Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-31

| In the superior court on Thursday, the
second day of the trial, when the blood
stained gloves of Mr.. Holmes and a
blood stained tablecloth from the Lem
| the court and jury.
An expert from New Haven who
| had made tests of the alleged blood
spots upon the gloves and overcoat of
| Mr.. Holmes and had declared them to
! be spots of human blood took the left
glove upon his own hand and in the
sight of the jury showed how the
| thumb and fingers of the glove match
| ed into the stairs on the tahlecloth in
four different impressions which It
was claimed were the prints of a
hand.
This testimony all was brought out
IN the latter part of the afternoon SEES
sion. Court adjourned ten minutes
earlier than usual in the afternoon to
accommodate some jurors who had to
! make train or trolley connections to
get home 1t win come in at 9.45 this
! (Fridayl morning. fifteen minutes ear
Iier than usual
Attorney A. NJ. Brown took up the
cross examination Of DR.. Louis r.
Cassidy when court opened in the
morning. He asked the doctor what
the condition of Capt. Lennen was
when the doctor first saw him. The
doctor said the captain was sitting in
the kitchen with Mr.. Boland standing
behind him and Mr.. Whitney 20 one
Size. The captain WAS covered with
blood and blood was flowing from his
nostrils. He was conscious.
The doctor was asked about the vari-
Gus wounds on the captains head. The
| two cuts over the left eye, the doctor
said, looked as if they had been caus-
ed by some sharp instrument. They
were clean, but the other wounds were
confused Wounds and Looked as if they
had been made by a club. The doctor
had to stitch up five of the wounds.
1t took about three-q quarters of an
hour. The doctor had been working
On the captain about ten minutes when
Mr.. Holmes arrived. AS Mr.. Holmes
came into the room he stepped up and
touched the captain on the shoulder
and said Don't talk, don't talk
AT this point Attorney Brown sat in
the witness chair and had Dr. Cassidy
show how Mir. Holmes touched the
captain on the shoulder
After Mr.. Holmes had greeted the
captain, said the doctor, he stepped
back took out his handkerchief and
Mr.. Holmes was much agitated an(
very pale. When the doctor finally
left the house Officer Carroll, Sergean
I Matthews, John Tarrant, MY. and Mrs
Boland and the captain We're all III 'ht
dining room. Before the doctor lef
Capt. Lennen looked into the safe anC
said everything was all right
, On the palm of the captains RICH
hand there were burns which wer'
. fresh ones.
I ! On re direct examination Major HUI
asked the doctor what garments tn
) captain had on While the doctor wa
: working on his. The states attorne,
asked if the captain was down to hi
: shirt and the witness said NO" Til
5 witness could not recall any ccnver
sation at the house in regard to bloo1
} Mr.. Holmes coat
: Testimony of Mr.. Solsnd.
+ James Boland who lives in the uppe
part of the same house occupied b
, Capt. Lennen at 40 Boswell avenu
+ had lived there 80 years, had know
Capt. LenneD, had known Roya
: Holmes since he was a small boy an
: had known all the Tarrant family.
On the night of the assault Mr.. Bo
lands daughter from New Jersey an
Z her three children were at the houst
: | MIR. BOlapd was IN is kitchen when h
| heard the captain come home.
about minute he heard cries fro1
q downstairs Watch, Watch" The wit
i ness jumped to his feet. heard a heav
. fall down stairs, took his hat and Goa
and ran down the back outside stair
= 10 within three feet Of Captain Ler
~ mems door.
# There were sounds OF scufling ii
u side. He made no attempt to 90 i
: but ran out into Boswell avenue fl
: about As feet, crying Police, police" {
the top of his voice. Then he turne
= around and saw a man coming out {
IA the yard at the Lennen place. TT
10 man turned his face toward Bolar
and then ran across the street in
20 crouched position. BoIand follows
" him up on the other side of Boswe
avenue until the man ran up Rel
ID nolds street and watched him till /
~ was half way up that street.
4 Coming back to the house, Mr.. B,
II land said he went to the Lennen do
n and with his wife went in The room W;
n dark and he struck a match and h
" wife pushed the electric light butte
{ in the dining room but the Iig
!. wouldn't light. He lit the electric lig
# in the kitchen by pulling the chat
Capt. Lennen was in the kitchen. I
had on his overcoat which was cover
with blood.
Mr.. Botand then went upstail
changed his slipper for shoes and we
: out to the Pratt cigar store on Fran
70 lin street to telephone for a doctt
20 Mr.. Pratt did the telephoning for hi
a. He couldn't get DR.. Harper and tn
of called DR.. Cassidy. The doctor was O
e but his wife said she thought she COT
IN get him He also telephoned to
~ police station, and then started ba
ar for his house. On the way back as
al was going up Boswell avenue he s.
ne an automobile coming and waited I
it. 1t proved to be the police, Office
ed Carroll and Murphy. He went WI
in them into the house. The police stal
IN ed to investigate and he went {
nd again to telephone for Mr.. Holm
as because he knew Mr.. Holmes was I
captains close friend.
|al Mrs. Holmes answered the teIepho
of He recognized her voice. The witnt
in went back to the Lennen place a
was there when Mr.. Holmes came
He heard Officer Carroll ask !
'a'e Holmes, What do you know abe
, / this MANI" The answer was,
transacted his business" Mr. Bola
4 followed Mr.. Holmes into the kitcl
where Captain Lennen was having
IS wounds sewed up by DR.. Cassidy. I
If I captain said SIS this you, Royal?" !
@ I Holmes answered, Don't talk, do
y I talk" and then backed out into
d 1 dining room and took out a cigare