New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 33

SIMPSON CLOSES FOR THE STATE, (Continued from Pa:eh) yoars ago, who Simpson said had brought Detective Felix Di Martint | inte the case, to “shut up and m.} rify" witnesses. Calls Martini A Xdar. “Di Martini is a liar by the | clock,” he continued, asserting that neither Pfeiffer nor Di Martini ever gave the state any aid. ““She doesn’t care it the murderer i8 never found,” Simpson said in | assailing Mrs. Hall. “On the witness stand she said it wouldn’t be decent to offer a re- ward. Four years ago she said what was practically, ‘I'm not interested | in finding the murderers’. She | knew who they were.” “On this much testimony the fair- est jury in the court couldn’t escape convicting this woman of complicity. I don’t say that she did the shoot- ing." The Calling Card Again. He then pointed to what he said were discrepancies in statements ot Willle Stevens and began tracing the history of a calling card which the state contends was found near | the bodles, bearing the print of | Willle Stevens’ index finger. One of the pesses, Simpson asserted, testified that the enlargement of Willie Stevens’ alleged fingerprint By the defense was distorted and that this “throws it out altogether.” “They say it is a forged finger- print, )9! they say it is not Willie Steven. said Simpson. “Then whose was it? Willie Stevens was not fingerprinted until August 1926. How could it be forged?” Henry Stevens's statement before the Middlesex county prosecutor in | 1922 differed from his testimony on the witrless stand, Simpson said, adding that Henry Stevens knew “al about” revolvers in 1922, but knew | nothing about them on the itness | stand. The prosecutor charged that | the bluefish entry in the diary of | Stevens Ir)r September 14, 1922, was *cooked.’ “Is an innocent man doing that?” he asked. Says Willie Was Taught Willie Stevens, the prosecutor | charged, had been “taught a stor: “He hasn’t got your minds, d the prosecutor to the jurors. “He has a boy's mind He may believe his own story.” In upholding the credibility o Mr. and Mrs. John S. Dickson, who said they saw Willie stevens in North Plainfield the might of the murder, Simpson said: “You can kick all that out, as one juror said. You can Kkick | the whole case out in twenty min- | utes—but you'll kick yourselves out, prosecutor had repeatedly taken direct swings at some mem- bers of the jury, evidently directing his words at the members who were | accused of Irregulurities in the affi- davits which Simpson presented fn his motion for a mistrial. Says Defense 13 Slimy “They (the defense) talk about a nasty prosecution,” sald Simpson. “Why, the defense {s slimy. They take an old 70 year old woman and bring her in the courtroom against her own daughter.” He was referring to Mrs. Salome Carenner, mother of Mrs. Gibson, who was brought into court the day her daughter testified, but was not called to the stand. Stmpson charg- ed that the defense had placed Mrs. Cerenner in a seat near the bed from which her daughter testified, and had instructed her to say during Mrs. Gibson's testimony, “You're a liar, you're a liar.” The prosecutor claimed this scheme was blocked by the prosecution’s placing a detective near Mrs. Cerenner. Extolls Mrs. Gibson Simpson sald that while Mrs. Gib- son had no “footman and butler like | Mrs. Hall,” he belleved she was a woman of good character. He plc- | tured Mrs. Gibson as a “dying wom- an,” who has lost all but a few acres of her farm and whose stock and poultry had been polsoned because she appeared as a witness -salmt the defendants. “There are other witnesses vho know something of thts murder,” de- clared Simpson. *No wonder they won't come out, because they know they will get the same treatment.” Defendants Listen. The defendants gave Mr. Simpson thelir rapt attention. “They call Mrs. Hall a Christian | lady,” the prosecutor continued, em- phasizing the word “Christian.” “Has she ever batted an eyelash? Did eyelash? She's been through thing for your years.” The prosecutor compared Mrs. Hall to Lucretla Borgia and “Bloody” Queen Mary, saying there this $1 Hat in the store $3.00 and up, 188 MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBE had been cruel women in history. [ | **What is more cruel than a wom- ’ous state witnesses and the state's |an, who though she is older than/| |manner in prosecuting the case, | her husband, uees him killed when | cnme in for !Cathh\g denunciations. AT 144 M. Simpson described Mrs. Gibson as | “‘one of the finest characters.” “It requires courage to come for: {ward and tell your story when nn‘ whole of the rullng class is against | vou,” he declared. “It you're going to acquit. because you don’t like what someone sald| (Continued from First Page) |about Azariah Beekman;"go ahead | jand tell the world about it,” said |There is a ease in the court of errors ‘Slmpson in ‘Qeclaring that the de- ‘and appeals in which we think the fense had forced him into drawing |contrary was ruled. That principle from a witness the statement that|should be applied here,” the justice |the late Prosecutor Beekman had said. | bribed him to quit the case. | This reference was to a letter He jolned this with a reference to |written by George Sipel to Mrs. Frank Caprio, Long Branch detec-|Hall in which he suggested that he | tive, by whom the presecutor had |be.reimbursed for time lost while ap- | sought to introduce a razor as the pearing as a itness at early hear- | weapon with which Mrs. Mills' throat ings. The defense introduced it to |had been cut. The razor was not in- [show that Mrs. Hall had refused to calling card was a forgery. Numer-‘ connection ! 1926. 3 ) — | Wall Street Briefs ! 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NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 2-1141 We Offer: AETNX CASUA & SURETY CO. AETNA (FIRE) INSURANCE (0. NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. PHOENIX INSURANCE CO. |troduced when the defense brought in | out that Caprio at one time a Jersey City policeman, had been convicted | pay money illegally with the investigation. A reference was made in the letter to “a man,” Ford are in the agreement, which is | directed primarily ainst British | restrictive measures to keep up the i suppose sav dofemsdta ‘own it | you see a tear, did she blink an| AT GOLDENBLUM’S SATURDAY MORNIN 3 HOUR SALE .00 OFF on every other GOLDENBLUM MILLINERY CO. of crime. |who had seen Henry Stevens on “I didn’t know anythings about Easton avenue on the night of the |Capria’s record and as soon as I slaying. {founa out I announced I would not| “If after consideration you find introduce the razor,” he sald. \!h’\t the state has not proved that “But Caprio was with Beekman, | |he was working with him on the |fired the fatal shot or |case and we are not to be charged [should be acquitted,” |with manufacturing evidence it we | justice. |don’t put it in.” i “But ¥ on the contrary you find I More Ridicule (that one of them did fire them, | Again ridiculing Senator statement of yesterday that there |was just as much ground for con- victing Mrs. Gibson as Mrs. Hall, |Simpson queried: “Why don't you, it you are going to acquit, put a| rider to this verdict and find Mrs. | | shots all sald some degree of homicide within th scope of the indictment, murder in |the first degree or second degree or | perhaps manslaughter. Degrees of Guilt Gibson or Jennie the mule, gullty? | He referred to New Brunswick as Ithe seat of a college on the “banks there and participati |of the muddy Raritan river,” |ner already described !muddy,” he said, “as the adminis- |Principals in one degree tration of justice in Middlesex coun ‘oflwr probably the second, and |ty in 1922, the year of the killings.” wise guilty of the same grade In one of his references to Mrs. homicide as the actual Killer. | Gibson, who at one time was sald to | He then defined the different de- 'be so lllithat the trip from Jersey grees of murder emphasizing City hospite! to testify from a hos- |all murder which in effect was not | pital cot in this case might cost her | committed by poison, lying in wait life, Simpson said: “I don't think jor ather wilful, r |she's going to give her life to this| mediate killing was murder in the lcase. T hope she gets better. I second degree. Shiudc sho w1 He sald that the indictment was earing the end of hls addres: |also broad enough to admit of con- |Stmpson said that with “the stench” | viction of manslaughter but that he ot the HalMils case unsolved. |dld not think that appertained to |there should be a red flag in the |this case although “th> court [hand of the statue of justice, atop 'not undertake to excludo it.” {the courthouse. | e said the hould first de- “They think that T antagonized [clde whether |you he said to the jury, “but that imitted by any defen |doesn’t worry me. It T were trying [“and if this be answered in the |an accident case T might pat you on |firmative then to settle the degree [the back and fell you what fine fel- |of guilt of such defendant and {lows you are, but the honest men ithen pass on to the matte mmong you are going to decide this | prifieipals in the second degree, i {case. T am speaking this with the |you find there were such and then | authority of the whole state of N: degrees of guilt on Jersey in trying to clear up thi {abominable murder. | “I challenge you on your oaths, what do you say of the evidenc | “We'ra not trylng to win this ca |at the cost of human blood,” he said |at the end. At the closc he called the at- Trial Lasts a Month |tention of the jurors to. the law defendants, Mrs. Frances |which fn the event of a verdict of Stevens Hall and her brothers, imyurder in the first degree requires Henry and Willle Stevens, have them to decide whoether the been on trial exactly one month. lignment shall be death or imprison- " Robert H. McCarter and Clarence |ment at hard labor. E. Caso of «dofense counsel spent | FROM REBATING FEES | Mrs. Jane Gibson, state's star wit- |Corporation Counsel Kirkham Rules {the guilt or otherwise of the other: All these that you find to have been in tke man- would be or the consider the thelr part, sach particular defendant | homicide has been to be mu rst degree or mere hter or the presumption econd degree stands. the der in man- The fless, and the calling card of the Rev. Mr. Hall presented by the | prosecution as bearing the imprint | of Willie Stevens’ left index finger came In for the heaviest attacks by | the defense attorneys. Suspects Mrs. Gibson Mr. Case sald that while he did [not know who committed the mur- |der, one of his theorles was that g it might have been Mrs. Gibson, ‘ Money Paid For Permits Cannot Be Refunded. Corperation Counsel John H. kham today ruled that the build- ing commission has no authority to {the slaying, and accused the three defendants. Mr. Case pointed out that her own testimony showed that she had told of shooting at people, and that as she had sald she was out on the night of the slaying look- ing for corn thieves, there was a | possibility that ehe mistook tho minister and the cholr singer for the thieves. Mills Also Suspected While both of the defense attor- neys sald they had no proof of who | . committed the crime, they main- talned that suspicion could be R EGOND ORDER or xorics pointed more strongly toward | Upon complaint In James Mtills, husband of the slain ‘t\‘ !;:‘(l ,5‘1"' “Tlulifi "“l‘ ! woman, than toward the three de- a1 “low pending, claiming a diver tendanta. 0t appearing to thls Courl o Mills was not In the court room |fendaut has recelved notico of the pen- during the defense's summing up | (en°Y, Of, Sl complaint and it op and Mrs, Gibson is still in the Jer- jof the defendant ls unkuown to |sey City hospital. She collapsed on | Flainur |the opening day of the trial and |, Qriered, that notice |was taken to the hospital for |given the defendant by mublishing this treatmient of a kidney disease. Mr. forder in the New Britan Herald | Case, In his summation, suggested ROWSPaper published n New the possibility of her mind's hav- ing been aitected by disease. | The dofense attorneys uhar,‘:cd[ buildings when the |builder abandons his plan. |clsion was entered after Frank 'toli asked the department to his $34 fee on a $17,000 b ing which he later decided not to build. prospective This de- READ HERALD CLASSIF FOR YOUR WANTS JOHN \x AREK JULIA SCHLENK MAREK Superfor Court, Stats of Connectlcut, f Hartford, the 1st day of De plaint shall be commencing on or before D 1926, By the Court, G. H. GLOVER CAMPRELL |once ‘o week, for two consec outright that the fingerprint on the Assistant Clerk of said Cou 9 TO 12 O'CLOCK ONLY 150 Selected VELVET, VELOUR, FELT ATS! 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She has been in es ’Lonnr untll the time of the nza epic scted and | during the infl {was greatly effc |ailing since then. She was considerably despite her health | til Sunday. She was a member of |the Ladies’ Ald soclety of the First n church. Jes her husband two grandchll tention at althy un- tead, sh had he about nter ) lnLAl action ne Mre, Ohman CENTRAL JR. H. The 9-1-A basketbal al Junior 9-1-B team 'o!n the boys' g and S. NOTES home : ‘elock LOCAL STOCKS Insurance Stocks. tomorrow afternoon at and at the First Luthe ‘1 o'clock. Rev. Dr. A A hl- pastor of the church. will of- ¢ ficlate. Mrs. H. E. Christienson | soloist, will render s during the servic be in Falrview cemetery TOWED IN WRONG CAR An automobile reported by Harry | Daley of 93 West Main street as | tolen on South High street between 12 and 1 o'clock today, was recover- ed at an automobile compan Dal nd a short | anothe it the basketb that is ball is permitt Vit ral selections wrade rment will 1t 1 to Manufacturing Stocks, rdware Phil we ip Rou- car had dealer's markers time after he parked it hroke down on the Word was sent to the dea it in, and when the wreckl they notic markers on Daley's car a t it was the one they had been \rnq after. Examination of his car, how- ever, failed to reveal any reason for the breakdown and the mi dlscovered. car | lard of this with Mary's chu T to tow Thomas and Rev, as master of ¢ As the from the {Crean sang pall be Tarael Guilm John Samsel, Gaudlas Roy. wera Joseph Father commilttal St. | body was hei church, Mrs. McCARTHY WASN'T THERE The police are Investigating a re- port by Mrs. Brainard.ot 197 B sett street that a man called at her home about 10 o'clock this morn- ing and after inquiring for a ma \|vj named McCarthy, left without go-| ing to the next house, to which Mrs, Brainard directed him, The man is described by Mrs. Brainard as slim, about 6 feet § Inches in| height, wearing an overcoat and a| cap and having a red beard. | BUS FRANCHISE SOLD Bridgeport, Dec. 3 (A—Announce ment was made today of the salc of the franchise of tha bus line operating between Bridgeport, | Nichols, Huntirgton and Shelton to the Waterbury Passenger Service | Inc. | yoe The seller was Frank Chordas of Josenh A Hafie)‘ “xehanges, Nichols, who operated the line. ] The Waterbury Service oporafes a | i 2 UNDERTAKER Phone 1625-3. Peck Stowe & Wil .... Russell Mfg Co. The floral and James Lyddy conducted the services. Burial was in Mary's cemetery BOLLERER’S | POSY SHOP | Evergreen blanket graves made of spruce, laurel, boxwood, with and ruscus. A3 W, Main St., The TEI!‘En«x-h Florist rington Co co! Union Mfg Co. Public T Ill|(l\'s Stock: '¢ Servio & Conn E! Conn Lt 10\;;11 1 Tight o0 ..st coverings for hemlock, red berries BALANCEF $140,958,627 TREASUK easury bal. . w York—Clearing $941,000,000; Tel, 886 itain Prof. Bldg. ¢ New Ho os $83,000,000; e P store fn Adelaide, g Australla, soon will erect an eight |story oftice building costing $1,250,- {000, ers announce, the fare will remain an unchanged. line between Bridgeport and Water- | bury. For the present, the new own- | ite 8t. Mary's Choreh. l Reslience 17 Summes 8t.—1625-3. GONNIE LEWIS AGAIN FLACEI} UNDER [I‘ARRFEZ House in Blookfield Is EW L0 Second the for | slightly about the head, his head was singed. interior of the church was d at a cost of $30,000. _Destroyed by Flames Conn,, Dec. 3.—Pl—A @ room house in Brookfield, 1d occupied by the family of Smith, was destroyed by fire mined origin early this B blaze was described o'clock by members of the !d who were driven from the scant attire. Neighbors to save but little of the s. The town is with- tion and the fire had at all the volunteer ild do was to stand by house ury, was said tod Vlorse Case Is Given To Jury This Afternoon ¢. 3 (P—The case of win A., and Henry sons of Charles W. Morse, others indicted for mis- mails in connection with & of stock of shipping and other in which they were inter- to the jury in federal rnoon. lefendants were George Rubert M. Much and Boughton. Twenty-five were indicted, but the unst all but six were dropped. 1 her this af 1 cities. WDON HAVING Blh FIR E IN CHURCH Building Suspcc{ Heii in Olson )Iurder Case Is Freed llinois, Dee. 3 (A—Wal- nsen, of Porter, Minn,, ppily today when it was iefinitely established that he was not Erdman Olson, the Wisconsin youth wanted on the charge of having murdered his sweetheart, Clara Ol- son, Sherifft Harry Sherwood of Crawford county, Wisconsin arrived here today and immediately sald Christensen was not the young man sought. ristensen, held since Wednesday went back to his corn husk- Cong tional is Threatened with Total Destruction riored & of t} blaze, but the entry were forced ze from the outsides. ated to the Sun- 1d gymnasium build he interior of the church build- thing mass of flames ek, was discovered near Rev. J. Beveridge Lee ratus sht the bite n hey » bl hight communie Special Notice blaze New Britain Poultry Association church and Raiph meeting Monday, December 6, 1938, who fought it /L O. O. F. hall at 8 p. m. Local before sending | poultry breeder to give a very fn- burned | teresting talk on how to make and the hens lay. Open meeting. n by r of the the sexton, half an hour larm. Mr. Lee was