The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-26

The prosecution in the case of the State against Jason S. Haines, the | wealthy TrumbuII farmer for the murder of his wife, Anna, last Sep 1 tember, at their home on Chestnut | Hill road, disclosed yesterday that it i expected the sons of the accused to l be arraigned against their father in | behalf of a dead mother.
 l This patent inference came like a thunderc1ap in the big superior court room where a jury had been chosen after much difficulty before Judge
 James H. Webb, of New Haven. It was made in the outline of the prose cution to the jury shortly after the oath had been administered to the 2 men who will sit upon the fate of the accused. Assistant States Attorney Galen S. Carter revealed this odd phase in the tragedy which was enacted in the lonely farm house last September, when he outlined to the jury the alleged motive and inci-
 dents that the state will contend urg- ed Jason s. Haines to the murder he stands accused of.
 Jason, Jr., and William .Eaines, re- spectively aged 16 and ' years, alleg- ed to be the only living witnesses who can relate to a court the events prior and shortly following the homi- eide, are expected to testify, accord ing to the recital of the states prose cutor yesterday, that their father re- fused to permit his wife to use, a horse for the purpose of visiting a. justices court to testify against him in an assault case; that they heard shots and upon running back found their father with a shot gun in his hands and their mother. dead. Ja- son Haines, Jr-, will, it is confidently expected from / statements of. the prosecutor, be- compelled to testify that his father with a shotgun in his hands, threatened to shoot him if he did not at once leave the house.
 The opening address of the prose cution to the jury, made by Assistant States Attorney Ga1en A. Carter, dis closed in full, the contentious of the state that Jason s. Haines murdered his wife premeditatedIy on the morn ing of September 27s following a pre- vious assault that had sent her to a hospital for treatment. The charge in part follows:
 q shall state todthe court and gen. t1emen of the@jury the facts connect ed with this homicide. The accused is indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree for killing of Anna Haines, his wife,
 s The states attorney then detailed that Haines was merely charged for mally with the crime and should not be considered guilty until evidence had been presented in quantity to convict
 .sThe accused continued MT. Car ter, formerly a resident of Fairfield oldest at the time of the homicide, 16, and the youngest 7-removed to Trumbun last April, five months be- fore the 27th day of Septem ber-
 teThe state will offer evidence to prove that prior to. removal to Trum- bull and afterwards there was con stant quarrelling between the accused and his wife, and that he made threats at various times against the life of his wife. These in substance were that he would kill her. In fact. we shall offer evidence to prove that in the week preceding the homicide, which occurred on Monday, that he carried a pistol and stated that he was going to kill his wife and on the very day of the homicide in the pres ence of two witnesses, he said he in tended to kill her.
 ''On Friday preceding the homicide, the state will offer evidence to prove that he assaulted his wife, cutting her head so that it became necessary that she go to a, hospital for treat ment and that on that Friday she was taken to the hospital by the con- stable of the town of TrumbuIl to whom she made complaint of the as sauIt by her husband. She returned to her home that Friday evening".
 srwe shall offer evidence to prove that the accused was complained of, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Bridgeport, that the accused was taken before a, justice of the peace in Trumbun and gave bonds for his appearance, the dAte being fixed for September 27. 1915, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
 t0 that he gave bond, came to Bridge port andFdid not return home to his wife or family at any time suntil Mon day morning. with the exception of one half hour or so. Sunday morning when he returned home to change horses.
 we shall show that he started for home Monday morning, the morning of the homicide, the morning he was to answer the charge of assault. He reached home that morning about 1 2 o'clock and went into the house. His wife was there, alive, and the two older boys, Jason, Jr., and William. There was quarre1ing in the house. He told her she could not go to court to testify against him and he forbade her or the boy to take a horse to go from there to the, Justice court which was some three or four miles away; that she said to him that she would phone and procure. rig. or automo- bile and go to court and testify; that thereupons the companion who came up with him and the younger boy, William, went out of the house and over lots to pick some apples. The older boy, Jason, about 16 years of age who was at that time attending High school in Bridgeport and was obliged to walk from his home in Trumbull, left the house somewhere around I and 30 in order to reach 1 High school in Bridgeport in the neighborhood of 2 o'clock. |
 We will show you the conversa- tions that took place in that house up to within five minutes of the actual | shooting. We will offer evidence to 1 prove that the little boy, Jason, had 1 left the house and had gotten abcnlt i