The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-27
WINDSOR PASTOR
AGAIN ACCUSED BY
EVELYN C00DELL
Testifies Rev. Joseph Walker is
Her Child's Father
CHARGE ONCE RETRACTED
Change in Attitude Necessitates
Continuance of Sensational
Court Hearing

HN"Aiot oePt. Ei.-EFeiyn GOOdell
lS-year-old Windsor chorister, faced
the open court here yesterday and
reiterated her accusations against
Rev. Joseph Walker 72, the Windsor
pastor, who Is on trial on her charge
that he is the father of her child.
The plain country girl who at DIFF
ferent times has named Rev Mr.
Walker and Lyman A. Galusha, 22, OF
windsor as her seducer, and who tes.
TILED from the witness stand In Walk
er's case yesterday, interrupted the
court hearing while II was creeping
through legal tangles toward the
truth from the lips of other witnesses
to take the stand again, and again
point the finger Of accusation at the
white haired minister She exoner.
ated him three weeks ago, when she
brought new charges against Galusha.
Her sensational repetition OF her
charges against the minister com.
pletely upset the plans of the defense
and Attorney William S. Morton. who
appears for Walker asked for a con.
tinuance until new witnesses may be
summoned, who, he said, may refute
her statements.
Judge Shaw. hearing the case. set
ii on the docket for a continued hear
ing Saturday, the day following the
morning on which Galusha the son
Iof Windsors town clerk and treas.
urer, who Is the second man accused
Of responsibility for Miss Goodell's
motherhood. will be before the bar o.
justice. Il is expected now that a
further continuance will be asked and
probably granted in the Galusha mat
ter, since Judge Shaw expressed the
opinion that the Walker case should
be settled before the Galusha case is
heard
Attorney Morton moved that the
case be dismissed when court opened
but Judge Shaw denied his pc.
titlon. Miss Goodell then took the
stand and told of making complaint
against Walker and then going to
Boston. where the child was born, but
she did not state whether or not
Walker was the father of her child.
During the day her father and
mother. her brother, Bernard, and
sister, Ruth. were put cn the stand
to testify to occasions when tnsy had
seen Evelyn and the minister to.
gether but court attaches rewarded
the case against the aged pastor weak
until the sensational turn which de
valnuad IN tho qftaruopu
Evelyn asked first at about $3.50
t. be permitted to tel her story 10
the Judge in chambers, but he said II
she had a statement il must be made
in open court She then took tho
stand and haltingly named Mr. Walk
er again, as the man responsible. In
answer to Attorney Morton's question
as to why she accused him now. after
generating him three weeks. ago, she
said: Because this is the truth"
Under cross-eXamination she ad
mitted intimacy with Lyman Galusha
the defendant in the other case, on
two occasions. but later notified the
court that the admission was due to
a misunderstanding Of word and
that she had never had improper re
lations with Galusha.
Under cross-examination she told
a story of relations with the aged
minister in field near her home one
evening late in October or early in
November While she spoke Rev. Mr..
Walker sat in one corner Of the bar
inclosure leaning upon the rail and
stroking his face. His
shoulders, bent with age, shook at
times, apparently with nervousness
and emotion.
When Miss Goodell had completed
her story Attorney MortCI moved for
the continuance until Saturday that
witnesses may be summoned from
Boston. His petition was allowed
and court adjourned.