New Britain herald., 1925-03-27

sAHzs = to his home. 1t had Ohio number plates. He said Chapman also had Indiana plates there.
 He had travelling bags. clothes and one brief case. He had golf pants and stockings and often wore them. He also had small brown book whose subject was Paper Making" He had a pistol of either 5s or 4b caliber and three shot guns. One of the last was of Remington make. The guns and pistol were identified.
 He kept the auto in back of Hance's barn. Hance said that a ''wrecking bar," sledge hammer, electric drill, and small tools were kept in the car. These were pro- duced in court and Hance identified them. A collar bag and soft hat were also identified by Hance as be- ing property of Chapman. n
 He also identified two pairs of low tan shoes as being Chapman's and besides these a pair of rubber soled golf shoes. He said he fur nished Chapman or Miller as he knew him with quantities of sacklng made of burlap.
 Under cross examinations by Judge Groehl. Hance stated that three men were at his home. Two of them slept in one room and one slept alone. Chapman slept with another man.
 GroeIl Fools Witness.
 Tn attacking Hance's identification of the various articles, Judge Groehl brought the bag which he had said was in his home. Hance said that was the bag. Judge Groehl asked him why out of three bags he could identify one. Hance said he could identify the bag. Judge Groehl took the bag and walked down the room, dropped 1t on the floor and then brought 1t back. Hance said 1t wasn't the same bag.
 He asked Hance if he was ever convicted of crime in Indiana and Hance answered "once." MT. Alcorn asked that the inquiry be kept up to find what crime it was. Judge Jennings said he would have the op- portunity to do that later.
 Court recessed with Hance still on the stand under cross examination.
 At the resumption of court this l ff-,.. r,.t& t1l was Miss Alice M. Powers, secretary to the librarian of Cincinnati, Ohio. She identified a book on Paper" from that library. Frederick II. Cooke, reference librarian in Akron, Ohio, identified book on Printing Ink". Martha Gimbell, librarian of Lima Ohio identified a book en- titled reproductive Processes"
 Chapman Salutes Witness.
 Edward Buckley, of WestheId, Mass, inn keeper on the Westfield- Springfield road, was the next wit ness. When asked If he knew the &C., cused he said, "Yes." At this point Chapman was asked to stand up, and as he did so he said, How do you do," to the witness.
 Buckley said that Shean and Chap man had been at his place several times and when they first came shean introduced Chapman, but un- der another name. He said that he didn't remember what the name was. He testified that Chapman and Shean had been at the inn three times, to his knowledge. Each time there was another man with them. This man is supposed to be Dutch" Anderson. The last time that they were at the inn was week before the murder in New Britain.
 Minister on Witness Stand
 Rev. Arthur Bailey, pastor of the First Congregational church of Paw tucket, k. l., was the next witness called. He said that he has been pastor of the Pawtucket church for a year and half. Previous to that time he was pastor of the Second Congregational church in Holyoke. Mass.
 Asked if he could identify Chap man, he said that he could, but under the name Of George Law renee Sheburne. He said that pre- viously he had had a telephone con- versation with Shean concerning the sale of property in Holyoke. He said that they had met Shean in an attorneys office regarding the sale.
 He said that the property is lo- cated in South Had1eld, He said that with Chapman was a man by the name of Waldo Miller. Next day he gave an option on the property for $500.
 Jury Finally Selected
 Criminal urt records for Hart ford county are going by the boards one after another as the Chapman trial proceeds. For the first time in the history of the county the statute giving the court power to confine juries for the duration of a trial has been invoked and Judge Jennings decided on keeping the jury in charge of sheriffs.
 The twelfth juryman to sit in the box and decide whether Gerald Chapman shall go to the galows at the Wethersfleld state prison or be acquitted for the murder of Patrol- man Skelly proved to be the most elusive person. 1t being necessary to examine 47 jurors before the state and defense accepted Samuel S. Chamberlain to fill the last seat.
 Much to the surprise of all, the actual trial of Chapman was started immediately, Judge Jennings order ing the sheriff 10 call the jury out of lis room to take seats in the box. Clerk Luctus Fuller then adminis- tered the jurors oath to the 12 men at S;45 o'clock and they settled back into their seats. only to rise imme- diately and listen to the reading of the indictment against Chapman.
 The charge was that Chapman, "a transient person" with force and ! arr1G in and upou ona Ino,as GlrnI1y