancy ; didn't intend to cheat, had no reason to do so. His testimony was interesting but far from reliable, on account of the witnesses' peculiar memory. Next on the stand was Mrs. Margaret Clancy, mother of the murdered man. She was in deep mourning, and her words were often too low to be caught distinctly. She told notliing realiy important. Hasenack, she affirmed, had not been out of Ann Arbor since July 14, to her certain knowledge. She also said that he had been engaged to ' her since shortly after Christmas. Sheriff Judson's story covered the whole progress of the case. Ilis conversations with Boyle, Mre. Edith Clancy and John Stevens have largely been made public. Mrs. Clancy had told him Boyle's story of his fight with two Kalamazoo men .at the Empire Hotel, Toledo, and his triumphant victory over them. This may prove important us the case progresses. Sheriff Judson, Coronor Ball and the local authorities seem to have done about all the investigating. If the murderer be found it will be through their efforts alone. John Stevens, who came next on the Stand, told his story plainly and bonestey. He told of Boyle's fight with the two Kalamazoo men, hut ho had board Boyls teil still another story in explanation of his wounded hand. Boyle said a man overtook him. in Toledo one night- supposedly the night of August 3, said liI have you at last" and kuocked him down ; that he got up and thoroughly thrashed the fellow, and that he thought it was Frank Clancy. When questioned more closely by Mrs. Clancy he had changed and had said it was one George Worden. This last story was told a week after the murder and when suspieian had been directed strongly to him. It looks very much as if Boyle were preparing a loop-hole of escape - the plea of self-defense. Will Vernor confirmed several statements made by other witnesses but his testimony was not otherwise important. After Vernor's evidence had been heard the inquest was adjourned till Friday at 9 a. m. in the same place, Dieterle's new block on Liberty street. Coronor Ball, Prosecuting Attorney Randa 11 and ex-Vrosecuting Attorney Lehman are conducting the examination.