Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-18
ARGUMENTS TUESDAY.
Much Speculation as to the Outcome
 0f the Perjury Case.

Much Speculation as to the Outcome
 of the Perjury Case.
 The great case of Willis vandemark charged with perjury Is near the end. All the evidence was in yesterday af- ternoon when court adjourned for the day, the most tedious Of all since the case opened week ago last Tuesday. It was by no means an exciting case and those who expected 1t to be must have been gieviously disappointed. Very little new evidence was given so that it was substantially repeti- tion of the old cases tried last June. The most interesting stage of the case was when the boys were on the stand ands even the interest waned before the boys were exhausted. Ball, the first of the boys that testd- fed. opened the way for the others Ills examination showed those to fol- low what they were to expect and how to fortdfy themselves against the 1 defense. Ball was off his guard when he took the stand, the others were not The defense got his nerve, to be colloquial, and made him make adm1ssions which they will flourish ln the face of the jury as the motive Of their statements in jail to MT Kellogg.
 The only new evddenec of any im- portance was obtained from the boys and that was mostly as to their motive in making their statements to MT Kellogg and how they came to make them.
 It Is claimed that some new ad- missions were got from sWolcott by ! the defense but these were of such d nature that MT Kellogg frankly ad mitted them toward the close of the case, so it is possible they will not turn out to be of much value after all Marsh's story as told yesterday did not vary scarcely bit from the one he told last June and vandemark told his in the same monotone that distinguished him on the same memorable occasion. His story was as follows, as told in reply to MT Hamilton's questions. He was In poor health all the winter of l9o2-8 and on February % he saw Dr Benedlct In the afternoon and got a prescription from him. Tn the evening ne came up town with MT Payne and While the latter went to the theater witness went to Dexter-s drug store to get the medicine he had been ordered to take. He took a walk about town, met an acquaintance here and there and at length found himself in Vol cott's pool room about 10 o'clock. He i played game of pool or two with FarnswO1th. Stayed there A of an hour and started for home reaching it about Il o'clock. He denied being at ! the switch or any of the places men, toned in the story of the assault, ex- cept theNpool room, that night and de- i n1ed he suggested to anyone to put handkerchiefs on their faces or used revolver. Tn fact he denied absolutely all persoinal knowledge of the assault 1 Not word of the evidence begun last June was false that he knew. His wife died December [, 1902
 MT Root asked him if he could tell what took place that day, December ', 1902, and he said that he did not think that he could tell what took place You are sure your wife died about that time anyway, are you not? he was asked and he said he was. MT Root then questioned him some time as to his knowledge of the geo. l graphy of the ground between the Model laundry and the trolley switch so often mentioned in the case. van- denmark had for some time lived near the Model laundry and though MT Hamilton maintained that was of no consequence to the issue, MT Root in- sisted otherwise and he was upheld by the court. Vandemark thought there were two or three houses between the laundry and the switch He was not at the pool room on February 20 only in the evening, and could not say when he was last there before that day On that evening he played two two handed games and one three-handed game of pool there.
 MT Root tried to get him to state how long it took him to play the games but witness could not say. He saw Seymour there and Wolcott was there about ten minutes. Witness saw Wolcott pass out, but did not hear him say where he was going. He called at the pool room again week after the assault and saw Wolcott there but did not remember what they said, or If they spoke to each other.
 On his redirect examination he said he was not sure what day 1t was his wife died, whether 1t was December 2 or 8. He had three deaths in his fam. fly in six days at that time, his father his wife and her aunt.
 vandemark identified ono of the
 
 strikers. and here it developed that the picture which had been used earlier in the trial was lost. However, this one was copy of 1t and 1t was allowed in vandemark identified his face in the picture which then was passed on to the jury, the states counsel and the court. This closed with Vandemark.
 Parts of Wolcott's testimony as con tradicting his first testimony was then introduced by the defense, to show that he said at the first trial that 1t was winnegar who suggested putting or handkerchiefs up at the switch.
 Parts of Morrfsette's evidence was introduced for the same purpose, re lating to his Identification of Vande mark. The defense claimed that while Morrisette testified In this case that he had identified vandemark the first day of the first trial, June 2, he, In fact did not identify him until he went or the stand in the afternoon of the third day of the trial, June 5. Also part o1