The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-30

Arraigned before Coroner Phelan in Bridgeport, he refused to tell where he had been or. why he killed his wife. To Sheriff Pease. however, he said he did it to protect .shimself,p and to Con- stable Emil Berger of Trunbu1I he as serted that his wife had been throwing plates at him.
 self-defense will probably be ad vanced by Haines as the reason for the n1ufA fAers SSAttorney Jacob B. FSlein was retained this afternoon to defend him and at the eoroner's hearing, Haines refusedNt ito make a statement until he talks tof ofcounsel.
 5t Haines is believed to have been l shamrning insanity since his cap ture. He has told stories of being 1 captured yesterday afternoon by two state policemen. Asked where he has spent his time, he said he was watching them making animals in Bethel.''
 At the coroner's hearing, however, and in the cell before that he was absolutely rational. It is the belief of authorities that he is carrying out l. a carefully planned plot to pose as an insane man.
 That he may have been seoreted in some friends home, is not believed | imp ossible One man says he be- lieves Haines has been shaved since the murder. His clothes are no more dishevelied than usual He>doesn' t appear to have suffered from hun ger.
 Edward Ratigan, who was arrested after the murder, was released this af- ternoon at the order of Coroner Phe- lam The latter begins his inquiry at 5 o'clock this afternoon in Newtown: Haines was taken before Coroner Phe1an at 1:30 o'clock. He was taken from his cell and brought into the general receiving room, in Jai1er Mat l | EPhe1an, Sheriff Sienon B. Pease, Con l stable Emil Berger of Trunbull, Clerk Dennis O'Nein of the county jail and Court Stenographer George Hawley-
 He was unperturbed. In fact he had slept all during the hour and a half before his arraignment, after having eaten his breakfast and dinner at the same time. Sheriff Pease found ! him fast asleep on a cot in his cell. There was no sign of nervousness about the prisoner. He talked per fect1y rational and was at his ease at all times. When fire engines passed 1 the Jail on the way to a fire he mani Tested great interest. The proceedings were interrupted while everybody, in cIuding Haines went to the windows to see the apparatus
 Constable Berger was first put on the stand, which was simply a chair at the desk of Jailer Scott.
 "Haines tried to give the impression | that he is demented, at times Berger said but I received some rational an- swers to questions.
 t'When asked What did you shoot your wife for?' he safd
 tsI had right
 | "What did she do to you?' I asked. i Lots of things he replied
 What for instance ?" 7t' Well, she threw plates at me, for one thing Constable Berger said he Iasked Haines if the plates that were found broken on the floor were the ones she threw at him. and he said Haines replied in the affirmative.
 ..Haines told me he shot his wife four times. twice while in the house and twice outside. I asked him where he had been. He said: .Oh, all around I said: What were you doing in Bethel?'
 He replied: <t.I was watching them make animals
 Make animals?'' I said
 "'Yes,' he replied. They made 5o cows some horses and lots of pigs while I was there
 Who made them ?'' I asked.
 Those fellows. those detectives" he said They kept putting that stuff on them. They have to put that on them or they'll go all around
 Constable Berger had explained that he thought FIaines had planned to dissenble and make a -'b1uff'' that I he is crazy. He thought these last words were evidence of this.