New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-04
Mrs. Angle Still Game
as Her Jury Is Selected

to them about il. lie also warned them
not to read any newspaper accounts OF
the trial.
Connecticut juries are not locked up
during trial. Mr.. Ilawlcy. in fact, is
still 80 much n man of affairs that he
spoke up in court and asked the judge
70 adjourn the court at 4:45 because
he had TO catch his train home.
The most important witness called on
the first day was DR.. Otto SchultZe, OF
New York. n specialist in autopsies. He
examined the body Of Waldo X. Ballou,
ut the cemetery in Winchcndon. Mass,
on July Ii. He testified that Ballou
had died ~ the result Of a fractured
skull The fracture, he said. had been
caused by "thc infringement OF fiat
surface bearing considerable weight
upon the skull. or by the skull, with
the weight OF the body behind it, i'm
pinging upon Nat surface. II was
technically known as bursting tract
urc. such ~ would be made only by a
large flat surface.
DR.. Schultzc Witness.
"If the deceased struck his head
against cement tagging at the foot
of a stairway. could it have caused such
a fracture ?" asked Mr.. Cummings.
Eyes" the witness answered.
"How large n surface was necessary
20 make such a fracture ~ was the next
question.
at must have been larger than the
back of the skull The witness eX-
planned: "a small surface, such as a
hammer. would have broken through
and carried away parts of the bone.
Upon cross-eXaminatiou DR.. Schultz
- IL. Il
not necessarily have been larger than
the back Of the head. A baseball bat
welded with sufficient force would
have caused such a fracture, he said,
hut n surface not more than one inch
across would have left the bone IN
fragments, not cracked. rs he found II.
No reference was made TO the Nat
iron which was mentioned IN last sum-
mer's versions OF the case.
4 stir was caused by the witness
statement that the heart and brains
we're missing from the body when he
examined IT, Judge y. {. Downs, chief
counsel for Mrs. Angle. expressed sur
rrise at this. lie had asked # the con
ditiou Of the heart and brain might
not indicate that death was caused by
heart disease or apopleNy. DR.. Schultze
said he did not know anything about
those organs.
Those who imagined a mystery were
satisfied after the adjournment OF the
court by the statement Of persons with
good memories that there had been "A
previous autopsy before DR.. Schultze
was called in by the state. Counsel Tor
the state refused to confirm this state
ment. Much emphasis was put on the
presence of two sets Of parallel ridges
on the forehead and upper part of Mr.:
Ballou's skull. No answer was obtained
to show what caused the ridges.
Thomas 4. Brennan. Of Stamford, tho
undertaken who had charge Of the fu-
neral. vas the only other witness
called
The witnesses for the state arc OK
pected TO occupy most Of the time of
The court this week. II Is doubtful
whether Mrs. Angle will be called TO
the witness box before next week.
Many Of the persons identified with
tho case last summer we're IN court to-
day. among them being DR.. Bruce j.
Weaver and DR.. George Sheriff.. of
Stamford: William II. Brennan. chief
Of police of Stamford. and Mrs. Sierra
phina Kalahre, police matron, y no had
charge of Mrs. Angle when she was
first arrested last June.