Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-05-17

For several hours on Tuesday Cor
| oner Franklin H. Brown questioned
| witnesses in the West Mystic murder
having them before him at New Lon-
DON The man killed was Charles w
! Glaze, colored.
| Gladys M. Earl, who was the only
white PERSON n the party, told the
| following story of the horrible incl
| dent ana the events leading up to it,:
She said that she came to Ced II
street, West Mystic, to live with
! Thomas Ecclestone as his housekeeper
last July 4. She was living at % John
street, New London, at that time,
| working for a woman who took in
| washing. Previous to that (she is "a
years old she, had lived a t different
| times in houses of i'll repute in Brad
| ley street New London, and the swamp.
| so-called, at Norwich. She is the Sec
ond wife of Thomas G. Earl, who runs
a restaurant in Putnam, but has not
lived with him for some time. Before
her marriage she was Gladys M. Leon
| ARD CT Springfield.
She said that on Monday Ecclestone
gave Glaze a check for SO to be
cashed at the Mystic River bank and
that he came back about O'Clock,
bringing with him two bottles Of
whiskey. With this they intended TO
continue the carouse that had been
lasting for over a week. Glaze went
to bed about half hour after coming
lOlIt Stc anu EtCicStoHt oQsttd
themselves about the chicken yard, a
little ways from the house. About 3
O'Clock Frank Thompson and Alice
Lewis arrived on the scene, quite I'M
expectedly, the Earl women says The
new arrivals sat down to meal that
had been lying on the table since din
ner and eating and drinking continued,
as we'll as the Earl woman can re-
m sniber until about 8 O'Clock. ThoInp-
son began to do some singing about
this time and Glaze, who was probably
awakened by the noise, came out into
the combination dining room and
kitchen and took a drink.
Women Got Drinks in Mystic.
Then the Earl woman announced
that she was going UP into Mystic to
do some shopping for the household.
! Glaze objected to this, saying that he
believed she intended to go to New
London instead of Mystic and forced
her to give aim 81 which she had in
her sweater pocket. She objected to
his taking it frJn her, saying that 1t
belongs to Ecclestone. but Glaze kept
Lewis woman started off for Mystic
Thompson following after them The
Earl woman says she objected to
Thompson's accompanying them be-
cause she did not want to be seen on
the street in company with a colored
man. But the three of them went up
into the village ami stopped at two
saloons, where they got drinks, stand
ing the bartender off for the price of
them.
Well along toward infoxication, they
then returned to West Mystic. getting
stone were waiting for the car here.
intending to take it to New Lor4 don.
Seeing .he three get off here, Eco e.
stone and Glaze returned with them tc
the house. Here. according to the
Earl Woman's story, there was more
alteration over the 81. This was
about IL o'clock, or as nearly that
time as the Earl woman. who admit
ted that she, like the others, was wei
along toward intoxication, could recol-
lect. Thompson and Glaze had words
over the money and during the quarrel
took butcher knife. which he put IN
his pocket.
Says Thompson Did Stabbing.
Glaze was sitting in a chair near
the stove when Thompson came out OF
the pantry He said: You can't hurt
me. Thompson" 1t was while Glaze
was sitting in the chair by the stove.
with Ecclestone dead drunk in a chair
on The other side of the room, that the
stabbing occurred, she said. Glaze
managed to get up from the chair,
after being stabbed in the abdomen,
and crawled on ais hands and knees to
the fror+ room, which is used as bed
room. Then the Earl woman said,
Thompson followed Glaze into this
room. where he must have stabbed him
again. as two wounds were found on
him. one in the pit of the stomach and
the other a little lower, N the aodo-
men.
Furnishings Blood Bespattered.
Thnn,ncnr with tha
knife in his hand, dripping blood all
over the kitchen floor. On his way
out of the back door he grabbed a
kimona belonging to the Earl woman
and, Wiping his hands on it, he then
took the lamp off the kitchen shelf
blood down the back steps and
smearing bloody. fingers on the door.
There must have been quite a struggle
between Thompson and Glaze, to judge
by the appearance of the kitchen, tile
floor. walls, table and chair of which
We're more or. less sprink led with
blood.
The Earl woman found her way into
the front room, where Glaze was lying,
nearly dead from loss Of blood. which
had formed a big pool about his pros
trate form. She raised I'D his head
and put. a pillow beneath it and then
rar upstairs, returning with a package
of absorbent cotton, with which she
tried to step the flow Of blood.
Right after the stabbing the Lewis
woman took hold OF Thompson, say
ing: Come on, Frank. let's get out of
this" The Earl woman called after
them as they left the yard: For Gods
sake, don't leave me here alone. You
have killed him" But Thompson and
the Lewis woman kept on. They must
have walked all the way to New Lon
don, as it was too late for trolley to
Groton.
They were arrested at their quarters
in New London about o'clock, having
been seen walking across the Thames
river bridge
The Earl woman insists that the 81
was the cause OF the killing or the
row that led up to it but Ecclestone
does not agree with this statement.
Glaze" he said, was jealous of the
Earl woman and accused her of going
about with several men There was
jealousy between Glaze and Thompson
over the Earl women" This he said
in answer to questions made by Con-