The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-16

She took advantage of the oppor- tunity to lie on the couch in the sher- ifs office to rest after the ordeal of, the witness stand.
 A few minutes before 8 o'clock this morning. two middle-aged, fashion ably dressed women climbed the courl house steps and sought admission to the court room. They were the first admitted and their earliness was re- warded by choice seats in the first row of the spectators section.
 Soon after, the court room was fII- ed to capacity. Wonzell were again iu the majority Many of them had sat through the wearisome session yesterday and were disappointed in their expectations that Mrs. Angle would testify. They were on hand again early this morning ready. to sit in the stuffy court room until 5 o'clock if f>necessary.
 Four fashionably attired women ar rived just as the last seats in the spectators section were taken. Sher- if VoHmer smiled and told them
 t.The only seats left are in the pris- oner's pen, ma'an.,' he said.
 why. they're all right was the reply.
 The four filed into the prisoners. pen, from where they commanded a full view of the jury box, defendan. and witness stand. They chatted as gai1y as if they were seated on & lounge in a. drawing room.
 Mrs. Angle arrived at the court house early.f She spent more than half an hour in consultation with hel, lawyers in the sheriffs office.
 T am ready she said to a friend 'T will not break down.
 Sheriff vo11mer at 9:so o'clock closed the court room to additional spectators. Hundreds were turned away. No standees were allowed within the railing and deputy sheriffs kept the corridors clear of wouId-be spectators.
 Mrs. Angle appeAed composed and collected as she came into the court room She paused momentariIy as her gaze swept lover the multitude of women in the spectators seats. Sev- 'era1 hundred pairs of feminine eyes were 1evel1ed at her as she assumed her customary seat beside her counsel in front of the witness stand.
 She was attired in black Her hat was a large black affair with a will 1owy plume waving at the left side :
 Court convened at 1O:11 o'clock and Mrs. Angle seemed to take an unusual interest in the opening fornaIities Her eyes were on the jury box as the talesnaen who will decide her case answered the roll call.
 Mrs. Angle was called to the stand immediately. She answered TT do'' to the oath in a firm voice.
 She said she had lived in Stamford since leaving Mt. St. Vincent's school on the Hudson in 1888. There she took a course in Bookkeeping and then became 8 bookkeeper in her fathers coal office. She had charge Of the financial affairs of the com pany and had the power of attorney from her father.
 While employed by her father, she attended the Boston Conservatory of Music The musical studies were pur- sued further in Stamford and New York and she sang in church choirs in Greenwich, Norwalk and New York.
 She continued in her fathers ern- ploy until he sold out in 1911. Then she went to New Haven as a. book keeper in 8 mercantile house. She left there in January, 1914.
 "I was in i'll health from nervous ness at that tine..' Mrs. Angle said: 'I left the place on the advice of a doctor.''
 ssI had no brothers and no sisters she said. I was the only child. On my return from the convent lived with my father until I married. I was married in 1898 and four years later was, divorced. There were no children. I procured the divorce on the grounds of desertion.
 Then went to live. with my fath- CT who had remarried. I lived with him two years.
 You're well acquainted with the RippoWam building ?,' she was asked.
 'Oh, very well.''
 Prior to last June, witness said,