The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-03-05
Coroner Phelan on Stand at
Mrs. Angles Trial Describes
1 His Unusual Experiment.
SOUND HEARD IN ROOM.
State Seeks to Show Mrs.
Angles Neighbor Would
Have Known of Fall.

kopseisI From Q Star Correspondent
BRIDGEPORT. Conn. March s.
4 Coroner Phelan Of Fairfield County
called to-day A. . witness in the pro.
sscution OF Mrs.. Helen M. Angle. o.
Stamford. on q charge Of manslaugh.
Ger IN connection with the death Of
Waldo r." Bailou. told on the stand
how = dummy had been made to rep
resent the dead man. and had been
hurled down the stairs leading from
Mrs. Angles apartment. where Bal.
Sous dead body was found. The ties,
e was made to determine the sound
ehat would have resulted from such a
Ill
4 "Did you conduct any experiment,
40 discove. whether the sound of q
Body falling on the stairway from
Ars. Angles apartments could have
been heard in the APPARENT OF Pat
sick r.: ''Sitt belowf" asked Prosecu-
4or Cummings.
I'VE did," replied Coroner Phelan
eat my direction dummy, Of the as
sumsd height and l. ned weight OF
Mr.. Bailou. was prepared. It was
thrown down the stairs from Mrs.
Angles apart .nent to the landing. !
was in the apartment OF .bbitt lis
.t;.,ing and distinctly heard the
sound Of the fall.
Q. Did you experiment as to wheth-
Or voices could be heard through the
wall from Rabbits room?
A. We did. had men stand on the
stairs and talk In an ordinary tone
OF voice. raise their voices and walk
MP and down on the stairs. was
Ia Rabbits rooI, standing where he
told mo he had zen the night Of Mr..
Baliou's death. I could hear their
Soices distinctly.
@, (By Mr.. Klein. attorney for Mrs.
.Ansie) What was your dummy made
Sfs
< A. Exteriorly It resembled the de-
ceased. The head was a piece of
wood. like the top Of clothes pole.
but I don't know what was In II.
think the actual body Of a human
being. falling. would have made more
noise.
One undertaken and six physicians
have told every possible detail they
can call to memory Of the condition
Of Waldo r. Ballou when he was
found dying outside Mrs. Angles home
IN the Rippowam Building In SIAM
ford June "a. They have told> OF the
condition of his body the day after
his death and Of It's condition when 1t
was dug up from the grave three
weeks later.
Draughtsman Parsons spent two
hours explaining a map Of the rooms
Of Aps. Angle and the stairways Of
the Rippowam Building. He was or
dered to continue to-day explaining
his diagrams of the bloody footprints
and stains ON tho two stairways and
the spatters ON the walls.
In an effort to discredit the prose-
cution's carefully arranged outline Of
material appearances after the crime
Attorney Klein made Parsons climb
ora chair and apply his draughting
scale to every stain and footprint on
hts maps.
To-day the first witness was the
architect, Nelson Z. Emmons. who
supervised the laying Of the cement
landing and the pavement Of the
entry hall. on the, stairs Of which the
stains were found which led the
police to the door of the accused
woman.
Mr.. Emmons testified Patrick Rab-
bitt occupied q room under the apart
ments Of Mrs. Angle. Rabbits room
was at the level Of the landing of
the stairs on which Mrs. Angie has
said she found Mr.. Ballou lying, be-
fore she dragged him down to the
street for air"