Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-05-30
WILL TRY TO SHOW CONTRADICTIONS

An attempt to show that three Wit
nesses for the state have contradicted
! themselves on certain points in the
| two trials of the Holmes case and the
,, production of another handwriting ea-
r pert will end the direct testimony for
! the defense next Wednesday in the
superior court at New London. This
would probably take half an hour. At
ltorney J.tJ. Desmond told Judge Will
! liam S. Case THURSDAY afternoon at
$50, when ne said the defense was
ready to rest its case except for having
! Court Stenographer Graham read his
notes of the first trial, from which the
attorneys for the derense expect to
show that Sergeant Matthews, MIR.
| Whitney and Mr.. Donovan have given
testimony in the second trial contra
dietory to what they gave In the first
! Judge Case declared recess Thurs
day afternoon to give the counsel q
! chance to locate what they wanted
| from the stenegrap Pliers notes, but af-
ter trying for 20 minutes the court was
! informed that they could NOT find the
places then. Judge Case asked State $
Attorney Hull how long his rebuttai
| would take and was told three or four
! hours. With the understanding that
all the testimony would probably be
finished next Wednesday, Judge Case
| duJoqFHeQ cpuft az o.~u III ttSAI " w
nesday morning. Court has to so ever
| to Wednesday because there Is a nat
| uralizatien session of the civil superior
court which will keep the clerk and
assistant clerk busy Tuesday
| Testimony fer the defendant took
much less time In this trial than In
the former one, prtncipaIly because
there was no attempt by either side to
go through. the books and financial
transa ctions of the firm Of n. Tarfant
| & Co., which took much time in the
| former trial. when both John f. Tar
| rant and Richard L. Tarrant were on
! the stand.
| At the opening Of court in the morn
4 ing, States Attorney Hadlai A. Hull
/ who had the accused, Royal G. Holmes,
I OF this city, under cross examination
] when court adjourned Wednesday aft
ernoon, said he did not wish to Dues
ton Mr.. Holmes further.
The defense then called to the stand
| David n. Cavalho of New York. ex-
. aminer of ink and questioned hand
I writing. Mr.. Cavalho's examination
was conducted by Attorney john G
; Geary, the first time this member Of
counsel for the defense has examin-
: ed a witness.
Mr. Carvalho described his quail.
!, fications including testimony in 20
: different states and work done in his
, line for the U. S. treasury depart
ment, and was then shown the hand
writing exhibits in this case. which
include three savings bank orders, {
> letter written by Captain Lennen, thu
. six signatures written in court By
Captain Lennen at the first trial, ant
1 the receipt for the note which contain;
the disputed signature.
= Ha
\ of viewing signatures and said all Il
e this case showed the same accentua
oil ton, harmony and likeness. slant ant
angle, relation to base line and differ
o entiations. From all these he concluded
4 the signatures were all written b.
t the same person. In ONE of the &c
r knowledged signatures written on I'M
: ruled paper he said he found the sam
Y arc which showed in the disputed
= signature which was very irnportan
point He said an examination b;
n compound binocular rnischope shoWe
Q that the disputed signature was n
tracing. He pointed out characters
I tics in the terminal letter. in the let
. ter So and the letter "J". He sal
3 he made his examination Withou
z knowing what the case was or whic,
u were the genuine and which the dis
!. puted signature.
Cross examined, by Major Hull, tn
witness said the papers were brougf
e to him by Mr.. Tarrant, who had q. ma
II with him. He did not know whethe
: the mans name was Hayes. He ha
- seen him in court in the previous trie
: in Norwich. .
The states attorney asked the wit
ness one final question: Did 7 as
v you in Norwich if you were ever de
4, ceived in a signature and did 70
i answer that you didn't know?"
% Eyes, I said that then and I sd
al it now was the response.
If John r. Tarrant on Stand.
John r. Tarrant of Elnwood az
8. enue, Norwich, brother -in-law of Roy
10 81 G. Holmes, and a bookkeeper fe
IL 12 years in the Dime Savings BAN
= testified he was summoned to tt
- Lennen house by a telephone mes
I, sage on the night of the assault. CT
!, u ing into the house he saw Holms
- talking to Sergeant Matthews in IL
dining room:
Relating a conversation with NJ
and Mrs. poland in the sitting roor
s Mr.. Tarraat said that Mrs. Bolar
- started itsby saying James was in Il
- cellar Mr.. Boland Interrupted al
~ said, NO, I was not. vas at the fis
&c market" Mrs Boland continue
81 FL Anyways we were in the kitchen
~. "a James law a man run out the ga
i'll and up Reynolds street.
al When Boland had finished talking Il
witness sat on a couch where Holm
was reclining. Later Mr.. Tarrar
suggested to have the blood spots {
tAs table cloth photographed. Short
e afterwards he heard an officer a.
!. Holmes to go to the police station al
Iat, E11. yA1 fr tn
/, police station. Later Mr.. Tarrar
rs went to the Senft residence nearby
O. telephone for an auto to take Ca
l. tain Lennen to the hospital
n. When the captain was ready
is start for the police station, some O.
asked about the safe. Officer Carr,
made a move to touch the handle VIII
Mr.. Tarrant asked him to let CAPITA
!. Lennen open it. This the captain
~. ~ | while sitting i'll a chair. He turr
u ed the combination a few notch,
-, opened three drawers III the safe, pu
~ -. ed out a book, said everything was
h M right and then shut the door a.
- threw OH the combination.
10 The witness described how Sergea
''o Matthews looked around at the wi
dows at the request of witness. Ca
- tain Lennen went to get some clot
ing out OF a. bureau drawer, but Sc
geant Matthews SAIL the oapta
would get them all bloody Later
witness saw Captain Lennen find
false teeth in the dining room and Sc
geant Matthews and Mr. Boland we
into the cellar to put out a light tt
was burning. Captain Lennen I
uuested the witness to give the
to Royal (Holmes)."
r Handwriting Testimony.
At this point the defense introdue
several hand writing experts, ba
men whom it was desired to accol
odate by not keeping them waiting