Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-05
WITH SMILE ON HER LIPS,
HEARS STORY SHATTERED
Mrs. Helen Angle Charged Will,
Granddaughter in Connection With
Death OF Waldo II. Ballou.
FIVE PHYSICIANS TESTIFY
They Swear There Is No Evidence Of
Either OF Affections ON Which Ac-
cused Woman Pins Her Faith
She Will Take Stand Next Week.
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BRIDG EpORT, CONN, March -
Mrs. Helen Angle. authoress. divorce
and wealthy Bohemian leader, sat be
fore a jury Of her peers and forced a
smile to her pallid lips to-day. while
Ave physicians all but shattered her
defense that Waldo Il. Iiallou. million
aire clubman. who's" battered body was
found In front OF her fashionable apart
ments I'm Stamford, met his death
through accident. 1t is claimed.
There was nothing forced abou, tn.
smile when she entered III" courtroom
for the second day OF her trial on
charge OF InanslauEhter. Her attor-
neys were contcnding that Bailou.
sixty mine years old, ciubnan and poll
tician. had plunged down the stairway
OF the apartment house TO his death, az
result of stroke OF apoplexy, or
heart disease. and. seemingly. there was
no rcbuttal TO this contention, FOR "A
physician who performed the autopsy
on the body. swore that both the heart
and the bra.n--said TO be the only
organs BY which the presence oF either
diseases could he Systematically
missing.
Hut to-day five physicians. led By
Or. Bruce Weaver, Of Eew York, took
the stand. aud one after another swore
that they had examined both heart anI
brain OF the dead man. and neither
showed the slightest evidence OF either
Of the Affections on which Mrs Anyl.
pinned her faith. There was not the
slightcst abnOrmality anywhere. they
swore, which would cause such a fall
Ntv Ia !, 10
death cause. Added 10 this. they do
clarcd that II would have been all but
Impossible for Ballou 70 have fallen
in such a manner as TO have landed on
the back OF his head.>sand burg; his
skull At It's base. at the Very Juncture
Of skull and neck Finally. States At
torney Homer s. Cummings brought out
the fact that Haliou's knees and
kuuckles were battered and bruised
Indicating that he was hurled. head and
face foremost down the stairway, "a
result of a terrific blow struck from
behind
SHOWS uNCANNY PICTURE
Or HLOOD-SNEARED HALLS
When tho doctors wcr. done Mr..
Cummings hung two diagrams OF the
X Up Apartments, where Tn.
tragedy occurre.t. Step by step. lining
an uncanny picture Of the blood
smeared halls walls AID floors. lie
coached Harold y. Parsons a civil engi-
necr. 10 trace course through the
corridors and rooms OF the apartment,
and designate hefc a pool OF blood
there deep rcd smear and along the
halls and dom the stairs prints OF
womans bare feet. crimson with the
blood Of the dead man
And through all this CORY prologue.
her smile OF defiance elasking hut
,hinly tn" struggle wicn!n her, Mrs
Angle. the worn logging woman whom
Hallou visited that night, su, AT the
eide of her father, Leonard BIondcu
watching her lawyers She is due 10
take the stand herself next TUESDAY.
she VIII he her own star Witness Then
Will come the test OF the accused
woman
After declaring that he found the
brain and heart OF Waldo r. Bailou in
as normal condition as might be cx-
pected with u man OF sixty-nine years.
Dr Weaver declared Rallous heart was
trife atrophi-d. because OF his ad.
Nanced years. hut that, like the brain
OF the man. II performed It's functions
with normal precision.
In my opinion. Nj. Hallou did no,
suffer stroke OF apoplcxy that night.
nor did his heart fail him" declared tho
doctor.
Nicholas g. Downs. chief OF Mrs
Angles counsel. then sought for two
hours to steer Or. Weaver into az adj
mission that Ballous injuries we're OF
such character and location that they
might have beer sustained by his fan
down stairs and upon the cement land
ing.
NO. hrmly repeated the doctor, "I
cannot see how lie could have received
those fractures by falling down stairs"
Cummings asked DR.. Weaver whether.
assuming that Ballou trippcd and
plunged forward and downward, Bal
lou's head would have struck the land
ing first The doctor though, not-tha.
inc hands would have touched before
the head. Then DR.. Weaver testified
that the palms OF Baliou's hands wer.
not bruised.
DR.. Weaver was supported in his
testimony by Drs. Charles H. u. Meade
or Straticld; Frederick Schayoir. q,
Stratfield: Samuel Pierson and George
Sheriff., of Stamford.
Fully ESQ protesting women were
shooed away from the courthouse to-
day because there was no room for
them