Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-01
WESTERLY AND VICINITY
Trial of James F. Mellow Begun at Kngston-Indcted Only for Murder of William H. Rhodes-State's Testimony Will be All In by Noon Today-Bullets Taken From Bodies of Rhodes and the Olsen Brothers Among Ez- hibits

the bullets and of the nature of the | wounds. He said that evidence point ed to the fact that the bullets had | b'en fired from close range. bullet | ei"m tre bc dy of Gustave Olsen was marked exhibit 14. Some brain mat ter and a few pieces of skull bone were marked for Identification. A. Dr. Thewhs stated that the body of Oscar OlEeE showed signs of violence.
 Dr.. ThewIIs testified that he found one bullet In Rhodes and three bullet holes; the other two bullets hay ing passed through. The bullet near the ear took an inward course, the one on the neck upward and Inward. These were the only one in the head, The second finger of the left hand was shot forward and inward, but was not shot off. On the right side of the head above the temple there was a confusion, that could have been caused by being struck with a hard sub stance. There was no blood clot and the blow was probably not struck while Rhodes was living. Saw no other wounds.
 He did not know how many shots entered Oscar oIsen's bodY. There was a shot through the left hand. another in the left cheek bone and lodged in he nose. There were no powder marks. There was another shot in the
 
 out. The witness could not find 1t. in body, and it evidently came out through a fracture of the skull. An other shot in the back of the skull, with slight powder burn, Indicating that the shot was fired at short range There was a deep eash in the back of the skull. evidently done by an axe. Should say two blows were struck, one by the sharr and the other by the blunt end of an axe.
 Tn the body of Gustave Olsen there was one bullet wound, and the bullet was found. He was shot just above the right eye, and the course of the bullet was forward inward and down
 ward, but straight course. There was no powder burns.
 In Oscar OIsen's pockets were found some snuff, a comb three keys on a chain. On Gustave Olsen were found | a handkerchief but could not tell whether it was red or white. The | only one Cf the three struck by an
 axe was Oscar Olsen and the three ] men were shot. When witness vis- | ited the haclI. one chair was upset. I He did not notice any cooking uten- | sils on the stove. and did not see 9 | frying pan on the floor. He did not 1 see an ave but under a window. | Rhodes was a good sized man, Os- | car Olsen was fairly well developed | but not as large as Rhodes. Gus l tave Olsen was a large man. All were good sized men. Witness was not there when the bodies were taken
 away. He could not say whether the 1 window shades were drawn. He saw 1 an empty whiskev bottle on the floor l but no fork or glass. He looked into
 was in the bag. He did not know 1 it contained groceries
 John Smith. the next witness, tes- | tifed that he was section foreman | at Kingston and covered four miles | of tra Cka ge. He first saw Mellow, 1 June 26, in the section house, at in | the morning. Oscar Olsen said he l had two men who wanted to go to work. One of the men was the ac- | cused and gave his name as James 1 Morris and he was put to work, al- 1 though he said he had never worked ! on the tracks. The other man. James l Maynard, was also put to work He worked three days and a half, and was not industrious. Maynard went
 away and Morris said: "Tm glad
 Maynard is gone for he knew too | much of me"
 Witness testified to going to the | shack and saw the dead bodies of the | Olsen boys who worked for him, and 1 also the body of a cOlored man. Sent | a message to headquarters of railroad l company in Providence of the mur- | der. Gustave Olsen was paid off | Thursdays. His pay was $11 a week, | but on the Thursday before the mur- | der he was paid SIP. The pay enve- | lope was identified by witness, as that | of Gus Olsen. Oscar received S1040 | the same week. Oscar was off the | Monday previous, but Gus was on duty. Could not tell whether he went | off nights. Gus did not use a rail-
 road pass the present year. Mellow
 worked four days and there is S46O l due him.
 Witness went to the shack with
 Town Sergeant Hopkins. The shades
 were down at both windows. On the l table he saw four bottles of whiskey 1 cans of beans, and a frying pan with | beans in it. Saw the body of Rhodes
 and an axe near the body and a bag | of bread. Saw a wound in the back | of Rhodes head and on his finger His | Sweater was burned, the back of his | neck and his hair was also burned | Rhodes trousers pockets were turned | inside out and one trousers leg was | torn to the knee.
 John H. Hanifan testified he was | a special agent of the New York, New | Haven and Hartford Railroad com
 pany, with quarters in Providence. He
 received Q description of Mellow and
 saw him on Cranston street. Mellow | said aloud: Its a lie" Trailed him
 and lost him in Cottage street. Saw Mellow running towards the tower | and put chase for him. That was on l Monday, Feb. 2. the day Mellow gave
 himself up to the Providence police.
 George N. Sherman testified that he | was f1agnan for the railroad com pany, stationed at the crossing near the old station on the night of the
 murder. On that night, with Oscar Olsen, Mellow visited witness at the