The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-26
NERVES BREAK
 UNDER STRAIN OF DETENTION
Father Declares Stamford Wo- man Is Innocent of
 Killing. N
DENIES STATEMENTS
 ATTRIBUTED T0POLECE
Victim Stumbled DowliE To His Death, Claim
 Of Defense.


 Stamford. June Se-1Gxz EEs1au le Angle, detained by the poaae fa aa- nection with the 8nEsstfsattoa df Gar death of Waldo R. Ba1lou. ana l-r night. by direction of Coroaers El1ssaa released under $B.O0O bo11ds hscra1rr of her collapse under the ueEV1e strain incident to the trasody oG elE17 Wednesday mornfng. fs today at the home of AGrB- George Ea n friend, in Stamford. She ig saAd ito an partly recovered.
 Her father. Leonard Bacnaea. eaGMw gave out a gtaf@na@n&. in waaAnh hM gave what he Gadd would a3s Fims eIn4 terss story, were mlae ra4ao1a7
 This story told Of Balloa3e call 1 her and Of his deparfura. aGfsH Eel- lou had left, his dauehtar. zzua pre- parfng to go to bed, heard 1. neasa nnI running out into the han aaa down stadrs partly undrasd stairs. TO get him out iuho tho Er1 air she carried him % the eut tn the buif1ing.
 fearing the motoFisty which ygo Id oilow, she hsn ag 9hc thought gietirg on Ghe and Nln up stairs and to her room 4hsra had been no drinking
 Afr. B1ondel went on 10 aay Chat some of the Statements which the pO- lice are said to have made arc not true. ttGLGIE1LB LO AEg 4Le4AlH N4A walls, which the police had regarded as blood stains. Mr. Blandel aaid he had exaxniried them closely and they were stains made by tobacco juice. EL1 believed Ballou stumbled in Che da.rlz hallway and felf to his death as thc stairway was steep.
 when Coroner John J. Fhslan oa Bridgeport abruptly ended his inquest into the death of Waldo R. Ballou. iu the Stamford court rcons with 11s-
 Helen M. Angle, whom he later re- leased under bonds, hysterAca4 on Glae floor he stated that no further evi- dence was to be presented ae that time. Resumption of the inquirys he stated, would depend largely upon circumstances He expected Ehaf Mrs. Angie would later be aEGEAcieot- ly composed. to permit of her ezaul- 1 ination in private, although JUdgo v. 1 C. Downs, her counsel had st1 | that he did not wish his client Co make a statement.
 2 Albert Phillips, the pEosecEeoE or this city, who sat with the corcU2Es took no part in the questioning or witnesses except to whisper Grequa0t= i ly to the coroner who would Glsu ask further questions on some pd- cular point Mir. PhtInpg 1a8ar stltod 4 that he did not expect to take amy action until Mir. Phelan had naadR a finding.
 It is believed that the inquiry will  sicians believe that Mira. Angle will be much improved over her present highly emotional and nervous st1tG- Coroner Phelan, during the fiuac he pressed for answers from AEl. Angle as to her friendship wtth Bal | lou, and as to his visit to her Eocrlg | on Tuesday evening said that he hop ed, in view of statements She had made to Chief of Police Brenuan and | the police matron, which had baen l related by those witnesses Ghat NLrl. Angle would tell him her stoEy. which he thought might explain and uacGi@ fly some of the evidence given dlrilaI the inquiry
 1 Mrs Angle was so overwrouEgl1to however, that she did not know whether to make a statement or t0 obey her counsel, who seood close to her. In the midst of the question ing, she collapsed and her story re- nained untold
 In the course of examination of two police officers 1t was stated to the coroner that Mrs. Angle had explain lingerie had become blood stained. and the coroner paid more attention to the straw hat which Ballou had worn and which bore dent beside the signs of l having been crushed.
 The coroner recalled two officers and asked particularly if they saw evidenca of the hat having been crushed aa the chest lid, was dropped after tha I hat had been thrust into it with sew The officers said that, upon cpenlng the chest, they saw the hat and drew it out together with the other things. Of the exhibits in the case. the elec- l trfc flat iron and the. hat were laid aside for further scrutiny