Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-25
WIDOW TESTIFIES
IN CEILINGS PROBE,
REPEATING STORY

them looked familiar. The older man,
she said, replied, mo, we amt clam
diggers."
That the men probably did not know
Ceilings was indicated by Mrs. Ceilings
testimony later that they asked her hus-
band where he lived.
Ordered to Stop Boat.
Mrs. Ceilings told how the men in
sisted that her husband help them run
the boat toward South Norwalk, Conn,
where the men said they wanted to 60.
and the next thing I remember"
she continued, "the men ordered Ben
to stop the boat. They were afraid
something was following them. We
drifted while tow went BY,
I'VE ran for Is minutes then, and
the men again ordered my husband to
stop the boat They said, We got to
get the wounded man on board
THE older man directed the younger
one to bring the man UP and put him
on q bed. Suddenly the door opened
and heard them say, Were sorry to
have to do this, but we don't want any
commontion.'
Then saw them tie my husbands
hands. My husband protested he didn't
want TO be tied, but then saw him
put his hands behind to be tied.
81 hear my husband say, Take the
boat and leave us alone went out.
The older man ordered me back down
into the cabin. Barbara WIS crying
Leave my papa alonep
1.-The next thing / heard was a crash
OF glass. And then heard my hus-
band say in an ordinary tone OF voice
They're throwing me overheard
Threw Mattress Into Water.
Mrs. Ceilings said she threw mat
tress and the anchor rope to where she
thought he was and shouted to him
but got no answer.
THE older man then came up and
grabbed hold of me and held me tight"
she said. 81 saw rowboat going toward
the mattress. Then the older man asked
me If there was any money on the boat.
/ said $40, but he dropped the converse
ton and said nothing more about 1t. !"
Then 1t was, Mrs. Ceilings testified,
that the man put her into canoe.
Both men padded the boat over the
waters Of Long Island Sound, leaving
her little daughter alone on the drifting
cruiser. AS they left, she said, she
noticed another boat coming toward
their boat and thought they would save
her husband before he drowned and
take her daughter of the drifting boat.
I'VE padded, it seemed, for hours, p"
she said.
LAS we approached land, the older
man told the younger one to leave the
canoe. The younger one asked where
to meet him. The older said You
know"
"Then the older man padded over to
the yacht 30 Peep anchored near there.
He changed some Of his clothes, opened
duffle bag and threw some things
that looked like note books and clothes
overheard"
Then the man put her on the 30
Peep and padded away toward Oyster
Bay, Mrs. Ceilings testified. She made
no mention of an attack on her by the
older man and it appeared the officials
had agreed not to question her on that
part Of the story.
She related the oft-repeated account
Of how she was saved from the Bo
Peep by two men on an adjoining
estate attracted by her cries.
Mrs. Ceilings last night failed to
identify two suspects as the slayers.
A single glance at the suspects led
her to declare they were not the men.
The men-Timothy Quinn, IS, former
inmate of an insane asylum, and Ed
ward Tompkins. Is. friend OF Quinn
were released.
Cameras, Are Banned.
Just before the resumption Of the
inquest after the luncheon recess Cor
oner Gibson ordered all cameras, In
GLIDING a sound movie camera that had
been specially rugged up for the occa-
sion, removed from the rooms.
Mrs. Ceilings, resuming the stand
said, in answer to questions OF Dis
trict Attorney Blue, that she was born
in Boston 20 years ago and graduated
from Smith College, where she matoreo
in sociology. Her husband, she said.
was SO, went to school at Exeter and
later at Yale and took postgraduate
course in mechanical engineering al
Dartmouth.
Mrs. Ceilings estimated that her hus-
band had lost four-fifths Of his capital
in the Wall Street crash, but said he
was expecting an income of 81 1000 9
year from his mothers estate.
She said her husband was not moody
or melancholy" but just quiet; that he
had few close friends and that theil
home life was exceptionally happy.
She said she knew Of no enemies he
could have had. That he never ex-
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