Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-06
MRS. ANGLE IS ANXIOUS
TO TELL HER OWN STORY
bored ny Legal chickering's, She Com
plains Of TediuIn OF
Trial.
CORONER PHELAN ON STAND
lie Is Most Important Witness OF
Day-Constructs Dummy and
Throws 1t From Steps to See How
1t Reaches Landing.
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BRIDGEPORT. CONN, March g.
Tho stage set for tho denoucment
OF NIL Its colorful mystery, and the
back-country jurymen fairly saturated
with details OF tho architecture of tho
Itippowan Apartments. in Stamford.
wherein, on the night OF Juno 90, 1914,
Waldo r. Hallou met death, Judge
Williams tonight adjourned the man
slaughter trial OF Mrs. Helen NJ. Angle
until Tuesday morning. when the State
VIII begin weaving Its net OF c!rcum-
stantal evidence with which II hopes
to draw Mrs. Angle To prison
Bored by legal chickering's. Mrs Angle
complained Tonight of the tcdium OF
the trial. She declared herself weary.
and looked It. She seems eager TO
tnko the stand.
John J. rhelan. coroner Of Fairfield
County. was the most Important Wit
ness Of the day. He told of construct
ing dummy and tumbling and throw
Ing 1t from the top OF the stairs in the
Rippowan Apartments to see how 1t
reached the cement landing
The coroner declared he stood in the
apartment OF Patrick Rabbit, who
lives In the fiat beneath that occupied
by Mrs. Angle. and who tostincd ut the
coronors inquest OF hearing a body
fall.
II stood nbout where Rabbit said
that he WAS sitting on the night Mr..
lsallou was killed." the coroner said
They took the dummy to the top Of
the steps and let II fall. IT struck four
steps from the landing. Then they
took the dummy back. and pushed Il.
That time the dummy struck about the
place that Rabbit declared he heard
the sound"
WEIGHS SAME AS BALLoU,
AND HAS WOODEN HEAD
The coroner said the dummy weighed
rs much as Ballou and was equipped
with wooden head. lie was then
asked whether he Experimental 10
learn whether. standing in Rabbits
apartment, he could hear voices in the
stair hall. 1t was recalled that Rnb
bit declared that he heard no voice.
and that Mrs. Angle Is alleged to hnyc
told the police matron after her ar.
rest. that she heard the crash, and
ran out to the hall and cried: Jimmy.
Jimmy. what's the matter"
I'helan declared one OF the men
uttered these words at the top OF tho
steps. and that. while he could hear
the voices plainly enough. he could not
discern the words spoken.
While this testimony was being pro-
duced. Mrs. Angle watched tho r1ner
closely.
a suggestion OF third party was
made by counsel for tho accused
woman while cross-examininG Howard
a. Parsons. the Stamford civil enri-
neer who made tho diagrams OF the
Angle apartment and Of the stairs
Parsons described minutely the red
prints OF bare fee, which no saw and
measured. One, left foot. In the ves-
tibule. he declared. WAS SIS inches
long and A inches wide Another
print OF Il left foot found In tho apart
'nent hc described as being abou, a
haif-!mch smaller all around Parsons
declared he was not prepared to say
whether the prints were made by the
same person.
Parsons said that when he went 10
tho Rippowan Apartment tho morning
following the tragedy he discovered
that the cement landing ut the head
OF the stairs was damp. He declared
that the dampMcss was evidently
caused by an application OF water.
sketch OF the Anglo and Rabbit
apartments was produced by Nelson f.
Emmonds, the architect. who designed
the Rippownn building. and Mr.. Cum
n!ngs declared he would produce n
series OF photographs OF tho interior
OF the Angle rooms taken directly after
the tragedy.