The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-01
police and told superintendent Flan-
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police and told Superintendent Elan
agan the entire story.
Assistant superintendent Flood was
the first witness called to the stand,
and he gave a summary of the entire
case. He said that. according to
statements made by both the men
held. that they had gone upstairs to
Motifs bedroom. johnson carrying the
Ratchet and Wade an iron pipe and
revolver. Wade and Mrs Mott en-
tered into whispered conversation
for a few minutes before they went
to the attic. Johnson saw Wade lift
the pipe and heard the deceased shout.
johnson became frightened and
ran down stairs. leaving the Ratchet
on the tubs. Passing through the
dining room he heard one shot fired
and when outside heard two more
shots fired. He went on the truck
and sat there until 10 o'clock when he
finally went home.
During the entire time that the
story was being told Wade sat unmov-
ed alongside of the witness stand. He
smiled once or twice, and displayed
interest at the exhibits when they
were shown. He seemed more inter-
ested in the doings in the corridor,
however. than in Floods testimony.
The trunk. Ratchet. revolver, carv-
ing KNIFE, ana Other arC1C1eS were
brought into the court room and plac-
ed on exhibition during the hearing.
The revolver was found by the police
wrapped up in newspaper, one-third
way down a sugar barrel, which was
packed with crockery. An attempt
had evidently been made to hide the
revolver there, and to give it the ap-
pearance of being a. piece of crockery.
Medical Examiner DIR. Samuel Gar
lick gave a report of his autopsy and
stated that there weer over 20 wounds
in the body of the deceased. He iden-
titled the trunk as being the one in
which the man was found He stated
that four gunshot wounds had been
found four wounds incisions, and
wounds about the head and neck
showing that a. crushing force had
been administered. The medical ex-
arniner stated that he believed the
death was not caused by the revolver
shots or by the stab wounds, but by
the blow which was struck on the
head of the deceased.
Mrs. Mary Iuderick, who resides
downstairs in the same house as the
Motifs, stated that size left her home
about 7:a0 Sunday morning to go to
church. On the way she saw Wade
and Johnson, and when she returned
home her son told her that he had
heard a shot during the night and also
mans cries. At about 1880 that
night she saw the milk truck come
and take away the trunk. Mrs. Mott
then came down on her porch and told
her that she was going to sleep at her
sisters house that night because her
husband would not be home.
Margaret Bopka, of 255 Judson
street, also testified that she saw the
trunk being removed that night from
the Mott home. She said that the
Mott children, Ruth, aged IL. and
George, aged IL, were continually on
the porches looking about as if to
watch the neighborhood, during the
day of the murder.
Although the children attended the
hearing, they were not on the wit
ness stand this morning. Wade sat
through the entire hearing in a most
disinterested manner, laughing now
and then, but johnson seemed ex-
cited and flushed most of the time.
Wade is represented by Frederick E.
Morgan of Foster & Morgan, and
Johnson is represented by Lavery &
E'inkleStone.