Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-20
5ournal artb Courier.
Friia, Maraing. Jan. 20. !8t2.
Tha Naugatuck Murder Trial.

Contis tion of Tes'i,nony-The Wife of
 the Murdered Man Tells Her Story.
 Before the Superior Court yesterday norn- ing, with Judge Sanford on the bench, the hearing in the case of State vs. Charles S. Riggs, charged with the murderof his son. in law, Rollir T. Bunnell, at Naugatuck, in August last was continued
 At the opening of the court Mrs. Nellie Bunnell, wife of the dead man. again took the stand and continued her direct testimony. Mir Baldwin asked her if there had been any trouble between her father and her husband previous to the fatal affray of August 20. The defense offered an objection, which Judge Sanford overruled. The witness then told of an incident which occurred at the sup per table. Her husband reproved their boy for some misconduct, when the grandfather told the husband that his room was better than his company. After some further, words the prisoner picked up knife as if to strike her husband. Mrs. Riggs took the knife away and the prisoner abused her for
 doing it. Her husband said nothing and the
 trouble did not go any further. The witness
 said that two days after her husband died the
 prisoner called her into his room and asked
 her if she saw the knife on the table. She
 told him she would not be sure about it, and
 he said this would help him at his trial He
 said MT. Kennedy was going to make up
 something that would make his sentence as
 light as possible, and her testimony would
 help him. Witness was present when Dr.
 Mears informed her husband that he could
 not recover. The doctor said: ''Mr. Bun
 nell, you've got to die,' and added that he
 had brought Mir. Baldwin (the lawyer) along
 to talk with him. The doctor wanted him to
 tell Mr. Baldwin all that had happened.
 When told he had to die my husband said it
 was no news to him he had expected it
 He said that he did not want to say anything to MT. Baldwin, as if he must die he did not
 want to send my father to States prison. The painful memories brought up by re calling this scene was too much for Mrs Bunnelrs composure. Her examination had to be suspended until she could recover from fit of weeping. She broke down again later on, when she told how Bunnell com mended their children to her mothers kind ness The prisoner and his wife appeared to be wholly unaffected by their daughter s words or her emotions. The witness said that her husband told her at MT. Squires' house the day after the affray that his wound leaving the children and calling her mother to the room asked her to be kind to the chil- dren.
 The cross examination of Mrs. Bunnell was continued in the afternoon. She testified that after her father returned on the night of the stabbing while she was up pstairs, she heard her mother say: ''Mind your own busi- ness;" and then ''Charles, keep your hands off of me" She could hear her father scold- ing, but did not hear the words used. When she reached the floor below her father stood | facing her mother, and either had hold of her or of the mop with which her mother l had been washing the floor.
 l Court adjourned until this morning at 10 | o'clock