The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-26
HAYNES DELIBERATELY PLANNED WIFE MURDER.
 PROSECUTIONS CLAIM
Assistant States Attorney Garter Outlines State Case in Opening Address-Jury Finally Filled and Trial Gets Under Way-Prisoner Showing Signs of Strain Under Ordeal

I shot outside.
 ffWe will offer evidence to prove l that the deceased went to the te1e- 1 phone to call for help or a conveyance and that the accused took his, shotgun,
 as we claim, and fired at his wife while she was at the telephone The receiver dropped and we will offer to you what was heard on that tele- phone wire by a party who was
 using it.
 we will offere evidence to prove that she ran out of the house and into the back yard, that he followed her and discharged the contents of an 1 other barrel into her body.
 Coming back to the little boy, we will show that he reached the house fronted by his father with shotgun in his hands We will offer evidence i that he said: Get out! I am des- perate! I will kill you!'
 i t'The boy ran out and with his little brother, Willie, attracted by the 1 shots came to the house and found 1 his mother there riddIed with shot
 we will offer evidence to prove that after this was done, as we claim 1 by this man, he started out of the 1 house, got another gun, met the com l panion, and started to go through l the barn adjacent to the house; that he told his companion that he had done the deed and expected to hang for it; that he had some talk with his l copnpanfon and went back to the house and put this other gun on the 1 bed in the house and departed He was not found by any of the authori- 1 ties for three or four days after the homicide, when he was arrested in i Newtown.
 "One other incident about which we will offer evidence: that on the day his wife was injured and had been taken to the hospital, the con- stable having received word that Haines had been arrested in Bridge port for the assault. We shall show that this constable came to Bridge port to arrest him. That he took him back to Trumbu11 by a road past the hospital where the wife was being treated for the cut on her head in f1icted, as we claims, by the ac- cused. That the constable said: There is your poor wife in that hos pital, who may die.' This, gentlemen of the jury was three days before the homicide. The accused replied to the constable with a vile oath and unseeming1y remarked that She ought. to die she was no good any how
 Following the selection of the last two talesmen yesterday the court upon the request of states attorney, Homer s. Cummings, took a short recess. Haines walking out of the courtroom for: few minutes, gave the first indt- cation shown during Sthe- progress of the examination that the strain was telling upon him. As he stepped from the courtroom into the corridor he gave a convu1sive sigh, seemingly re- lieved that the selection of a jury had been accomplished.
 Upon resumption of the proceed ings the oath was administered to the newly drawn jury. and the indictment against Hafnes read.
 For the first time since the trial opened Ga1en s. Carter took a prom inent part in the proceedings. That he will present the evidence against Haines became apparent as he arose to address the jury.
 Two maps Of the grounds and in terior of the Haines homestead on Chestnut Hill were introduced in evil dence being sworn to accuracy by Aubrey D. Fuller, a civil engineer, ern- ployed by Scofield & Ford. and living at 1873 Boston avenue. These were made on October and disclose the fixed objects of the lower floor of the building and a portion of the grounds and outhouses.
 Under cross examination by Attor- neyl Klein, the various distances, exits and apartments were described in de- tail.
 Lewis H. Corbit, Bridgeport pho tographer, at the instance of the state, identified g. number of phOto- graphs he had taken on the afternoon of Sept. 27. An attempt to place these in evidence was. strongly pro- tested by the defense resulting in a ruling by the court that they might be introduced if. certain markings upon the backs were effaced. An exception to the ruling was noted by the de- fense upon the ground that they were not evidence until substantiated by further testimony. ss-.
 The photograp aphs were not shown to the jury but a description made by MT. Corbit as they were offered for identification disclosed that they were taken to reproduce the course believed to have been taken by Mrs. Haines as she ran from the room in which it is 1 alleged she was first shot to the spot | at which her body was found.
 The. question of whether certain l spots shown on several of the photo | graphs were believed by the photo- 1 grapher to have been blood formed the subject of a second objection bv | Judge DeForest.' The testimony was admitted as ffbeIief' with instructions by the court to the jury not to con sider the spots as blood until further testimony in proof of the assertion is | introduced by the prosecution.