The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-13

Mrs. Sera phine Klahre, matron of the Stamford police department, included the foregoing in her testimony yester- day afternoon in the trial of Mrs. Hell en M. Angle for manslaughter in caus- ing the death of Waldo R. BaIlou, the Stamford politician.
 Mrs. Klahre talked rapidly in giving her testimony. Startling conversations she claimed to have had with Mrs Angle were related as If they were every day occurrences. Occasionally Mrs. KIahre would pause, and ask: Ann talking too fast ?''t | She is a large woman. She was at l tired in black. In her corsage Mrs.
 Angle wore small bouquet of pink sweet peas A top her. little black l hat, a long fluffy blue feather bobbed
 back and forth as she talked. l Mrs. Klahre, it was expected, would l be the last witness for the state. She l took the stand late in the afternoon, and, on direct examina tion, unfolded a remarkable story of purported com
 versations with Mrs. Angle, shortly I after the death of Bal1ou. Court was lins session until s5:30 o'clock, before | adjournment was taken until Monday. Mrs. KIahre was under cross-exanin- ation when Judge Williams discharg ed the jury for the day.
 Mrs. Klahre told the jury that she l was called to the Rippowam building late on the night of June 2S. Chief Brennan and otherNpolicemen were in
 Mrs Angles apartments when she ar l rived The chief told her to go into the rear room with Mrs Angle and. l help her dress.
 Mrs. Angle appeared to be very ex- cited. She kept protesting her inno- lcence as she hunted for her clothes. I told her to hurry, and to put on any thing that was handy. She insisted on finding the things she wanted.
 1T said to her tell me about the in | jury to MT. Bal1ou.' She said she ldidn't know a, thing about it until she heard a knock at the door and Il Chief Brennan entered. She said, a I few minutes later, that she had gone downstairs to lock the front door, .l but, in answer to my question, said
 she hadn't stepped in anything wet.
 'sShe told me she was dressed all in
 white that night and had not worn ItheAtained garments found by the po- lice.a
 At this point Judge williams order
 ed a spectator away from the jury box In his efforts not to lose any of
 Mrs Klahre's testimony, he had ta- until he was shooed away by the
 judge.
 d while Mrs. Angle was hunting for q a skirt.'' Mrs. KIahre continued,
 noticed something rolled up in a
 dresser reached for it Mrs An J gle reached for it. too. and cried, Don't take that.s'
 "As tried to get it, the lights went 4 out suddenly.
 q shouted. Chief. Immediately
 the lights were switched on, and had , in my hat the underskirt that was stained with what looked like blood. Mrs. Angle cried to the chief who had
 answered my call: .s For sake. Bill. you won't
 show that up 2 s,
 s"The chief said. T won't, Nellie, un-
 less I have to-
 "On the way over to the station 1 in the auto, she again protested her
 innocence. At the station. she chang
 ed her story and said that she had heard a. noise, She said she thought
 Ballou might have fallen, and she ! went downstairs
 ..she said she found him lying on , the stairs at the landing. Speak to me, Jimmy, she said she cried. And he didn't answer me. She said she then dragged him to the l : street She did this, she said in or
 der to avoid notoriety.
 . stAt another time asked her about 7 Ba1Iou's hats which was found in her room. She said, There's a story connected with that hat and I don't : want to tell it to anybody pressed { her for the story and she said: MT. l Ballo1 was drinking last Sunday : night and met with an accident and left the hat here to be cleaned.'
 e"The next day, I saw Mrs. Angle : again. She asked me what people
 thought about her and what they { could do to her. She told me that MT BaI1ou had always acted like a , gentleman asked her about the a stains on her shirtwaist- She said they were from a nosebleed. Asked by MT Cummins if she had : detected the odor of drink on Mrs. ii Angle on the night of Ballou's death, . Mrs Klahre answered: T thought I
 did, but Mrs. Angle said she hadn't
 been drinking
 It was on July 4, that Mrs. Angle
 told Mrs. Klahre to kiss her if she , believed in her innocence, witness ! said. At that timea Mrs. Klahre said, she had asked her if there was ''an- , other man.
 of whom MT. BalIou might have been Jealous. She answered.:
 AS Good is my Maker, there is
 no one else. We had no quarrel ''She told me that MT. BaIlou was not a demonstratiye man, but he did l want to marry her.
 ''On another day, was present t when the spectacles were brought to 7 Mrs. Angle. She said, Those are Jfmmy's spectacles.'
 7 Jimmy was Mrs. Angles pet |. name for MT. Ballou, the witness ex- 7 plained.
 Cross examined, Mrs. Klahre said
 that Mrs Angle had denied previous
 declarations that Ballou was intoxi-
 cated. She said that on the night of Ba1Iou's death, Mrs. Angle talked col1erent1y, though excitedly. She said Mrs Angle didn't tell her 5 what time Ba11ou had arrived Wit ness said Mrs. Angle told her that she oftened phoned to BaIIou.
 4 Detective Sergeant Heffernan told