Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-05
SALISBURY TELLS STORY OF SHOOTING

one calling. She told of coming cross lots to the Salisbury barn. Upon ar rival she saw the body of Kinney | lying in the road. She did not hear | any shots and did not know where her | husband was at the time of the shoot i ing.
 She spoke to MT. Maynard and then went back home and fond her hus- band at home having been brought | back in a team. She was so excited she did not notice that it was her husband in the team Had her .hus- band taken into the house and noti- fled Dr. Cassidy.
 A recess was taken at this point,
 Mrs. Alice L. Kinney, widow of Will liam Kinney. testified that she has lived in Norwich since the tragedy in which her husband lost his life. but at the time he was killed was living in house on the branch road a snort distance from where this road branches off opposite the Salisbury house. She said that she had showed Civil Engineer Pitcher where she Hurements there
 stood and had seen him taking meas
 At the time of the shooting Mrs. Kinney said she was standing near a bend in the road and heard a shot. She saw her husband standing in front of the gateway in the wire fence in front of Salsburys house: and close tc the gate. Mir. Chapman was stand ing beside him. At the shot Chapn1an n sank. to his knees. Kinney picked him up and they started away from the house, running up the hill. There was another shot and MT. Kinney fell head first, throwing up his arms.
 At this point Mrs. Kinney was over , 7OJo ltyy animation was halted for few mo ments while she recovered herself. Judge Case declared a short recess and the jury retired also Mrs. Kin rey is slim and slight and was dress ed all in black with wide brimmed black hat with the brim faced in white
 When the recess was over Mrs Kinney was not put oh the stand again but Mrs. Chapman was cross exam ined by Attorney Desmond.
 Charles E. Maynard of Preston, who lives a quarter of q mile from the | Salisbury place. testified that he saw Mrs. Chapman in the road near his place on the afternoon of the shooting | and in consequence of that went down the road and saw the body of Kin ney. When Maynard raised the body | up he saw that the man was dead. He l laid it back as he found it and went back to his house to telephone. Before he had seen Mrs. Chapman | he had heard shots, four of them, but the first knowledge he had of the tragedy was when he saw Mrs Chap man. The shots apparently came as | fast as any one could throw the shells out of the rifle, in five or ten seconds. He paid no attention to the shots at the time of heaving them.
 Public Defender Brown cross exam | ined MT. Maynard briefly.
 Albert P. Bennett of Westerly tes- 1 tified that he saw the body of Kinney
 soon after MT Maynard saw it. Ben
 nett was on his way to Westerly and
 there was no one at the body when he saw it.
 Mrs. Kinney resumed the stand af- ter MT. Bennett had left
 After she had seen her husband fall
 she said she heard two more shots that come from the Salisbury house
 She did not notice from what portion
 of the house the shots came. Before
 she saw MT. Chapman fall she had
 heard talking but not what was said
 Neither Kinney nor Chapman were in
 side the fence of the Salisbury time \ She heard no voices from the Eouse. After her husband fell sht
 heard Chapman calling Hattie" Sh,
 found Chapman sitting under a tre, which was in sight of the place wher' Knney's body lay, but she did no
 go to the body because Mrs. Chapman wouldn't let her.
 Mrs. Kinney's direct examination
 was ended at 1 o'clock.
 On cross examination after tn noon recess, Mrs. Kinney told Publi Defender Brown of sign that hat
 been posted at the Salisbury place ol the first tree west of the gatepost
 She had seen and read it. The word Ion the sign. she said. were If any ore has any dirty work to do call ol l Will Kinney. Chapman did"
 She told her husband about tn q sign. Before she heard the shot, sh
 had heard talking but could not un 2 derstand the words, and there was n talking from the house. She ha i come out of her home because he husband called her to watch his tear t with which he was carting fertilizer s While she watched the team, the , started off together down the roaC } She didn't stay watching the hors,
 but started off after him. She denie f that she had any apprehension tI1a anything might happen or that thi ! vas the reason why she kept o s walking after her husband She hear
 four shots all fired close together an 2 the second shot was the one that hi ] her husband. She did not move unt v after the fourth shot had been fireC
 Her little two-year- boy came u
 and attracted her attention by takin : hold of her dress. Then she went bac D and across the field to the state roa : where she came to Chapman sittin 3 under a tree.