Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-12
HAD COCKTAILS
 FOR HOWARTH
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Continued from Page onel to get engaged!
 HI can't tell until we get there just how to work. l want to look the Mrs. B.-What is the best method to use?
 The Candle Method Best.
 H-By all means the candle is the best way to do it. I can fix the candle to 10, 20, 30 minutes or three hours. It is sure every time. l don't deny I set it. I know l can do as good a job out there as we did at Putnam. I would not be afraid of you in this deal. You would be in it.
 Mrs. B.-YOu know you told me you set all those fires, every one of them! HI will expect you to pay mel Mrs. B.-YOu will get cold feet!
 H.-f you want me to do that job I will, but I will not loosen up on any of my other deals. I am not going to talk any more about those Putnam fires.
 Mrs. B.-What would you do in my place?
 HI would look up Cain, do the job and say no more about it.
 Plaster Cast Taken.
 On that evening witness took a pIas- ter cast, which he identified, of How arths footprint, he stated.
 
 testified to took place and the alleged conversation was as follows:
 August 7th Interview.
 Mrs. B.-I have not engaged passage HEweli have all of next week, so far as I know.
 Interview of August 14th in the evening:
 III have case for the first part of September which I cannot post pone I must be here as I am a wit Mrs. B.-what about the trip?
 HI can't go now until after Sep Mrs. B.-I don't think can wait until then! Ut might take fourteen H.-I told you I would go, but must be here in September
 Mrs. B.-I have delayed as I was frightened at your attempt to with draw your confidence.
 H.-Only way l can do it is to get Sam Harvey to pull the cases through. I have to be here the latter part of September for the insurance cases there is $2,200 in it.
 Mrs. B.-Shall l take the materials from here?
 Kerosene the Thing.
 Hive could take all but the oil, but it would be better to get them out there. A gallon of oil will do; kero- sene, not gasoline, as that eVapOrates and also leaves a smell That is the surest way. If that fails. l don't know what to do I could put the civil case off, the other one I can't. I would like to go, but if you wait much longer l couldn't go for a year
 Witness Identified a footprint east taken that evening under the same conditions as the preceding.
 Had Cars Insured.
 Interview of Aug. 21st
 Mrs. B-I am going to dispose of my western property and invest in the east.
 HI got German to insure my cars. I met him on the street one day. If stay in Putnam I am bound to get on.
 Arrested Howarth Sept 9th.
 The next time witness saw Howarth, he testified, was when he arrested de- fendant at Putnam Sept. 9th.
 The details of the dictagraph con- Versation so called, at the Brooklyn jail on that day were testified to by MT. Hurley, in all essentials practically identical with the testimony given by Mrs. Bennett last week. The alleged conversation of Sept. 10th sounded identical to that testified to by Mrs. Bennett, also, as given by the witness, and published in full in The Bulletins report of last weeks testimony.
 MT. Hurley's testimony was inter- rupted al 12.30 in order that recess might be taken to 145.
 The Jail Conversation.
 When court reconvened after the noon recess the witness resumed the stand and continued his testimony in regard to the alleged conversation in the jail
 At the conclusion of this testimony MT. Hurley identified cast taken from the shoe belonging to Howarth which was taken away by Deputy Wallace at the Jail. The cast was taken Sept. 18th and had already been put in as
 Mrs. Bennett Recalled.
 The cross examination of Mrs. Ben nett was conducted by Attorney Har- vey, MT. Hurley being withdrawn for that purpose.
 Her answers were in substance as follows: She was born in Baltimore, lived in Providence, and has been a nurse for about three years, since the death of, her second husband. She be- came detective at the request of MT. Hurley, who came to see her at Dan- ielson. No price was set for her ser vices at the time, but received $100 as payment in full on the 20th of October. Had heard nothing about the insurance company being interested in this case. Had no previous experience as detec- tive. but was under Mir Hurleys in- stfuctions practically all the time. Witness had eXperimented with the dictagraph at her home. Is to the vol ume of sound and hearing, The paper she used at the jail was some she had on hand at her home in Danielson She had not compared her notes of the Jail conversation with Mir. Hurley. Had to write in a hurry, Some times de-