Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-28
DOZEN WITNESSES IN HOLMES TRIAL

tuesday Dy the Slale liltO the LTldl Ol i Royal G. Holmes of this city on the 1 Capt. James Lennen of 40 Boswell avenue on the night of Dec. 5th last. brought the count up to an even dozen so far in the second trial of the case which is taking place at New Lon don in the superior court before Judge William $. Case and jury.
 They were Police Sergeant John H.
 Kane, Dr. Marvin Scarborough of New Haven, a blood test expert, John | Donovan of 56 Roath street, Charles
 F. Whitney, city editor of the Norwich Bulletin, and Miss Helen Sumner of l Putnam, a cousin of Capt. Lennen's
 deceased wife.
 Juror Reginald M Rowland of New London delayed the opening of the
 court ten minutes in the morning as 1 he was late in arriving. When asked
 by Judge Case what was the matter.
 he said he had talked with somebody on the street longer than he realized. 1 Resuming his testimony, which was l begun late Friday afternoon, Officer | Michael J. Carroll testified to seeing 1 bloedspots on the floor of the kitchen and a bloody hand print on the dining
 room side of tie door casing of the
 doorway from the kitchen into the dining room. There was a bolt on the
 door that led from the kitchen to the
 stairway to the cellar.
 The officer said he saw the blood spot on Mir. Holmes overcoat, over the after Holmes reached the Lennen house. Holmes was then in the din- ing room at the corner of the dining
 room table near the safe. The officer said it was about 20 minutes after he got to the house when he went into
 the cellar and the door was locked then. When MT. Holmes went into the kitchen, Capt Lennen. Dr. Cassidy, Mr. Roland and Mir. Whitney were
 there. The officer stood at the thresh-
 old of the door. Holmes did not go
 any nearer than two or three feet to
 the captain. Then Holmes came out
 into the dining room and took a ci-
 garette from his pocket. The officer spoke to Sergt. Matthews and Sergt
 Kane about something he had observ- ed about MT. Holmes. When finally coming away from the house the offi- cer saw light burning in the cellar Somebody went back and put it out. :. Five minutes before they came away from the house the officer said he opened the safe door. Holmes was not there then. He didn't have to turn the bolts. Capt. Lennen look ed in some of the compartments ane
 felt around and the safe was ther . closed and locked.
 On ross-examinat ton by Attorney Arthur M. Brown, the witness wen
 over the points of the notice he re- fceiyed by the police telephone to gc
 to the Lennen house and of his arriva : at the house where he found Mrs. Bo land and Capt. Lennen, covered witt n blood.
 S In response to the question why h. n didn't examine the front part of th' = house the officer said he didn't thinl l, it necessary when the man who hat Il done the deed had get away. The at e torney asked the witness Whethe = Capt Lennen had said there were on e orStwo men hit him. The answer wa d that the captain didn't say one o T two.
 The witness saw the bloodspots ol S the tablecloth within a very few min j. ute5 of his arrival at the house, an' = before he saw MT. Whitney and Capt Lennen talking by the table.
 On the point of the arrival o Holmes at the house the witness sai :. he could not tell where Mrs. Bolan 'i or Mrs. Roland were in the dinin = room at that time. The witness sai ei he saw the bright red bloodspot O 'l Holmes overcoat at the time of frs
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 fore this from his looks and his ac
 tions. He hated to suspect Holmes. ri Q-Isn't it a fact that you didn
 discover the blood on MT. Holmes cos e until after he had gone in to see Cap 's Lennen?
 Il Alt isn't fact
 ,e On redirect examination by Attor II ney Hull. Officer Carroll said tn IS bloodspots on the table cloth wer II ;fl,+ he ld might have been used in tf1a assa u :; has been found. The witness hear :u Whitney and Holmes talking an T. there was something said abol L. asthma" and cigarettes" T. The police officer was on the stan /. for an hour and a quarter in his d s, rect and cross examination before lo was finally dismissed
 re "So far as any investigation yc r. made in the front of the house tl rs person who did this might have bee ol in the parlor the whole evening whi LS you were there, mightnt he?" w. ea Attorney Browns concluding auestio 'h "4es, he might" was the answer.
 Mrs. Roland Recalled,
 Mrs. Roland was recalled to u stand and testified that the cellar do, IN from the kitchen was locked tn; " night and so was the parior door. ge On cross examination by Attornt n- J. J. Desmond Mrs. Roland said sl 1t had not tried the door that day b. he she knew the room was always ke Ol. locked.
 ed seret. Kane on Stand. ". Sergt. John H. Kane. for nearly uo u years on the Norwich police force al i'0 seven years sergeant, was the follow =. ing witness It was about 915 Il ,oa o night of the assault on Capt. Lennt he l,e that the witness first heard of ne through telephone message fro 5 Capt. Twomey. About 10 o'clock Sc a. d geant Kane went to the Lennen hon V; Dr. Cassidy and Capt. Lennen were uo John Tarrant, Mir and Mrs. Bolai
 and Officer Carroll in the sittil 'ht room
 ns Very soon after arriving there t ,n sergeant took Holmes to police hea pn quarters, going in the automobile D
 trol wagon. Before leaving the hou
 the sergeant saw the bloodspot
 Holmes coat to which his attenti 7S had been called.
 he The sergeant was asked to tell wfl .aI Holmes said in the room at poll ta headquarters. This was that +o (Holmes) and Jesse Wilcox were ex e cutors of Mrs. Lennen's will, that | 5 estate was about $50.oo0 and there " nt, l,h to be a hearing in the probate cot 'h the next day: that in the event
 Capt. Lennens death, Wilcox a VI, vu Holmes were to get equal shares fre
 Mrs. Lennen's estate.
 dy Holmes said the spot on the owe d coat might be paint. Then Ca 4is Twomey took the coat into the ou ne office to examine the spot with
 magnifying glass. When the capts
 came back. he had the f1ashlight.> = k
 and gloves. Holmes said he mig