The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-06
BRUTAL KILLING OF
 GAMBLER MOTT WAS CUNNINCLY PLANNED

had hand in the planning, and one has made a signed confession that she fired the shots that enCed George Nott's life
 Two have sworn that she helped plan a hatchet aSSaSSina tiOn in hen own home and that she sat for hours on the stairs with men wo planned to carry out the plan, keeping them company and advising them Of Nott's probable movements.
 As she proceeded with her story she grew stronger in her control and spoke in a tone that was heard the length Of the big courtroom. It was a most remarkable story and dealt with what she declares is the true story of the murder of her husband, but what she told the jury was di- rectly opposite to Elwood Wade's signed story in which he declares that she murdered Mott and then sent for him to help her get rid of the body.
 She even grew indignant when re- minded of the story of the little Bop .ko girl who said that she saw Mrs. Nott with a bucket and scrubibing equipment.
 That's lte,'' she said vehement ly. 'I never had scrub bucket and l didn't do any scrubbing."
 "WhO did clean up the blood and mess after Mott was murdered and put into the trunk?' asked the state.
 Wade did; I never touched it. He killed him and put him in the trunk. Then~he came into the room where I was and told me not to Wor- ry, that it was all over, and that he would come in the evening and take the trunk away"
 To every allegation made by Wade she voiced denial
 She admitted she had given Nott's pistol to Wade after the Bridgeport police department had refused him a permit to carry one.
 She told how she saw Mott come from his bedroom pursued by Wade, who was hitting him, she said, over the head with piece of iron pipe. She had previously heard shots. While she once declared that she didn't see certain things and didn't go close to them, in the next breath she declared that she had run in close to the men and one of the blows struck at Mott had glanced off and hit her, lacerating her scalp.
 She told how she had sent her h.- tie girl downstairs so she wouldn't see the fight, and then when Mott was dead had gathered her children with her in another room.
 She declared that she didn't see Wade stab Mott, but did see him have the bloody knife in his hand after ward.
 She said Wade told her she was as bad off as he was. and not to go any place or say anything about what had happened.
 It was a sordid tale, and it was lis tened to by scores of women who stood for hours to hear it.
 The story of a woman who plan ned with the husband of another wo- man to help him get divorce, secure one for herself and then marry him. a boy years younger than she.
 The story of a woman who sat night after night on the stairs of her home advising two hatchet men how to succeed in foully assassinating her lawful husband.
 Who planned with her paramour ten minutes before the blow was struck which crushed out his life; who stayed all day with her children she had coached to lie to callers about their daddy; who played, the neigh bors declare, pieces of music on the pianola while her murdered husband s body lay crushed into a trunk await ing its trip to Dismal Swamp; who scrubbed away the stains of the crime and when in the evening after the trunk had been taken from the house by Johnston and Wade. went calmly about putting her children to sleeF on a couch on the plaza.
 And she says, that after Wade had