The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-25
BORE MANS BODY
TO STREET BELOW
Woman Tells Amazing Story in
Connection With Death
of Friend.
HELD BY STAMFORD POLICE
Trail of Blood Traced by Foot
prints Into Her Apartments
Leads to Arrest.
HELD BY STAMFORD POLICE

Stamford, Conn. June 24.-Dry-eyed
and couras eous, but bitterly revling
fate for the close-knit web of sus-
picion which circumstances has woven
about her, Mrs. Helen NJ. Angle, the
central figure in one of the strangest
mysteries OF crime or violence that
New England mas ever known, faced
the press and the police in her cell
at Stamford police headquarters to-
night. and steadfastly denied com
plicity in bringing about the death o.
waldo II. Ballou. politician and
wealthy business man, whose battered
BODY was found outside the door of
her studio apartments early this morn
ing.
Within her denial. however. she en-
bodies a story that rivals the most
amazing cases in the annals OF the
police or the courts. Denying the
sraver accusation OF which she stands
accused. she relates an extraordinary
story OF the manner in which the aged
politician met his death. Ballou died.
she says. as the result OF a fall from
the door OF her third-story apartment
10 a secondhoor landing
Fearing exposure and the condemna-
uon OF her friends If he should be
found there. she half carried. half
dragged him. streaming blood from 4
dozen wounds. down another long
light OF steps, and thrust him into
the street. where a policeman stumbled
over his body an hour and half
later clad only in the scantiest Of
undercioihing and in bare feet. she
climbed the stairs. and. after remov-
ing most Of the signs OF the accident.
attempted 10 sleep
TRAIL OF BLOOD
TRACED BY FOOTPRINTS
1t was the trail OF blood traced by
her footprints into the very inner
room OF her apartment, that led TO her
exposure and arrest. \ bloody hat.
Identified as Baliou's, was hidden away
la one OF her cedar chests
Her dainty lingerie, stained and
c!otted with blood. was found where
she had tossed II carelessly aside.
Her hands, her feet and her body
bore traces Of the blood of her aged
midnight visitor. Altogether the net
has frightened about her until she has
begun 10 experience the terror OF alb
solute hcIplessness.
No one will believe me innocent"
she cried tonight. Everybody has
condemned me already. ] have no one
10 speak n word In my defense. 1t
looks blacker and blacker, and they
''''
cent, tell you, I'm innocent as an
angel of this awful thing"
a coroners inquest. begun to-day
with Coroner John Phelan, of Bridge
port. in charge, has done little to clear
up the mystery surrounding the case
Physicians, who performed an autopsy
this morning. are unwilling to commit
themselves. The cause OF death was
hemnorrhaGc, caused by fracture Of
the skull, induced by the violence
either OF a blow or fall
WOMAN. NEAR COLLAPSE.
Is NoF' CALLED TO STAND
Mrs. Angle. near collapse in her cell.
was not called 20 the stand. Her coun-
sci, former Surrogate II. Stanley Flint.
pleaded postponement OF a day. The
time was too short. he said. TO prepare
a defense, since his age prevents his
undertaking the case himself.
The postponcment was granted. and
only three witnesses were heard-Dr
George Sheriff., Stamford medical en-
aminer: Dr. Bruce S. Weaver. patholo-
gist Of the Stamford Hospital and
John a. Wendle. business man of
Stamford, who found the body OF Bal
lou lying outside the door of the Rip
powam Apartments in West Main
Street.
City Prosecutor Albert Phillips re-
CARDS the evidence against Mrs. Angle
as s"hicieht 10 warrant hcr arrest on
\ formal charge after the evidence
of the inquest is in.
Chief of Police Brennan, who has
been in charge of the case from the
cSinninS, supports him in the view.
Both admit the case is purely cir
cumstantial one, but they point out
that il has only one flaw, the lack
OF motive. and that they hope to de-
velop in another twenty four hours.
Mrs. Angles story as she told it to
all questioners to day presents her side
OF the case in it's most convincing
way
/'I had known Walter Ballou for
many years" she said. "He was
good friend of mine. perhaps as good
a one as ever had, and that is one
Of the reasons why ! can't understand
their charging me with killing him. We
often went out together, as everybody
in Stamford knows, and he often
sixty y-nine years old. while | am only
forty-two. but he seemed like man
half his age"
LEAVES HER ROOM UNDER
INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR
"I called him OIL the telephone last
night. and we talked while. Then
he came over for brief visit, and it
was about 10 o'clock when he left.
We had no quarrel. and although he
was under the influence of liquor when
he left me. he was in good humor.
IL heard him stumble after he got
outside the door, aud then I heard the
crash of his fall to the landing. He
lay there unconscious when rushed
down without stopping to dress my
self completely. I shook him and tried
to make him answer. but he would not.
He lay there like n man dead. although
knew that he hreathed. Blood seemed
to be flowing from everywhere.
Al.t
would mean to ,nc If he was found
there, and { was seized with panic
the I.anic that seZes every woman
when her good name Is threatened I
dreaded the notoriety and the thought
that | might be compromised 1t flashed
into my mind that ! must get him out,
and determined that ! would
picking him UP I'm my arms. he
seemed light, even ut his dead weight
I carried and dragged him down the
long flight of stairs to the bottom
Blood seemed to drip everywhere, but