The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-28

band had caused the separation, and that he had been sent across the Wa Ier.'
 Did she tell you that she had been by detectives in New Haven, and that was the reason she came to Hartford?"
 No"
 Did she tell you that people were her to make a case against her?"
 No"
 That evening when Mrs Norton came into your room you had gas stove going because it was cold?'
 Yes"
 Now, as a point of fact, you had said you were chilled before she asked you to have some wine"
 No, sir"
 She just poured you out a glass of port wine and you drank it?"
 She poured out two and drank one herself.'
 Tn speaking of her husband did she say anything else?'
 She said that when he came of age he might return to her"
 Did you have any conversation witi1 Mrs, McIsaac concerning Mrs. Nor ton?"
 "I don't remember"
 After the first occasion you have told us of, was Mrs. Norton ever ill your room?'
 No"
 Did you ever invite her thereafter"
 No"
 The next move by MT. Goodhart was to attempt to show that Washington was drunk on the evening of the inci- dents which he related as hearing in connection with Mrs. Norton and MT. question to this effect, and Attorney question to this effect, and Attorney Hull objected, but not before witness had answered, No" most emphatical- ly.
 He's answered it," said MT. Good hart.
 T see he has" said Mir. Hull, "but doubt if he could have understood 1t"
 There is a strong possibility that Mrs, Norton will be asked by her attorneys to take the stand in her own behalf. It will depend upon the way the case of the prosecution Is put in," said Att torney Hamilton. If we see fit toward the end to put her on she will go."
 Washington was on the stand when court was adjourned for the noon re- cess.
 On the cross examination Washing ton said that Mr. Webb, the detective, gave him $9 week to support him until the time came to testify in court. Besides this he had received some other money He said that he did not know Norton, but that he had met Norton s brotaer-in-law, c. c. Conway, of Bos- ton, and that MT. Webb and MT. Con- way promised to use their Influence to get him 8 position in a plano shop in Boston, Hallock and Davis. Mr. Con- way, he said, runs a large business in the heart of Boston, in Boylston street. Mir. Conway has been In court every day since the trial commenced, and is the constant companion of his brother in-law.
 Washington was stated in court yes- terday by Attorney Goodhart to be a moral degenerate, according to q letter from A. 0. Boswell director of the Per kins Institute for the Blind in Boston. The letter states that no statements which Washington made could be con- sidered of any value; that he was so degenerate that the authorities of the school had to dismiss him in 1901, after he had been in the school five years, because of his influence in corrupting the other pupils.
 Mrs. Everson, mother-in-law of De- tective Webb, for the plaintiff, testified yesterday afternoon in relation to her observances in the house at 23 Capitol avenue, Hartford,
 Mrs. Everson figured in Tuesday S testimony as having assisted, at the boarding house in Hartford, to procure evidence against Mrs. Norton Her evidence was, In the main, alone the lines of the testimony of Mr. Washing ton in the attempt to show that Mrs, Norton and MT. Jenkins occupied the same room in the Hartford boarding house next to Mir. Washingtons
 Mir. Webb, the detective, was then called to the stand and sworn by the clerk, MT. Gallagher. He said in reply to questions from Lawyer Adlai J. Hull, of New London;
 My name is Louis J. Webb. I live at 922 Chapel street, New Haven; have lived in New Haven about year; am private detective; have been employ ed by city officials, private individuals, and, yes, by some lawyers. I kept a record of my connection with the Nor ton case, with which I began February 6, 1906, being employed in the case by c. c. Conway, brother-in-law think, of the plaintiff in this case. My pay was $5 day, for eight hours a day, when working on the case, and all my expenses pertaining to it. I also employed assistants. Their pay was the same.
 Early in February I saw Mrs. Norton coming out of Spalding's drug store When she came out she walked ur Church street with young man who