New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
WHISKEY TLASK IN
DEAD MANS CLOTHES
Stamford Police Puzzled
ard Sect More CleWS
In Romance.
DOCTOR AIDS IN CASE
Hints Tumll! MAJ Have Caused
End of Man Dragged to
Street by Divorce.
rRv Telegraph to The Tribune, !

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Stamford, Conn, June 24-Ihese
are the principals in a mystery that
this quiet city had had on its hands
since a short time before midnight
last night: Waldo r. Ballou, sixty
seven years old. wealthy. and proml-
ront in the political and social LIE
If the community, and Mrs. Helen NJ
Angle. thirty-nine years old, pretty
divorcee. a singer Of local repute, the.
daughter of Leonard Blondell,
wealthy. retired coal merchant Of this
city.
Ballou is dead. his skull crushed IN
three places. Whether he was mur-
dered or came to his death through
fall the authorities here are not pre-
pared to say.
Mrs. Angle, in whose studio apart
ment in the Rippowan Building BAL
Ion had been a visitor just before ne
met his death, is under arrest as
material witness. She says the man,
who had been paying her attention
for the last three years, died from
injuries received by falling down.
stairs.
DR. Bruce s. Weaver, pathologlst IN
the Stamford Hospital and a practis-
ing physician at 135th st. and Broad
wav. New York. when witness De-
fore Coroner Phelan here this alter
noon, testified:
There is no evidence that the de-
ceased came to his death by violent
',low of blunt or a sharp instru-
mont The wound, if inflicted by
some person, was made by a nat IN
strument.'
Fall May Have Killed.
Then. in answer to a question put to
him. bv Coroner Phelan, he said; "A
fall downstairs would explain all the
wounds
Albert Phillips, Secretary Of State
and CITY Prosecutor, VINO arrived mere
This afternoon to take charge Of the
case. is not altogether satisfied that
Ballou met his death in the manner
described by Mrs. Angle.
Mr.. Phillips will ask Coroner Fhe-
Ian to recall DR.. Weaver when the
inopest is resumed tomorrow after
voon and whatever the result of the
coroner's inquest, the City Prosecutor
,,i1 conduct a searching investigation
;,to the relations that existed between
Mrs. Angle and the politician ne
Is seeking to determine u there e@-
;sted any motive for murder
Mrs. Angle, moaning and verslng on
histories. protested her innocence when
she received reporters in her cell at the
civ Hall this evening. She was seated
an the edge of her cot, dressed plainly
IN a white linen shirt waist and black
skirt. Her inHamed gray eyes bore out
her story that she had not slept since
her arrest. and she ran her fingers
nervously through the pages OF mag
azine as she told her story.
"Waldo's death was purely acciden-
tai" she said. "and ! had nothing to do
with IT. Waldo had been drinking, and
when he left my apartment at 10
o'clock last night he was in good
burnor but strongly under the influence
Of liquor.
Tells of Ballou's Death.
"I had lust closed the door behind
him when 7 heard him stumble and fall
down stairs. ran out, although ! had
taken of my slippers l ran down the
stairs. Waldo was lying on the cement
floor Of the vestibule.
"i shook him. / spoke TO him. He
did not move. 7 was in a panic. l
opened the door that led to the street
started to call the police. Then ! re
membered / would be compromised !