New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 18

TERARIABNLL A CITFITASHANERND Esianktan [EREE R 93 PRISON TERM FOR SLAYING HUSBAND (Continued from First Page) fallen asleep and it appeared the anesthetic was evaporating 8o ras idly that he would awaken. This oc- curred on the night of March 23 and next morning Mrs. Adams awoke to find her husband dead. Arraignment Unexpected Suddenly and unexpectedly ar- raigned in the superior court yester- day morning, Mrs. Olive E. Adams pleaded guilty to the slaying and was sentenced on a charge of man- slaughter, by Judge Christopher L. Avery on the recommendation of State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. “I am glad that it is all over,” the little woman, a direct descendant of the noted Massachusetts jurist, Jo- seph Story, told her counsel, Joscphl M. Freeman, after she was sen- « tenced. Admitted Taking Life One day after her Buddhist-wor: shipping, free-love, whoppee-making . husband was found dead in his bed at 16 Grand strect from an over- dose of chloroform ,Mrs. Adams con- fessed to the police that she had re- . moved the chloroformed saturated handkerchief he had applied to his face to induce sleep and substituted = a second handkerchief, likewise sat- urated, to kill him. She had taken this step, she confessed, to bring to . an end his relations with Miss Dor- 7 case said Mr. othy Collins of 17 Lancaster road, West Hartford. “There is a public concern in this Alcorn. “There is a public example in it. If there are other women whose husbands may “ be doing likewise they still have a - right to live, and it ought to be ". made clear that the court of course, * could not tolerate a crime of < kind.” this Other Women Shielded “Send her to jail for a year” pleaded her attorney, Mr. Freeman, * in affirming that she was ianocent aavadLIsINERTEEan sdada of causing her husband's death. Then he told why he had permitted his client to plead guilty. “There were S0 many women mix- cd up with this man, so many de- tails, putrefying and stenching, some that she did not know about, and some that she did know about, that that is one of the reasons, the com- pelling reason for us making this plea. It is made so that the world won't know, so that her own child won't know. And many of these women who quake in their boots owe ker a deep sense of gratitude for making this plea, because of their worry and fear that they would be called as witnesses and their sins hecome known to the world and to their children.” ‘Woman Coldly Defiant Throughout the statements ef counsel, Mrs. Adams stood before the judge, looking straight and cold at him from under a black turban bat that matched the dark ensemble ahe bought with her own money and y donned when word came to her at the jail to appear in court yesterday afternoon. Thus standing there, with only a TARICANI MEN'S SHOP Formerly With Besse-Leland Store” A LITTLE OUT OF THE WAY BUT IT WILL PAY YOU TO WALK . NEW BRITAIN DAILY RERALD. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 198, - two looking on, she faced Mr. Alcorn (on the edge of a swamp far on the with an eye of cold defiance when the state’s attorney ventured to sug- gest that she had erred as her hus- band had. Alcorn’s Statemeat “Adams had a religion of his own, which he probably was entitled to follow if he saw fit,” said Mr. Al- corn. “He believed in Buddha. In religion he was an atheist. He had made some study of that mystic re- |ligion, and followed it in its tenets, and to some extent in its teachings, I think he was the type of man who believed in free love. “Adams was a man who drank to |some extent. He had a fondness for other women. So far as our investi- |sation shows he did go to some ex- tent with other women, married and {single. I do think, so far as he is | concerned, his wife erred in that re- { spect also.” g Leniency Plea .In making his plea for leniency. Mr. Freedman attempted to cast | doubt upon the theory that when she applied the second chloroform- saturated handkerchief, she . pro- vided the means of his death. The lawyer graphically recalled that |Adams had been drinking and | dancing that evening, before he |threw the drug-soaked handker- | chief over his face with the gay | remark, “This is the nectar of the | gods.” | “The whiskey, the dancing, all having its physical effect upon the heart—whether or not the first handkerchief killed him, or the second handkerchief killed him, is of very serious doubt. Adams was | immediately embalmed the next day. Autopsy would help nothing, and it is extremely doubtful.” Denies Murder Attempt “She never said that she finished { her husband, never said that she finished him," declared Mr. Freed- man referring to a statement in her | confession. “What she intended to | say was that she gave him the sec- ond handkerchief to put him to sleep as he had requested of her and always wanted. “I want to make this very em- | phatic. That man was dead, abso- lutely dead, before the second handkerchief was applied. And if he was dead, she was carrying out his intentions.” Mr. Alcorn sought to refute statements of Mr. Freedman by a | detailed reference to her own con- fession to the crime, and again he afirmed his suspicion of moral lapses on the part of Mrs. Adams. | " “When it comes to the question | of moral lapses between this young | woman and her dead husband,” he | sald, “I reiterate, because we have | the documentary proof, I think that it is merely a question of degree. It is probably true that nothing good can be said about young Adams, but everything that is good cannot be said about a young wom- an who applied the chloroform to her husband and snuffed out his life.” Adams’s Affairs Many Of the many affairs that Adams is reputed to have, as disclosed by his own voluminous correspondence and diaries, the most tragic is that he had with a bridesmaid at his wedding, who goes under the name of “Jane” in his writings. This woman, a college girl, has a child by Adams, according to her counsel, and now, sunk far down in the so- cial scale, is living with a laborer SATURDAY SPECIALS outskirts of a Rhode Island town, When Adams was found dead in his bed and she told her story of his habit of using chloroform to in- duce sleep. Medical. Examiner Hen- ry N. Costello pronounced the death accidental. Two days later, when questioned by the Hartford police, she admitted that when ahe told the police she had never had any trouble with her nusband, she was telling an untruth. This adwpission paved the way to her confession. Mrs. Adams Healthy 8ince she has been in jail she has gained 11 pounds and raised her weight from 89 to 100, 8he was fre- quently visited by her mother, Mrs. Joseph V. Story of Stoneham, Mass., and her sister, Marion, while she was in jail. These two women were present at the court proceedings to- day, having come to the city Wed- nesday night to lend what assisi- ance they could to the eventual dis- position of the case. For three days her lawyer had been trying to effect a disposition of the case that would be satisfactory to the state and the accused. In the meantime Mr. Al corn had called a grand jury to con- sider the case along with another murder case and had planned to await the outcome of the case before the grand jury before attempting a disposition of it. Mrs. Adams was assigned to the women's quarters at the state prison and will pass her daylight hours in the laundry, where Mra. Archie Gulligan once worked, and where Mrs. Bessic J. Wakefield, murderess, and Mrs. Pearl Oakes, Don’t Suffer — Build Up With Bon- Tone—Mother Nature’s Own Remedy “I Have Told Many People About This Wonderful Remedy,” Says Mr. Sandford. MR. 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