Norwich bulletin., 1912-02-26

about week after Bells return from Brfdgewater he asked for q copy of the Weekly Republican, so that he might follow the Spencer case, as he expected to testify at the trial and that he expected to get a parole or pardon for doing so He said that he was going to testify that Spencer said he was faklng. I asked him if Spencer really said that and he said; No, but I am going out with the expectation of getting a pardon or parole. Bell also told Golding that the doctors would fix it up all right for me. Golding threatened to report the con verssticn to the deputy in the prison, but Bell told him it was all blum and that he was going to Springfield to be sentenced on another charge. Bell told Golding on Nov. G5, at the end of the trial, that he had a. personal grudge against Spencer but he refused to state what the grudge was. Golding said to him: What kind of deal do you call that to give a man and how would you like to have that done to your to which Bell said he didn't care 8 d. what became of Spencer and added: T would put my mother in the chair to get out of here" Bell admit ted that his story was not true. but he said that it would do him as much good as if it were true.
 Goulding Affidavit.
 Goulding ayers that before St. John, or Bell, was taken to the Bridgewater asylum he had a vacant stare and act
 ed in many ways like crazy man and that since his return to the state prison he has appeared even worse than before he went to the asylum. Goulding declares that he heard Bell on Nov, 25 inform another prisoner, Joseph Casey, that he had testified against Spencer to satisfy a personal grudge and that he did not care who knew it. Someone asked Bell: didn't the 'croakers' promise you a pardon
 or a parole for that?" to which Bell replied in the affirmative, but that he did not know if they would stick to their work. Goulding explanns that ''croaker" is a slang term for physician. Goulding also heard Bell tell Golding that he would send his own mother to the chair if he could get out of prison by doing so. i-. Goulding says that when he asked Bell what Spencer had ever done to him he replied: Spencer did a lot of mean things to me He told the doc tors that had a saw planted in my ventilator, thereby preventing me from l4lS1hlitS IlS 6SGaH6s A0ClI 1 Goulding that it was for this that he testified against Spencer and that he 1 believed in sending that rat to the chair and giving him a dose of his own
 medicine" Bell told Goulding that he overheard Spencer telling the physi-
 clans about the saw incident in April, 1e11 Bell also told Goulding that | Spenc er informed him that he was not 1 insane, although he had just stated that the whole story was frame up
 What Graham Says.
 Graham asserts that Spencer fre- quently had violent outbursts at Bridgewater and that he did not seem at all rational. Graham affirms that 1 Spencer read to him many of the let ters which he sent out complaining of
 abuses at the hospital and that the stories were all true and were not l manufactured in Spencer's brain. Ora 1 ham says that he personally knows
 that the story told by Spencer of the
 abuse of a patient named OLeary is true and that this man was roughly
 handled by two big guards