Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-15
CONTINUED UNTIL TUESDAY.

CONTINUED UNTIL TUESDAY. The Defense In the Lee-Whitten
 Murder Trial, After Putting One
 Witness on the Stand, Ask for a
 Continuance-The Request Granted
 The Full Strength of the Defense
 VIII be Brought out in the City
 Court.
 The state yesterday forenoon rested its case in the trial of Drs. Lee and Whitten, charged with murder in the second degree in causing the death by criminal abortion of Maggie schloss of Ansonis, and the de- fense will commence next Tuesday morn ing.
 When court opened yesterday morning the usual crowd was present and standing room was even at a premium. Dr. Frank H. Wheeler of 21 Grown street was the firat witness called. He testified that he had assisted Medical Examiner White in tho post-mortem examination of Maggie Schloss' body. He WAS of the opinion that the girl had died from recently performed abortion, and in so far as he knew 1t could not have resulted from any other cause. Witness explained the use of instruments found at the Dayton house. These instru ments were speculum, two forceps, de- vaculum and 8 curette. Witness also said that he would not have given digitalis or elaterine to 8 pregnant woman.
 E. A. Gessner, the Chapel street drug gist, identified the prescriptions which were put up at his place, and also the bottles which were among the exhibit. When shown the bottle which contained elsterine, he said that he did not think any of 1t had been used. About ore-half the deleterum had been used.
 The diagram of the house in which Dr. Whitten's office is located was put in evil dence, and at 11:10 the state rested. THE DEFENSE OPENS. AS soon as City Attorney Fox had an ! nounced that the state rested, Attorney Case called the first witness for the de- fense. This proved to be William R. Saw yer of 66 High street, proprietor of the ! Standard Cab company He testified that about 9:30 o'clock Dr. Whltten came to his office and hired cab. Witness did not | leave Dr. Whitten until the latter alighted l at his office in Chapel street at 11:10 o'clock.
 Cross examined by City Attorney Fox, l witness was unable to tell the day of the week, but was positive that 1t was on the | night of August 16, because he had made an entry in his book to that effect. This vas the first gun fired by the de- fence and 1t made the first of series of breaches in the wall of evidence which the state has built up, using young Cash's story as foundation.
 Cash and Wolff have both testified that Dr. Whitten arrived at his office before 1O:30 the night of August 16. Dr. Whitten l was there, and he at once introduced them to Dr. Lee, after refusing to have anything to do with the case himself. It was a startling bit of evidence, too, for neither the prosecution nor those who followed
 the case expected such diversion. l REASONS FOR DISAPPOINTMENT
 After the crosE-e animation of this wit
 mesa had been concluded Attorney Cagt
 asked for continuance until next Mon
 day, given his reasons as follows: 'I ap
 pear for Dr. Whitten particularly, and
 wish to say here that we propose to fgh
 out this case to finish iI this court
 Brother Fox has put on some twenty tw'
 witnesses, has made out strong cas
 against the accused, and we will pick ul the gauntlet and fight the battle where tn ! Shd1AOAAO W0o 4o5ucus 4uSl6 arc uAu,
 reasons why we desire continuance "
 have, as perhaps you are aware, secure' the services of Dr. Wolf of Hartford g an expert for the defence. He is at pres
 ent engaged in making mieroscopical in . vestigations, and his labors will not b completed for few days at least. Again
 l received telephone message from Dl
 Wolf's family this morning to the eHec that he had been taken ill last evening an that it would be impossible for him to b \ present this morning. I therefore as that an adjournment bs taken until Mor
 day"
 7| Attorney Asher, for Dr. Lee, seoonde i the request and said that he, too, pro
 posed to fight the case before the presen
 court.
 City Attorney Fox stated that Tueada - morning would be more convenient fc
 him and as the defense did not object, th l court was adjourned until 10:30 o'cloc t Tuesday morning.
 @ One point which was brought out b
 the state yesterday was very helpful to u 6 defense. Druggist Gessner, while on tt a stand, testified that the two prescription
 which were brought in as evidence by tk
 state were put up on Sunday, yet b
 White testified yesterday that medicine
 corresponding with these prescription were used in producing the abortion vI Morton Not Guilty. O The jury in the court of common plel L. yesterday afternoon decided that Hug
 W. Morton, landlord of the Richmon
 house, who has been on trial for sewers days past, charged with keeping disc ! derly house, was not guilty. The jury wa d out about an hour and half. Attorne Il J. P. Goodhart was Mortons counsel an
 everywhere last evening hc was being coi f graduated on winning his case, whio d from the beginning seemed almost certai o of being lost.
 ,. At City Mission Hall. r large delegation from the Christia
 Endeavor society of the Calvary Bapti ,. church were present at the City Missic hall Wednesday evening. The service WI
 led by MT. Ward, with Miss Platt as orgal
 ist and quartette composed of Mir. ar
 Miss Joslin and MT. and Mics Lincoln, wi sang during the evening "There's Stral
 ger at the Door," and also ':Oh, the Pr ' cious Words that Jesus Said" 0 This evening the Christian Tempsran, f association (formerly at s5 Orange stree will conduct a gospel service at the Gil Mission hall, corner of Court and Sta l 6GlCCbE. uhcSSI6 Da1O WILL, lSTG dull OLu @ officers and members will be present, ar s all interested in the work of this associ ton ars invited to attend
 Town Clerk Brethauer Sick.
 Town Clerk Brethauer was confined
 his house with severe attack of neuralg l. yesterday afternoon. and in consequent !. no women voters were made.
 ? Board of Finance. @ The board of finance met yesterday afte # noon and approved the weekly payrolls t the various departments as follows: Publ D worke, $2, 101. .02; police, $2, ,781. 49; fir s $1 ,623. .96; health, $114; total, $6,62047.
 Colored Masons d At the annual meeting of the grand lods d of colored Nasons here this week office
 were elected for the ensuing year as fo 7. lows: W. H. Effort of New Haven, wo n shipful grand master; Theodore James P Norwich, deputy grand master; Willia :. Brent of Norwich, grand senior warde, 'i John Boone of Bridgeport, grand junie