The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-19
DIE MARTTNo WIDOW
 TO TESTIFY
scsont5nued rom r-es Il,


 far as you know, between yourself and other representative of her?s'
 A Some time in January Of this yAar received a letter from Judge Sc11eId upon another matter in which he Htated he was doing some business for Mrs DeNartino. As recall she ' told him some one from our office had given him some money for a. client of ours. for which she was very thank Have you ever heard any talk %tth Nr Hill in reference to it
 Not until yesterday. when he told me that he had been subpoe- Q with Superintendent Birrninz A T have never talked to any au- th1rities CT anyone who held official position .
 Advised Investieat1on.
 Henry E- shannon when sEofn. read into the records the fact tz1at he had secured permission from hfs eli ent to talk freely upon all matters Chat otherwise would be privileged. lions that he had practzced for IA 1-25 HAmra and that he had not been ac-s Quainted with siennon until he was brought into the case last year He n1d been infroduced by Judge Wilder &t the Algonquin club in reference to tAe death-
 o --Vhzt wac said and done with reFnrerreA to that 9's j. f s A
 -sA<r szendon explained the mat ter to me and asked o1zr advice In re- Eard to what he ought to do. Judge <7z<zet was present. told him the Hf'eper thing to do was to get All the 19fS<s toðer and lodge them with et1y police officials and ask them to tTf<<ztisate fully and ascertain che. cnMsH cf the man's death- In cp1npH-l 1ncS u1th that advice had M1 sie- napn EhralI and Bates come to my elzfe@ and make ea711asvite 50 th<et z1i&hf fofmAllx lay the matter before fHe police AfterwArdg arranged to meat President Hi1, superintendent Blrnlnxharn and Captain Arnold at rolIee Headquarters went out there anna stated the situation as it had come fo me and presented at the first meeting the az1da1its. and told them tHek vas au the evidence we had in czzr possession and asked them to make a full nead complete inquiry to >s<ab17h the real aszcte. They agreed o- ''s7asos.'
 zrn<7d and myself Cronan was not. prezent 4 short time after wards. f5eFnzps week. went to police head 4.iarters to find out what had peen: dBne called upon Captain Arnold and he called in MT cronans MT.
 
 could o5tain. That all the evidence 1e had xFas what mad been o1tafned at tho lime of the death and xhaE itH an tended to show that red car had NtrszcE DeAhrtino. II Svas long time esnce the thing happeaed and tie enlys uew evidence what what we produced and that there was nothing further tp be done in the matter. He knew of no new evidence or way Of ob taining it thereupon reported to Mir. Sic &~%4 t@a4t<r better if he eolile do soznethinz for the family and he asked me to ss- ceftziu tfseIr condition, how much helm they needed etc.
 Widov. wen off.
 sent to sherin Abrfoia, told him fo so to Stamford and look np the Akrnl1y and report their cusldition. Fhfch he did The report ws sub z1itted to the coroner and siaowssd that She N&e the owner of ewe houa ss had six children and pays taxes in Statn- fG<2 on propert Vi value At about $20 Y tee- All the children go to school and there are sfx nephews. all barbers who make good living ., s
 Attorney shannon continued. Upon receiving this 5nformstion sent for Siemon and submitted the matter to hirn He said. The Sami1y seems to De in prosperous eondition still E would like to do son1athfng for them What do you think [ should dor I HaSd [ thought 1t ~ ould be a zttce thing to Five them s. .ooD I prssviou sIsr expIained that there was no liability and that q civil action could not even pe brought against him, for it was nearly three years since the nsppen- ing He said that in spite Of that he wuula feel better if we did so nethinR for them When suggested a,o0o he satd. An right
 made arrangements with Sherifr sTH went in and stated our mission I told Mrs DeMartfno the factls in the case sc far as we had learned them. told her our client was not satisfsad. that he thouEht his car might have struck her husband and that he would feel better if he could do sonaethinz for the family. Sos he had sent me down there to find her and give her
 s=I zaid to her. would like vo,, to send for an attorney because do not know that you would be able to umderstand our position. This is in no way q settlement It is simply a present from our client to , ou. she dtd not want to send for al attorney but sent for her nephew
 Wrote Thsssks to szenaun
 Q 'sDtd he understand E:nRlisla h ?, sA. Fairly we'll She Sent for Pc. tEr Adufno, who came in explained the matter to him. He spoke very good English. He spoke in E;ngiisf t1 me and in Italian to her Hs said they did not need any attornev Fie said 4drs. DeMartiro wanted fe Snow If she could not meet. the zen taenan and thank him pers onally. s4ld Nor that our client did not wan any publicity.
 'sHet nephew said: She wants fe l<now if she can write him letter o1 tffanks and drought out a paper aat ink and her nephew wrote this let t4f and Ahe signed itsr
 The letter of thanks already pub lashed wah then Introduced acInowl sF1<s.z6> ~A<sefn4 If f1sf check Tar x4 mn