New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26
TAKE MRS. ANGLE
TO SANATORIUM
Physicians Fear for Sanity
of HeireSS After
Breakdown.
POLICE SAY FLATIRON
BLOW KILLED BALLOU
Woman Faints at Coroner'S
Quiz in Stamford-"Can They
Hang Me?" She Sobs.
In TeIegraph 10 The TrIbune ]

fBy Telegraph to The Tribune
Stamford, Conn, June 26.-As a eli
max TO the Ballou death mystery Mrs.
Helen Angle, the divorce and singer,
was taken TO a private sanatorium to-
night. Her nervous condition is such
that the physicians express grave rear
that her reason may become perms-
nently unsettled
The majority Of the idle male popu-
lstion of this community crowded into
the courtroom in the Town Hall to-
day to listen to the Coroner's investl-
CATION of the death of Waldo X. Bal
lou. They began to arrive at noon,
and some remained for more than six
hours to hear the last word. They
came expecting thrills, and even the
most morbidly curious, when they
left, went away satisfied.
They saw Mrs. Angle, who has been
held a prisoner since Tuesday md
night, weep on the stand and then fall
to the floor in a faint.
They saw her wealthy father, Leon
ard Blondell, aided by William Bren-
nan, the Chief of Police, carry her
from the room, while Coroner Pne-
Ian, in nervous voice, hastily ad-
journed the inquest.
And. while they did not know that
a little later she was released in 5000
bail. pending the CorOner's inquiry,
they did see the grewsOme exhibits,
and they heard Chief Brennan TESTIFY
that he believed the straw hat worn
by the aged and wealthy sutton Of Mrs.
Angle was denied by blow Of nat
iron, found this morning in her apart
ment.
"Can They Hang Me-" She Asks.
But few noticed that Mrs. Angle, as
she was half lifted into an automo-
/ bile by her father, turned to some
newspapermen and, sobbing, asked:
"They cannot hang me for TINS, can
they? / am innocent. God knows I'm
innocent. My story is true. God
knows il is true"
Mrs. Angle was taken to the home Of
n friend here, Mrs. George Eagle, out
her condition became so alarming at
10 o'clock tonight she was transferred
to a private sanstorlum conductee py
DR.. Amos J. Owens, just outside OF the
city.
Half a dozen times she gave way 10
fits of hysteria on the witness stand,
and twice. after leaving it she famed
in the anteroom. Her counsel, eN-
Judge y. C.. Downs, protested against
her being put on the stand, saying she
had been under a physicians care TOT
two months because Of her nervous
condition.
When Coroner Phelan asked queS-
tions relating TO Ballou's visit to her
studio apartment in the Rippawam
building on the night he met his
death, Judge Downs shouted to MS
client not to answer. And when Cor
oner Phelan insisted Mrs. Angle Wouli
cry and ask: ~
what. what am I to do? You tell
me to answer. Ny counsel says not TO-
I don't know
II she saw the blood-stained gar
ments that rested on the judges bench.
less than a foot away from her, ana
the denied straw hat worn by the aged
politician when he came TO his deatn'
and the electric fatiron Chief Bren-
nan believes made the dent, Mrs. Angle
did not give any sign.
Woman Evades Questions.
She answered the preliminary ques,,
tions as to her age and the like, and
said she had known Ballou for three
wears, without much difficulty. Brt
when Coroner Phelsn asked her II she
had been intimately acquainted with
the deceased she turned to her counsel
and asked: 90,
apo have to answer that?'
Don't answer" was her lawyers ad-
vice.
"Do YOU remember his calling Tues
day night?" the Coroner then asked.
She looked at her counsel and he
again told her not to answer. she
obeyed.
injured?"
Again the counsel told her not to an
swer the Coroner's question.
/ Coroner Phelan, little annoyed, said
he would give her five minutes IN when
TO answer.
'T'd be glad to tell my story if my
counsel would let me, she said.
"If you want to you can, and I'll be
glad to hear it," replied the Coroner.
She looked around the room, and
then. stifening in the chair, fell for
ward, fainting.
This ended the days session.
Il began with Detective Sergeant
/ Thomas Foley taking the stand. lie
told of discovering blood spatterings
this morning on the wall Just outside
4 Mrs. Angles apartment and other
stains on the floor of the living room
which had been overlooked by the po-
lice in their previous examinations.
One stain in the apartment, he testified
had been partly Clipped away as il by
a knife.
Foley testified that he found another
/ new blood stain on the top step of the
/ fight of stairs on which Mrs. Angle
says Ballou stumbled and fell.
Sleuth Identifies Flatiron.
/ Foley then told of finding the cleo.
{ trio iron in a rear room Of the apart
mcnt. He was shown the iron, and he
identified il. II weighed about eight
pounds. The iron, he explained. was
not connected with any electric tx.
ture.
+ Chief Brennan was the next witness
He told of calling at Mrs. Angles
apartment Tuesday midnight, after
Ballou's body was found.
B Mrs. Angle, he testified, insisted at
/ first that she knew nothing about it.
and protested they never spent a more
pleasant evening together.
There Is a hatiron,' said Coroner
Phelan. pointing TO the iron on the
unTuT AM pUcTaY-n.~-r.