The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-04
Widow COtellO
 Was Not Weeping
knew 1t was in the house.
 The stomach trouble with whie
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knew it was in the house.
 The stomach trouble with which Fire Captain William J. Costello supposedly was afflicted may have caused him to end his life, the de- fense contends, with the cyanide of potassium which the government alleges that Mrs Costello admins tered to him in capsule. "Why did you not offer. him the medicine Dr Pomeroy (the family physician) gave him?" asked Dis trict-Attorney Hugh A. Gregg, the stocky, tenacious chief prosecutor.
 Because Bill Costello was the kind you couldn't force to take anything he didn't want?" replied the widow.
 "You knew he was suffering and never even suggested that the medicine Dr Pomeroy gave him might help?"
 "No, didn't"
 To witness the renewal of the verbal tilt between the prosecutor and the defendant. five slicker-clad young men had stood in down. pour at the courthouse door for nearly nine hours before court opened. Half a hundred other persons had waited in the rain for an hour or more. Only about 35 of the 150 there when court convened secured seats.
 Mrs Costello professed an utter lack of knowledge of the true meaning of the word "poison."
 Had you ever heard of cyanide as poison used to kill dogs?' Gregg inquired. ,3 fl rrysI Had you heard of its quick and fatal effect on animals?"
 "No, sir"
 "What does poison mean to you?"
 Ut just means that it's some thing that shouldn't be around the children"
 "Well. does it mean something that kills?"
 "I don't know, I haven't any ideas of poisons at all."
 When you talk of poison 1t means something that kills, doesn't it?" "I wouldn't say so." "Can you give us your judgment as to the meaning of poison?"
 q have no ideas about it. In- spector Griffin is the only one who ever discussed 1t with me-"
 Mrs Costello didn't recall having said in direct testimony that she left glass of ginger ale in her bedroom when she went downstairs the morning her husband died.
 ''Well," said Gregg, "if you took the glass downstairs with you how was 1t that MT Purcell Ca neigh bor) couldn't find it when he went upstairs after the body was discov- ered?"
 'I don't know" said the widow.
 When she discovered Bill lying on the floor of the upper hallway, she said, he had a "queer look" on his face. ...
 '"The fact that he was on the floor did not indicate to you that he was dead, did it?"
 i've told you how I felt about it," was the tart reply.
 There were other things that indicated he was dead?"
 "Yes, the whiteness and the ex- pression on his face"
 What was the expression on his face?"
 T couldn't tell you now" "Will you please describe for me the difference between the express sion on his face that morning and the expression on other occasions when you saw Bill on the floor in a faint?"
 i've told you his face was whit CT than usual"
 What else did you notice?"
 "Oh. guess that's about all," said the widow, casually.
 Mrs Costello denied having told Dr John F. Walsh, who first ascrib- ed Captain Costello's death to angina pectoris. that she saw Bill alive at a. m. what she told him. she insisted, was that the children had talked with Bill at that hour just before leaving for school.
 The prosecutor questioned the widow regarding the arrival of her self styled clandestine lover, Police man Edward J. McMahon, at the Costello home soon after the fire captains death.
 "You had some talk with Mc- Mahon?"
 Not a lot"
 She described the handse.-.s