Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-09
OR. SCANLON TESTIFIES MRS. KENYON
 SAID SHE MEANT TO KILL HERSELF

show the way The door of Doctor let lows room was shut. Mrs Kenyon turn ed the knob, the door opening only lit tie way Dr. Scanlon could see Dr. let lows feet and the lower part of his legs. | Mrs Kenyon stepped over the doctors legs and went into the room, followed by the witness. On the way upstairs | Mrs. Kenyon said, Hes shot himself" When they were in the room,- she asked "Is he dead?" Dr. Scanlon answered, | NO" but he will be in minute Dr. Tetlow breathed a few times after Dr Scanlol arrived The witness said to | Mrs Kenyon, Wed better get out of here" They went out and downstairs
 where Mrs Kenyon went into rear
 room and Dr. Scanlon told several other
 women there not to let her out of there
 How the Body Lay. | Describing the position of the body, Dr. Scanlon testified that there was no blood in sight, there was a clean, white pillow under the head, the hands were folded across the stomach left foot l thrown over the right, and the body turn
 ed slightly on the right side.
 l Shortly afterwards Dr. F. l. Payne ar l rived and Dr. Scanlon and Dr. Payne ex-
 amined the wound on Dr. Tetlow's body. Dr. Scanlon said he concluded that the
 bullet which caused the wound must have
 been fired from the right and to the rear | of Dr. Tetlow. There was no powder 1 burn on the sleeve of the coat where the bullet hole was. The witness said
 revolver would have to be within 10 in-
 ches to cause powder burns to show
 Mrs. Kenyon's Signed Statement.
 At this point Judge Hinman declared l a recess while attorneys for Mrs Ken
 yon looked over signed statement made
 by her before Coroner Brown which the state proposes to bring into the case. It
 had been brought to court by Acting Cor
 oner J. J. Desmond.
 Dr. Scanlon proceeded to tell how he
 came down into the room where Mrs.
 Kenyon was sitting and charged her with shooting Dr. Tetlow. When the witness
 attempted to tell what Mrs. Kenyons re-
 sponse was, her attorneys objected on
 the ground that she was practically un-
 der arrest at the time and was compelled , by the attitude of the doctor to make
 these answers and statements. Judge Hinman had the jury sent out
 of the court room while Dr. Scanlon was '' allowed to tell what his testimony would
 be and the state attorney and Lawyer Rathbun argued as to it's admissibility Judge Hinman stated to the attorneys
 that he would make a ruling later on , the point of allowing Dr. Scanlon to re- T ing on the shooting, but the doctor mighl testify to other facts.
 When the jury had been called ba ok State Attorney Hull proceeded with the !. examination of Dr. Scanlon in which il was brought out that Mrs. Kenyon said j. to him, You charge me with being 3 murderess?
 ''Yes," answered the doctor, and I want that gun"
 . frTt's homo ''Pn go get it."
 'fNo you can't go alone, responded Dr Q Scanlon.s
 T They started for her home and at the d foot of the stairs. Dr. Scanlon asked hel n if there was anything wrong betweer
 her and Dr. Tetlow. She replied that sht 7 i did not care to say. q They went to the Kenyon house wher d the revolver was produced from a bu n reau drawer in the upstairs bedroom, Dr e Payne took it out of the drawer. It hat e four empty cartridges in it and two load y ed ones. and was of 38 calibre
 Dr Scanlon identified the revolver ant
 the cartridges and all went in as exhib 5 it's.
 Finding the Bullets. d The doctor testified that he found ol n the floor of-Dr Tetlow's sitting room tn T bullet that made the hole in the carDe H l anu lfe SCAT III the 1lOOr. rms was hp n fore Dr. Tetlows body had been moved
 When Carr, the undertakers assistant n was there to take the body away, Car y pointed out to Dr. Scanlon the hol : through the back of the chair and Dr e Scanlon found the bullet on the foo l. near the chair and close to the radiator r State Attorney Full had Court Mes r senger Robert McBurney put on Dt let IT lows coat so that Dr. ScanIon c0uId sho, c the md I,a
 had been the position of the dead doc l. tors arm when he was shot. d Not self-Inaicted Wound. l. Dr. Scanlon described the wound e which were disclosed by the autopsy. an
 the great amount of clotted blood whic
 filled the abdomen. There were TO ir
 juries to the head nor evidences of ia n cial paralysis such aS would have bee n, seen of Dr. Tetlow had had a hernorrhae r. of the brain. The bullet wound was net IS essarily fatal, said Dr. Scanlon. and WE to the only cause of death It was absc E. lutely impossible for Dr. Tetlow to hay er inflicted the wound upon himself k' Cross Examines Dr. scanIon. m Taking up the cross examination Alto =. ney Rathbun questioned Dr. Scanlc io whether it would have been possible fC ~ Dr. Tetlow to reach, out with his rigl ', hand holding the revolver Dr. Scanlc n said, "No"
 m Dr. Scanlon denied that he had tai D en special interest in the case and tn; D n within week he had said tobeing or ie the state of Connecticut was dependir s' or him to convict Mrs. Kenyon !. Mrjor Hull challenged Attorney Rat, 'A but to produce the name of any person IS, whom Dr. Scanlon might have said thi no Attorney Rathbun gave the name ne Chris Ferrara, a Westerly iitney drive oh but Dr. Scanlon said he did not belle IL he had talked with Ferrara about t D. case
 ne To a question from Attorney Rat as bun, Dr. Scanlon said he had been actil e. | at the time at the houee as ba +l,oro d. any citizen ought to who +honqb+ Q crir