The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-03
During Exhibit Today, Mrs.
Dodge Sat Unmoyed
IN ESSEX COUNTY COURT
The Exhibit Was Made During Testi-
inony Of DR.. B. H. Stone Of the
State Laboratory in Trial Of
Mrs. Florence Dodge.

Guildhall, May 3-That William
Heath was shot while he was in a
crouching position ON the hoor that he
could not have fired the bullet which
entered his left arm and passed through
his heart and that the shot must have
been fired more than three feet away
were the statements made by DR.. b..
Fl. Stone of the state laboratory Of
hygiene at Burlington at to-days ses.
sion of the trial of Mrs. Florence M.
Dodge for Heath's murder in Essex
county court.
DIR. Stone performed the autopsy on
the body of the man who was shot on
September II, last, in Mrs. Dodge's
home, where he was engaged in paint.
ing. When DIR. Stone exhibited Heaths
heart to-day the respondent sat un-
moved. Rigid discrimination of the
witness failed to shake his testimony.
Among the other exhibits which DIR.
Stone brought into court and showed
to the jury were Heath's clothing and
a bullet which he said he found outside
of the body between the skin and the
undershirt. Dr. Stone took a penholder
and slipped il through the bullet hole in
the heart, showing the direction taken
by the bullet
Rev. II. G. Howard and his wife were
other important witnesses heard short
ly after the opening of the case. Mrs.
Dodge made the statement, according to
the minister, that she and Heath. who
was painting a room in her house, had
been talking about burglars and that
Heath had remarked that since his wife
had had a diamond ring he had kept
revolver in the house Tn reply. Mrs.
Dodge told Heath. il was testified, that
she also had a revolver and kept IL in
a drawer which she pointed out.
Mr.. Howard, who is pastor Of the
Congregational church and who resided
next door to Mrs, Dodge. testified that
he was lying down when he heard sounds
which might have been shots and that
shortly afterward he heard Mrs. Dodge
calling for help and asking some one to
go for doctor. He went and on his
return entered the room in the Dodge
house, where Heath lay on his back on
the floor.
Mrs. Dodge told him. the minister
said, that she had heard shots and that
she had run into the room where Heath
had been working and found him lying
on his face. She turned him over, gave
him some brandy and then tried to tele-
phone, but could not get response to
her call
They'll blame me for it, fsr II was
my revolver" Mrs. Dodge said, accord
ing to the minister.
Mrs. Howard testified to a converse
tion with Mrs. Dodge. The latter, she
said, was very much excited and ner-
vous. Some of the exclamations at.
tributed to Mrs Dodge by Mrs. Howard
were Heath has shot himself; "T've
tried to telephone, but couldn't get cen
traP': Something terrible has hap
pened'; 20. if there had only been
someone there; II gave him some
brandy; "They will blame me because
it was my pistol. / didn't know it was
loaded; Get someone to help me-"
Those remarks. Mrs Howard said. took
place while her husband was calling !
physician.
Mrs. Howard said Mrs. Dodge had re.
peated many times that she wished |
some one had been there" and that she |
didn't know it was loaded" She was
still on the stand when court adjourned. |
Other witnesses during the afternoon
were Abraham f. Quackenbush and his
wife of Wellesley, Mass. They were |
visiting in Lunenburg at the time, and |
were sitting, they testified, on the steps
of the Congregational church when they |
heard the shots. They placed the time
about Ill: 40 a. m.