Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02

or William Rhodes WnO was kllleu with the Olsen brothers in the old | Kingston station on the night of Jan | uary 30. Judge Doran ordered the | opening of court at 9.30, all the jurors | being in their places. Attorney Fred | c. Olney was the first witness and his testimony tender to show robbery as | the motive for the crime. He had paid !, $125 a few weeks prior to the murder. F. D. Potter, grocer and postmaster at Kingston, testified that Rhodes was in the store, made pur- chase from Q $2 bill, and had in his possession two $1O bill and $5 bill; this was three days before the murder was committed.
 Thomas w. Rhodes, of SIocum: father of Wil@ Rhodes, testified he rever saw his son with man named Nick and witness never knew a man called Nick"
 Deputy Sheriff Bennett aoknowIedg- ed he had found boy named Mick" not a man, when cross questioned by MT. Roche. He was called Nick but that was not his name. The boys name Is Shirley. Besides Messrs. Hop kins, Thewlis, Wilcox and Smith. there was another man at the shack, when visited by the witness. Witness did not know him but heard he was a minister. Saw a. bullet wound in the
 
 was scorched, and also was the mans hair, and the collar of the sweater Nothing was taken from the pockets but watch. He saw no pocket book, or cork screw or anything else, except the watch, taken from Rhodes pock- ct. He saw no frying pan handle be- hind the stove. He saw a cartridge picked up on the floor and a shell m the wood box. The curtains were drawn when he visited the shack and so far as he knew they had not been cha1. ged since.
 Mitchell Randall, the storekeeper at Kingston, near the station, testified that Oscar Olsen was in the store at ' o'clock in the evening on the night of the murder. Oscar bought fresh pork and paid 45 cents in silver money, giving the exact change. Witness saw some bills tied in Oscars hand ker2hief, just where he took the silver coin from. Did not sell ham to Oscar. but sold some to Gustave Olsen the Friday night previous. He never saw Mellow.
 Sheriff John R. Wilcox, almost a never knew or heard of coIored man called Nick" in this section of Kingston. He visited the scene of the murder Sunday afternoon. with DeEGIy FSneTlT fonneIL, ana Me0lcal Examiner Thewlis. Town Sergeant Hopkins. and Section Boss Smith were there. Smith gave the sheriff the names of the dead men. Witness knew William Rhodes. He was lying with in eight inches of the wall.
 Sheriff Wilcox resumed his testi- | nony at the afternoon session, and testified he made careful examination of the premises on the first visit and subsequent visit. He did not see the handle of a frying pan until last Saturday. He was notified last Sat urday that the shack had been brok- en into and visited the shack with Town Sergeant Hopkins. He describ- ed in detail what was in the room of death on his first visit. wnfch was practically corroborative of previous witnesses. In the frying pan there was something that looked to him like beans. He found no bullets in the room and he was looking for evidence He found an odd rubber shoe back of the stove and the mate he found near the signal wire on the railroad track. Mellow by Section Boss Smith and started out in search of Mellow in Providence and then to Willimantic, and Middletown in search of James Maynard who was here with Mel low, but whose correst name is John
  parents lived in Portland, and from | information obtained, witness went to Ansonia and saw a post card sent by Maynard from Kingston the Friday | before the Sunday of the murder
 Witness went to police headquarters | in Providence and took Mellow to the | Kingston jail. Mellow told him the same story he told the police in Provi- dence. He said he had been in Okla homa and all over the country and | worked four months on the Westerly town farm. Mellow told him he had been arrested before for intoxication
 The sheriff related the story given by the witness of which Mellow had told them of his departure from King | ston. Mellow told witness of going back to the shack and that he saw the Olsen brothers one dead and the oth. CT dying and Rhodes stood at the table | Rhodes came at him with an axe anG Mellow struck Rhodes with a frying pan and then in the scuffle he got hold of the revolver that fell from the ta. I ble and shot Rhodes twice. Mellow took the money that was on the ta. ble about $10. After leaving the shacl he said he saw Nick and warned him not to go back to the shack ant he intended to "get him." but Nick ra1
 away. Mellor told witness of hi
 movements from the time he boarded
 the freight train to Providence unti
 he surrendered to the Providence DO lice. Mellow said 1t was his intention
 to give himself up at Kingston, bu
 feared he would be shot by some in
 discreet officer Since he was in jai
 Mellow washed blood spots from hi
 clothes.
 Sheriff Wilcox, in response to querie
 from Attorney Roche in cross examin aticn testified that when he first wen
 to the shack the doors were open, an.
 Medical Examiner Thewlis, Town Ser