Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-28
DEFENSE PUT ON ONE WITNESS
In Morton TriaE-Accused Did Not Take the Stand-Argu n1ents Were Begun-Attorney Cronin Spoke First for the Sate-Atorney Smith Argued for the Accused and Will be Followed by Attorney Morgan.

was in the back room and she saw 1 Morton there. She later saw Morton on the street and told him she was sorry for him. Morton told her he didn't remember anything about it She said that Morton came to the place about D. m. and said, "I'd like to see that little girl
 Witness stated to AIr. Hull that she told Morton that she heard that Jones threw him out bodily on account of what he did He replied that he didn't remember anything about it.
 Attorney Smith asked the witness if she hadn't been leading a, sporting life. She bowed her head in assent
 and asked if she hadn't reformed and
 she said she had. She was sobbing when she left the witness stand. Frank $. Jones, proprietor of Jones' Inn, testified that he met Morton in the Crocker house reading room to dis cuss the story. Merton asked him, Whats the dif1culty?' Witness told him what the Fraser girl charged and
 Morton replied: 'I must have been drunk Jones claimed that he kept a YirtuOus place.
 Testimony was introduced to show that Morton and Jones were together in the lobby of the Crocloer house. Lottie Wilson and Eleanor LaBooth both corroborated the story of May Pierson about Morton having been at , LA10 OOI1GS EAtACG OIl LIlS OdN On NnCn the assault is alleged to have been committed
 Just before the noon recess Daisy Phillips was called to the stand. She told of meeting May Pierson at the Jones place to talk about starting rooming house.
 ecess was taken for an hour at 1 o'clock and when court came in again Daisy Phillips was cross examined by Attorney Morgan. She said she had been to the Jones place several times to eat but she does not drink intox- ieating liquor. What she knew about Norton and the Fraser girl was only what she had heard.
 After recalling State Policeman Downing to the stand but excusing him from him, Major Hull announced that the state rested.
 Witness for Defense. Mrs. Emma oJnes, wife of Frank Jones, was called to the stand as the first witness and as it turned out to be- the only witness for the defense. She said she saw Morton at the didn't see him and the Fraser girl 1 together and didn't know they had l been together in a room, except from what the girl told her. Mrs. Jones testified that she had charge of the register and the rooms in the house Attorney Hull objected to her tes- timony about what the register showed unless the register were in court and Attorney Smith directed her to bring the register to court the next day. After what the Fraser girl told her Mrs Jones said she went to the rooms but saw no evidence that any of them had been occupied. After what the
 Fraser girl told her she told the gird
 that she had as much on him as he
 had on her and she could write him up.
 On cross examination she said that
 Morton came back to the house about
 II o'clock that night and went to
 room At that time he was much in
 toxicated.
 After the cross examination of Mrs
 Jones the defense rested and the ar guments were begun at 3.09 o'clock.