Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-14

Mrs Mabel Kenyon of Stonington de- clared in the superior court here Wednes- day morning in her trial for the murder of Dr. Herbert Tetlow of Stoningtoh that her signed statement produced from the late coroner's records was full. of inaccu- racies. If she were to make it now, she told State Attorney Hull, she would change it all.
 Mrs. Kenyon was called to the stand by her counsel, Judge Herbert W. Rathbun and Attorney J. J. Dunn, at the opening of court Wednesday morning in the fight they are making against the admission of the statement and the typewriter tram script that Coroner Franklin H. sBrown had made of it.
 The jury was kept in the jury room. while she was allowed to look over the papers and permitted to pick out such sentences in it as she claimed she did not make to the coroner. She used a read ing glass in looking at the two papers and without reading the statement in full in coS.rt declared that the following sen tences which she read from it were not what she had said to the coroner:
 "I was heartbroken."
 Herbert, dear, don't go away. You have such tempers.'
 "He pushed me away from him.
 You can do as you damn please" Will you come 10 me-? "Go away, I won't have anything to do with you"'
 "I will end it It is all dim to me" q will forgive you, love. for I have killed you"
 1 "The baby is mine and Herberts" "Mr Kenyon told me Herbert did not love me"
 Herbert was angry because I wouldn't be operated oE."
 "He paid me S2oO last fall and when wanted anything he would get it for me-
 Another statement that she denied mak- ing was that she had a sister. Mrs. Alice Barry, and that she said. to Mrs. Thurs Con: "I went back to the room where he ! vas and got a pillow"
 To Attorney Rathbun. Mrs. Kenyon ad lnitted that the signature was hers, bu. said when she signed the page on whicH The signature appeared it was blank. She said she had taken morphine tablets by mistake and was weak and nervous. Sht denied that the coroner warned her ol cautioned her at all before he took he1 statement.
 To State Attorney Hull. Mrs Kenyon l said that the coroner did not say in Mrs 3urdick's hearing: You need not testi fy." What the coroner did say, accord 1 ing to Mrs Kenyon was that it would b, best for her to make a statement. State Attorney Hull recalled Mrs. Bur l dick to the stand after Mrs. Kenyon haC been excused Mrs. BurdicIz stated tha the coroner did not say in her hearin. to Mrs Kenyon that it would be best fo Mrs. Kenyon to make statement. H. did not say that or anything like it, sait Mrs. Burdick. | When the attorneys had concluded witt these two witnesses Judge George E. Hin man said he would defer announcing hi decision until the afternoon session o I'court, when it was expected that Corone ]. J. Desmond would be present He di rected the trial to proceed and the iur, was called in at 1115. without havin heard anything of what had been devel oped about the admission of Mrs Ken yon's statement.
 When court adjourned for the Cav. tn question of the admission of the state ment was still unsettled Judge Hinma warned the jurors particularly agains reading any newspaper accounts of tn trial, as the jurors might have q naturf curiosity to know what transpired court while they were kept in the jur room.
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