Friday afternoon the coroner, Dr. Waugh, from Faribault, held an inquest
upon the bodies of the two scoundrels who met with such a richly deserved
end, and the following gentlemen were sworn as a jury: A. H. Rawson, S. L.
Bushnell, R. Silk, J. L. McFee, R. Plummer and C. W. Gross. The jury were
not long in arriving at the following verdict: “That the two unknown men
came to their deaths by the discharge of firearms in the hands of our
citizens in self-defense and in protecting the property of the First
National Bank of Northfield.”
The same jury, with the coroner, held an inquest over the remains of the
lamented victim of the raid. The witnesses who gave evidence were E.
Hobbs, ex policeman J. S. Allen, F. Wilcox and E. L. Fuller, whose
statements were similar to those the same gentlemen made to the writer,
and recorded elsewhere in these pages. The verdict found was: “That J. H.
Heywood came to his death by a pistol shot fired by an unknown man
attempting to rob the First National Bank of Northfield.”