Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-05
GOING OVER FIGURES IN HOLMES CASE

as Fr2nkQn square atrer- supper SIe saw MT. Holmes on the night of Dee. in Pulaski hail. She could not fix any time.
 Mrs. Mary Bundy of 400 North Main street, aunt of the preceding witness, testified she was at the Fftz- | gerald house. on the night of Dec. 5. It was after 9 o'clock when Mary Fitzgerald went out of the house. She came right back.
 Sergeant Edwin DeLcng Blood, 8 | marine from the submarine tase, tes- tified he was at Pulaski hall at dance of the marines on the night of l Dec. 5. A sailor named Carmen was | with him who has since been discharg- l ed from the service. The witness saw l Mir. Holmes at or minutes after
 walking up and down out;;nie Pulaski 1 hall Holmes asked the time and the | sailor said 1t was 9:1O by his wrist
 watch. The witness had seen Holmes | standing there. two or three minutes | before. He cidn't know about police l officers coming to the hail to inquire
 about a man asking about the time. l William c. Valentine, another ma | rine, testified he was giving 8 dance
 at Pulaski hall on the night of Dec.
 and was in the ticket office when | some one outside asked about the | time. He didn't see who 1t was nor
 did he know about the policemen
 coming to the hall to mako inquiries | Sergt. Blood was recalled and testi- | fled to Attorney Brown that Mir.
 Holmes did not seem out of breath. He gave the number of minutes it would take to travel 426 feet more
 than half a mile at the rate of 120
 36-inch steps per minute. This is
 what is called quick time in the. drill, | 1,o hot h.
 the time. It would take : minutes
 4S seconds to walk a half mile.
 Major Hull asked if it wasn't ops
 sible to speed up the quick time. The | witness answered that most people slowed down in a half mile.
 Attorney Desmond read a written statement from Charles r. Carmen. a sailor now discharged from the service. The attorneysha agreed to admit the statement rather than bring the man here. The statement WIS that the sailor had been asked the time at Eu- laski hall by MT. Holmes ard told him
 it was 9:10. Holmes waG wearing a
 coat and a cap.
 John J. Sullivan of 36 North Cliff
 street, teaJnster. testiie1 he was in
 John Douovan's store on Dee. about
 $40 or S:35 D. m. and stayed on the
 verandah until nearly 10 o'clock A
 man named Dresser and Pat Kane of Oakridge street and Charles Mitterer now of the state hospital, were at Donovan's store.
 Mir. Sullivan denied that he had any
 conversation with Mir. Donovan about any one running fast that right. He did not see MT. Holmes oI RCath street : that night and saw no other mar
 by the name of Sullivan around MT Donovan's place that evening. ; An objection by the states attorney
 to the line of questioning brought out . the fact that MT. Sullivan was a wit f ness summoned by the state, but mol
 so far called on, so that Attorney Des- I mond claimed the right to examine ? him as he was doing. The court SuS- - 1 tained the attorney.
 On cross examination Mir. Sullivan n denied to Major Hull that he had tolt two or three stories about this. Hc
 didn't tell Prosecuting Attorney Rob I bins at MT Robbins office that he saw n a man about his own height hurryIns f on Roath street.
 The states attorney had MT. Sulli
 van stand up to show how tall he was e The witness said the man he tolC
 1 MT. Robbins about was a man whom l, he met as he was coming up iron e North Cliff street along Roath stree
 ! n was not hurrying
 q He denied that he changed his stor, - when he reached the police court c
 that he told MT. Donovan about I. man hurrying down the street. Wha l. he told MT. Robbins, he said, was tha l. he saw fair sized man, Stocky build {, with a cap and no overcoat. " On redirect examination by Attor
 ney Brown, the witness said he say
 Capt. Lennen in Ellis restaurant o
 the night of the assault and the cap .o tain was there when Sullivan left tn ! restaurant to go home.
 ,s John R. Tarrant, brother law ( ,- the accused, and bookkeeper in tn
 Dime Savings bank, testified his broth I, CT, Richard l.. Tarrant has been i n the aviation service and left this cit IS in the spring on the day of Ro 70 Swans funeral
 l7 At 1908 while he was at the Knight
 Of Columbus rooms on the night ( 1e Dec. ,. he got telephone messae ,e from his wife and ran at once to Can i Lennen's home. On reaching there, | D. saw Officer Carroll on the piazza wait e. ing to be admitted at the front doc f. They went in together. The witnes s. saw Capt. Lennen in the kitchen wit Id pr. Cassidy attending to him. M Id Holmes was in the dining room, stant te ing at the end of the table. The cleo r. tric light was lighted and a lamp c " the table
 1t. Captain Lennen said to him: Is thi 70 you, Royal? What do you think m this?
 is He answered, It's awful. Id The witness spoke Of going into tf IS. sitting room, with MT. Holmes fo k- lowing him. Sergt. Matthews, Mr. Bt on land and Mrs. Roland were there. r
 asked the Bolands what happened. IF. Mrs. Boland said "James was ip the cellar" MT. Roland broke in wi F. T was not, was at the fish market he Mrs. Roland said again, 'Wen an, ey way, we were in the kitchen when V ar heard the captain 'hollering." at MT Roland went on to tell aho- ey running out of the house and into II we street and said he was shouting Incl es murder. police" Not a soul came mt put a head out of a window. hn Discussed Finger Prints. n't While Holmes and witness were ul the dining room near the safe, Ofic x Carroll asked Holmes for a cigaret- ue Later the witness and Holmes sat nt. the sitting room for while. Tn a. the witness was in the dining roc en discussing with Sergts. Matthews a1 h. Kane the blood spots on the tabl
 cloth. The officers said the Norwi to police had no way of taking ffne rai prints. He told the officers the Ch1 ,eo sea Savings bank had the apparat
 :. and he thought either Bill Stevens
 Don Houghton could take photograph
 The witness pointed out to the of t. lgn cers bloody hand prints in two spe .ne on the door frames.
 ly The witness heard Policeman Ca 1M ;n roll tell Holmes and Roland to rent ili9 to the captain at the police statit
 While Sergt. Matthews was with \