New Britain herald., 1926-11-13
CHARLOTTE FEARS FOR HER BROTHER Worried Because He Has Been
 Called as Witness WANTED HIS MIND FREE
Efforts of Defense Counsel Amuse Miss Mills and She Is Forced To Smile-Exprcsses Admiration for Undertaken Hubbard.

Undertaken Hubbard.
 BY CHARLOTTE MILLS Copyright. 1926, Famous Features
 Syndicate, Inc.)
 Somervile, N. J., Nov. 13-I am worried, terribly worried, about my little brother. Danny. He has been ordered to be in court, ready to testify. It makes my heart ache to think of it. I had hoped to keep him out Of this dreadful mess. I wanted his young thoughts to be as far away from 1t as possible.
 Poor little Danny, what can he tell? He was only 12 when 1t hap pened. He can forget so easily, if they will only let him. Why must he begin now to suffer the things have suffered? Can't they spare Danny all that?
 Yesterday I was glad the testi- mony was So interesting that could forget for while this ter rible thing that is happening to | Danny. I actually had to smile several times while MT. Payne was on the stand. It was amusing to hear his answers turn MT. McCar- ter's questions into smashing boom- | erangs.
 MT. Payne was thoroughly at ease | anu answered in pleasing. lifting voice. To him the whole story of his connection with the case was actually yawned from boredom. But even so his snaI ,y replies kept cracking and sparkling around MT. McCarter's poor head like fire works, until he seemed all befud- dled.
 Senator Simpson said Mir. McCar- ! ter, by some of his questions, was | trying to drag red herring across i the trail. Mir. McCarter even asked MT. Payne about his salary and other things that have no bearing on the case, as I see it. and Judge 1 Parker very fairly ruled that out. ! For me the whole case always comes back to one point-my moth CT and the man she loved were bru- 1 tally killed. What has Mir. Payne's salary got to do with that? With that is no evidence to show who did or didn't kill my mother. But Mir. Payne did collect other very vital evidence, and he certainly has my sincere thanks for that.
 Of course, the re-opening of the case has also re-opened many wounds in my heart. but ] would rather have those wounds now for a few weeks than to be always en- bittered about the way the first in- vestigation was slurred over, and to be always haunted by the mystery of my mothers death.
 I was surprised yesterday when Louise Geist changed her testimony about the last telephone conversa- | ton between my mother and Dr. Hall. Senator Simpson was surprised, too, but he had her original testi- mony and I am sure he will make everything come out all right.
 They showed my mothers dress again yesterday-the one she wore when she was killed. ] hung my head. But in a moment 1t was over.
 Undertaken Hubbard was also on the stand.
 Mother had always said that when she died she wanted to be buried by John Hubbard. He doesn't try to be a good fellow at a funeral, she used to say. Death is a sacred thing to him and he treats it with proper reverence"
 She had her wish. I went down to see him on Sunday morning, he day after the bodies were found, and he helped me pick out a coffin which he thought mother would have liked.
 I think if it hadn't been for him calling Health Officer Cronll o look at my mothers body, we might never have known about her throat being cut and her body bruised. Dr. Cronk was a friend of fathers, and he told him what he had discovered on examination.
 Several days later, the bodies were exhumed and an autopsy performed There was quite lot of talk then over the fact that Dr. Long, the medical examiner had permitted the bodies to be removed and buried without the usual permits and without ordering an autopsy first.
 Mothers funeral was held from Mir. Hubbard's place-we felt that it was much better so, our home being so poorly equipped for sucf a thing.
 The coffin I picked was an ex. pensive one-probably more than wt could afford, but I didn't think any. thing was too good for my mother particularly in this case, whicf would be the last chance we would have to do anything for her. Know ing how much she liked good thing' and how few she had had when sh, was alive. I just felt that this wa, the least we could do for her-se, that she was buried in the righ l style I've never rerrefted If