New Britain herald., 1929-09-18
PROSECUTOR SAYS CRIME DELIBERATE District Attorney Charges Pea
 COX Planned Wiie'S Death DEPENDANT SOBS TODAY
Joseph Silyey, First Witness, De- scribes Finding Body-Youth Breaks Down When Counsel Says He Is "McdicalIy Insane"

White Plains, N. Y. Sept. IS tP Joseph Silvey. first witness in the trial of Earl PeacoX for the murder of his wife. told on the stand today of finding the woman's body hidder in a thicllct.
 He had stopped his automobile and walked back from the roaI about 75 feet.
 T saw a body" he said. "T went home to decide what I should do 1 made q report to the police"
 Silvey told of finding the body reporting it, and going back to tn, scene with police and the medical examiner. He was not cross exam incd.
 Lloyd 1eman. a photographer took the stand and told of taking pictures of the body in the place it vas found. for the medical cxamin- or The pictures were offered in ev- :dcnce but not shown to the jury Defense counsel did not question him.
 County photograDner and finger print expert Joseph Hill, identified other pictures he took and they al- so were entered in evidence. Thcst pictures showed the place where the body was found, but were taken after the body was removed. They were shown to the jury.
 Pictures of the interior of Pea COX apartment also were marked az evidence.
 Hill was followed on the stand by John N. Heen2y, civil engineer who made a surrey of the scene where the body was found. The sur. Ney was accepted.
 Aiil!l Bottle in Court
 As all this pcrfunctory indentifi. cation of exhibits was going on. il was noticed tha1 half hidden under papers in the prosecutors tabl there lay the milk bottle in which IeacoN admits he carried kerosen, to the thicket, pouring it on his '''D '' 'N'f ttIt'i EntlJllit5 It tll llt.
 PeacoX broke down and cried in court today as his lawyer told of the sordld marriage that led 10 the slay- ing of PeacoXs wife.
 Sydney Symcs, defense counsel had just said he would prove PeacoA was medically insane" at the time of the killing. Then he told of the last meeting of the couple last April and PeacoX began to sob. his face clutched in his hands. He quickly regained his composurc,. however and was soon taking notes of his at torney's address.
 Insanity in Family
 PeacoX showed no emotion when Syme said it would be proven that insanity had run through the Pea COX family for generations. Several members of the family, Syme said had been sent 10 institutions, one ot them being obscsscd with the notion that he was the "Yellow Kid" comic strip character of a generation ago
 PeacoX began 10 cry again as Syme began to tell of the long friendship between Pcacox and Dorothy Hcinzelman before they were married
 He loved her always" Symn said. He stuck to her through thick and thin and tried always to help her and keep her good"
 This ended the opening statements and Joseph Silvcrs, the man who found the body. was called as the first witness. Before he took tn, stand a ten minute recess was taken
 District Attorney Frank H. Coyne charged in his opening address that PeacoX killed his wife deliberately by strangling. after felling her by a blow from his pistol butt.
 PeacoX admits killing his wife but asserts it was done with the pistol and was not premeditated and therefore not punishable by the first degree murder penalty of death.
 Cites DeliberatiOn
 Coyne's assertion of death hy strangling, after the first blow, was
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