Putnam patriot., 1926-09-17
AGNES PYTKo, STATES STAR WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL, UNDER INDICTMENT TELLS HOW EARLY
 MORNING TRAGEDY OCCURRED
Thirty Witnesses Summoned and Case Will Probably Take All
 Next Week.

Agnes pytko. seventeen -vear-eld Wilsunvlie girl. herself indicted for murder in the first degree. became the states star witness at the second day of the trial ef Rsamond Wetherbee 25. of North Grosvenordale. charged with infanticide in the murder of the newly -horu child of the Pytko girl iu the early morning hours of June 3Oth last an the hank of the French river in Nilsouyiilf
 The trial started Wednesday morn ing Tho entire day was consumed without filling the jury box, there be ing one vacancy when court adjourned. From a new yenire af talesmen the twelfth juror was quickly selected Thursday morning. and after map and photographs of the locality where the crime Is alleged to have occurred were introduced. the Pytko girl was called to the stand and told her yer sion of what had gone before in her relations with the defendant and what transpired iu the morning of June 3o.
 Charges Defendant
 The girl mother put 1t sauarely up Co the defendant. whom she says came to her home at o'clock in the morn ing. where she was waiting, and who suggested that she get the ciothesline which. she charges. Netherbee tied tu th body If the baby and. fastening a large sfone ta the loose nd. threw tt in tEe watct She did not see the aef she said. but heard the splash and in i few minutes Weiherhee returned and said T have drowned the baby.
 The irl told l deiAii af the events of the night eatll Metherbee finally ga Q her goodbye kiss as she told him trouble would come from what he had done.
 There svas T searching cross exam nation at length by Attorney Samuel E Harvey 6f the defense thHt some what revealed thal fhe states theory ma be that the baby might have been bon elsewhere than upon an old can vas coat on the bank of the mill stream and that someone beside the defendant might have been interested in the dis position of the child. II has been in tiniated that an alihi may also figure in the defense.
 From present appearances the trial which will be resumed next Tuesday morning. may take the greater part. if not all of the week. Some thirty or more witnesses have been summoned and a number of doctors have been in attendance, denoting that there may toe divergence in expert opinion as to some of the technicalities of the child birth under the conditions be lieved to have existed fl the girls ta tss.. fFh.a Iafa44staaf ta stta expected to testify.
 States Attorney Howard C. Brad ford is handling the states ease. as- sisted by Attorney William A. King of Willimautic The defendant Ia repre- sented by Attorney Irving II. Mir0n of Putnam and Samuel B. Harvey of Willimantic. While the court room has been well filled, all were able to get seats, extra chairs having been placed in the court room.
 All day Wednesday was devoted tc the selection of jury and at five O. clock. notwithstanding fourteen extrt talcsmen had been rounded up bs deputy sheriifa, only eleven men ftlet the jury hox The state had uset seven of its 2b preemptory chaileng es and the defendant had used tel turing the examination sixty three veniremen Most of the jurymeI were. excused by the court for opin ion formed from reading of the eaH' in the newspapers t1at the iuryme' believed would affect them m render iuR an impartial verdict, Qr boeaus' of disbelief in capital puniahmcn to such degree that it might afee their verdict it was especially nolic able that these opinions and Dn scientious seSuples as te capital pun lshment became more numerou' among the veniremen examined after the noon recess. When court finally adjourned at five o'clock instructions were given to have twenty more tales men in court Thursday morning.
 Accused Present
 Court was scheduled Co come in al ten o'clock daylight saving time Wed nesday morning A it was % be ths first first degree murder trial in thi' city in years it was thought that ther' W00DST0CK