Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29
land was made?" asked Mr. Ever.

CSy S1IS U0C CdSGC1A Frederick Merivale, was present; but whether he gave any attention to the conversation could not say"
 Lawyer Everett smiled inscrutably at this, but made no comment
 A large number of minor witnesses were then examined. A letter carrier told how he had delivered to Frank lin in person letter bearing the Chi ma postmark. Otto Orthaldsden, a little Swiss jeweler, whose shop boasted many odd dainties in the jew for articles of European make, took the witness stand. He proved to be very methodical man, for he brought one of his books with him. He examined the unidentified watch, which was of Swiss make, and said he had sold 1t to Col. James Franklin. Then he produced his book, showing the date of sale of every watch, with It's number, make and the name of the person to whom it was sold. A refer ence to his book showed that. he had disposed of No. 9 9,999 of this particular make to Franklin. The cost of the WdUC1 WaS lkCIC 010O cAlo eAAO AupO OA the payment. The unidentified pin was then shown to him, which he recognized. It, too, had it's peculiar ities of design and special make, and his professional eye at once located 1t. He declared that he had sold this pin, or one exactly like it, to Frank lin.
 John Hauptmann, dealer in boots and shoes, testified that he had se- cured small consignment of arctics, the only shipment of the particular kind he thought in the city. He had made only three sales of this kind of overshoe at the time of Wright's rRur- der; one was to the mayor; the sec ond was to the chancellor, and the third was to Frank Hillsman. He sold these three persons all their shoes, and as they wore different numbers he had sold them different sized arctics.
 Mrs. Herbert Wright and Mrs. An derson next testified to the disap- pearance of the old pistol, and the substitution of the new one with which Wright was supposed to have DGGu N4ASs kAA0CloOI oASO OOAA of the visit of the man in the red flannel shirt.
 The taller and the doctor who had attended Herbert Wright testified to the attempt made to poison the ac- cused, and their suspicious that the man in the red flannel shirt had manipulated it.
 Then, to the surprise of many per- sons, Old Tom, whose real name was Bob Hathaway. was introduced, and he made a clean breast of all his workings in the case. He admitted having been a party to the trap set for Irving Warde, for which job he and his partner were to get hand some sum conditional on the success of a certain scheme. He confessed that Franklin had hired him for this purpose. He had also dogged Warde's steps on several occasions for Frank lin.
 His companion, Dick Padgett, con- frmed his story in all the essential details.
 Finally the man in the red flannel shirt was put upon the witness stand, but this time he had on blue flannel shirt. He was very crooked look ing customer, but he told remark ably straight tale. He had done 8 great deal of work for the colonel. The day Herbert Wright was put in jail the colonel had given him the pis- toI which was in evidence, and had told him to go to Wright's house and substitute 1t for the old rusty affair which had belonged to the prisoner. The colonel had learned from Mir. | Warde Ghat Mrs. Wright was on a visit to her husband and had sent him to make the substitution in her ab- sence. As he was coming out, how ever, he had been hailed by lady l living near by--Mrs. Anderson whose testimony he confirmed. Later on the colonel had employed him to go to the jail and get one of the pris- oners to slip al white powder into l Wright's food. He had paid negro whose name he did not know, to do this. He did not know positively that the powder was poison, but suspected that it was. The fannel-shirt man admitted very naively that he was 8 f ESnSIdA ulAu-O1-pICys WAO NA4u 144 SuCAl odd jobs and chores as this for the requisite cash. Col. Franklin had been particularly valuable client of his and had always paid him well; but when at last he had been cornered the colonel had thrown him overheard along with his friends, Padgett and Hathaway. A contemptuous scowl Bnriched the deepening gloom of Franklin's face as he listened to all this testimony, but he did not open his lips. Just how these men were caught and made to tell what they knew was revealed further on in the trial.
 Frank Hillsman now took the stand and told the following story:
 Several months ago when MT. Wright's safe was robbed, and be- fore the news was out, I met Tom Morris at the N. &s L. depot. He was just preparing to leave on the out going train. Seeing me, he came up quickly and said:
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