The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-28
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NOT I SLAIN,
WIFE SAYS
Stayed In Bedroom When Told
To BY Wade, Confession Evil
dence at Trial.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, May 28.-
did not see them hit or shoot him.
But ! saw my husbands head crushed
open and / had to get away. Elwood
told me to go in there, in the bed
room, and / went in there and
stayed. He said he would fix every
thing up."
BASE OF INNOCENCE PLEA.
This part of her confession. in
troduced In evidence, is the heart of
Mrs. Ethel H Motifs protestation of
innocence of completely in the muir
der of George e. Mott
On the fourth day of her trial for
murder in the first degre, FOR the
Same crime for which Elwood Wade
was hanged week ago, the slender,
Dlack-clad woman was so weak that
she could not walk unassisted to
her chair TN court Yet her COM
posure was greater than on any of
the previous days, and not once did
she cry aloud.
Mrs. Motifs confession to che po-
lice on August 20, 1920, the day
after her husband was beaten, shot
and stabbed to death and his body
packed in trunk and hidden in a
QuAgmire swamp near Easton. was
this:
They both. Wade and Johnston.
came up Sunday morning. August
-. 1920. about o'clock, and they
left two quarts Of milk. and they
!. said they will think we are bring
Ing In milk Then they went In
the hall and crept up the stairs
and hit him (Nott). George was in
the bedroom, and he hollored to me.
could not go. I was bleeding
where Mott hit me.
ThAn GAnY0A he ~ ire
and hollored to help him, and 1
said:
"T cannot and he hollered to
ruth, and she said: Papa. I cannot
come: don't holler.' Then he hollered
again to help him. I said: George.
cannot come down, and I was not
! 70 blame
CHE GOT ME FIRST"
he said: Z know you was noe,
Brownie ! would get him, but he
got mo 1rst. Then / went in the
bedroom with Ruth and sonnie be-
cause they were so scared.
"Then Elwood said, Stay in there,
will Ak everything and he did.
He said, 4 will be here tonight with
my truck and take him out, and you
tell them IL they come after you
that 1 took your trunk to Dolly's or
mo depot I will take mine and put
1t in one truck and bring 1t to Dolly's
and have another truck and you
won't need to know where he goes.
II did not see them hit him o-
| shoot him, but I saw my husbands
head crushed open and / had to get
away. After the hitting in the bed
room UP stairs, the boy johnson ran
down and out and left his axe on the
Ice chest I heard the revolver shots
after the boy ran out
"Elwood told me to go in there
Nm the bedroom. that he would fix
stayed in there He sat in the parlor
and / asked him would he please
30 and he went.
KEPT CHILDREN OUT.
~ saw Elwood walking back and
forth from the kitchen to the hall, and
he said, Keep the children in there;
don't let them out 1 did not GO
Through there at all until Mr. Fergu-
son came and asked me to come to the
door, and / went down and looked
around. The place was all cleaned up"
Pauline Bopko, fifteen-year-old star
witness for the Safe, told of looking
from the attic window OF her fathers
house into Mrs. Motifs kitchen on the
Sunday of the crime, of seeing Wade
and Johnston. also charged with thc
murder. and of approaching the Mott
house which she was on her way to
mass.
States Attorney Cummings asked:
IBID you have any reason to fol-
low?"
YES. I HAD a reason
you knew Mr.. and Mrs. Mott and
children
Yes, sir
did you or did you not observe
from day to day what was going on
1T the Mott house?"
II did, a hitler"
"What did you see, II anything,
when you were watching the Mott
house, before Motifs death?'
81 saw Mr.. Mott talk to Mr.. Wade"
what happened after that?"
81 saw Mr.. Wade go away in his
automobile, Mr.. Ferguson went away.
and Mr.. Mott went into his house"
"Did you watch the house?"
AT times did"
with reference to Mr.. Wade. did
you ever see him going into the
house?"
"why. yea"
~when?"
~why. the FIRST day she moved in
saw him come"
"How long before Motifs death was
that"
about the FIRST of June"
ALMOST DAILY CALLER
How often did you see him conner"
almost every day"
~what time of day did he conner"
sSome times about 8 o'clock"
~Do you know whether anyone
watched the house beside yourself?"
AT night my father watched"
"After you saw Wade and Johnston
co to the house that Sunday morning
you rejoined Margaret"
yes"
~After you came back from church
did you look into the Mott houseT"
Yes
"what did you seer
at saw Mrs. Mott with a basin OF
water in the kitchen. I think she
had a cloth in her hand. too. She
was going to the door that leads into
the back bedroom, bathroom and an