The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
BONJON TELLS OWN STORY ID
 JURY IN COURT
Describes @ Vision of Walk CTS Funeral He Had
 While Still in Jail.
POSSESSES POWER
 OF TELEPATHY
Man Accused of Murder of Walker Testified in His
 Own Defense.

Telling of 8 vision he had of the funeral of Daniel B. Walker, who he is accused of killing, Louis E. Bonjon was called to the witness stand in the superior court yesterday where he is being tried for murder in the first degree. Bonjon was on the stand for n1ure than an hour, and had not fin lshed his direct examination when court adjourned until tomorrow morning.
 Bonjon in reply to questions by his counsel, Judge W. H. Comley, Jr-, related many incidents of his life Regarding the funeral of Walker he said that as the casket was standing in the church a shaft of light came through the window and shone on the body. He interpreted this to mean that Father had told Bonjon to pick up his crown of purity" and had said, Walker, you're to blame"
 Bonjon gave his testimony fiuently and in much detail, in reply to ques- lions of his counsel He developed vein of philosophy, and some of hls observations caused a litter in the court room winch was quickly suppressed lj order of the court. He frequently chuckled to himself. During the testimony Dr. A. R. Dief- endorf alienfst for the defense, watched every action, and took copi- ous notes, and Dr. John C. Lynch fer the state, also observed Bonjon closely.
 l Relating his early life, said he was born in France in 1852 and came to this country in 1872. He was em- ployed by various families in New York, including the Vanderbilts | Iivirgstons and others, and later fol 1 Thomas Pearsall at Black Rock where he remained for IS years. He visited Europe and Egypt with the Pearsalls. He said he was married to the present Mrs. Bonjon in 1885.
 When asked if they lived happily together he said they did, but Tn French, and my blood is apt to boil I sometimes say things I am sorry for afterward."
 Asked regarding an incident re
 lated by other witnesses who said h.
 cut @ picture from a frame he sait 1t he'd been hung in hia home, bu
 had been cut from the frame, bu
 he did not do it.
 The picture, a representation of tn
 Saviour. had been given him by Nil
 Pearsall, and he indignantly denie
 cutting it, saying he valued it high
 ly. Do you suppose I would cut m
 own picture? I'd just as soon GU
 my head off. I thought more of
 than do of myself"
 Questioned as to things being hid
 den in his home of which he aocus
 ed Mrs. Bonjon, he said if she al
 not hide them 1t must have bee done "by rats, there were two legge rats in the house," he said, chuck ling.
 Asked if he had the power of tele
 pathy he replied it was a gift to hil | from God, and he had always had 1 , He entered into a long disquisition o 3 this subject in which he said, "Telt y pathy comes to you in dormar g state. It is 8 dream. When you @ body goes to sleep your soul flicl
 CTS all over the world"
 l Saying he believed his ''brain WE - not correct" he had placed his prol n erty in his wifes name. T kne d no matter how ugly she might l r the law would give me enough to li7 F on." He said he thought his wi n was trying to get his property f, 9 herself, and feared his two nephev
 in France might interfere. He q a clared she said she wished they he . never lived, referring to the nephew |, AS to his relations with his wife 5 said his wife took money from h - pockets, and if he wanteH five cen ~ he had to ask her. He explained h T. offer to Attorney Cohn to make ov !, his property for a certain sum eat U day by saying he had worked f IL more than 40 years and had nothin
 He did not want his wife to have a all.
 "a He told of his quarrel with Fit 'F gibbons, whose clothes he took fro Tt @ line and burned, saying Fitzgibbo n had rented room in the apartme sR he occupied, and the tenant hul
 pots and pans on the wall. He W of angry over this, but when he reno Is strated with Fitzgibbons. he said, t le latter took him by the throat. 'I' as forgotten that quarrel by now" " concluded.
 Bonjon will resume his testimo
 tomorrow morning.