Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-29

| Coatchelly was then working to
 break into the main door. She warned
 him that if he broke down that last
 door she would shoot him as sure as
 she stood there. He got hold of the
 knob and lifted the door so that the
 top hinge finally gave way.
 Heard coatcheIly's Vicious Threat.
 When the door gave way and fell in, Coatchelly still stood with the same
 smile on his face and said:
 I've got you now, - you and I'll
 cut your guts out"
 When he tried to spring over the
 fallen door she dropped the revolvers, as one would not go off when she tried l to shoot it. She turned back into the
 room, got the rife. and fired. She didn't know which barrel she fired. CoaacheIIy Never Asked for Baby.
 The witness said she had never been informed that Coatchelly had said he
 would take the baby, and he had never asked for it.
 Picked Up Sons Baby and Rifle.
 After the firing of the gun, Mrs Per- kins said she picked up her sons ba- 1 by, closed the door into the hall, and 1 with the baby under one arm and the rifle in her hand, ran out the back door screaming. to let the people i know.
 Witness Under Strong Emotion.
 As Mrs Perkins in her recital of the events of the afternoon had approach 1 ed the time of the actual shooting, her 1 agitated manner increased but the 1 steady flow of the narrative was tn- l terrupted only once or twice as she l paused momentariIy with a motion of l her hand toward her brow, as if to 1 clear up her recollection or brush i away the scene that must have been [ hfaT Ilrar r-s,- r,t1a ] shifted around in her chair with the 1 intensity of her emotion and gripped her hands together and twisted her l fingers back and forth.
 Vivid Description of Her Thoughts. Describing her sensations after the 1 shooting, as she fled from the house | through the back door, she expressed 1 her terrified condition in dramatic and ] vivid, but disconnected sentences. q l had given up for him to kill me. 1 had an idea he was after me. I kept 1 screaming to let the people know. 1 looked for Ida No Ida came. I knew my child was dead I knew in my mind I would never see her again and ] I was going where she was I got as 1 far as the wall with the child and the i gun There I heard my daughter She was coming from the woods and call ] ing: Mamma! mammal What has 1 happened?' 2 I told her I had shot him. | Mrs. Perkins said she went back to 1 the house with the gun. ready to shoot again. She had left Ida's baby in the l house because she thought Coatchelly would not hurt that one.
 1 Too Excited to Telephone Clearly. 1 When they got back to the house. ] Ida telephoned for a doctor. The wit ness said she herself was so excited that people could not understand her over the telephone. Mrs. Perkins stop ped the first team that came by, which was Walter Norcross'. He looked in- side the storm door and then ran as fast as he could towards the road. The witness also told of teIephoning to her brother and of the coming of Dr. B. J. Brophy and Deputy Sheriff Draper. CoatChelly, she said, had got his head, shoulders and one arm and one foot through the burst door and was stepping back to make another spring when she fired the gun. The gun was last loaded by MT. Coatchelly, the wit ness said because deer had been eat ing the stuff in the garden. She said ' she had not taken out the two cart ridges put in by Thomas nor discharg- ed it since they were put in,
 ] Before Coatchelly could break 1 through the door, he repeated his threat number of times.
 The direct examination of the wit ness occupied about an hour and ten minutes.
 Cross Examining Mrs. Perkins. On his cross examination States At torney Hull began by asking why she had not let Coatchelly in when she said he smiled very pleasantly. It was a sinister smile, she said, and was the one with which he always greeted her since she had refused him the house. She had not mentioned this point about his smile before because it had not bPen asked for she said
 Made Up Her Mind.
 The states attorney asked why Mrs Perkins had not let Tom in when the party came to the house, and the wit ness went into a long answer in which she detailed how she and her daugh- ter had gone to New London to Law yer HulIs office with the baby so that Tom could see 1t, but that Tom did not keep the appointment On the way to and from the office they saw Tom sit- ting in front of store, smoking a cigar. Then Mrs. Perkins made up her mind that he should never enter the house again. She said she had never refused to have Ida go anywhere with the child to let Tom see 1t as long as her daughter could have suitable pro- tection.
 She denied that she had been tele- phoned to a number of times about appointments 10 see the child.
 
 Major Hull asked about the pound- ing which Coatchelly had once given her She said it happened when she wouldn't let him sell some hay, Lar sham Smith and Tracy Smith were in | ig'it ft the time. The witness ad- nlttte4 tlat she struck Coatchelly on the head with a stick 50 that q wound winch pied was made, but she denied that Dr. Bradford told her there wasn't a mark on her as a result of the pounding, She didn't know Br, Brad 1 ford was TOW in Europe,
 Tn Iho two weeks in January while CoatcheilY stayed at the house the wtness said that she and her sen-in- law did ot speak. She denied that Tom had been trying to communicate with them in the two weeks after he came back 4~en Texas in an effort to see the child,
 Had Bedreen Door Locked,
 Mrs. Perkins strongly affirmed that 1 she was afraid of Coatchelly and she i would not let him come inte the house unless some third person was present l and in the two weeks in January Perkins said she locked her bedroom 1 door every night because she was | afraid of him.
 Afternoon Session.
 Major Hull continued the cross ex- | animation in the afternoon with in l quiries about Mrs. Perkins, familiarity with the rifle, which she said she was l very we'll acquainted with and had i