Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-29

l | phoned to the sheriff and asked if l those four men break in and come into 1 the house. can 1 shoot themY The sheriff said he would not advise her to l shoot. Mrs. Perkins did not have the | pistol in her hand that time. ] Not Close When She Fired. l Mrs. Perkins testified that when she l had the revolvers in her hand she was l close enough to Coatchelly to have | reached out and struck him in the face with her hand. She denied that she | was within five feet of him when she 1 fired the rifle and also that she aimed at him. She cooked the hammers and 1 discharged the gun all in an instant, without throwing it to her shoulder.
 Had Not Heard Tom Would Take Baby.
 To Major Hull Mrs. Perkins said she l had never heard from anyone in any l way that Tom would take the child | away. She promised her daughter 1 that she would protect the child with l her life. She said this over the tele- l phone to Ida.
 1 Mrs. Perkins denied number of her ! statements which Major Hull read l from the evidence before the coroner, among them that she had loaded the 1 gun herself last fall
 l Major HuIPs Repeated Questions. l Major Hull repeatedly questioned 1 whether she meant to fire the gun when she took it up, Mrs. Perkins said she couldn't tell she hadn't time | to think.
 1 Repeatedly Major Hull returned to the question of why Mrs. Perkins re- i fused to let Tom see the baby when l she had no information that he meant 1 to take it away, and the witness an i swered by saying that 1t was because of the pounding he had given her. Accused Showed the Strain. l of was concluded few minutes before o'clock In leaving the witness stand Mrs. Perkins steadied herself for moment after she rose to her feet and | then walked slowly to her seat beside her attorneys. When she had reached her seat she was recalled to the stand by Major Hull to answer a question as to whether she remembered the occur renee of the gun going off in the bed room and shooting hole in the ceiling. She said she did.
 Mrs. Coatchelly Defense Witness. Mrs Ida Coatchelly was placed on the stand by the defense, giving testi- mony that went over again the dates of incidents in their married life which have been testified to before in this trial, and of the meeting with i Coatchelly at the Allyn's Point station.
 Major Hull picked up the statement | that she made that Coatchelly had threatened to take the baby away He asked how 1t was she had never told her mother of this. The witness said it was because she didn't take any stock in it and she didn't care to tell her about it. She denied that the real reason was that Coatchelly never said such a thing.
 Telephone Operators Testify. Miss Mildred F. Gibson. telephone operator at the Norwich exchange, tes- i tified to an excited Woman's voice call ing up on line 271, which is Mrs. Per kins' line. and the request was to con- meet her with 23 on the same line, which is Mrs. Lewis call. The con- nection was made Then the light appeared again and when Miss Gibson plugged in she heard a woman's voice crying Help! Murder!' and heard baby crying. Then Miss Gibson called the supervisor
 Miss Mary V. Coleman, the tele- phone supervisor, also testified to hearing the words Help Murder!" over the line. In about two minutes woman's voice called and spoke about man breaking in and the voice asked for help as quick as it could be sent. and there was third call which told of a man being shot. Then the supervisor called three doctors and got pr. Brophy. She could not recognize the women's voices
 
 Arthur G. Perkins of A1lyn's Point, son of the accused, was next on the stand. He testified to an occasion in December in the kitchen of the Per kins house when Coatcheily Mrs Per kns and the witness were present, when COatChelly said something about mot fit to live with decent people and I'll cut your - guts out, that's what I'll do to you!" These words were ad- dressed to Mrs. Perkins, the witness declared. The son said he made no protest at the time over this threat from him. At another time when Coat chelly was collecting clothes together to go away the witness did not ask why he was leaving because he consid- cred it was none of his business to be putting in to the Coatchelly family af- fairs.
 Defense Rests.
 The defense rested after this witness had concluded his testimony at 4.15 o'clock.
 Tn RebuttaI.
 Tn rebuttal the states attorney call ed Percy F. Norman of AlIyn's Point, who testified that both he and his brother Edmund were at the AlIyn's Point store on the afternoon that Coatchelly came there on June Sd.
 Going to Hold Baby.
 James Edmund Norman, the brother referred to. was next on the stand At torney Desmond argued against al- lowing the witness to state what Coat chelly said. but the court admitted It. The witness testified that Coatchelly said he was going up to hold his baby" His appearance was cheerful and as usual at the time. Coroner Reads from Accused's State
 ment.
 Coroner Franklin H. Brown testified that Mrs. Perkins signed the statement which he took from her. He referred to his notes on various points which Mrs, Perkins denied she had made to him,
 Capt. Erickson, the New London chauffeur, was recalled and denied | that Coatchelly said if he didn't see the i baby he would kill all the people In | the house or that he made any threat l of any kind whatever, Mrs. Perkins | had testitfe dthat he made such a | threat
 Court adjourned at 43o until the ! next day at 10 in the morning,
 Secretary starkey Conducting Cam
 Paign.
 Frederick R. starkey, former general