Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-03
FRENCH DEAD
1Csvsssush VIII Now Bave 10 Face Murder Chsrge.

ght of November 16, on the Sim'
 hsyille road by John Cavanaugh Jed in the Waterbury hospital at fclock this morning of the wounds hhicted by the three bullets. It was on that account that the preliminary trial of Cavanaugh did not take place in the city court this morning as determined upon hy him and re' luctantly acceeded to by his counsel. Attorney Kennedy of Naugatuck.
 When word of the womans death was received at the police station Cayanaugh was immediately inform ca of 1t and he received the news With a great shock. It was rumored about the station house that he ask ed the officer who informed him if she had said anything and he was told that she had not, meaning of course if she had made any state- ment duplicating him in the cause of her death.
 The information in the city court against Cavanaugh will now be changed from attempted murder to murder in the first degree and it goes without saying that some sort of q trial will take place tomorrow morning. In all probability Cavan- augh will agree to the suggestion of his counsel and waive examination. He will then be bound over to the Isupfrior court without bail and will De taken with all due haste to New Haven county jail. The change will ldo him good for he has been very l nervous of late. The close confine> Antent he has been subjected to was I9ot doing him any good and the 6daily contact with men in all stages of intoxicatiolf was preying on his ynervous condition which. before the shooting was not the best by any vmeans.
 Now that all speculation about the woman's condition is over and that the end is already in sight, black though it is for Cavanaugh, the act- ual circumstances that led to the shooting are no longer a matter of Idificulty to obtain. But they are of 1such nature that it has been con ysidered advisable that if they are Ito be published at all it is better to have them come through the legi- Itimate channels of proper matter for Qualification rather than through the hearsay avenues of rumor.
 It can be said however, that from Ithe first the condition of Mrs French Twas such that the medical authori- Ities of the Waterbury hospital whose Iduty it was to report on her state Idaily, never had the slightest doubt Iof the eventual outcome. They be- Ilieved that it was almost next to im- possible for her to recover. Being naturally of an extremely nervous Rendition, the wounds inflicted by ICayanaughs revolver considerably Aggravated her state of health and left no hope in the minds of the 6hysicians that she would recover. ! ravanaugh had been dissipating be- ore the shooting. He believed he lad been badly treated, if not inn losed upon by her and when on the light of November 16 he met her in
 drunken condition, he was half lhenzied and the shooting resulted. 
 Cavanaugh, the authorities say, Unless under the advise of counsel He takes different stand, will be the Epnly witness against himself, except whatever the woman may have said to Dr Crane and to Deputy Coroner Makepeace.
 But 1t is said that what she did kay to the coroner will not be used jagainst Cavanaugh for the reason that her statement to that official will not be necessary to clinch the case against Cavanaugh. He is said to have not only once but twice and three times admitted to the police and more than one of them at time and sometimes in the presence of two or more of them that he shot the woman three times and then turned the weapon upon himself. There was no actual witnesses of the shooting. George Jones who lives on the Pearl Lake road was the first on the scene after the shooting. He found the woman on the ground and so far as is known she did not then Say anything that would indicate Cavanaugh as her assailant. If Cav anaugh had not made admissions to the police there would have been no evidence against him as the woman's s assailant but her own statements to the coroner.
 As soon as possible, perhaps next Tuesday. or the Tuesday following, Assistant States Attorney ]. P. Kel- logg expects to call in the grand fury to bring in an indictment against Cavanaugh. If true bilf for murder in the first degree is found the case will go over to the February term of the superior court. criminal side, but if bill for mur- der in the second degree is foud and if Cavanaugh is willing to plead in the affirmative to the crime and he is so charged. 1t is very likelythat MT Kellogg will have the accused man brought to court and sentenced, and thus so much business that other- wise e;would have to wait for the Feb- ruarg term will be disposed of. Mir Kellogg said, however, that 1t will all depend on what Judge Bennett " Il please to do In the matter. 
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