The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-26


 Miles, of Milford; George F. Baldwin, of Beacon Falls; William Konold, of New Haven, and Arthur H. Doolittle, of Bethany.
 Both mother and son are confident that they will escape the gallows; that the charge of murder in the first de- gree will not lie. Their attorneys, Arnon filling and Howard c. Webb, aver that they will never be convicted of this tragedy. On the other hand States Attorney Williams contends that the mother and son conspired to take the life of Jennings; that they were in wait for him when he appear ed in the road, and that after provok- ing difficulty with the deceased, the son pulled down" on his stepfather'
 The state holds that the boy never liked his father. and that the mother and son, understanding that he was about to sell his property, divide the proceeds between himself and Mrs. Ada Crockett, the daughter of a first mar riage, and then go to Canada, decided to kill him.
 The state expects to show that MT. and Mrs. Jennings went to the home of Mrs. Ada Crockett, some distance from their home, on the afternoon of April 8; that the deceased drank liquor there, having carried some with him, and that his wife also drank; that Jennings became badly intoxicated; that there was a quarrel over the sale of the property; that the wife angrily left the house, proceeding home in the wagon in which she and her husband had used to go to the Crockett house; that she returned home, and found her son there he having been in the city during the afternoon; that she informed him his father was making things decidedly un- pleasant at the Crockett home; that the mother and son went back toward Brockett's house and, meeting Jennings in the road, quarreled with him, and that the son fired upon him in cold blood
 The defense admits that the mother and son went back. It also admits that there had been quarrel in the Brock cit house, but it contends that the man was very much the worse for liquor. The defense expects to prove that there was no conspiracy; that the mother simply suggested to her boy that he and she go back t6 the Brock etts and bring Jennings home. At least that was the intention when they start | ed out in the wagon.
 They met Jennings near a trail that leads to the road and which is short cut to their home, he ostensibly having just come from the Crockett home. stead. and still in his cups. This was 1 about 8:1O D. m. They wanted to con- | vey him home in the wagon, but ht would not pay any attention to them preferring to walk over the trai | through the woods. The mother ant son then turned around and went bacl toward home The trail debouehes int the road some distance from where tht l trio had met. and here there was an l other meeting.
 The boy gives a rather confused ac count of the trouble. He and hl mother both insist that there was ; fight and that Jennings made a viciou attempt upon them, striking the moth CT first and then the son. The latte, did not shoot to protect his mother, bu to defend his own life. The defensi will try to prove that Jennings haC the boy down at one time and at an other up against a back of bluff, or il | other close quarters.
 The first shot was defiected the sec ond one killed. The mother says tn, tragedy happened within the twinklinl l of an eye. She knew her son had tn, revolver It was his stepfather's. Jen nings, the accused assert, had threaten ed both his wife and her son, He fel especially bitter toward the son, if tn defense is correct. The son was appre hensive of his life The boy says tha whenever his stepfather was drunk h. usually took the revolver and kept i until he was sober. This he had don, when he learned of his condition a the Brocketts.
 The police and the state contend tha after the bleeding victim was borne t his home that he was not immediatel, attended to, but that the horse wal taken from the shafts first. The de fense proposes to combat this witt the statement that the mother and sor did this because they thought that tn, horse might run away and dis turb Jennings Jennings lay stretched in the wagon, his head against tn, dashboard and the feet under the seat The boy was then dispatched for tn doctor