The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-16
'I Am Ready to Take My Oath as to My Innocence" He Says, in Talk With Farmer Reporter, as He Waits for Hearing Before Coroner Wilson.

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 of the Family = Dibble
 Feels Keenly His Situation State Has as Yet No Case.
 ''Some people seem to think that I have not told all that I know about the murder. I say that I have told everything that I know of the case. My friends and the people whom I have known for years do believe that . I have told everything. I am ready to take my oath as to. my innocence" said George Dibble, son of Mrs. Sarah Dibble, who was murdered last Friday morning at her home in TrumbuH, to a Farmer reporter this morning. He made the statement while waiting to be heard at the coro- ner's inquest which opened at 10 o'clock.
 Another newspaper reporter had a statement which he had prepared in his office and which he asked George Dibble to sign It was along the same lines as the above statement and Dib- ble took a pencil and signed it, say ing, 'I guess there is nothing in it that will do any hurt
 The statement quoted above is the first made by Dibble since the murder. It shows that he feels keen1y some of the insinuations that have been made in relation to the murder.
 The inquest, which is the first that Coroner Clifford B. Wilson has held, paper reporters were allowed to be present. A dozen or more witnesses had been called up to 1 o'clock when the hearing was adjourned. These witnesses did not include any of the members of the Dibble family.
 At the recess one of the officers who was present all through the nearing said: "No evidence of real value has State is as badly off for a case as it was in the beginning
 The members of the Dibble family were assigned to a small room by themselves while they were waiting. The other witnesses. who were mostly reigEbors. were assigned to a room ad- joining the coroner's office. The neighbors were called in one by one and questioned. A question asked of most of the witnesses was whether there was any ill feeling among the members of the Dibble family. It was said they all testified that they knew of no quarrels in the family.
 Medical Examiner c. c. Godfrey, for Trumbull. and Dr. F. B. Downs. the medical examiner of this city. who as sisted Dr. Godfrey at the autopsy. were the first witnesses called. They told found the body. At o'clock in the evening of the day the murder the autopsy was performed The doctors found from the. state of the rigor mortis that death had occurred eight hours before. This would mean that the crime was committed at 10 o'clock in the morning when George Dibble was at work in the fields, according to his statement which the police have found to be true.
 The first of the neighbors to be call ed to testify was the charming widow zine publisher who was killed two years ago in a railroad wreck in Eng land.
 Mrs. Cassier resides a half mile or more south of the Dibble house. She said that on the morning the crime was committed that a man came to her house looking for work who acted strangely. She asked him what he could do and he replied that he could mow grass. or do about anything in the way of work. She asked him why he did not get work in Bridgeport and he had told her that there were hun dreds of men in Bridgeport looking for work. He seemed very i'll pleased when she refused him employment. She did not like his looks. He went away to- ward the Dibb1e house. The man was of medium height and very stocky. She thought he might weigh about 165 pounds. Mrs. CaSsier was asked if she had any theories about the murder. She said that the fact that the cloth ing was torn from Mrs. DibbIe's body made her believe that the motive of the murderer was robbery and that he was looking for money that the aged woman might have had on her person. She believed that the reason the house was not ransacked. nor any of the small change lying around taken was that the assailant of Mrs. Dibble was looking for something more valua ble than sran change.
 All of the neighbors were called be- fore the recess at l o'clock with the exception of GuStave MackalowSki and George Sherwood. They were the first witnesses called at o'clock. None of the former folks like the idea, of being called from their farms in the summer time. One of their number said: 'tEv- cry hour out of the fields this time of year means the loss of dollars to us. I wish they would hurry up with their gol durned hearing. I don't know any thing about it anyhow"
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