New Britain herald., 1920-09-02
ALLEGED KILLERS
 REFUSE TO TALK
Mrs. NOtt and Wade and Johnston
 Keep Mum at Inquiry
THREE HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Wife of Murdered Man Identifies Q Revolver, Knife and Hatchet- Began Detective, Tells of Wadc's Confession.

Began Detective, Tells of wadc's
 Confession.
 Bridgeport, Sept. 2.-Mrs Ethel Hutchinson Mott. widow of George E. Nott, who was murdered in their apartments Sunday. was before Cor oner Phelan today to testify in the counsel to answer any questions which might incriminate her.
 Elwood B. Wade. another of the ac- cused. also refused to answer ques- tions. as did John E. Johnston, the third person involved.
 In city court the charges of breach of the peace against each were changed to murder in the first de- gree and each was held without bail for hearing on Saturday.
 Mrs. Nott CoIlapsing.
 Mrs. Nott was on the point of col lapse during her appearance before the coroner. She had to be assisted into the court room and afterwards she was taken. sobbing hystericallv. by two officers 10 an adjoining room and then to Hillside Home for treat ment Wade and Johnston were brought before the coroner a few minutes after Mrs. Nott came in. As soon as the handcuffs were removed. Wade walked over to Mrs. Mott and patted her on the back and tried to talk to her in whispers. Wade was ordered back by Superintendent Elan agan. The coroner tried to make | Mrs. Nott comfortable and had her { moved to another room until he was [ ready to hear her. On the stand Mrs. Nott admitted that she had known Wade for year and that he had 1 been a visitor to her apartments. He was there Sunday morning. Mrs. ! Mott identified a revolver. knife and hatchet used in the killing of her i husband.
 Detective F. NJ Holbrook told of a | conversation he had with Mrs. Mott i on Sunday night. She said that the , trunk taken from the apartments held | her clothes which were going to her mother in Chelsea. Mass.
 i Captain John H. Began of the de- ! tective bureau. told of interviews he had with Wade. He made three eff | forts to locate the trunk at the rail- i road station. Wade first mentioned Johnston after his arrest Monday af- l ternoon about o'clock. Johnston was brought in at 3:30. On the way | to the station. according to Began, l Johnston told of throwing a trunk : into a swamp near Short Hill, Wade l helping hm. Captain Began said he then told Wade that he knew where ! the trunk was and after a few min | utes Wade told his story of the killing. | The witness said that Wade said h 6 was telephoned for by Mrs. Nott on I Sunday morning who said she was in ' trouble. He went to the house and | saw Mott lying at the foot of the | stairs. Mrs. Mott told him (Wade) that her husband had beaten her and | threatened to kill her and she had shot Mott with the revolver which she had. Wade said that Mrs. Mott said that cit was better that he were
 there than she" Mrs. Mott asked Wade to assist her in putting the body . in a trunk He said he did so and !! took the trunk upstairs, and that night he and Johnston took it away.
 Captain Began said that in another | interview Wade while in the Mott | apartments desc ribing the struggle, ! said that he hit Nott over the head
 with a pipe This pipe was the ham, ! dle of his truck jack. When Mott ! was calling for help. Wade said, ac-
 cording to the witness that he asked | Mrs Nott to hand him the butcher
 knife. She brought it and he said he l finished the job.
 Captain Regan said that Wade told him that Mott was tough one to
 finish. and that ''he thought he had | nine lives" Wade said he put the
 body in the trunk. The revolver he
 said was Nott's. Wade told Captain
 Regan that Johnston took no part in
 the killing as he ran away.
 Tn an interview with Johnston,
 Captain Began said. he learned that
 Johnston went with Wade to give
 Mott a beating up." Wade had said
 that Nott intended to get him. and
 he intended ito get Mott first"
 Wade continues to show indiffer- l ence over the charges