Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-07
The Ansonia Homicide.
Superior COart = Crimfnal side-Chfei
 Juatfce Park.


 Superior COart = Criminal sfde-Chfef
 Justfce Park.
 In the Superior Court yesterday morning, before Chief Justice Park, the taking of tes- timony was commenced in the case of James CChip) Smith, charged with murder in the first degree in killing Chief of Police Daniel J. Hayes, of Ansonia, on December 23d, 1880, by shooting. Two hours and half were spent Tuesday afternoon in selecting the jury, some forty men being examined be- fore the twelve jurors were agreed upon by State Attorney Doolittle and verenice Mum ger (of Ansonia), who appeared for the State, and Smiths lawyers, L. N. Blydenburgh and T. J. Fox The names of the jurors are:
 George F. Tyler, Prospect Philo J. Flaw ley, Southbury; Henry P. Mitchell, South bury; Horace Smith, Wallingford; Daniel Lovejoy, New Haven Charles D. R. Perkins, New Haven; Philo Buckingham, New Haven; Benjamin w.. Stone, New Haven; George l. Babcock, West Haven Ellery Camp, New Haven Richard Platt, New Haven; T. A. Warren, New Haven.
 Smith, the accused, boyish looking man of about 21, sat beside his lawyers. His mother and sister, the latter about IS years old, sat near him. The prisoner was neatly dressed and seemed to realize the condition in which he is placed For the State there are about twenty witnesses, while the defense have about a dozen summoned and may get more
 The first witness called was D. s. Brins- maid, of Shelton, called by Mir. Munger for the prosecution He was civil engineer, he testified, and produced map, with a scale of twenty feet to the inch, of that part of Main street, Ansonia, in the vicinity where the killing took place.
 Dr. William Baldwin, of Ansonia, was next called He testified that he was sent for when the homicide occurred, but was not at home.
 Subsequently, he called, about o'clock in the evening, to see the wounded officer, who law at the house of Policeman Thomas Ellis on Main street, whither he had been taken after the shooting. Hayes lay on bed dressed, very quiet and composed. An ex- animation was made. The wounded man was suffering, but not greatly, from shot, His pulse was nearly normal. The abdomen was perforated two inches below the navel on the left side and one inch below the me- dium line It was small perforation. The witness made slight dressing for the wound, enioined perfect quiet and took. Hayes clothes off. AS physician, Dr. Baldwin at tended the wounded man from Thursday evening, when the shooting took place, till the following Monday. Then Hayes was taken very much worse and died about noon or soon after The bullet wound in the ab- domen was the cause of death. post-mor- tenn was held by the witness and Dr. c. H. Pinney. They found the ball lodged in the intestines The witness produced it, a small twenty two calibre cartridge bullet, in court.
 The witness was cross examined by Judge Blydenburgh as to the wound and the effect of probing.
 Dr. c. H. Pinney, of Derby, testified to as- sisting in the post mortem, and that probing was legitimate practice.
 Michael Hayes, brother of the late chief, testified to trying to get Smith to let him have the pistol Smith had.
 Thomas Thompson, of Ansonia, gunsmith, testified that about the latter part of Novem- Der or the beginning of December Smith bought revolver from the witness, saying he wished to shoot dog with it that ''went for'' him. It was the revolver Smith used. Smith said afterward that he had shot the dog.
 Hugh Larkin, of Ansonia policeman, tes- tified to Smiths behavior the day Chief Hayes was shot.