The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-26

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 While efforts were being made to have the answer repeated, Norma collapsed, her gObs being heard plainly throughout the room.
 Dedhanl, Mass, June 2e = The government will seek today to break down Norma Brighton Mil- lens et0ry---the story of an innO. cent parsons daughter who mar. ried a bandit against her will and who thereafter was dominated by him.
 District Attorney Edmund E. Dewlng, through rOss-examinatioD of the 10-year.ld defendant at her murder-accessOry trial will trt to strengthen his contention that she helped burn the escape car used by the Needham kilier-ban- dts and that she shared in the $16,00O loot of the crime.
 Dewing indicated that at conc1u. sion of the girls examine ton ho would call as e rebuttal witness Dr Miner If. A. Evans psychiatrist who testified for the government during the murder trial of the defendants husband Murton Mifien, his brother 1rvinG and Abraham Fabcr.
 Through Dr Evans testimony the state will seek to rcfute the dc. fenge contention that Norma has the mentality of q 16-yar-o1d girl and thus became an easy subject for &t.n AAS,s(An<t-s. <.< i. Hs, fs ssAf.a z. 4 The Millens and Taber face man. datory electrocution for the ma. chine-gun staying of one of two policemen killed during the Need ham Trust company robbery.
 Final arguments of both defense and the government were expected to be brief, the case going to the jury by nightfall.
 Her eyes sw oilen from weeping the pretty, demure Norma testified for three hours yesterday. She told of her honeymoon of terror with Murt as he fled from city to city.
 She said she was afraid both oi her husband and Irving afraid they would kill her.
 T had only $2 and I could moi get away,S she said.
 "Was there one time in Wash. ington that you did pack up youi bags gnd go away" she was asked by her counsel, George A. Douglas
 "Yes, that was the night 1 spent in tho hotel alone"
 "Why didn't you go?"
 T didn't have the nerve"
 Toward the end of the session Norma collapsed in hystericai weeping, but after administrat ti0r of stimulants she was able to re. sume her testimony.
 Tn the closely. packed courtroom were her father, the Rev Norman Brighton, hcr stcpmother, Mrs Mu. riel Brighton, and her brother Clarence. Her own mother, es. tranged from Brighton, sat within the bar enclosure.
 Norma began her story with { description of her meeting with Murt at her first public dance Later her father forbade her tt attend another dhnce with him. Sht had an argument with her father and went to visit her mother nt Tcwksbury, but there was no room for her there, she said.
 She finally married Murt0n on the advice of her mother, because she had "borrowed money from him and could not set work and pay 1t back"
 Murt treated her "nic6" foi about two months of their honey. moon and then became sui1en, sfIt testified.
 Under persistent questioning bJ her attorney. she reluctantly dis. closed the reason. Until three weeks before Mures arrest she wal unable to congummate their mar. riage.
 Norma denied knowledge of tht burning of the bandit machine She said she did not know tht Millens and Faber were intendina to burn it whcn sine drove in an. other car to Norwo0d, and did no, know 1t had been burned until ii was all over.
 After wo got homc," she ex. plaincd, T wanted to know what they did it for, and he (Murt0n) said they got rid of 1t because 1rv. ing got in trouble over q bnttorj he repaired for q gang that wal in the Needham job"
 She also denied she was present in q New York hotel room whef Murt told Saul Messinger, G school. days chum that he was "ii0t for ti, Ncedhnm job" and had killed two policemen. Although MessinRer tes1 tihed Norma was in the room, th' ing q bath at the time.