The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-25
CARRIED TILE BODY OUT

Removed the
Corpse.
LBy Alice Robe, United Press Staff
Correspondent s
STANFORD, Conn, June 26.--
How Waldo R. Ballou, her elderly ad.
mirer, met his death in or at the door
Of her apartment here. was to be full.
ly detailed to coroner's jury here
today by Mrs. Helen NJ. angle. II her
father and counsel viii accede to her
! wish.
Il want to tell the whole story"
Mrs. Angle declared today, rs half in
Mysteries she sat in the jail, held
without bail, as material witness in
connection with Ballou's death.
Great crowds were expected to at
(; tend the resumption of the inquest
this afternoon when Coroner j. ].
Phelan will give the woman a chance
to tell her full story OF how Ballou,
she says, fell to his death from the
door of her apartment and how she,
with her bare feet stained with his
lief blood, dragged his mangled body
down flight of stairs and threw 1t
into the stret before the door of her
home.
To all inquirers into the tragedy,
Mrs. Angle, large powerful woman.
refuses to give details Of the meeting
with Ballou.
II have been told to say nothing"
she declared.
Stories Of Mrs. Angles admirers
were flying everywhere today. She
flatly denies that any other man was
concerned In the case, but the police
are working on this line.
Bloody footprints which led from
the apartment OF Mrs. Helen Angle to
where w. r. Ballou, her rich suitor,
was found battered to death at her
door, were miscroscopically photo
graphed in the belief that they will
show the slayer. Leading from Mrs.
Angles door to the bottom of the
stairs where Ballou's body, his skull
smashed as though with bottle, lay
where 1t was found at 10:55 Tuesday
night. The blcooy footprints which
were small, showed heavy on tha. trip
down the stairs.
The police believe the persons max
ing them, bore a load as the imprints
of the balls of the feet and of the
heels are plain and clear.
On enlargements of these footprints
which will show markings of the
skin, the police will depend largely to
show whose were the feet which bore
his manned and battered body down
to the street.
Arrested after the crime was dis
covered, Mrs. Angle was reported 70
have been hysterical all through the
night and toaay to be still in the
throes of violent emotion. Rumors
flew thick and fast through the little
city that she had made statement
to the police. This, however, could
not be verified as influential friends
Of the woman have exerted them
selves to quiet the case and every
avenue of official information was
closed until the afternoon when Cor
oner Phelan of Bridgeport will hold
the first public investigation into the
tragedy. No trace of a weapon with
which the killing was done had been
found today as far as the police would
admit. It was rumored, however, that
BaIlou's knife, bloodstained, was dis
covered on the back porch of the
Angle apartment. The dead mans
body was found at the foot Of the
stairs in front. Admission when she
was first arrested that Ballou had
been in her home until 10 o'clock at
night when she said he left, was
made by Mrs. Angle. The police as
sert, she declared she telephoned Bal
lou to come to see her. The mystery
of what happened was deepened by the
report Of policeman on the beat that
he was in the hallway to the Angle
apartment at 10: 80 o'clock and that !
there was certainly no body there
then.
It was learned today that Mrs. An |
gle was not widow, as was general |
ly supposed In Stamford. She was di- |
vorced about five years ago from |
Frank Angle, who Is said to live in |
Whether the husband of !
the woman knew anything Of her af- |
fair with Ballou or whether he is in |
any way concerned with the death Of
his former wife's sixty-seven year old |
suitor, have not yet been determined.
Admission that strange man"