Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-15

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 Trips to Hartford and Boston. Witness went to Hartford once and Boston once with HOwarth in his car.
 Had taken his books up there and
 studied Never helped him prepare cases, but might have done typewrit- ] ing. During the first months was | not in the office during office hours much, but saw Howarth practically every day
 The Clark Fire. The Clark fire was October. 1912. 1 Witness did not attend it. Thought i ft was October 3Oth. Heard after wards that MT. Hoibrook had car ! in that fire.
 John Dingwan was the proprietor [ of the Union Pacific Tea company. ] Witness did not know whether Ia ' tenn Joy, or Wheaton were politicians ' but Davenport was.
 His attention was called to the ' Wheaton fire by the alarm. He was in bed. Had retired, but was moi asleep when the bell rang. Did not know what the alarm was. When he got out to the street there was glow in the sky, It took him about ! ten minutes to get dressed. Then he went with his brother to the fire A brother Walter, was down town at the time
 Howarth in His Car.
 Saw Howarth when first got to the fire He was across the street in front Of the school. in his car Howarth saidc Get in and we'll go around to the other side"
 Witness had been down street be- fore and had just gone home and gonc to bed when the alarm rang. Did not remember just where he had been. He had not seen HoWarth that day since some time in the afternoon. It taok him about ten minutes to get to the fire from his house.
 (W1tnsSs was questioned as to the locality at WheatOn's quite minutelyJ
 The whole place in back was burn ing when he arrived About three ouarters of-an bQur- had passed be- tween the time witness went home and the time he got back to the fire
 After meeting Dr. Perry they lcok the & of V paraphernalia home to Howarth's and left the car about Ii, went home and went up onto the roof with his brother and stayed an hour. Then went back to the fire and saw Howarth there.
 Howarth's Grievance Against Wheaton.
 As witness remembers. the law bus mess done for Joe Wheaton was an ac- tion against the Pomfret school. which Carpenter had had originally This was the only grievance Howarth had against Wheaton so far as he knows, the withdrawal of his business and the fact that he was politician.
 Two Fires Election Night
 On election night he found Howartl in a restaurant and when the alarm rang they both went to it. This was the fire in KiIliams. There were two fires election night.
 The fire of Nov 18th, the Nullin fire. witness did not see. All he knew was what HOwarth told him.
 First Planning Together.
 The first time they planned together and set fires was the night of the Priest Island fire. Previous to that Howarth had told him of other fires. HOwarth offered him no money or in ducement There had been no pre- Vious arrangement about it. Witness went with HowArth as a matter of course.
 Witness saw his confession about three weeks ago. Hurley read it 10 him It contained 5 or pages of ordinary foolscap and was written in long hand.
 Howarth never told him about the Tatem fires, but had grievance against him. Witness was home and in bed that night; did not hear the alarm.
 Experiments with Candles.
 Their experiments with candle were made the Saturday before the fairgrouud fire. They talked over the method two months before. When they made the eZpeTlIn ents they were in the rear room with the door to the front room closed but not locked They worked two or three hours each day The first time was Saturday af- ternOon- They were interrupted and 1 blew out the candle and hid il back of the radiator. Howarth blew out i the candle and witness hid it They had no box but just 9 candle or 3 1 ~-T. -z-J-.11 candle, took the time, and saw how ] far it melted in one hour They did | not get full trial that day. They l found ii burned 1-2 an inch in 1-2 ] an hour. While 1t was burning tley 1 were engaged in planning what they | would do at the fire. They were tO | allow two hours for their "get away" |
 Witness thought they experimeEted ' Sunday but Howarfh might. have been | away.
 Burned an Inch an Hour.
 Monday they tried the same exrer- 1 iment. this time for full hour They | found that it burned one inch in one hour Did not feel there was any danger from discovery as they )uid | 90 easily get it out of sight.
 (The layout of the offices in the | building where Howarth had his office was explained, with an evident view of showing on the pa=t of counsel for the accused that many people were in [ the habit of frequenting the building)
 The box used had been around a book Health and Longevity purchased by Howarth some time before.
 Witness first saw the box at ?. IT.. Monday. when he kept his appointment to burn the building lt was on How arth's desk in the back room. Wath the door unlocked and the lights burn Ing
 Witness had read Golfers and the Boston sunday American before this and knew the method explained there
 Howarth Explained Methods
 They remained in Howartll's office about 15 or 20 minutes. The ca idle was held to the box by it's own grease Howarth explained its methods.
 At 730 they went to the Putnam Inn to bowl stayed there untft about 10 went to Howarth's office and waited until the people had come out of the theatre.
 They left Howarth's office about lo.30. (Winess then detailsd again ]