The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-16
Pastor Smith Causes
 Scene At Inquest
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e..',' t..t (Cont1nued net of the Louisiana supreme court gave routine testimony regarding what happened, a week ago last night when Weiss stepped from behind pillar in the state house and sent a bullet creasing through Longs abdomen. -..-'
 Smith Was Called.
 Smith, thick, shoudered and nervously drumming his shoe or the floor when Coroner Thomas Bird called him to the stand. Odom an anti-Long man, was conducting the questioning for the coroner Beside him sat a staunch Long supporter, Attorney-General Gastor Portiere. The parish of East Baton Rouge and the State of Louisiana were warning against each other in this court room today.
 Smith thick, shouldered anG square jawed, went to the witness chair, but never sat down in it He -was7 sworn in, but before Odon could ask him a question, tht preacher whirledI and shouted al coroner Bird: MT coroner, wish, to make t ] statement. II respect your cour and 1 respect you, but accus, the district attorney here presen l of being a co-plotter in the con 1 spiracy to assassinate Huey Long l don't respect him and refus to answer any questions. that h may put to me. shall be gla, to, answer such questions you ma! put to me, but before the distric attorney I refuse to testify.,I wor shipped my hero and I will dt nothing to harass the boy who triei to defend him so heroically." %... Smith Called Liar
 Silence spread through the long high ceilinged court room and be. fore the spell was broken Smitf had taken six strides past Odon and was out of the door. Applause l cracked out from one corner ol the room and spread through the steaming air. v SeS. Od" m is a tall, heavy set mar wit'l gray hair... Today. he was wearing a white linen suit. He waited until Smith had pushed his way out of the court room ana then came out of his chair slow. ly. -.t5
 MT. Coroner" he said, Cir view of the, speech just made by the prospective witness, I wish tt make statement. I never plotted to kill Senator Long and when thi. witness says I did he is being { deliberate, villainous and malicious liar"
 Again there was applause ana the five members of the coroner. jury turned around from the table where they were sitting and eyed Odom. The district attorney sal down. A splotch of crimson ir each cheek. <lf
 The questioning proceeded | Odom's chair was next to that ir which attorney general Portiere was sitting, and between question. shot at witnesses they argued an. grily. Odom was trying to bring ou, that Longs bodyguards were ruth less and fired1into Weiss body long after he was stretched lifeless or the marble floor, with blood seep. ing from a dozen wounds.
 No Arrests to Be Made Baton Rouge. Sept. 16-CUP)- No arrests will be sought as the re. suit of the inquest into the deatr of Dr. Carl A. Weiss, Huey P Longs assassin, District Attorne, J. Fred Odom announced today as the inquest closed.
 .Odom, asked if he would takt any action against Smith, replied:
 "So far as I'm concerned the in- cident Is closed. He was just seek. ing some cheap publicity" $ i Paul Voitier, another of the mel assigned to protect Long, gave 2 version which corresponded to tha, ! of Roden- and Messina.
 "The gun was only one or two inches from the senator's body, he said. Senator Long, I think said, I'm shot" "Dr. Weiss, with his two hands on the gun, was fighting to pull i, ! clear. I was four or five feet away I shot between Fournet and Rod. en- shot four times and Dr. Weis: was on his feet all that time. Tt looked like he wanted tc shoot everybody around there" Why did you shoot; was 1t be. cause he had shot Senator Long :? Mostly that but also because h. was trying to shoot me and the others"
 The inquest was concluded al 12:45rp. m. -r r. VI Verdict Of Jury
 The Weiss jury broughtin yer. dict of death caused by homicida pistol wounds in the head, chesi and abdomen. A coroner's jury ir Louisiana is not charged with fix. ing responsibility for death.
 The inquest was concluded al 12:45 p. m.. (CsT) and the jury reported Immediately.
 Justice Fournct's Story. Baton Rouge. Sept. .16-(UP)-- Associate Justice John Fournet ol the Louisiana supreme court wa, the, first witness called today wheI slts.s-. kfys4.f A