The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-31
Wnde's Wife Fuizats After R0ttzing Way
 To HUsbQnd;s Side

The strength and devotion of a woman's love was shown yesterday when the wife of Elwood B. Wade, who, if the stories connected with the Mott murder trial are true, has been betrayed in her every trust, fought her way through the wild mob that stormed the doors of the court house to find her way to a seat pro- vided for her near where her hus- band, now on trial for his life, sat closely guarded by Deputy Sheriff Frank Fassanella.
 It was a narrowing time for a strong woman under any conditions, and this little woman, scarcely more than girl, stood uo under the shock during the morning hours with real fortitude.
 Tn the afternoon when she cane to the building she was caught up by the mob which surged about the doors, crowded and jostled, leered at and commented upon. some of the remarks being so rude that men eX- postulated with the women making them, yet fought valiantly to make her way to the door. Inside she gave way to the emotion of the moment and fell to the floor in a dead faint.
 Big-hearted Sheriff Simeon Pease, out of patience with the senseless throng, thrust them roughly aside, her quickly to his office where she was revived and proceeded to her seat in the courtroom.
 In spite of the suffering and hu- 1'liliation heaped upon her by her husband, she had smiles for him, and the little pitiful efforts she made to wave her hand to him to cheer him up should have torn nis heart Once he smiled slightly at her and then paid no further attention to her until the trial was closed for the day.
 Alongside her was another woman equally devoted and trying her best to encourage the prisoner at the bar. That was his mother, and all through the trying day she sat patiently and bravely listening to the questions of the attorneys who fenced with words as they sought the twelve men who are to say whether or not her boy is guilty of a hideoUS crime and in what degree is his guilt
 Only once did she weaken, and that was when an old neighbor testi- fled that he had known Elwood B. Wade since he was child, "a little fellow years old' he said. It was then that the mother heart of her ru,i,d stand no more as this mans testimony bridged the years and brought to her a vision of her Little Boy Blue fast asleep with his toys or running at her apron strings as she went about her daily task dreaming of the day when her baby would be a man.
 Tn those dreams there was no pie
 
 bars that barred her baby from her arms and scared her soul with 8 burning pain; there was no picture ir those dreams of mobs fighting fol places of vantage to watch while hel baby boy faced his trial for life charged with the commission of 2 crime so hideous that even the n1er accustomed to dealing with hideon' things shuddered when they behelt the work of those who murdered George B. Mott.
 With her sat a sister equally devot ed and equally as brave. When the men of Easton told of the years they had known the prisoner and spoke tie wife wept bitterly. Perhaps sht thought of her own babies and the -- blight that is upon them.
 The hands of the big clock up or he wall creep dreadfully slow wher - man is on trial for his life. Ever above the hum of the courtroom it Hhirr as it shifts the moments is a .imes painfully loud. It was S.S' when the court ordered a short re cess.
 The deputies shouted to the spec tators that all who remained nov must wait until o'clock before the, ---sould get out. From 4 o'clock o1 the hands moved seemingly slowe than ever. The attorneys kept III < .heir ceaseless flow of questions. A ast the clerk announced that the pan sl was exhausted. It was o'clock
 The court excused the jury for tn night after admonish1ng them as | :heir conduct. Tie court officers rap ? ped loudly for order as the spectat prs began to move. keep your seat nntil the jury has left the building, Nasf the order.
 linen the deputies herded the spec a1ors from the room. Some rrie