The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-28
MRS. COUDERRE's COUNSEL GRILLS
 JOHN |. SOMERS
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 lographers in the plant; and then he inquired how mucIl1 it was worth. She
 replied she had been thinking the matter over and decided that she was going to tell the truth. Later, ac-
 cording to Sorners' story. she said she must have the money. He told her that it was a large sum and that he did not have it with him, but that he would try and get it. She told him if she got the $2,50e she would do what she could for him even if she had to leave her husband. She said also, according to hin, that she. wanted the g, 500 partially for clothes and to repay her for the notoriety and injuries received in the accident. She refused to accept anything less than the stipulated amount, even after being offered $500 and intimated that she would tell the true story, if he did not pay. Then he told of getting
 the $10 bill, showed in court, p1acinG 1t on his desk in the presence Of wit . nesses and under an electric light and marking it with a large x's in ink. Then, partially himself and parti- ally under the questioning of attor- neys, he told of the next day when she called ands in the presence, he claimed, of Former Deputy Sheriff George Heis1er, and Policeman Shee-. E han he asked her whether she intend
 
 He said that she answered in the af- firmative and then, after he told her he had something for her to bind the bargain, she took the $10.
 Captain Arnold testified as to his talk with her. Her alleged admissions were the basis of a lively tilt between Prosecutor Delaney and Attorney King The latter asked as to condi- lions at the conference and who was present. Upon being told that MT, HeisIer and Somers were the only. ones excepting himself and the worn- an, he asked as to whether the accus- E ed did not have any friends present. Again he inquired as to whether Mrs Couderre had been warned that any thing she said might be used against her: He replied in the negative and l then Attorney King objected. Judge O,Meara ruled that 1t might be ad- mftted as long as it was given volun- tarily.
 MT. Heisler substantiated the state
 ments made by Somers regarding the
 conversation in ais store the morning the bill was passed.
 Mrs. Conderre was the last witness. She said that on the train coming to
 Bridgeport after the accident, Som
 CTS had given her the adea Of telltng Coroner Mix that she had the InuR before her eyes at the time of the ac- cident and that he had told her that damages could be collected from the railroadA She also said that he asked concerning Mrs. WadsOns mother, if the daughter was her sole sa1pport and then said aI1l take care of you both.'' She also said that she did not understand eonceEpdng Coroner Aldxs s inquest and alrlderstOods from GoIneFss Hflat the. coroner appeared in the in- AAtenest Of the railroad She said fur ther that, upon the advice of SoxnezE,
 she told Attorney Klein the same sto- ry that she had told at the coroner s inquest. Her contention was that she had never gone to the 6cnners store
 without receiEing a telephone request from him. When she told him that she had had a change Of heart and intended telling the true story, she said that he asked if she was getting 4icold feet-'' He told her, she said, l that if she advanced a different story, there would be a perjury charge and that jaM was the penaAty for that. Going further she said that she had
 called up Attorney Klein on Somers' request and that he had asked her what the trouble was, if she was not going to see the thing through, and whether she wanted to Ego away E In connection with the money mat ter she admitted that, when she was
 home in EIo1yoke, Christmas, her h1ls-
 band had told her that she ought to get some money from the trolley company or from some one in return for her injuries and getting into the public eye as she had. Upon calling at the store, she said that Somers kept after her as to how much money she desired and at first that she said she did not want money He tried to have her stick to the original story and told her that to change it would open the way for charges of intoxication and the foolishness of being prosecut- Led for perjury charges. She believed that Sonners ought to give her the
 money rather than that it should be taken from the railroad.
 She claimed that So1ners had told
 about a friend of his. expert on au- tomobfles, who had gone up to New
 Haven and examined the wrecked car and said that it was at a standstil when it was hit by the trolley car. Sho said further that Somers had tried to convince her that the car was sta- tionary when it was hit In the beginning or Somerss testi- mony he admitted, in response to questioning that there was no fourth person in the party and that the re- port that there was apparently arose from his sayings in the hospital i'm naediateIy following the accident when the newspapermen were troubling him as to details.