The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1915-03-20
HlBtE CASEfA|LS
ORDER
N OF UNDRESSING
Do Women Take of Shoes
and Stockings First Still a
Mooted Question.
SURE DO, If FEET HURT.
Prosecutions Contention in
Murder Case Attacked by
Woman and a Lawyer.

- - W0IID.v
BRIDGEPORT. March So.-Ths 40
guittal Of xrs. Helen n. Angle Of
stamford On ne charge Of killing
waldo n. Bailou has not ended the
vstl question propoundsd to the Jury
~ States Attorney Homer Q. Cum
olnss Of Fairfield County: Does any
voman. undressing for bed. ever take
"a both shoes and stockings before
- takes OF anything sissr
Numerous letters On the dsoatablS
Gol5sct have bsAA ssns 70 the court,
- he prosecutor and - lawyers for
~ defense. "$' seF -
There y also some question - 70
~ fast . woman can divsst herself
= her clothing sftsr dismissing Q
eallsr at the door Of her apartment
Hero are samples Of the CORE
Gpondence which has been coming
into Bridgeport:
Judge: Mr.. Cummings does not
Know what he IL talking about
whom he says q woman never
takes OF her shoes and stock
ings nrst. I, for one. always do
uniess In an evening gown, and
than because would soil and
muss II. ~ they are made Of deli
- cate materials. I think 1t an In
Justice to convict Mrs. Angle or
any other woman on that ground.
MRS. L. x. THOMAS,
M New York City.
p. 6.-Another thing-thers
ISN'T . man living that left my
house that couldn't be I'M
eressed and almost In bed before
be- could got down one flight Of
steps ana into, the street, and
an forty years old.
Maurice Tumble Jones, Attorney
at Law. No. . Rector Street.
lNsw yofW
Attorney for Mrs Helen n.
Angle. Bridgeport. Conn.
M. Qsnt,emen: have been follow 4
lns the published accounts Of
he trial Of Mrs. Angle with .
great deal OF interest. was es-
pecialiy impressed with the
stress laid upon tho fact that
Mrs., Angle took of her shoes
and stockings before she removed
her other clothing on the night
OF the accident or murder.
After reading In the paper the
account Of the trial In which the
Incident Of the shoes and stock
4. ings was recited. whom ! got
home at night, I asked my wife
at which stage OF the proceeding
of disrobing she took on her
eAoss and stochngs. ! did not
SAe question. She promptly re-
\ ylisd: n usually take them on
y6st, but whom my feet hurt
IKE them on the frst thing"
Here u one case, At least, in
which the so-callsd "time. honored
Fuls" u broken. II seems to me
That offering In evidence q Gus.
tom OF women to rebuff sworn
oaAtement Of fact ought not to b
Vory psrsuasive. II ought not to
- difAoult to md some women in
0eidgeport who have sore feet and
Who therefore take of their shoes
nd stockings before they remove
4 their other clothing. The n,ows-
papef In which ! read the ac-
Sount Of the trial said the result
q the trial hung upon the incl
Iont Of the shoes and stockings,
The reasoning seemed to be that
- woman ever took on her shoes
Snl stockings before removing
HoY other clothing upon preparing
1bP bed. and therefore Mrs. Angle
4puld not have done 20. It would
- Impossible for the prosecution
A alta hliah the Drouiaea uDO0
which such Q proposition 10 based.
Yours very truly.
III M. T. JONES.
Yhsrs are other opinions just a.
Aecidedly In favor of the views NJ
Mr.. Cummings.