The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-27
MRS. MOTT WEEPS , AS COURT OPENS

Continued from Page One) from her. He identified a copy of the statement when it was offered him.
 Shortly before the one o'clock ad-
 journment the defense objected to the signed statement being admitted.
 The objection was overruled and marked exhibit "S.'' This state rival of Wade and Johnston at the Mott home at a m. Sunday morn- ing, Aug. 29.
 According to the statement they carried two bottles of milk to blind the. neighbors. They went in the hall, creeped upstairs. Mott was in bed room on the second floor. The children were also confined in a room. Mott called her for help us
 ing her pet name, Brownie She
 because she was bleeding from a wound on her head. He called to Ruth who said, Papa, I can't come.' She heard Mott say T said would ran down stairs and out,leaving his hatchet behind. Right after some | shots were fired.
 | Wade called to her to keep the children in the room so they couldn't | see and he would make everything all right She didn't leave the room un-
 til Nott's friend, Ferguson. called at | the door. Then she found the house | cleaned and in good order. Wade was
 pacing back and forth between the | kitchen and front room. The state
 ment also told how Wade planned the | trunk deception that failed to deceive l because of the bungling way in which | H was done and because Johnston squealed. Mrs. Mott sobbed softly while the statement was read. | During the recess at 11:30 Mrs.
 Mott asked for a drink of water
 which an attendant brought. She
 seemed fairly well composed and |
 Matron Mrs. Hall, welfare worker,
 who is a motherly person, a, former police matron.
 Great stress was made by the state | in questioning Flanagan, Reddy and l Lyddy, to show that threats
 promises. force or third degree meth | ods were used to get the signed state
 ment from Mrs. Mott. Supt Flanagan | floor murder chamber while the size of
 a pencil. and round. might possibly i have been made by a large spike.
 Capt. egan of the detective bureau
 described a conversation with Mrs. 1 Mott regarding a trunk which she
 claimed had been sent by an un-
 known expressman to the railroad for
 shipment to Chelsea. The trunk
 was not so located but later a trunk
 was found at 10S1 Stratford avenue. /! This trunk, however, was not flat top
 ped Mrs. Mott had described it,
 neither was the lock nor contents | haps her husband took the clothes
 out of it, but the police were sus-
 picious from this moment that there was another trunk and that some sort 1 of plans had miscarried.
 1 He said that Mrs. Mott while detain- | ed at headquarters complained of her
 ankle and head, but declared he did | not know that she was later carried l to the ambulance on a litter. Re gan said he "did not see anything
 greatly amiss' as to her physical con | dition.
 shannon asked Began if he had 1 told Mrs Mott they had her hus- | bands body outside before she made
 the statement. Began replied that he | had not Cummings announced that he would recall Began later in the proceedings.
 Sar. Lyddy was closely questioned | by the defense as regards his experf-
 ence. and admitted that his year at ! headquarters was the only time he | had practiced stenography. He felt certain, however, that the statement
 was given by Mrs Mott, and said ' that he was present when she signed
 it. He identified her signature. 1 Asked as to whether he had any doubt as to her comprehending what
 she was signing he replied that he
 had not Asked if she was treated
 with courtesy. he said that she was, | Mrs. Mott seems to be paying the | closest attention to every movement | in the proceedings and occasionally | leans forward and offers a suggestion
 to Attorney DeForest who sits near l est her chair.
 Supt- Flanagan was recalled by the | defense He described marks he 1 found on the door jamb in the death ! buduoir as apparently made by l mans hand. and being blood Alp l proximately 10 spots found in the | lower hall were also explained. Elan | agan described Hillside home as not l only hospital but also a place where | women prisoners are sometimes talk l | because tlRv take hafrGr
 of them than they can at the jail.