The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-26
NIGHT IN CELL
WOULD HAVE COST REASON
Mrs. Angel, in Almost CncOntroll-
able Condition, Is Removed to
Sanatorium.
DAMAGING FACTS COME OUT
Release on Bail Follows Nerve
Wrecking Attempt to Introduce
Woman's Testimony Before Cor
oner's Jury Investigating Death.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch. ]

Stamford. Conn, June o5.-Mrs.
Helen NJ. Angel, singer and divorcee.
10 whose apartment trail of blood
led from the body of Waldo Il. Ballou
aud against whom much more damag-
ing evidence was adduced to-day by
the police tonight is n patient in the
sanatorium OF DR.. y. ]. Givcns. just
outside this city. She is almost un-
controllable. She imagines she is still
on the witness stand. surrounded by
the blood stained garments. the lat-
iron and other articles found I'm her
flat now court exhibits.
Mrs. Angle was released on $4,000
bail given by her father, Leonard
Blondell. wealthy retired contractor
and politician. Common humanity in
spired acceptance of the bond. One
more night in II cell would have de-
stroEed her reason. physicians said.
The release followed a. ucrve-wreck-
ing attempt to introduce her testimony
in court. The woman desired to tell
her story. Counsel forbade her.
WOMAN IN COURTROOM
PICTURE OF DESPAIR
Under the sharp questioning OF
the coroner In tho stitling heat OF the
crowded courtroom, ard bowed under
the weight of much additional evidence
against her, the woman presented Il
picture Of desolatIon and despair.
which many Of the spectators were
unable To endure. Her clothes wore
awry. her hair was in wild disorder.
her face tear-stained and drawn, and
was unrecognizable.
When the coroner asked his
first question: Did YOU know Mr..
Ballou?" Mrs. Angel sank her head
upon her arm and sobbed. She was
on the verge of Mysteries. Some
thoughtiess attendant. seeing her
plight picked up the blood stained
garment found in the woman's fiat and
started to wipe her face with it. Cilanc-
ing in horror at the garment, the wo-
man screamed and collapsed.
Her father carried her. senicon-
scious. from the room.
At o'clock. after bail had been
granted. Mrs Angle was able to see the
reporters for 81 moment.
"Will they hang me-" she moaned.
II am innocent: my story is true
Then she screamed in terror. mum
bling the words hanging" and gal
lows"
II was feared that she would at
tempt to do herself bodily harm. and.
moaning pitifully, she was taken to
the sanatoriun.
Mrs AnEcfs experience on the wit
ness stand has been AN extremely try
ing one. On the coroncr'S desk within
n foot OF her hand lay heap OF blood
stained lingerie. and Rallous hat,
crushed and red stained. SO close that
her fingers once touched 1t: and the
ten pound electric nat iron she had
declared she WAS using when Ballou
called q. hor apa rtmcnt The end OF
the iron is spattered with what the po-
lice believe to he blood. They expect
to prove that this is the instrument
with which Baliou's skull was crushed.
1t WAS shown that IL nts perfectly into
the indcntation in the hat worn by
the dead man.
add n1s 20 ,y,.n
that l;allou was not q drinking man.
although Mrs. Angel had declared that
he WAX intoxicated when he called at
her nnt on the night OF his death.