The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-01

, that she suffered a complete collapse in the courtroom yesterday after noon.
 a hatchet from Wade in her presence while the trio were in the kitchen Of the Mott home a week before the mur- der.
 hysterically cried with her hands wild tsndsn1s the to sooths a ~hie her at
 Turning to Sheriff Simeon Pease at her side she paSSionately exclaimed, "Oh, please, don't let him say that I can't stand him saying he was in my house. He was never in my house Oh! what will I ever do?" With the aid of Mrs. Adelia Hall, a special deputy matron, who has been constantly on hand for just such an occurrence, Sheriff Pease rushed the frantic woman from the room when Judge Maltbie ordered a short re- cess.
 The session was by far the most sensational and dramatic since her trial started just one week ago. Af- ter Mrs. Nott's partial recovery from her collapse, Rooney continued his testimony and on cross-examination by Attorney shannon calmly admit ted that he had meant every word when he said that he would beat up any man for S2OO.
 
 me and tell the jury that for $20O you would beat up any one at all ?" increduously asked the lawyer for the defepse.
 "Yes, sir, do,' calmly replied the witness.
 Rooney denied, however that it was a practice of his to hire himself out for such jobs very often.
 The last witness called by the State yesterday was Mrs. Eliza Adeline Wade, wife of Ebert O. Wade and mother of E1wood B. Wade, the con- VIC ed murderer of George Mott who was recently executed. Mrs. Wade, a very attractive woman dressed in
 deep mourning. was called upon to deliver no testimony and replied to the questions put to her in firm,
 decided voice that carried to the far corners of the room-
 The appearance of Mrs. Wade on the stand had been expected, but
 State Attorney Cummings sprung a complete surprise when he introduced
 a bundle of nearly fifty letters pur-
 ported to have been written by Mrs.
 Mott to Elwood Wade while both were
 in jail. The letters were given by Wade to his mother, who in turn gave them to Mary Seery Wade, wife Of the
 executed youth, who offered them to the state.
 The contents of the letters were not opened and with the exception of one or two were positively identified by
  Mrs Wade as the ones given her by her boy Many she identified by their pink envelopes. a box of which she had sent to Mrs. Mott while in jail-
 Before the afternoon session of the court was opened, Sheriff PeaSe warned. the spectators that they must be more quiet than they were dur ing the morning In the event of the slightest disturbance he said, Judge Maltbie would order the room cleared.
 The same large crowd was on hand to witness the proceedings, and completely filled every bit of avail able space in the spectators gallery.
 Joseph A. Arbison, formerly chief engineer at the East End plant of the Columbia Graphophone company, who at the time of the Mott murder resided at 263 Judson avenue, a next door neighbor of the Notts. He tes- tified that his home was but 32 1-2 feet distant from the Mott home, and that around eight o'clock on Sunday morning, August 29, last, he heard rhe report Of two shots and the sound of a mans loud voice coming from the second floor of the Mott home. He ran to the back door of the Mott home and then to the front, mounted the porch and peered through the glass door and windo |s. He could neither hear nor see anything, and after waiting four or five minutes, he returned to his home
 His wife, Mrs. Hilda Arbison, fol- lowed him on the stand and corro- borated her husbands testimony. add ing the additional information that ten minutes after her husband had left the house she heard a man grooming. The groans came from the second floor of the Mott home, ap- parently from the front room on the second floor. She testified she also heard a voice crying, Stop, stop your The voice. she said, When Sfry MTs npen npbiaon P left Ehe stand Attorney Cummings informed the court that it was stipulated in the records that a diligent search had been made for the iron pipe that figured in the murder, but 1t had been impossible to find it.
 Veronica Dudrick, the seventeen year old daughter of the owner of the | Mott home, who at the time of the | lived on the floor below the | Notts, was the next witness called to | the stand. She told of starting for | church on the morning of the murder | with the two Bopko girls, and her | mother, and of their meeting with Wade and Johnston who were hurry ing towards the Mott home each with B. quart of milk in his hands. She did not stop, although Pauline Bopko left the party and followed Wade.
 She told of her return to her home about ten o'clock and or learning or trouble in the Mott apartment There upon she went upstairs and inquired of Mrs. Mott the whereabouts of George Mott, who, she was told had not been home for two days. She asked relative to the shouts and | shots that had been heard, and tes- tified that Mrs. Mott told her that the noise had been made by she ana Rnth as they were raising Cain" After leaving word for MT. Mott to call upon her mother Immediately upon his z turn, she left
 The deIense raised a question that the girl in her testimony before the Coroner that Mrs Mott said the noise had been made by sonny Ruth and I running around.'' The girl denied l this, and was so emphatic that she | declared the records must be wrong | if they contained such a statement.
 William "Bo'' Rooney, who had i been in the courtroom almost every | day since the trial started, was the next witness
 He testified to meeting Elwood | Wade a week before the murder in front of the Sheff1e!o iunchroom on Main street about nine o'clock in the | morning when Wade made an ap-