The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-02

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State PathOlogist b. III. Stone, NJ. D., OF
Burlington testified regarding the au
topsy made by himself and his assistant
DIR. C. F. Dalton, on the body of Nun
dell, shortly after the latter S death
BY the aid of a clay model DR.. Stone eX,
/ planned where the bullet, which caused
the left eve. He told of finding bruises
on Mundell 5 skull. DR.. Dalton corrobo.
rated the testimony given by DR.. Stone
DR. George r. Anderson of Brattle
| bOro testified to an operation he per
/ formed upon Mundell April 20 and
/ stated that he removed piece of bone
! from the brain and found various spin
tiers in the wound. DR.. II. p. Greene of
Brattleboro, who assisted Dir. Anderson,
testified in confederation of what DR..
| Anderson had said.
| Mrs. Smith was the next witness.
She said in substance that her husband
returned early in the morning of the
! tragedy; that the first she knew of his
presence in the house he was standing
in the middle of her sleeping room with
a lantern on his arm; that Mundell, who
was occupying the same bed. suddenly
awoke, Jumped up. rushed at Smith,
struck him and pushed him out of the
sleeping room, and forced him to leave
the house; that upon returning to the
house her husband sought an entrance
to the sleeping room through a window.
Mundell, the witness said, picked up
two sticks of wood and started for the
room into which her husband had gained
an entrance by way of the window.
Smith and Mundell met at the bed
room door and Mundell struck her hus-
band again While Smith was ordering
Mundell to leave the house Mundell
struck him a third time.
The witness said that she saw her
husband shoot three times and that the
first shot was fred into the air. 1t was
at this point in her testimony that the
Jury became aware of the fact that Mrs.
Smith had given States Attorney
Frank f. Barber an entirely different
version of the affair. On direct ex-
animation the witness was asked if she
had not made statement to the state s
attorney to the effect that her husband
returned home in the early hours of the
morning of April 81 under the influence
Of liquor, and began abusing her: that
Mundell, who was sleeping in an adioin.
ing room, attempted to demonstrate
with Smith and that Smith had re-
volver in his hand while Mundell had
no weapon of defense whatever The
witness acknowledged that she had
made such statement but said that it
was untrue.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Dawson testi.
fed that Mundell came to their house
at ) clock on the morning of the trag.
edy and that they gave him some pep
permlnt and sent for doctor. The last
witness of the day was Mr.. Robinson,
who took charge of the Smith premises
the day after the affair. He told of
finding. broken glass and other condi.
lions about the house
The state rested Wednesday after.
noon; Deputy Sheriff E. M. Fits of
Wardshoro, testified during the after.
noon Wednesday concerning events
that transpired at the Smith home di
told of conversation which he had
with the respondent relative to the
particulars of the affair. The sticks
with which Smith alleged Mundell
struck him were introduced as exhibits.
also the revolver used by Smith in de.
Tending himself according to the testi
mony of Mrs Smith.
Mrs. Mundell, widow of the victim of
the shooting, and her daughter. Mrs.
George, Tudor, testified to caring for
Mundell after he was shot until he died
and that they did everything possible to
save his life: DR.. o. V. Hefflon, who at
.ehueu MuHueil SnoftlY aIter the shoot
ing, testified in regard to finding the
man in semi-conscious condition and
that Mundell soon became unconscious.
The physician testified to assisting in
the removal of Mundell from the home
of Wallace Davidson, where he went
Immediately upon receiving the wound
in his head, to the home of Mrs. George
Tudor, Mundell s daughter. Dr.. Heff-
Ion was present when the operation was
performed upon Mundell by Drs. G. r.
Anderson and H. P. Greene of Brattle
boro and the witness produced some
small splinters of bone taken from Nun.
dell s skull
Mundell S son-in-law, George Tudor.
testified to a conversation he had with
Smith after the shooting occurred. The