Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-27


 and awakening as the result of noises she heard in the direction of the barn, had risen and called repeatedly to her husband. She received no answer. Fearing something had happened she had gone to the May home for help. Mir. May. in response to questions. told something Of his knowledge of the troubles between MT. and Mrs. Law son over the deed to their farm. over butter and another matter that was interposed by Mir. Torrey.
 Mrs John 8. May a Witness.
 Mrs John s. May told of being awakened during the early hours of the morning of Aug. Is. by Mrs. Law son. who had come to a window of the May home sekeing help. Mrs May later went to the Lawson home and remained for several hours. Mrs. Lawson also told her that MT. Law son sat in the kitchen reading when she had retired on the previous even ing. Mrse. May was not questioned by attorneys for the defendant.
 Coroner Bill on the Stand. Arthur G. Bill, Danielson, coroner of Windham county. summoned as a wit ness for the state, told of going to the Lawson home on the day after Mir Lawson's death. Friday. of making an investigation and of finding various blood stained articles in the house, the cellar, yard and stable where the body was found. Many of these arti- cles, including Lawson's clothing talk en from his body after death, a club which it is believed was used to crush in his skull, an axe. the pair of stockings previously referred to. blood smirched pieces of paper, pieces of the stairs, showing blood stains, were laid in as exhibits. These articles were in the possession on Tuesday up to the time of placing them in evidence of M M Sna rhrOIrOh Of New Haven to whom they were turned over by the coroner for tests to determine con- clusively the nature of the stains up-- on them.
 Relating things that occurred at the coroners inquest which he conducted, MT. Bill said that Mrs. Lawson had testified at that time that her husband had abused her and at one time had given her a black eye. Photograprs which the coroner had caused to be | made of the Lawson place were put in as exhibits.
 Blood Stained Club Identified Claus Neilsen, relative of the Law sons identified the club previously en- tered as an exhibit as the one he had found at the Lawson place after the murder. It has the appearance of be- ing a leg off a washing machine
 Questions Accused Asked State Po- Iiceman.
 State Policeman Robert Hurley suc- ceeded Neilsen on the stand. During | his examination he told of his inves- ! legations about the Lawson place | the blood stains in various places knd other facts previously brought out by other witnesses. He identified the stockings as the ones found in the cell | lar of the Lawson home. He also | identified the night dress and skirt which he had found in the Lawson home and told of conversations he had with Mrs. Lawson during his in- vestigatfon of the case. Among oth- CT things he credited Mrs. Lawson with saying were Are you going to put me in the coop?" and an inquiry as to whether he (Hurley) had suffi- oient influence with the coroner to as- l certain what was in the bundle that that official had taken away from the Lawson place.
 Dr. Mason Describes. Dr. Louis I. Mason of Willimantic | was called to the witness stand and gave a professional description of the wounds tn at caused Iawson's death and expressed an opinion that they were made with two different instru- ments. one of which might have been i it He expressed an opinion that some of the wounds might have been | caused with the club put in as an ex- | hibit
 Wanted Name Inserted in Decd. Mrs. Peter Anderson testified that | Mrs. Lawson had come to her home, deserting her husband for the time being after their quarrel over getting | Mrs. Lawson's name inserted in the | deed of the farm. She said Mrs. Law son declared she would not go home | until her name was entered in the
 deed, but eventually did so. MT. Law | also told of another occasion, a year
 later, when she had seen Mrs. Lawson at the Lawson home very much ex- | cited over trouble she had with Lew son.
 | Adjournment Till This Morning. | When court adjourned until 10.30 | this "Wednesday morning the states
 side of the case was still incomplete
 The Story of the Crime.
 The body of Jonas Lawson, a we'll
 to-do Swedish farmer of East Wood | stock, was found in a horse stall in | the horse barn on the Lawson place | on the night of Aug. 14 last by Aman-
 da Lawson, his wife, and John May,
 a neighbor. whom Mrs. Lawson had telling him she feared something had | happened to her husband. The horse | was loose on the barn floor and Law 1 sons body lay with head at the en- trance to the stall. The mans skull l was crushed in, one eye battered into
  | broken, and six wounds were found about the head. It was at first 1 thought that he had been kicked and
 trampled upon blk his horse but wher
 daylight came a trail of blood was
 found leading from the barn to the cellar under the ell of the house
 There was pool of blood where the
 body lay. another pool near the dool
 and the dashboard was stained as il
 the body had been dragged up ovel
 the door sill of the barn and the per
 son who dragged, had allowed 1t to re-
 main there for a moment while a resl
 was taken. The bottom of the ce1lal
 door and the sill bore blood stains anl
 there was blood about the cellar stair
 and under them. Evidences of where
 the stains had been rubbed over witf
 ashes and with rag in an apparen
 attempt to obliterate them were dis cernable. The leg of a washing ma
 chine was later found with what ap | peared to be blood stains and hai
 upon it. There was barrel of eide
 in the cellar and a glass for drinking
 was not in it's usual place but wa.
 found in another part of the cellar.
 What Examination Disclosed.
 It was believed from an examina
 ton of the body that Lawson hai been killed about three hours befor his body was found, or about o'clocl in the evening. At that time SO ia
 as known no one was on the premise but MT. Lawson and his wife. Tn son Adolph was out camping and tn daughter Florence was at churcl