Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-29
HOLMES ON STAND NEARLY ALL DAY

1 Royal G. Holmes sis15. being in full i terest. James Lennen; l l This was the receipt Capt. Lennen l gave him Holmes said. Tlle witness testified 10 the interest endorsements on the back of the note. In November 1 1913, Holmes said he SAW the note in ! the tin box at the bank. This was when he was making the list ef se- i curities for the captain, The witness l put in an hour or an hour and 8 half 1 for about ten days in making the list l The note was found in an envelope i with sl,909 Liberty bond He put i the note in his coat pocket where it 1 stayed. At the time the note was paid, the captain said the note was l Inislaid.
 1 Attorney. Desmond offered a eertif- 1 ed, copy of Mrs. Hannah Lennen's will which went in as defendants exhibit F. The accused and Jesse M. Wilcox
 were co-eNecutors of inc will, l The witness testified to making 1 transfers of securities in this estate to fCapt. Lennen and to going to the cap I tain's house about 5.45 on the night 1 before the assault to tell him the last i transfer had been secured. He want file saw MT. Roland at this time. i At this point Attorney Desmond ] read a brief statement from the will l of Mrs. I4ennen which showed that 1t did not provide for division Of the es- i tate between Holmes and Wilcox in the event of Capt. Lennen's death.
 1 Movements sr Aisist of Assault. ! ] Coming down to his own movements Il after supper on the night Of the as- T sault on Capt. Lennen, the witness
 related a story that did not materially T differ from what the police officers T have already testified he told them. l This covered leaving his house about I o'clock, leaving his office at 5.39, and going to 165 Nerth Main street te col
 I lect rent. He went up the outside y stairway two or three steps, saw no light in the front tenement but a light in the reaf-Quinn-ten Going } then to the lobby of Pulaski hall, he saw three men in the lobby. and ask } ed three men in the ticket office what si time it was. One of them looked at I his wrist watch. He was a sailor. Coming out into the street to wait for 4 the trolley car. the witness said he saw the Fitzgerald girl across the l street He took the car to Otis. street,
 got off there and walked up Otis street win Mf. Madden and up through the parochial school lane to Broadway and to his home at 5 Slater avenue. The
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 sat opposite him in the trolley car. When Holmes reached home he said his wife xas at the telephone. She l said she had 8 telephone message from MT. Roland that two men had assaulted Capt Lennen and Holmes was wanted to come to the Lennen l house at once. He went at once after
 ] taking 3 drink of water. Arriving at
 1 the house he went ill by the back
 1 la n.
 i dining room WAS Mir. Whitney near 2 the kitchen door. The witness saw ! Officer Carroll, Mir. and Mrs. Roland in the dining room.
 3I Mrs. Roland intercepted him on the ? way to the kitchen, but no one else 3 did. The witness put his right hand
 on Capt. Lennep's shoulder and said 7i Don't talk, don't talk Do just what g the doctor tells you.' When he stood 2 up he noticed blood on his hands and : put his hands into his pockets, wipins f them off. He went past MT. Whitney Q into the dining room and lit a cigar : = cite. Officer Carroll asked for one l and he gave it to him and then sat
 1 town for a while. Then he went into
 the sitting room where MT. ana Mrs
 Roland were and Mir. Roland said the l man who ran away was about the : height of the witness.
  l and went with Sergeant Matthews tc
 the police station when the sergeant 2 asked if ile would go to tell what he i knew about Capt L-ennen'a affairs 2, JlNt before the day Of the assault
 witness said he had been troubled witt
 Q cough and by his eyes and had beer f to see Dr. Linnell, who told him ht
 had the grip.
 Tile key. which is an exhibit in tn, r3So Nj IF Holmes 2 jfj Ina ! ] from his mother after the death of hi,
 Sister more than 21 years ago. II. !, never used the key to get into Captait < Lennen's house. The fiashligIlt, tn, '. witness said, was one bought at Eaton = Chase's and was used in the Holnle
 i house cellar to pick out straight piece
 1 Of wood ill dark corner Of the celia : for chopping. He had used fashligat . this Wa! for two or three years ant e had bought them all at Eaton Chase's
 Ill 1917 because of trouble in collect
 :, l ing premiums from .ohn Donovan. tn < witness said. the Tarrant firm with ', l drew his insurance. After that Nil = Donovan never spoke to or recognize, ' the witness.
 ln response to question from At
 l torney Desmond. the witness said h ', was not at the Lcnnen house at an, II time on the night of the assault Defor -1 he went in response 60 the summon aa nor was he on Water street that night Y The witness denied that he stated t a the police that he and Jesse Wilco ' were to share Mrs. Lennen's estate. - Attorney Desmond rested his exam ' nation after having had the witnes
 in hand for an hour and forty minute. ' States Attorney Hull began his cross [. examination at 4a.45.
 ol Begins Cross Examination.
 t. He asked why Holmes hadn't tol 0 the police about the way he wiped hi ,e hands on his gloves. For the sinlpl e reason that T. didn't was the answel > The witness admitted that he testifie 5t in the former trial that he had on
 glove in each pocket or his coat. Th E states attorney then asked how it wa, -ol If the witness put his right hand 0 al Captain Lennea and then put thi '-1 hand into his pocket to wipe it Off 0 leI the glove there. how it was the bloc le got ca to the other glove. The wit
 ness said this was because this bloc
 came from the captains knee, wheT he put his other hand. The attorne |. i asked why Mr.. Holmes hadn't mad ,f this explanation to the police whe !, they were searching him. The answe al was because he didn't. The Witnes VI said he couldn't tell why he said th -I spot on his coat was red paint. H tcouldn't tell whether he touched Car
 tain Lennen with the breast of his coa
 He had no idea how the blood got c