The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-27
POLL ICE CLAIM LETTER SHOWS
 MURDER PACT Powers Held for Superior Court for Attempt to
 Murder Peters LETTER SHOWS PRE- NUPTIAL AGREEMENT. Each Promised to Kin the Other In Event of Failure
 to Keep Faith

That John w. Powers of 61 East Main street and Mrs. Powers whom he has tried to kill, had a murder pact, formed before the marriage is said by the police to be indicated by the contents of the letter Powers wrote when he intended to kill him. self, his wife and Wybert Peters, a friend of his wife.
 Powers was arraigned in the city court this morning and bound over to the superior court under bonds of S1000O. The charge was made more from assault with intent to kiuss to tsassauIt with intent to murder. The case will be heard in the May term. Powers was arrested last Sunday evening after he had shot at his wife and Peters who was in the same house, at East Main court. He all legged that Peters had come between him and his wife
 The letter written by Powers and found hidden under a rowboat in the back yard of the home, shown his in tenttous. It is interspersed with bit- ter aspersions on Peters The sub tects are discussed in a rambling man ner, and show touches of lack of men One reference in the letter is be- 1ieved by the police to show that Powers and his wife made nnurder
 
 tance The text of the letter follows:
 ssToear Mother, Father and Friends: I am sorry that this has
 got to happen But have been
 drove to it. You cannot blame
 me. My wife has left me just for k the sake of others sne would not have left me If it had not
 been for others We would haVs
 been all right if they 1eftus alone. But her mother and father Bert Peters. They took her to board In their house, and done all 1n their power to make things bad Ills is a god part to blame and her mother and father. This Peters must have paid to have us sepalrated- Her father would not .5 spend five cents to see a balloon
 bust, and everyone knows it. I
 hope can get her mother and
 father and myself and wife and
 this --s-- Peters together. T
 will kill them all I hope all my
 friends will give my little boy a
 upIift in this world for he was not tho fault of this. love my
 boy and my wife and the very
 ground they walk on If it were not for this @fooI- They charge
 me with incompetence, but if
 there is anyone that can drink any more booee than this Peters,
 wol1ld like to know where they
 are. haYs went through for him
 and they all know 1t. And she
 might as well go through
 with me for this of Bert | Peters will never have her.
 When we married we prom
 ised H there was anything hap
 pened we would never marry
 again, and she broke her promise.
 said I would kill her and she
 said the same to me. But I feel
 happy that God will forgive me,
 and all my friends for I was
 drove to it loved her or would not of done it and my boy,
 and for him insurance. it is in
 my w4fe's name, but wish they
 would give it to my mother or
 father, and not to her. It is $950
 so bidding you all goodbye. hop
 ing will be forgiven. Love to
 all and my little boy. Hoping he
 will get along in this world
 Kisses to him. (Robert Emmet
 Powers.)
 JOHN A. TOWERS Powers was arraigned before Judge Wilder this morning in the city court and the only witnesses against him were Peters. who was shot twice in the hips by Peters, and Dr. B. B. Weldon. one ambulance surgeon, who testified as to the nature Of the wounds Peters suffered.
 Powers was not put on the stand by Judge Wilder, who advised him that ne had better tell his story in the ssl- per1or courG where no past state ments would come against him.
 The seriousness of the crime with which Powers is charged caused a change on the court dockets. from in tent to kill to Intent to murder. Pow CTS pleaded not guilty.
 Mrs Powers attended the hearing. put was apparently disfnterasted in her husbands case. She was fashion ably atttred.
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