The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-17
KILLING OF WINNIE COOKE
WITNESSES DESCRIBE THE SCENES
BEFORE And AFTER.

Boyyed Head-Last Words of Hayes to
His sxveetheart Before tho Tragedy
| just Wanted to Talk Their Trouble
| Over-she Il Refused and the Fatal Shots
Followed.
Litchfield, Oct. 16.-When John L.
Hayes, who is charged with the muroer
| of his sweetheart, Miss Wlnnilrea
| Cooke heard witness after witness To-
day describe the scene Immediately tol-
| lowing the terrible tragedy, he listened
| attentively with bowed head but never
finched. The eyes of the court room
seemed to be fastened on the prisoner
as the gruesome details We're elected
from those who were employed at the
home at the time the girl was shot.
| Twenty witnesses were examined to-
| day, leaving twice that number yet TO
be called, besides the insanity experts
who are to be called by the detense.
Several witnesses described the scene
| on Williams avenue when Hayes met
Miss Cooke and asked her to elope with
him to Millerton, N. Y, and the ride OF
| the two with Parsons to the Gilbert
| home.
Miss Alice Stone testified to seeing
the three going toward the home, and'
knowing that there was trouble pc
tween Miss Cooke and Hayes she at
once telephoned to the girls brother.
According to Parsons, Miss Cooke
shouted as she jumped out of his sleigh
and rushed into the home, pursued by
HAYES: Look out. He has a revolv-
er"
Miss Mary Champion, who roomed
| with Miss Cooke, and Miss Florence M.
Stone saw the trio drive into the yard,
Miss Mary b. Hayes, bookkeeper at the
home testified to seeing Miss Cooke en-
ter the building with Hayes beh1nd her.
Miss Hayes heard the prisoner say: Il
want to talk with you, Winnie ana
she replied: "I do not want to talk with
you. Go away You nave no business
to follow me-"
Witness said she told Hayes he had
no business in the place, and ne sara;
"I lust want to talk to Winnie MISS
Hayes then went down stairs TO notlly
Frank Case of the trouble, ana MISS
Cooke, still pursued by Hayes, ran
| through the play-room into the sewing
room,
The thread of the story was here taxi
on up by Miss Eunice L. Hyde, seam
stress who was working in the sewing
room at the time Miss Cooke and hayes
rushed in. She heard the prisoner say:
Come Winnie, let's talk it over" and
Miss Cooke replied: II cannot. YOU
have mo crazy now" The next the
witness heard was a pistol shot and
then she ran out of the room. Before
she reached an adjoining room a sec
ond. third and finally fourth shot was
! fred.
Frank 3. Case was the first person to
enter the sewing room after the trag-
edy. He said that when he went INTO
the room Miss Cooke was lying on the
floor. and Hayes. with head and shoul-
ders drooped and with blood flowing
from wounds in his head, was stanolng
at nearby window. Case immediate
lv nassed out of the room and sum-
n,oned two carpenters who were work
ING in another part of the building,
| Whom Case entered the room second
time he saw Hayes at the window with
a revolver in his hand. He then heard
the hammer click three times, but no
renort followed. Witness said that
Hayes then walked to where his victim
was living, and, leaning over her body,
said ooh. dear" Case then jumped on
Hayes. forcing him to the floor Il
asked Hayes." said Case, how he
could do such terrible thing, and
Haves replied: I loved her So When
Hayes saw Parsons enter the room he
cold. .Thfs would not have happened
If Won hadn't come along this morning.
| |
40 T would go through HI If / could
bring her back When ne hearo uoe-
TORS mentioned Hayes told me that
there was no use sending for DOCTORS. 1
shot myself three times, he sald' ana
will die in few minutes
The accused recognized wade COOKE
brother of the dead girl, when he en-
tered the room Hayes was hearu TO
saw. "This was caused by her folks IN
reference"
Mrs ELLEN M. Case, wife of the super
ir+endent of the home, said that she
saw HAYES after the shooting and SAID
IA him. "You have prosecuted the girl
all along, when you knew she had given
Won nm " t'I never wrote to her When
was sick" said Hayes. NO, replied
Mrs Case. "but you sent woman up
here for Winnie to come to see you
"IJaves also told me-" said the wit
mass .that Dr. Browns horse had kick
cd him in the head and he did not know
what he was doing
Andrew F. Ludington, the next wit
ness merely corroborated former tes-
timonv. The court then adjourned un-
til tomorrow.