The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-10
.PLEW'S FIENDISH. MURDER PLANS
 ARE DISCLOSED
Coroner Mix Details Gruesome Schemes of Faithless Wife
 and ParamOur
Holds Widow of Slain Man As Accessory to Homicide in
 Report of Inquest

 inally responsible by Coroner Eli Mix for the death of William O. Wakefield, the woman's husband, in his finding in the case filed today. The coroner finds the death wounds were inflicted by Plew and that Mrs. Wakefield was an accessory to the commission of the crime. Wakehe1d's body was found in a strip Of woods in Cheshire on June 2S He had been shot and stabbed and strargled to death, the coroner says. PleW and Mrs. Wakefield were arrested subsequently,, the woman having con fessed to the Bristol police and to the coroner that she had plotted with Plew to get Wakefield out of the way, SO that they might live together ,. The finding tells of the finding of the body of Wakefield, who was about 40 years old, in the woods of Cheshire the investigation which followed and continues:
 Deceased at the time of his death resided with his wife and children at Bristol, Conn. About two years ago his wife formed the acuTaintance of one James PIew of MiddIebury. Conn, became intimate with him, and be- cause of this intimacy the wife and her husband did not live happily and Flew and Mrs. Wakefield resolved to get rid of him. For about six months past they plotted, and planned to accom- plish this, one plan beIng to push him
 
 a rope about his neck and hang him to a. beam in a shed adjoining his hornes thinking in either case, when found, it would be thought he had committed suicide. Finally it was agreed between them that Sunday night. June 22, 1913, he was to be nur- dered and gotten rid of and that, there after, all going well, Plew and the de- ceased's wife could live together.
 ''In anticipation of this, on Satur- day, June 21, 1913, Flew purchased a bottle of ohIoroform in Waterbury and a p caAbre, seven chamber revolver and a. box of cartridges. The following morning, Sunday June 22, 1S1S going to the Wakefield home, he had a, con versation with Mrs. Wakefield and it was then arranged she was to leave the door leading to their apartments open; that her husband and herself should be in bed; that the bed room should be lighted and that Flew should come there and make away with her husband.
 ''In pursuance of this, agreement ten o'clock D. m., P7ew entered the bed room, having in his pocket a handker- chief saturated with chIoroform and 1 the revolver purchased at Waterbury. Finding Wakefield undrassed and up- on the bed, he accused him of talking about him and of trying to injure his, Plew's child, who was being cared for
 
 his hands he endeawored to strangle him, pressing the saturated chloro- form cd haIfdkerchife to his mouth and nose4 As they struggled upon the | bed P1ew requested Mrs. Wakefield who was in the room to get him a string to tie about her husbands neck. Being unable to ctloroform Wakefield and apparently being afraid to dis l charge his revolver for the reason that the report might be heard by tenants upon the floor above, Plew allowed 1 Wakefield to get up from the bed and sided, and that he desired to be friend l Iy with him.
 sSome time thereafter, about eleven D. m., Plew requested Wakefield to take walk with him, during which l they would talk over past differences f He also stated he desired him to meet a man who had an automobile, giving a fictitious name of a person he de- ] sired him to meet. Wakefield con senting, they left the house and walk l ing out of Bristol they talked over l their dfsagreements.P .Plew in the mean 1 place where he could murder Wake field and dispose of his body.
 T Arriving upon the highway Ieading from Milldale to Cheshire Junction and proceeding upon said highway PIew saw a cart path leading into a
 
 Il Cheshire. Informing Wakefield thai he had been told that path was a short cut back to Bristol, they walked to- -t gether for a distance down said path I and to a place about 500 feet from the highway, whereupon Plew, having 1 loaded his revolver with six bullets discharged the same into Wakefield body. This not causing his death II Flew took from his pocket a jack knife and opening the large blade sl stabbed Wakefield in the left chest This failing to kill Wakefield he then unIaced his shoes and tying the long shoe faces together fastened them tightly about the neck of Wakefield and tied him to a. tree stump which !. was about two and one half feet from the ground. At this time it was about , four a. m. the morning of June 23 1915 Flew waited about. the woods -i going from time to time to Wakefield t to ascertain if he were dead and a. , last observing he was lying prone l1p. !, on his face concluded he was deaC and returned to MflldaIe, where h, took trolley car to Bristol and wen at once to the Wakefield home wter, he informed Mrs. Wakefield of whaj s he had done and where her husband was, cautionfng her to say notfins 1 about it, and stating that he did no . think the body would be found fo some time and that he believed, f found. 1t would be unrecognizab9e. ant . that the authorities would think i was a case of suicide
 2, Continuing the finding says tha while at the Wakefield home Plew an, Mrs. wakefield heard reports of Wake field being seen on the streets n y Bristol Plew started for NGiddlebur, ! with Mrs. Wakefield and the children Flew stopping off at the Cheshir T woods and going to the place wher he had left Wakefield and finding tn body still there. Subseq uentIv h l rejoined Mrs. Wakefield at Cheshtr e Junction and they went on to Middle bury At Middlebury they gave ou : that Wakefield had left home and ad vanced the suicide theory.
 The discovery of the body is thel described toegtt1er with the blood stain e san1 knife blood marked handl1er