Root Spoils Coroner’s Plan

Buffalo Official Had Selected a Jury of His Friends.

     Buffalo, Sept. 18.—Secretary Root nipped in the bud what is said to have been a scheme of some of the Buffalo politicians to have their names connected with the obsequies of the president. He had word sent to Coroner James C. Wilson that there would be no need of a jury to view the body.
     It was Wilson who announced last night that the president was dead two hours before the end came, and on the strength of it forced his way into the Milburn house.
     Saturday Wilson started out to impanel a jury and selected a panel of eleven of his friends. He subpoenaed them to appear at the office of the district attorney in the city hall. He planned to have them view the body at once, take their oath and then determine the exact manner in which the president came to his death, but the district attorney at Root’s request stopped the movement.