Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-04

tteIi Shs CdtSDQIS, O1 InC GldE56 LII I'll SL | degree murder in having shot and instantly killed William Kinney of | Preston; on May 6th, last, at the Sals- bury home in Preston. What the ! states attorney had brought into court | and shown before tha jury ineIuds l l two n:Ihs of the Salisbury house and | grounds around it, nine or ten pic: ! tdres the bl0edstained and bullet l pierced Shirt that Kinney wore, two l splintered pieces of the bullet that 1 l were removed from Kinf1ev's body, l the window sash through which it is alleged Salisbury poked his rife when l 1 he fired the fatal shot a curtain that l hung in front of the window, the rife l and the three loaded cartridges found | in it after Salisbury had fed from the | heuse. ] One of the points that the states at tprnev brought out through :estiInony was that it was possible to stand at 1 the front window of the Salisbury kitchen. by the side of a sewing ma | chine there and fire q gun to hit a man at the point in the road where Kinrey's body fell when he was shot. When court opened at 10 o'clock in l the morning there were four jurors to l be secured to fill up the jury to try the case ar1d these were all secured in an helir from the examination of six teen men. The four wf1o completed the | jury were:
 Ray c. Gardner, sS, retired, Gris-- weld
 Nave, Seymour. s7. expressnan, Jewett City. j. Burrill W Lathrop, 50, retired, Nor l wich Town
 Henry J. Williams, 54, farmer Leb- anon
 ! The following were the talesmen ex- annired hy the attorneys for the sfat,, fnr tha accused and by Judge William & Case;
 James Johnson. Colchester, plumber, evonsad by coiIrt.
 Nathaniel Manning. a9. Lebanon farmer. challenged by Salsbury's at- ter1eyE.
 I7rark l.. Lathron. s2. kne~ Sinnev, aaI Chapudn excused hv ths co1trt
 Pobart F. SHsr1nar. 72, Colchester, fa~~1sr. exr'1sed by the court
 Charles e. Haskell. 57. Preston, farmer, excused bv the court.
 Fay c. Gardr"r e6 Griswold, &C.,
 cented as juror No. q
 Mavev Sevmerr sT, Grisweld. ex- prossrnan sneerted ae irro~ Nn. 10 1 Walter I. Tnh~snu a0 Gr'IEold, car perthr. excused l1v court
 W'iriam q Pttltz. 7e Leba ron, farm
 or. challenged by defendants attor
 ner
 Gecr~a F Adams. Norwich. excused
 by conrt
 Pnrrill " Lathron. 60. Norwich,
 farmer, accepted as i,tror No. II.
 Chrtetie A. Foster. 31, Lebanon, ex-
 cused by court.
 Ransom T.. Yerrineton 72 Salem,
 farmer. challenged by defendants at
 tornevs
 Jabez C. athron. 27, Bozrah, farmer,
 eynnsed by. the court. Frederick N Taylor, Lebanon, farm ] CT. challenged hv state attorney.
 Henry !. Williams, Lebanon, accept , ed as juror No. 12.
 When court adjourned for the day
 Jud~e Case warne.1 the jurors against
 reading any newspaper accounts of
 the case
 Cfvil Engineer George F. Pitcher was
 the fret witness called by the state ) after Saisbury had been put to plea l and had pleaded not guilty to the in dictment for first degree murder He described in detail two maps of ? the premises and the house and the
 photographs that he had taken l In the kitchen the plans showed a sewing machine in front of the front l window, trunk in the northeast cor ner, table farther back in the room r another trunk at the middle of the e rear wall of the room. a range along d the west wall, and another trunk on s that side of the room.
 As to the window. MT. Pitcher said f the glass in the upper portion Of the : sash was whole. but both glasses ir
 the lower sash were broken.
 At this point the lower window sash
 from the Chapman house was brought
 into court as an exhibit and identified by Mir. Pitcher, who said he took il
 from the house on the day he made the
 survey and had turned it over to Dep e uty Sheriffs Draper and Stanton. Mr - Pitcher said he could easily see te e where the blood spots were in the read - when hA was standing by the westerly
 side of the sewing machine at the from
 window.
 : In one of the two panes of the win.
 dow sash is a small round bullet holt s nGcr the bottom of the pane and . good sized piece of the upper part O V the pane is broken out. The othe
 glass has large round shaped-sec
 lion smashed out. This is the window
 through which it is claimed Salsbur,
 fired the shots that killed Kinney ant
 Chapman.
 - It is IS feet from the gate to Eh center of the highway in front of tn 1t house and 79 feet from this point t IT the place where the blood spots were Se the witness testified. ar Mir Pitchers direct examination wa Fl concluded at 12.55 and his crcss ex 0f animation was begun by Attorney Des
 mondt and was continued after tn " recess for dinner from 1 to oclocf y Attorney Desmond went into particu T. lars in his cross examination as at other windows and doors in the hous l. besides what Mir Pitcher testified | ce in his direct examination. He aske of the witness about the fastenings c d the doors and also about the fasten m ing of the gate in the wire fence i
 front of the house. The witness sai n, he had not noticed the fastenings. n, Dr. N. B. Lewis, medicA examine ,il for the town of Preston. who perform l. ed the autopsy on May I on the bod ty of Kinney, read his autopsy notes. a- The external marks on the body C
 Chapman were abrasions on lip, nos t. chin and right knee. le With State Attorney Hull standin D. near him, Dr. Lewis illustrated 0 at MT. Hulfs body what the exterie on wound on Kinney were. He shove
 where a bullet entered the body S. Kinney on the right side of the bac H. between the sixth and seventh rib g. having torn jagged wound in tt n, right arm on the way, and comin m. out on the left side of the body nd front between the eighth and mint
 ribs. Other exterior wounds on u
 body, the doctor said, showed ths
 the bullet had splintered. one splir ok I-ter passing upward and coming out |; at the left shoulder. and another splintt ne coming out low down at the back re the neck.
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