Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-01
The Wallingford Murder.

Francis Cnrrolrs Trial Begun-Testi-
 mony of Maggie Early and Other Witt
 
 At 10 o'clock yesterday morning Judge Hitchcock took his seat on the bench of the Superior Court, criminal side, and the trial
 of Francis Carroll, of Wallingford, for the murder of Michael Early of the same town,
 was begun. Henry F. Hall appeared for the
 defendant, while L. M Hubbard assisted State
 Attorney Doolittle.
 The jurors selected were as follows; Whit
 ney Elliott, North Haven George l. Bat-
 cock, Orange; o. c. Osborne, Oxford Clark
 E. Lum, Oxford Lucius Baldwin, Prospect ;;
 Charles E. Hine, Prospect Henry D. Davis,
 Seymour Jervis Summers, Southbury; Hen ry P. Hicock, Southbury; Russell Beach,
 Bethany; Edwin A. Leete, Guilford Norris
 B. Mix Hamden.
 After the jury had been sworn Stephen c.
 Pierson, city surveyor of Meriden, was called
 as the first witness. He showed and explained
 large map, scale one hundred feet to the
 inch, he had made of the immediate neighbor-
 hood Of the late Michael Early's house, in-
 cluding all points having any bearing on the
 case, and smaller map showing the interior
 arrangement of Early's house.
 Bartholomew Pagan was called upon to
 testify. He said he had lived in Wallingford
 six years, and had known Carroll and Early for most of that time. During the week of the homicide witness had been employed. at the Higgins house sinking well. Carroll was at work there that week, and on the Saturday of the homicide until between 9 and 10 o'clock, when Carroll went home. Work was stopped at that time on account of the rain. Carroll went home with the witness Carroll staid at the house of witness for three. quarters of an hour.
 Maggie Early, daughter of the deceased was the next witness. She testified that she and her father had lived alone in the house where his body was found for about year
 previous to his death. On Saturday, Ooto- Der %, she departed usual in the morning ! to her work in Henry Bailey's box shop, \ leaving her fathers dinner on the kitchen \ table. She returned about 6:3O in the even- ! ing and found the outer south door closed. \ She opened it, entered little hallway and ! turning to the right went into the ! kitchen. Near the south window was basket she had in one hand and started for a mantel shelf behind the kitchen stove to get \ a match, it being quite dark Crossing the \ room she stumbled against the body of her 1 father as it lay on the floor. When the ! match was lighted she saw him lying in a ! great pool of blood She ran to the house ! of neighbor, Mrs. Sullivan, and brought her and Mr. Mitchell back Another match was lighted, land then," said the ! girl without betraying any particular emo | tion, although her face was flushed, 1T saw blood about his head and neck and | also out on the stairs and stair walls as well as about the room. We saw he was dead. ! There was an axe on one of the stairs and on \ that there were some blood marks. He lay \ on his left side with his coat and vest drawn ! up under one arm as though he had been pulled-his clothes pulled up on him. His ! head was half way between the sink and the | table. His feet were towards the south win dow. I did not notice his wounds. The ! house was in just the same condition as when I left in the morning, except the one chair was out of place. The axe we generally kept out doors, but I believe | that morning father brought in the axe and ! don't think the dinner I left for him had ! been eaten. It was composed of bread and ! beef and the tea was on the stove in pot. ! Some one who came into the house that even | ing cleared the table. There were in the I house between forty and fifty dollars in mon | ey that Saturday morning and that evening ] I found it all right"
 Here recess was ordered till ? o'clock. ! After dinner Miss Early testified, when ! asked if Carroll had ever had trouble with her father, that she knew that Carroll had hired from her father, about month before ! the homicide, team which he did not pay for, and had also bought some cabbages from
 her father, which she did not think had been ! paid for.
 In the afternoon Dr. McGaughey was or
 the stand and described the wounds he found ! on Michael Early's body.
 Court adjourned until this morning at 1t ! ot tn1onlr