The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-03-29


 | insisted upon being paid in advance
 He could not remember that anything
 was said about an operation on his frs visit to Mrs. Guilford.
 | Mir. Klein asked: You are under in
 dlctment for murder, are you not? Fo
 causing the death of Emma Gill?' { The witness nodded. Asked if any
 promises had been made him by tht
 state, Oxley said no. He said he eX 1 pected to be tried on the charge ol
 murder. Attorney Klein asked him il he knew that what he had testified tc
 in court to-day, if true, would make
 him guilty. Witness said he did not know.
 | Question-Have you any other coun- sel beside Judge Holcomb? | Answer-Yes; MT. Case of Hartford Q.-Don't you know that Dr. Thomp
 son of New Haven employed MT. Case to defend you?
 A.-No sir: I do not.
 MT. Klein then asked the witness if his memory was as good now as it was
 when he made the affidavit in Bridge port September 2S. He thought 1t was
 better, as he had had a chance to think 1t all over. MT. Klein asked him why,
 in his affidavit he had stated that Au- gust "A was the date he took Emma Gill to Bridgeport, while in his testi-
 mony to-day he had said August 27. Witness said 1T do not know If said so then it must have been true" MT. Klein then asked Oxley number of questions regarding the affidavit to nearly all of which the witness an- swered "I don't remember" Asked if he had ever received any letter from Emma Gill while she was in Bridge port, Oxley said that he had received one, but that it had been destroyed MT. Klein then asked him what he had telegraphed Mrs. Guilford from Boston and witness answered that he had tel egraphed Mrs. Guilford asking what she had done. He received a reply say ing: Nothing under the circumstan- ces; don't telegraph, but write"
 Oxley said, in answer to MT. Klein 8 questions, that he had never paid Mrs. Guilford the whole of the $125 agreed upon. In addition to the amounts he had mentioned. Oxley said he sent ten dollars more to Dr. Guilford, when a colored woman, said to be Mrs Guil- ford's servant, came to Southington and saw him, with a message from Mrs. Guilford. The woman knew nothing about the money, though, he admitted. Oxley said he could not remember tell ing Detective Arnold that when he heard of the finding of the body he had gone to Dr. Thompson's office and asked if the body was that of Emma Gill. If he did say so, he said, it was probably true. He did not know Dr. Thomp- sons present whereabouts. The wit ness said he had first told his story when arrested, except that a day or two before he had spoken to his attor- ney.
 At this point Attorney Klein worried the witness perceptibly, scoring him re- peatedly for not having told Emma Gill's parents that it was their daugh- ter whose body had been found on the mud flats of Yellow Mill pond
 Question--Did you say at Mrs. Guil- ford's office that you had Emma Gill brought up to Waterbury to see pr. Cal lahan. and that you were tired paying money you could?
 Answer-I don't remember.
 Oxley then admitted that he had sent Emma Gill to Waterbury to see Dr. Cal- lahan three or four times. He first drove to Waterbury alone, he said, and made an appointment with pr, Calla- han, after which he hired driver and sent Emma Gill to the doctors house. Later Emma Gill drove to the doctors house alone, and still later went to Wa terbury by train. At this point court adjourned for the day.