The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-23

(Continued from Page 1.) the original story about events of the night of September 10-that two men boarded the cruiser, beat and cut her husband, a retired en- gineer, tied him, tossed him over board, and then took her off in a canoe and attacked her.
 Mrs Ceilings will be asked to ap- pear at the resumption of the coroner's inquest Friday. the prosecutor said.
 Mrs Ceilings does not know the names of her assailants,' Blue said, but she has given a good description of them."
 Has robbery been abandoned as a motive?" he was asked.
 "I cannot answer that question for reasons which I will keep to myself" he replied.
 Mrs Ceilings and her daughter, Barbara, are the only two persons involved in the fantastic case whose identities are known. Barbara's s story-she is a child of six-has varied and has been of no value to investigators. Consequently auth critics renewed their search to- day for a maniac and a youth who fitted the descriptions of the men who killed Ceilings.
 The prosecutor announced last night he was searching Manhat- tan for a paroled maniac, a man suffering from dementia praecox. This was after Michael J. King, shell-shocked war veteran, was -ls .s,xn ntrI aaf learned he escaped from the Kings park state hospital a day after the inexplicable series of events in the Sound,
 Mrs Ceilings described the lead CT of the two men as person between 40 and 50 years of age. powerfully built. closely cropped hair which was either white or very light, large nose and un- usual eyes. He was clean shaven.
 Blue said the new suspect an- swered the description but that so many ''tips" on the case had gone sour" he was not overly optimistic.
 Mrs Ceilings underwent the sec ond successive day of questioning at her home in Stamford, Conn, yesterday when she continued tell ing her story to Di Martini, an in- vestigator famed for his work in connection with the famed Hall- Mills case of New Jersey.
 Di Martini was accompanied by Assistant District Attorney Fred J. Munder of Suffolk county. Mrs Ceilings story was recorded by a stenographer. It was the third time she had been forced to re- count the details of her husbands murder and the attack on herself First she had to tell it to District Attorney Alvin H. Edward oi Nassau county, then repeat the tale to Blue, and finally again to Di Martini.
 In the account to Di Martini il was revealed for the first time Mrs Ceilings struggled with the pirates when they first attacked her hus- band, but was overpowered and warned she would be killed unless she stopped fighting.
 Edwards and Blue, in making public her story failed to bring this out clearly, probably for reasons of strategy in trying to solve the case, she asserted. resulting in an unfortunate view of her part in the events of the night of the murder
 Homer s. Cummings of stam- ford, chief counsel for the widow expressed appreciation of Di Mar fini's consideration for his witness and said he had been undecided whether to advise Mrs Ceilings rresence at the inquest because hs had cained the impression Blus wns hostile to his client.
 .srt, is gratifying to note that in. formed opinion more and more .cou, pietcIy supports Mrs Ceilings accounts of the Extraordinary hap. ,,rnincs attendant upon her hus. hond'r fieafh." cumnings said. "Ne infelliecnt observer can now doubt <,<e< *fra CollInxs has told the <r,,fh cxacfIy ns she saw it."