The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-02
TAPPED WIRE
 TESTIMONY OFF
JUDGE BURpEE INTERRUPTS ITS READING IN COURT TO TAKE
 REST IN WRITING.
SagaI Goes on the Stand-COnstablcs Tell of Seeing Defendant on Day
 Visit at Mann's Abode.

New Haven, Nov. 2.-After a morning spent in listening to testi- mony read by Miss Foote, the steno- grapher who was placed on the loop ed wire which makes the marked feature of the divorce action of Louis Sagal against his wife, Rachel, in the criminal side of the superior court yesterday, the court excused the young woman from any further read ing of the testimony which she had in her stenographic notes, on account of the character of the testimony. which began to go into details which Miss Foote would not read in open court. Judge Burpee finally informed her that she need not testify any fur ther, but that instead she might make up her testimony in writing and sub- in that form, to be subject of discus sion for the attorneys later on if il was found necessary.
 After the telephone evidence was cut out Benjamin Leopold, @ Sheffield scientific school student, who roomed in the Sagal house, testified that Mrs Sagal told him, at the house. that 1t was too bad that Leo had to work as a chauffeur for her husband. He saw the two together repeatedly, and he had advised her not to have him about the house. The witness is a rela tive of the family. Mann, he said acted as if he owned the house. Even little Dorothy, the child of the couple asked the mother to stop, he testified
 Testifles to Raid.
 During the afternoon testimo ony. Constables Roscoe T. Brown and John J. Walsh testified to making a so- called raid" upon the Mann fiat at was at 10:12 a. m.. and the two off, cers went there with a man named McKeon, who it appeared carried a full set of plumbers tools including a Stilson wrench. This coterie, it ap- pears, was to watch an alleged visit hour. They went into the house once and retreated and then they went in again. Mrs. Sagal was met in the hall. She had a hat and veil on. The place was decorated with Yale ban ners. Mrs. Sagal was somewhat ex- cited. She said: What do you mean ?"
 The witness, Brown, testified that he went there under orders from At torney Slade, and that he reported back to him after the work of the day was over. He saw Leo Mann there. He wore no collar. The top button of his shirt was open. Mrs Mann, the mother of Leo, was in the hallway. Leo Mann rushed into the hallway near to Mrs. Sagal and Mrs Sagal cried out again: What does this mean?" The witness said that he declared that he was there to se- cure evidence in divorce case which was being brought by MT. Sagal. Mrs Sagal cried out: "Oh, what shall do?" Mrs. Mann then said: Mrs Sagal was here making a call.'' Or the cross examination by Judge Zach
 
 Slade to go to the Mann home or May 3. He had talked the matter over with Walsh & McKeon and he expected to meet them there, as he did. He timed Mrs. SagaPs alleged visit in the place by his watch. Ht testified that it lasted about two hours. The witness reported on the case to Slade that night. The blind. | in the house were drawn.
 Another Chauffeur On. l Thomas P. O'Connor, of 1f5 Con gress avenue testified that he was il 1 the employ of Mrs. Sagal as chauf | feur and that he conversed with hel about sending $50 to Jack Raymon' at Hot Springs, and that the none. was in September, 1910. Mrs. Saga said she would speak to him about it.
 Frank N. Palmer, the liveryman 1 at 108 Crown street, testified in al undertone about his knowledge of tn, | alleged intimacy between Mrs. Saga ! and the chauffeur, Leo Mann. Mann it came out, was formerly in Palmer 1 employ. The conversations over tn, i telephone finally became so prolonged that Palmer declared that he had tt cut them out. He said that he hat heard various conversations on tn, | phone between the couple. This wa 1 in June, 1910.
 Question by Judge Stoddard: "Dit you hear Mrs. Sagal say to Leo tha Sagal would die suddenly"
 Answer: "Yes, I heard her sa. die. So then I called in William Sa gal and told him that I heard tha Louis was going to die right off. That how l came to come into this case The other conversation on the 'phon, between the two was such that I'v, l carried it in my mind."
 Ruby Palmer, an auto driver, tes l tlfied to taking packages from Mrs Sagal to Leo Mann. He said tha 1 Mrs. Sagal wanted to know from hin whether Leo was around with othel girls. He replied in the negative.
 Sagal Takes the Stand.
 Louis M. Sagal, the plaintiff in tn, was still there when the case closed for the day. He said that he wa .| married in 1903, that he had chilt named Dorothy. Then he told of hi w1fe's visit at Hot Springs while h. was at Mountain Valley, near there Tn 1910. He did not know that Let Mann was there. Then he identified photographs of Mrs. Sagal and "Jacl Raynor," which were put in evidence 1 Other witnesses called yesterda, were Joadine Schwab, H. J. F. Bald win, George w. Tomlinson and Ra, w. Reno.
 Attorney Webb, for the defense said last night that he did not knov when the defense would begin-possi ply not before next week. It is ex pected that SagaPs testimony and hi cross examination will last througl much of today, and Judge Burpee will have to hold the superior court shor l calendar tomorrow.
 PARMELEE SERVES PAPERS U. s. Marshal Sees Edmund Conyers,
 as He Steps From Train.