The morning journal-courier., 1908-05-02

had been standing half-facing hin There wasn't anyone else there make any noise, Not even a cat asked Mir. Williams, as,if he had bee kept awake of late by feline duet No, sir" came the reply.
 He said he did not chase her, nc did she fall on the steps, nor did l shoot her when she was down.
 Miller was shown the letter l wrote his wife at Grace hospital. identified it and 1t was put in evidenc It was addressed to Mrs, Lizzie MI Ter, Grace Hospital, New Have Conn"
 The letter went as follows: Mrs. Lizzie Miller:
 Dear Lizzie: l take great pleasure writing to you and letting you he from me. I hope you are getting alol very well. Mrs. Miller, 1 am very sor to hear you have had such bad acc dent happen to you. hope you are be ter soon. l am down for a short tin l will be here till the sixth and tn you will go home.
 Goodbye and write soon. Direct yo letters to me at Brlar Cliff Manor, Y. So goodbye.
 From your friend,
 HENRY REVIEW. The prisoner had considerable dif culty in reading his penmanship. And so you were very sorry to he she had had a bad accident?" ask Mir, Williams.
 "Well, it was bad accident"
 "1he reason was you didn't wa anybody to know who wrote that l' ter, wasn't it?"
 Yes"
 "ln case she was dead, it would I cast any reflection on you?"
 "No, not that. l didn't think would die"
 You knew she had a bullet in body since the Friday night before a that they were going to perform operation on her. You expected s would be dead
 No. Then l wouldn't have writt her at all'
 After she was shot and before y went for a doctor, you made her pro ise to shield you?"
 No"
 Weren't you frightened?"
 "Yes, but l thought 1t best to somebody to take care of her while went for a doctor"
 Witness said after he shot his wife put the revolver in the wash-stand. said she wanted to change her sk | and did take off the light one and ! on the black one. The wound did seem to trouble her
 Did you have little box of q tridges under the table?'
 NO, sir. I had three cartridges WI brought the pistol from West VI ginia. one shot off Fourth of JY another she shot off Christmas and Il left one.
 Witness said he bought q din1 worth of cartridges in West Virg. and got six, of which three were s| off before he came north.
 Why did you shave your mustal off?" asked the states attorney, deq changing the subject
 No reason for 1t, sir"
 How long since you'd shaved itl before?"
 Probably q month.'
 Then MT. Williams jumped back I just before the shooting again, 1T gave up the prisoner to the defence
 MT. O'Connel took the witness agt He said he was accustomed to shaw off his mustache and she vas ace toned to changing her skirtafter cT ing home at night Witness then how the light was behind him so could not see the cartridge in the volver. He said his wife knew WI the cartridge was
 Chief Ellis of the Ansonia police put on by the defense AS an expert was asked if Miller could well h forced Mrs. Miller, who weighed pounds, to go with him if he did want to-,
 Mrs. Marshall, negro woman, called by the defence. She said she known Miller for some months but CT saw him "fussing or quarrelllng.
 Ernest Truehart, a negro, said VI was "peaceable most of the time and his wife had always been friei' when he had seen them. This backed up by the testimony of hls M
 AS the defence did not have any T witnesses present and 1t was 4:4i this point, adjournment was had next Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
 The Morning Session. l, Among the witnesses at the morI session were Alice Kendrick, Thq. : Arland Edward Boswell, John Sni Louise Clark, sherman Tupper, al Ansonia, and all of whom saw a ! and woman struggling, or heard nd near the Miller house on Ford sI l on the night of the murder
 None of these witnesses could idf fy the colored man as one Of the pie who were struggling. In fact < ; of theme were not sure that the cd , were colored as 1t was dark at , time. Clerk Charles Donahue' at ; jail, testified to Miller telling hif 5 being married and the wedding eel j. cate was filed in court. } Chief of Police Thomas 5. Ell ' Ansonia, testified to having arrf Miller on the night of the trouble { of the coroner later interviewing l At this time the wife insisted tha' l had shot herself. } Detective ward was the next wlt He told of arresting Miller in r Cliff, N. Y. He said that Miller haf = clared that his name was not MI : He finally asked how his wife was s agreed to go back. He had shaved t mustache off.
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