Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-28

dining room door and the witness was standing at the kitchen door. Holmes was pal1id and haggard looking with his upper lip drawn down tight over his teeth. Holmes passed along the other side of the table and went into
 the kitchen to see Capt. Lennen where
 Dr. Cassidy was working on him. The captain and MT. Holmes spoke to eaci, other, the witness testified, but he could not tell what they said Holmes stood two or three feet from the cap
 tain and then turned and went back into the dining room
 When the witnes@ ~e~t TOW rr~'--o. | few minutes later he (IIoimes) was sitting next to U444Lx4 l,,4.o.. .l u dining room. smoking cigarette. | Holmes seemed to be short of breath
 and the witness said to him, Whats I the matter. Royal? Got asthma or
 something?"
 Holmes answered. Cigarettes. Been
 bothering me for couple of months" l Shortly after this. probably between
 9.45 and 10 o'clock, MT. Whitney said 1 he left the house and went back to
 the police station. meeting Sergt. Mat thews on Boswell avenue on the way l Later in the night he was shown Holmes overcoat at the police sta ton.
 I On cross examination by Attorney
 Brown. ti>e witness denied that he was
 interested in substantiating the the ories that the police might have. He said he was not concerned with the
 police theories. In reply to ques tion from Attorney Brown, the wit ness said the appearance of Holmes face when he came into the Lennen dining room was very noticeable, an
 unnatural expression that the witne E } had never seen on the mans face be- : fore. He had known HolneG for 2e years. The expression of the mans face had been so impressed upon tbe }, witness. he said. that it was almost .l the first thing he remarked 2boe1 3 when he learned later that Home, had been arrested.
 Attorney Brown questioned th' : witness searchingly the way the cap. l tain was bleeding and wiping tn, 1 blood from his face. The witnes. : denied that he had testified at tht e previous trial that the captain Tipped l blood around the room, and he testi Q fled that the captains motions. whe1 he was wiping the blood off, were no
 violent.
 l. The cross examiner passed on t
 what the captain was doing when tn
 \ 6 ness denied that he testified in th : previous trial that thsF lad Wa}kc,
 back and forth the length of the rcon c along the dining room table wheI :, they were talking. but said all The, U took were a few steps.
 r Q.-Will you swear Capt. Lennel . didn't touch the table?
 Al will swear it. He cid / d.
 anything to account for those bloc !. spots.
 q Attorney Geary of counsel for th if defense shifted inpatiently il his sea 0 and Attorney Brown angriiy protesle, e to the court because of what he sai It the witness had interjected into hi IS answer.
 The states attorney claimed tn s witness ought not to be interruDEe - and Judge Case ordered the examina e tion to go on.
 q In response to another Guestio nj from Attorney Brown MT. Whitne 1T said he could not remember whethe
 any one intercepted MT. Holmes i
 the dining room on his way D th
 kitchen and said he could net le n member his testimony on this ;,oirt i IT the previous trial and could not re et member whether LOT not he teSiifie L that no one intercepted Holmes
 The newspaper man was dismisse '- after being on the stand for close t y an hour.
 ,s Putnam Woman Testifies. IS Miss Helen F. Sumner of Putnam, W cousin of Capt. Lennen's wife, was pu le on the stand by the state. She testi >- fled she was at Capt. Lennen's nous k. during last November and was show i- and told about the s1.s00 Eote whic W MT. Holmes had given Capt. Learel le She identified the note which is an e2 t, hinit in this case. It was some tim n in the last of November when sha sa' s. this note at the Lennen home. Sf es could not fix the date any more dc
 finitely.
 ss To Attorney Desmond on cross e2 " animation, the witness said Capt. Ter r. nen had been visiting at ner nom is just before the assault. The attorne r. inquired about visits Miss Sunlnt e.. had made to Capt. Lennens home, ce one of which the witness said si
 saw the captain and Mir Holmes p, n- securities into tin box. The tv m men were in the sitting room whe ae they were doing this. This was son a time in 1918. She at first said sf sti thought it was before the securiti,
 were put into the box that she sa
 the note, but then said she couldr
 htell. of Adjournment was taken at o'clot e1 until the next morning at 10. ce COMMUNITY CENTER GIRLS