Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-29

accused and is on trial in New Lon- don in the superior court on the charge of making 3 murderous as-' sault upon Captain James Lennen Of 4Q Boswell avenue last December 5, was on the stand in court almost the entire day Wednesday. He was the first witness the defense put on in opening that side of the case and was still under cross examination when court adjourned for the day.
 Judge William $. Case of Hartford who fs presiding, is doing all he can to speed the. trial along and frequent Iy cuts in on the attorneys to get on with the testimony" or to suggest we've been sH over that before" when the examination starts to go over old ground
 Tuesday afternoon, when it had been arranged that court should adjourn at f o'clock, Major Hull finished up with one of the witnesses about s or minutes before the closing time. The major inquired if it were worth while to call another witness then. "Tse the minutes, use the minutes" responded the judge. and perhaps we'll get through before real summer gets here. 7 He changed his mind a few minutes later, however, and decided to adjourn court then. l
 Several sharp wrangles between the opposing counsel Wednesday were brought to an end by the clear cut order of the judge to "get through with that, gentlemen; proceed with the evidence"
 Several touches of dry humor from the bench relieved the tension of the day. When Attorney Desmond was conducting an examination noisy group of school children outside the building made it almost impossible to hear him. T don't like to try to com pete with those children, your honor, oft second best if you did, Adr Des- mond," was the .rejoinder from the bench, "but do the best you can
 It was the same noisy children al play that brought adjournment of the court at 4.39 when the states attor- ney was examining 8 witness and the noise outside grew to boisterous stage.
 You don't seem to be doing any better than MT. Desmond against those children remarked the judge and declared that court would adjourn for the day
 Wednesday was the first time the New London public showed any inter
 
 spectators seats were almost all co. cupjed
 When court opened in the morning William l.. Jackson of WillimaRtic, in- vestigator for the states attorney ir New London and Windnam counties testified to taking the overeoat anG ; the pair of gloves on Dec. 3 and de livering them to Dr. Scarborough ir New Haven.
 Photographs as Exhibits. Civil Engineer George E. Pitcher recalled by States Attorney Hui pointed out on q photograph of tht Lennen house the walk along the sid, of the house and on another photo graph of the dining room the position of the articles of furniture there. Int photographs went in as exhibits 1: and 20.
 Another photograph showed 9, yiev i into the kitchen. The pictures were taken on April 28 with the furniture i in the same position as it was in De cember Another photograph was 0 ! the stairway from the kitchen to tl' second floor, showing the aecumula ton Of ropes and other articles stored i there.
 Blood Marks e-n Table cloth. pr. Scarborough was recalled ana testified that in the presence of coun, sel for both sides he had examined th' , stains on the table cloth and hat found blood marks.
 Major Hull announced that tn, state rested and Judge Case declare; /: a recess while counsel for the defens i prepared to open their case. Defense Begins.
 
 15 minutes when the state rested Af . attorneys for the defense they opene, i their case by calling tae Gceased i Royal c. Holmes, 10 the stand. 1 MT. Holmes testified he was born Il l Lebanon. was 45 years old. and hal : lived in Norwich for the last 35 wears ! He had been in the insurance busi { ness for 27 years and is now associat ] ed with his brother in law. Richard I i Tarrant, under the firm name of x ! Tarrant & Co. The late Nichola l Tarrant was his father in-la law. Tn i business office is at 11I Main street. ] He testified to knowing Capt. lame 7. Lennen for the past 2 years an !. having business relations with hin l Capt. Lennen received his mail in tn ! past year al the Tarrant office an | FlCtC tl4S lCllSIS lUtEc. 1-GSt NOEC0l i per Capt Lennen brought some secur I ities from the Industrial Trust Co. i ! Westerly. In the past five or si years the witness said ne had visite the Lennen house many times. Som
 time last summer the~captaiu gave tn E witness the safe combination on a sIi of paper. He had also gone alone { the Lennen house at times at the re
 quest of the captain.
 I At the Lennen. home last Noyem Y ber the securities were taken from I handbag and put into tin box whic ,I Holmes and Captain Lennen took { : the Merchants National bank. Cap ! Lennen gave the kew of the box {
 dolmes. This was the only key. I'll
 box was left at the bank for sat
 keeping. Later at the captains re
 quest MT. Holmes was to make lis
 of the securities ill the box.
 The witness identified exhibit 10 .
 the note for $lS00 he had given ' Capt. Lennen. The nbte was paid
 little over a year ago in. seven pay
 ments, the witness said. At the tin or the last payment. Holmes said | was given q receipt
 Receipt For Note. Attorney Desmond who was COT ducting the examination of NJ
 Holmes, offered a typewritten recei, as an exhibit. It read "Norvic Conn, April Il, 1913. Received Il AEE5NE TRr TEErNfF