Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-31
BLOODSTAINS PLAY PART IN TRIAL


feet of Mr.. Holmes as the latter was
talking to Captain Lennen and Mr.. |
Holmes was no nearer to the captain. |
Mr.. Holmes did not touch the captain.
After the captains wounds had been
dressed, the captain opened the safe.
unlocked the tills and looked in. Then
he closed the door and threw the COM
bination. Then the captain was taken
away in an automobile to the hospital.
Returning to the man who came out
Of the house, Major Hull had Mr.. Be-
land look at the plan of the apart
ments. The witness said he was Is
feet distant from the man, who came
out of the gate. The witness followed
the man on the opposite side of the
street. The man turned his face
away. He had a dark coat and a
light cap. Holmes had a dark coat and
light cap on when he came to the
house after the assault. The witness
said he could not identify the man
who was running across the street The
man was tall slim one
Major Hull had the witness go over
again some of the events at the house
and asked him if he noticed anything
on the dining room table. Mr.. Bolahd
said there were bIoodspots, finger
marks, on the table cloth on the side
next to the mantel. The witness
Identified, Officers Carroll, Sergeants
Matthews and Kane, who were in the
court room as policemen who were at
, the Lennen house.
The witness also saw blood spots on
the left hand side of the door casing
as one goes from the dining room in
! to the kitchen. blood spots on the
| stove AND directly opposite the door
into the cellar, blood spots on the
doors and on the hot water boiler.
! Mr.. Boland fixed the time Of the as
sault at about nine o'clock. The clock
! struck about q minute before he heard
the shouts down stairs. The witness
said he did not think Mr.. Holmes had
gloves on when he came into the
! house the first time.
! On cross examination by Attorney
Brown, Mr. Boland said there had new
er been any difference between his
family and Cape. Lennen. The witness
had been to the fish market on
/ Franklin street in the early part of the
evening of the assault, and come home
| about $50.
The attorney asked why Mr.. Boland
didn't so into the Lennen apartments
or try the door when he ran down the
out side stairs after hearing the ca plain
shout Il didn't want TO-" was the an
swey.
The attorney also asked why Mr
Boland didn't run over and try to in
tercept the man whom he saw running
across the street. Il didn't take the
chance answered the witness "j
wasn't an officer
After Mr.. Boland had been out to
telephone for Mr.. Holmes, he came
back to the house. Officers Carroll
and Murphy. DR.. Cassidy. Mr.. Whitney
Mrs. Boland and Capt. Lennan were
there. Mr.. Holmes was not there then
The witness had met Mr.. Whitney or
Boswell avenue as he was leaving the
house to telephone for Mr.. Holmes.
When Mr.. Holmes arrived and wen
in to see the captain, he passed Mr.
Boland. Mr.. Holmes was pale at tht
time, his head was down. Mr.. BolanC
spoke to him.
The witness denied vigorously tina
he ever told Mr.. TaTant that he was a
the fish market when the assault oc
CURED or that his wife told Mr.. Tar
rant that Mr.. Boland was in the celia
, when the assault occurred. He denied
also that his telephone message t.
, Mrs Holmes was that two men ha!
stabbed and assaulted Capt Lennel
while he was in the cellar. All tina
the witness said he said to Mr.. Tarran
was Did your wife let you know
The attorney asked Mr.. Boland abou
! 81 light in the cellar which the wit
ness said the officers had lighted an
, he put out.
, re states attorney took the wit
!, ness i'll hand again and asked hir
about the night before the assault
: Mr.. Boland said that about o'clock a
+ he was passing Capt. Lennen's bac
door he saw a figure standing there
: 1t was Royal Holmes. Mr. Bolan
spoke to him but couldn't tell wtethe
Mr.. Holmes went into the Lenne
y apartment.
:, To Attorney Brown the witness sal
: he saw nothing strange in seeing Nj
4 Holmes there at that time.
+ The attorney asked what Mr.. GLAND
q SON. laws name was and how
4 was his daughter was there. Mr.. Be
a land said his son-in-Iaw was DAME
= Foley, who worked in Groton, but the
i had not been able to find a tenemer
: to move into in Groton Mr.. Boland
O daughter had also been to the hospit;
to give birth to child and had com
- to her fathers home afterwards.
~ One question from the states al
q torney after the cross examination fir
IS ished the testimony of Mr. Bo1an
n This was How old are you? ?" to whic
It the witness answered he was 81.
1t Mrs. 6oland TestiHes.
=, Mrs. Mary T. Boland, wife of jaime
a Boland, was the next witness. She to
~ of being in her dining room readiT
g the newspaper when she heard Il
T. fall and cries in the Lennen apar
- ment. Her husband went out ar
:, when he came back they went in t,
=. gether to the Lennen apartment,
-, was dark. Her husband lit a mate
- and tried to turn on the electric lig,
- in the dining room. It wouldn't ligf
~, ~ Then he turned on the kitchen ligI
~ Captain Lennen was standing the
-, -, covered with blood. Mrs. Boland &
", w water and started to battle his hea
~. Her husband went away. When
,.s came back he was with Officers Carr,
~ and Murphy. The officers asked Ca
+ tain Lennen questions. There was
~ kerosene lamp lighted on the dini1
os room table, and on the table clio
~ there were blood stains on the 81
NJ towards the mantle
- Major Hull produced a white tai
&c cloth, which Mrs. Boland said S
80 recognized as the table cloth fre
y, the Lennen dining room. 1t show
r. the blood stains on It.
~ The witness said it was fifteen mi
@I utes after the light had been light
~ and the b!oodspots had been seen t
az fore Mr.. Holmes came.
'is When Mr.. Holmes came in, Mrs. E
bo land said, he looked pale and as if
IL had been walking fast. She could I
- see what Mr.. Holmes did when
~ went in to see Captain Lennen. r
~ t policemen were standing in the ";
She saw Mr.. Holmes come out
- the kitchen and sit down at the G
'ut cigarette Later when OFFICE r.
O. got there she heard him ask her I