Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-15
.Sophiekritchman,
 Examination Over
HAD BEEN ON THE WITNESS
 STAND THIRTEEN HOURS.
ARRIVAL OF HER FIANCE
From Chicago Seemed to Give Her New Strength-She Was Afraid of Joe Mitchell and His Friends.

New Haven, Conn, March 14.-After having been on the stand for thirteen hours, the examination of Sophie Kritchman, who is on trial with Joe Mitchell for the killing of Bronislow Kulvinskas, was finished at ten min utes pas four this afternoon. During that time she told her story of the happenings of Friday night and Sat- urday morning, when the dead man was shot and his throat cut, and was subjected to 8 sereve cross examina- tion by State Attorney Kellogg and MT. Lynch, of counsel for Mitchell The strain to which she has been subjected caused her to break down but two or three times, and then she recovered herself speedily and was ready to con- tinue.
 Witness Gained Strength at Close.
 As the examination drew to 8 close she seemed to gain strength and cour- age and at it's close showed but little signs of the struggle she had gone through. On her appearance in court this morning she wore a diamond ring which she said had been given her Sunday and with which she was very much pleased. The arrival from Chi cago Sunday of her fsnce, Dr. A. K. Rulkausgas, seemed to do a great deal toward cheering her up. He was not in the court room during the early part of the day.. but came in shortly before adjournment, taking a seat be- hind until the close of the session. He will remain here until the close of the traal, 1t is understood.
 Saw Her Fiance at the Jail.
 On the redirect examination by MT. she saw her hance at the jail yester- day for the first time. She became ac- Quainted with the doctor when he wrote her 3. year ago last January af- ter having seen her picture in a Lith- uanian paper, together with an account of a concert she had given for little children and the work she was doing for them in a musical line. The cor respondence, she said, was started in that way and out Of it grew their en- gagement.
 Court Room Again Throneed.
 As in the previous days that Sophie has been on the stand, the women thronged to the court room, anxious to see the prisoner and hear her testify. During the morning session she suf- fered slight hemorrhage from the nose, but she soon recovered, and the slight loss of blood seemed to afford her relief.
 Cross Examination by Mir. Kellogg.
 The morning session and the first ten minutes of the afternoon session were taken up by MT. Kellogg in his cross examination, consisting mostly i'll reading from the record of the cor oner'S inquest held at Waterbury, and asking the accused if she remembered the questions and answers. MT. kel- logg laid particular stress on the req sons why, when she knew that the man who said he loved her and had asked her to- marry him, was lying wounded and suffering out in the lots, why she didn't tell the police of the shooting or secure medical attendance for him, or why she didn't even get him a drink of water? In answer to all those questions she made the reply that she was afraid; that Joe Mitchell had said he would shoot her if she told anyone of thg shooting. and that she was also afraid of MitcheHs friends When asked if she had done anything, she said she had gone to St. Mary's church and had prayed for Kulvinskas soul and that someone might find him. MT. Kellogg bra ht his examination to a as to the gaTters she wore on the Fri day night she and the Dalton girl walked to the spot where Kulvinskas lay.
 Excused from Witness Stand.
 MT. Lynch, who took up the cross examination for Mitchell, dwelt mainly on the time she was in Waterbury when she said she met Mitchell and he made her buy a revolver and of her seeing Mitchell on Spring street as she where the latter was later shot, as she says, by Mitchell. The examination brought out nothing new, Sophie an- swering closely in line with the testi-
  animation. When asked why some of the statements made at the coroner's inquest differed from those of her story as told on the stand, she said that at that time she was frightened because she was locked up in the police station at Waterbury and that police men were going in and out of her cell all night and that she didn't know what was the matter. No arrange ments, she said, were made with Joe Mitchell whereby she was to lurt Kulvinsllas into the bushes in Rob erts' lot and that she had not seen the bloody handkerchief which was found near Kulvinskas' body until shown to her, and she had not placed it over Ku1vinskas' face as he lay wounded on the ground. She was excused from the stand at ten minutes past four
 Medical Examiner the Last Witness.
 The days session was brought to a close with Dr. Johnson, medical ex- aminer of Naugatuck, who had quali- fled as an expert, on the stand. A long Hypothetical question was read describ- ing the wounds received by KuIvinskas and the doctor was asked that if in his opinion man, lying wounded as he was, was in such a mental condition as to enable him to make understand ingly a dying statement. The answer to the question will be given at the opening of tonIorrow's session. OIL CASE