The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-11
.SUTTON'S SISTER
 TAXES THE STAND Testimony Is Given Regarding
 Interview With Officer MEMORY IS VERY CLEAR Demonstration is Made Before Court of Inquiry to Show That Lieu
 tenant Sutton Could Not
 Have Fired Fatal Shot.
MEMORY IS VERY CLEAR

Annapolis, Md, August 1O-Mrs Rose Sutton Parker, whose testimony has been looked forward to as of great interest in the investigation into the death of her brother, Lieutenant James N. Sutton, Jr., United States Marine corps, on the night of October 31, 1907, was the center of at traction at the session of the court of inquiry today. She took the stand smil- ingly, was a willing witness and demon strated clearly that her memory of her interview with Lieutenant Adams shortly before her brothers death was much bet ter than was the recollection on the same points of Lieutenant Adams His testi- mony as to what was said during this half-hour interview was very largely, "I do not remember" in character.
 Mrs. Parker was eminently positive in her statements as to what was said and done. It was notable from her testimony as to whether Adams and Sutton were friendly. Adams and Mrs. Parker parted most amicably from a dinner party last spring at a local restaurant. It was remarked, too, that MT. Birney, counsel for Lieutenant Adams, did not press Mrs. Parker to any extent on cross-examina- ton. Indeed. it may be said that this feature of the day was a distinct dis appointment and Mrs. Parker expressed herself afterward as having been one of the most keenly disappointed. She said she had expected to be able to say great many things to Mr. Birney that her own counsel could not bring out on direct examination.
 There was a period of recalling wit nesses during which Colonel Doyen, com mandant of marines; Lieutenant Willing and Lieutenant Adams again took the stand. The two first-named cleared up points of minor importance. Lieutenant Adams was mercilessly grilled for time by MT. Davis, counsel for Mrs. Sutton. He was made to lie on the big table about which the court sits and pantomime the occurrences of the night of the tragedy.
 AS Lieutenant Adams pointed the pis- tol the ball would probably come out of Suttons forehead from the back of his head. Surgeon Cooke testified that the course of the bullet was downward and backward.
 After recess Mrs. Parker was turned over to MT. Birney counsel for Adams, for cross-examination.
 In reply to his questions she said she talked to Lieutenant Gtley, but did not go deeply with him into the matter of her brothers fight, as she had little con- fidence In Utley. Lieutenant Osterman, she said, told her he did not understand why her brother was unpopular. Lieuten- ant Potts had told her her brother was coward. She had not read the records of the earlier inquiry at the time of the talk with the officers named. Speaking of her interview with Lieutenant Adams and the dinner following, at which he was her guest she said they were at dinner for about an hour and that their parting was amiable.
 To MT. Davis, Mrs. Parker said she had told her mother on returning to Potland her experiences while at Annapolis
 Sergt Maj Henry L. Hulburt testified that Private Kennedy, who gave testi- mony at the present inquiry contradicting that of some of the marine officers in volved in the case, had a good record. He did not know kennedys reputation for truthfulness but he would believe any statement he might make under oath. To Mir Birney, the witness said he under stood that the men generally thought Kennedy bugs more or less.
 Lieutenant Willing was recalled and said the cartridges taken from Lieutenant Sut- tons revolvers were taken apart by order of the board of inquiry in order to de- eide from which revolver, the service weapon, or his own the bullet that killed Lieutenant Sutton was fired. That bull let, he said, was slightly iattened on one side of the nose and was of the sort found afterward in the service revolver.
 Lieutenant Adams, recalled by MT. Davis, testified that he did not give Ser geant Dehart the pistol which the latter said had been handed him by someone he could not identify on the occasion of the shooting of Sutton, and that he does not know by whom the weapon was handed to Dehart.
 Lieutenant Adams lay on the counsel table and illustrated Suttons position on the ground and his manner of shooting himself. as Adams claims to have seen it. He also illustrated the position of the others about Lieutenant Sutton, placing Lieutenant Willing between himself and Sutton's head.
 Adams was plainly irritated by MT. Davis questioning, which went very mi- nutely into the details of the shooting. According to Lieutenant Adams illustra- ton the bullet would have entered Lieu tenant Sutton's head at a point and q direction very different from those indi- cated by Surgeons Cook and Pickrell.
 Adjournment was taken at $40 p. m., no other witnesses being on hand.
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