The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-20
LIEUT.. ADAMS TELLS
 DIFFERENT STORIES
(By Samuel M. Evans, Staff Cores pondent, United Press.)

(By Samuel M. Evans, Staff Cores
 pondent. United Press.) ..
 Annapolis, Md, July 20.-Lieutenant Robert B. Adams, one of the chief actors in the tragedy that ended in the death of Lieutenant James N Sut- ton, nearly two years ago in the grounds of the naval academy, faced severe scross-examination when the court of inquiry resumed it's session this morning But more than the searching questions of Attorney Davis he dreaded the fixed gaze of Mrs. Sut- ton Parker. sister of the dead man and Mrs. Sutton. mother of the deceased lieutenant.
 Adjournment came yesterday just as the lawyer for the Sutton family stated he would continue questioning Adams concerning the last time he and Mrs Parker faced each other.
 Did you have an interview with Mrs. Parker in her hotel shortly after the shooting?" asked Davis. ''Yes, she had asked me to come to her room, D said Adams, almost angrily, land she told me to tell everything-not to spare her feelings"
 Adams was to be led again over the four hour interview during which he stood most of the time behind a chair while Ms. Parker fired at him ques- ton after question. He was to repeat how he told the dead mans sister that
 
 Sutton's face into the earth and how Mrs. Paker had exclaimed: My God, hoy I wish I were a man.
 The failure of Lieutenant Adams to discrepancies between his two stories, each told under oath, is considered by the attorneys for the Sutton family to be the most vital thing that the in quiry will develop In his former testi- mony Adams said that the trouble in the automobile started as soon as they left Carvel Hotel, that Sutton con- tinCally interrupted his conversation telling him to Go to He'll" until he said, T could stand it no longer" Yes terday Adams said there was no trou- ble in the automobile until they reach ed the bridge and that Sutton's calling him a coward was the first offensive word from the marine officer. In his former testimony Adams said Lieuten- ant Utley stopped the automobile and yesterday he said that Sutton stopped it. In his former testimony he said, that Sutton attacked Lieutenant Oster- man apparently without provocation, yesterday he said Sutton attacked Os- terman because Osterman interfered with Sutton when the latter had threatened to kill Adams. In his for mer testimony Adams said he had been ordered to report the case to the officer of the day, yesterday he said he did so on his own vOlitiOn.
 Before, Adams said he started back to the scene of the trouble because he thought all was quiet; yesterday after noon he said Utley ordered him back for some clothes. In his former testi- mony Adams said that Sutton ordered him to halt and began firing when he refused to do so; yesterday he said that Sutton Swore at him, asked him where he was going and threatned to kill him when he answered. At the former inquiry Adams said he did not notice Rocker until he saw him on the ground: this time he was sure he saw Rocker standing up, ready to in terfere before he saw him again on the ground.
 In both stories Adams was very hazy as to the part he took in, the row
 In the early hours of the session, Adams was made to go over again some points of the midnight campus fight He was asked pointblank by Attorney Davis whether he saw Sut- ton killed himselfl Adams replied: "A shot entered his head. I simply saw him move his head and body as he lay on the ground, raise his arm and then I saw the flash. I could not see the bullet" he continued rather irri- tated. 1T saw him go through the ac- so many words that he killed himself 9
 The question of whether or not Adams gave out the interview published in a New York paper in which he said he did not think it was right ito trump up charges of murder against two who are innocent" precipitated a lengthy argument. The court finally ruled that the question need not be an- Swered.