Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 30, 1913, Page 7

YY W vy v vy ARGUMENTS IN Made on Wednesday by Attorneys Burrows, James and Des- mond—Prosecuting Claims Mrs. Perkins Had No Real Fear of Her Son-in-Law—Defense Argues That His Threat and Breaking in Were Enough to Justify Shooting e The trial of Mrs, Lilllan M, Perkins of Allyn's Point on the charge of man- slaughter finished its fifth day in the superior court here on Wednesday,with the prospect that the case will be in the hands of the jury by this after- noon. The afternoon session on Wednes- day was occupied entirely with the arguments and gave time enough for Attorriey Warren Burrows to open for the state, Attorney C. V. James to make his argument for the defense, and Attorney J. J. Desmond to speak for half an hour in making the second argument for the defense. He will conclude his argument when court convenes again this morning and will be followed by the argument of State's Attorney Hadlali A. Hull, after which Judge Gardiner Greene will charge the Jury, and they will retire to deliberate upon a verdict. Witnesses in Rebuttal. Witnesses in rebuttal were called by the state's attorney when court opened on Wednesday morning. Dr. George E. Bradford of New London testified that he had once examined Mrs. Per- kins at her home znd found a red mark on ner arm if someone had | hit her. Latham Smith_of Gales | Ferry and his son, Tracy H. Smith, | both testified that they were present on the occasion when it was claimed, Coatchelly pounded Mrs. Perkins and they did not see him hit her. Manner Was Pleasant. Mrs. Phebe L. Norman of Allyn's/ Point testified to seeing Tom at the | postoffice, where he said he was going to the house to see his child, and hoped | to hold his baby. His manner was ! pleasant and cheerful. Mrs. Fanny ! Chapman, also of Allyn's Point, said | she came on the same train as Tom | n the day he was killed and she | im meet with and part from his . and his manner was pleasant. Heard No Threats. Theodore Constantine, the automobile party. testified that ! Tom made no threats at the Perkins | house and that his manner was pleas- ant. Dr. Wilson, who was recalled, testi- fied that he never gave advice that | it was not safe to the baby out- | doors. He was not permitted to say what the condition of the baby’s health was at the time. Offer to Wife and Mother-in-Law. who was one | of Attorney Lawless was recalled and said he has known Mrs. Coatchelly for two 3 and was Tom’s attorney | since the trouble began. Tom sent a message to his wife that if she would | come to New London and keep houce. Tom would get a flat and furnish it | and he would allow Mrs. Perkins $10 a | month. The wife could pass a week at | ins home and Mrs. | visit the Coatchelly New London. The $10 was to aid Mrs, Perkins. To the best of the knowledge of the lawyer the Coat- chelly child had never been taken to New London fto see its father. Mr. Tawless said he had made many ef- fort to have the baby brought to New London, and the last time was the af- ternoon’ of the murder. - He did not get any reply about the proposition as to | housekeeping. The day of the murder M Lawless made a number of ef- forts to get the Perkine home by tele- phone. He talked with the office of Major Hull, as he understood the firm represented the wife. house in Denied Receiving Such an Offer. Major Hull recalled Mrs. Coatchelly and she said she has known Mr. Law- less some time and he was the lawyer for her husband until he was shot. She denied that she received a proposition about housekeeping in New London in a flat and her mother to get 310 a month. She said she was talk- ing to Mr. Lawless but there was noth- ing =aid about a home in New London or about her mother being allowed to visit the Coatchelly home. Tried to Make Peace. William Dwight Fairfield, a station- ary engineer at Allyn’s Point and a brother of the accused, testified that he had letters from Coatchelly while he was in Texas. Later Tom and Mr. Lawless were talking together and Tom asked the witness to go to the Perkins home. There was a dispute about the wit- ness telling of what he was asked to do to settle the trouble, and a recess was ordered to give Court Reporter Graham a chance to look up what Mrs. Coatchelly said about Tom’'s go- ing away and sending no word home to his wife or asking her later to live with him. Tn about 30 minutes the court came in, but the jury remained out. Mr. Graham read from his notes and from Mrs. Coatchelly’s testimony Major Full 0w read from notes about testimon The mat- argued by Lawyers Desmond The court ruled that if it be shown that the wife got a mpqm‘g‘ from her husband through a relative about the couple living to- gether, and it was two weeks before the killing the evidence would be ad- mitted. Then Mr, and safd he Hull, Fairfield took the stand remembered a meeting with Tom and Mr. Lawless in- New London on State street on the Satur-| day hefore the killing. In consequence he went to the Perkins home the next day and met Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Coat- @helly, Arthur and his wife Ida Said She Was Pounded. Witness asked Mrs. Coafchelly if she had not made up her mind to live with Tom in April after the child was born, and she sald “No.” She added that she had intended to do se until he gave her a pounding. Mrs, Perkins #ald she did not want anything to do with Tom, Mrs. Coatchelly, recalled, was hand- ed a letter and asked if she read it to SPECIAL PLAN.” we hope to merit a share of 2 from 5.30 We will open our Main Dining Room Sunday, November 2nd, for business, on the “EUROPEAN This room will be open every day from 6 o’clock a. m, until 12 o’clock p. m. for continual service, and To the ladies who are shopping, especial attention will be paid to them and their wants, and they will find our prices always very reasonable, and at the same time giving them every accomodation. Music by the Orchestra Sunday, THE PARKER-DAVENPORT CO. PERKINS TRIAL her ‘mother. She said she told her mother what was in the letter. It was dated March 13, 1913. It was from Tom, and was ruled out as being too remote to show good feeling of Mr. Coatchelly toward his wife. Another letter written by Tom wds also ruled out, A letter as to the wife not hav- ing been pounded was ruled out also. Another letter was offered and Major Hull asked to have it admitted, but it was ruled out by the court. Mr. Desmond had been given op- portunity to read the letters before the session. They were all from Tom while he was in Tex and were of- fered to show the good feeling he had for his wife. Major Hull said he rested at 12.5 and Judge Greene asked Mr. Desmond to read the letters during the recess and see as a whole if he cared o have them admitted for the purpose stated by Major Hull. When court came in after the noon recess Attorney Desmond said he did not care to have the letters admitted. State Rests. The state rested at the opening of | the afternoon session of court. Attorney Degsmond for the then recalled Mrs. Perkins stand. Mrs. Perkins Explains Testimony. He asked if she had any explana- tion to make of the testimony she had given beforo the coroner. State’s At- torney Hull objected, but the court | overruled the objection. Regarding her statemeht to the co oner that she loaded the gun, id | that she misunderstood the coroner when she answered that she loaded the gun'for deer. She had meant that she always loaded her own shells, but | the shells which were in the gun on the day of the shooting were put in by | Thomas V. Coatchelly. Mrs. Perkins | said she did sign the statement she | made before the coroner, but she did not think she s the deer were eat- defense to the ing “her” garden stuff, but thought | she said “our” garden stuff. She al- ways loaded her own shells and never in her life bought any loaded. To refresh the recollection of the | jurors regarding the shells which had shells already | been offered as exhibits, Judge Greene had Major Hull state that the two yel- low shells wer not found in the house, but were offered merely to show | what kind of shells were used in the gun. The exploded shell was taken from the right hand barrel of the gun, nd the other shell, a loaded one and gray in color, was taken from the left hand barrel of the g Both Sides Rest. Both sides rested and Judge Greene | clalmed that the forcing of the doors directed the lawyers to proceed with|and the threats Coatchelly had made the arguments. against her were sufficient to give her e 2 5 . | grounds for shooting and to earn her Attarney Burrows Begins Argument. | .\%, ouittal from the jury In opening the argument for the| His argument took about 48 minutes state, Attorney Warren Burrows first | Before proceeding to the next argu- attacked the reason which Mrs. Per-|ment for the denfense the court took a kins gave for declaring that Coat-|short recess, chelly should never darken her doors gain. This was because of the pound- ing which she said he gave her, but in which two witnesses, Mr. Smith and his son, say that Tom did not strike her. At'two periods after this Coat- chelly stayed at the Perkins house These facts, he claimed, wiped away this reason and contradicted Mrs. Per- kins on the stand. Attorney Burrows reviewed the support that Coatchelly had given to his wif,e the letter that he wrote from Texas saying that he | loved his baby and wanted to see it, and the visit of Coatchelly in June, in which, the attorney claimed, no ani- mosity towards Mrs. Perkins was shown. From the actions of Ida Coatchelly in not asking .for help from several people whom she met immediately aft- er she had seen her husband at the Allyn’s Point station, the attorney ar- gued that no fear of him was shown, and he pointed out that Mrs. Coat- chelly’s testimony of a threatening at- titude on the part of her husband was contradicted by what Mrs. Lewis saw of their actions. The events of the shooting were re- viewed, and the attorney concluded with quoting that Coatchelly -was merely a trespasser upon the Perkins property and was not there in attempt to commit a felony, which would have | been a justification for the accused to defend herself even to the extent of taking life. His argument occupied 42 minutes. Attorney James for the Defense. Attorney Charles V. James began the first argument for the defe outlin- ing what the crime of manslaughter fs, and saying that the whole question in this case was whether Mrs. Perkins had a right to belleve that the man she shot and killed intended to do her bodily barm. It she had reasonable ground to believe he would kill her, she was justified in what she did. The atforney went over again what had been testifled to regarding support | that Coatchelly had furnished towards | the. Perkins house, and claimed there was more than Coatchelly's desire to kiss his baby when he came to the Perkins house in June with a party of three other men in an automobile, It | was the father's intention to kidnap | the baby at that time, Attorney James | argued.because Mrs. Coatchelly has in- | timated that the man showed no anx- fe baby. In the course of his argument At- torney James mentioned that Mrs. Coatchelly was afraid of her husband because he had pounded her, This led | to objection from State’s Attorney | Hull on the ground that counsel fbr the accused had agreed not to make any claim on this account, Attorney Desmond. disclaimed having made any such agreement, and it was brought NOTICE! the public patronage. to 8 p. m. | Be a Real Beauty | tious or ; to see his wife, but only te see the | © By ‘Clearing Your Complexion and Restoring Youthful Color With Stuart’s Calcium Wafers, the New Skin Eruption Remedy You'can use all the -lotions and creams in the world, but you won't have a good complexion unless your blaod is free from the impurities which cause pimples, blotches, liver, spots, blackheads and boils. “I am Frees From All Ugly Face Color| and Skin Eruptions—| Used Stuart’s Calcium Wafers.” No matter hew splotchy or pimply your face fs now, vou can clear it quickly by taking Stuart'’s Caltium Wafers. 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Desmond, read the definition of manslaughter, that It|| is ' the unlawful killing of another, without malice expressed or implied, and claimed that on the theory of the state that there had been malice from beginning to end, this could not bel manslaughter. The issue after all, he d, was whether this killing was done in reasonable self defense. The| attorney reminded the j that it| would not be trying this case to be affected by the lights and shadows of the picture that had ben thrown on the screen for the past several days. He said he had his doubts as to the real genuineness of Coatchelly’s words about wanting to kiss his baby. There might be, something back of it, and Mrs. Coatchelly had heard of another kidnapping and was afraid of that. The attorney contrasted the husband beam- ing with benevolence and fatherly love, according to the state, and the terrified woman, and asked if the man was to be given consideration because he sent money to his wife from Texa: Attorney Desmond quoted the law to show that the mother had equal rights with the father in the possession of| the child, and the law wouldn’t give| the husband any right to get into thef Perkins house and take the child when| he came there in the automobile. Thef ttorney dwelt upon the refu Ida Coatchelly to r Tom after the baby w The attorney had spoken thirty min-| utes and was just entering upon the| incidents of the shooting when court adjourned at 4.30 o'clock tiil the next morning at 10 o'clock, SMALLPOX PRECAUTIONS Taken by Health Officer Groton, Hewes at Dr. Frank W. Hewes, health officer | of Groton, has caused a notice to be| published regarding reporting cases of illnes Dr. Hewes says that owing to|| the.prevalence of smallpox in the near- towns he requests that all parents| having children afllicted with infec-| contagious illness notif: tmmediately, This s requiréd b and the statutes constitute any failure to do this a misdemeanor. Dr, Mewes the fact that parents eport their children’s illnesses ;, This is to enable the officer to place under minute ation any case which mptoms of communic eases and thereby fur such communicable spreading, safeguard illnesses from Connecticut Delegates to Go. (Special te The Bulletin.) Washingten, Oet, 2 The fifth na- tional conservation cengress will meet in this city November 18th, 18th and 20th, The greater part of the program is to be devoted to forest and water power conse ion. The Connecticut delegates to this eonvention so far anneunced are as follows: Prof. F, R, Fairchild, of New Haven, representing American K nomics; Prof. H. H. Chapman Haven, representing the Americ ; association; James of New Haven, representing of New Haven; Mrs. Annie Basseft of Ansonia, representing the Con- necticut Federation of Women's Clubs; ¥ and M W. Gerard of Seuth walls, representing the Connectieut Federation of Women's Clubs. McGuire Boy's Symptoms Encouraging The condition of Harold McGuire, the 17 year old boy accidentally shet with fle last Saturday after target practice in the woods near his home at Center Groton, continues about same as it has been since he was shot. His temperature is somewhat above gormal and remained so ever since the day he was shot. After seeing him on ‘Wednesday Dr. B. Lewis said the symptoms were encouraging so far. Country towns are benefiting by hunting parties just now. MARRIED. 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