The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-30
Brief But Pointed
CROWDS OF WOMEN
 FILL COURT ROOM

(Continued from Page One) holding the fort in the streets and alleys vainly hoping to enter the court house Or to get a view of some of the principals.
 Several women employees of the court house, unable to get to the en- trance of the building, were com pelled to go to the telephones and call up the sheriffs office explaining their predicament, They were then escorted by officers through the throng to their places of labor.
 The crowd waited in vain, but Mrs Nott did not appear.
 It was exactly 1e:3O when Judge George E. Hinman took his place and ordered the sheriff to open. the court There was a hush of expectancy as the door leading to the prisoners dock was opened and a great craning of necks. That's her. spoke a woman in loud off-stage whisper. That's Mrs. Nott.''
 But the woman she thought was Mrs. Mott was a kindly faced matron who in her anxiety to have a seat never knew that she was in the pris- onerS' dock until the case of Frank Leneve, under indictment for the | murder of Lorenzo Iallo, was called. | Then the matron discovered that she l had been sitting close beside a mur- derer.
 Later she found that the nice look | ms man Sedltu III lIOII O1 neT was q foreigner from Danbury who was | waiting to be sentenced on the charge | of adultery Verify, a crowded court room makes strange bed fellows. Mrs. Rose Flores of Danbury, was | called before the bar and given a suspended sentence of one year in jail on the charge of adultery, the proba- tion being granted on account of an eight months old baby. | Her paramour, Blanca, was given six months in jail
 l Eric A. Lindblom of Stamford charged with embezzlement of 1858 from the Stamford Rubber Co.,. for whom he was a bookkeeper. was Tnen then ,9, called tat1 and sentenced to one
 At 1O:4O the court took a, short | recess.
 At II o'clock Judge Hinman re- turned to the bench and mmedia tely called the case of Elwood B. Wade Wade was not in the room at the moment but was quickly brought from down stairs by Deputy Sheriff | Frank FasSanella.
 Wade was apparently the most un, concerned person in the room and paid more attention to his personal appearance than he did to the gaping grey cloth; a black cravat and scar1 pin. A watch chain draped acros. , his vest completed his attire whicf was neat in the extreme.
 
 erick E. Morgan of his counsel ant paid strict attention to the proceed ings that followed in examining tho panel for the selection of the meI who yi.l pass upon his guilt of tnno cence in the part he Is alleged tt have had in the murder. of George B Mott.
 Judge William Comley interrogatet
 she jurors for the defense, States At } torney Homer S. Cummings perform [ .ng a like service for the state.
 That insanity will be featured il the defense of Wade was evidenced by the fact that Judge Comley asked | each man his opinion of a verdic
 should the defense prove that Wad was insane.
 David Jenks of Wilton, a farme and laborer. was the first juryma s accepted. He Is 52 years old. mar , ried and has three children. He sal , and no opinions. He Is not oppose r to the infiiction of the death penalt
 and told Judge Comley that he ha
 no prejudices on the question of in | sanity. JenRs didn't even know ther r was a murder trial to come up unt |, he was put upon the stand to b Il questioned.
 t William W, Clark of Bethel, age I 56 years. and married. was the sec
 ond man to take his place in the jur | box. He Is not opposed to the deat e penalty being inflicted and has n z prejudtces on the question Of insanit Il | Neing introduced,
 q erick B. Henry. Stamford, 37, ma1
 ried and has two children. 'tWoul e your personal feelings warp you g judgment, inquired Attorney Cum
 mings. 1T don't think it would said the juror.