Evening star., 1938-08-12
BARBARA FAILS
TO TAKE STAND
Prosecutor Lashes Carroll
in Plea to Jury for
Life Sentence.
By the Associated Press.

oOO II fhn1o, Me, AuS. Ia
Special Prosecutor Ralph M. ingalls,
today asked a jury to find former
Deputy Sheriff Francis M. Carol MUIR
dered Dr. James G. Littlefield because
he feared the elderly country physi-
clan would reveal the former deputy's
alleged improper relations with his
own daughter.
Unexpectedly. both defense and
prosecution dispensed with rebuttal
testimony, and Carroll's daughter,
Barbara, Is, never took the witness
stand.
penalty for murder in Maine.
In his closing argument Mr.. ingalls,
told the jury that behind the physi-
clans murder was the "unfatherly
acts of a father"
Carroll hasn't denied it," contin-
ued the prosecutor. and at no time
has that daughter been produced to
say her father was not guilty"
The State contended Paul N Dwyer,
10. who. at a previous trial pleaded
guilty. to Staying the physician and his
wife and accepted a life sentence,
showed DR.. Littlefleld letters from
Barbara in which she accused her
father of seduction.
Carroll Is Unmovable.
Carroll listened to the prosecutions
scathing words head up. immovable.
A few seats behind him sat Barbara
and her mother, listening intently.
Whether the two men Carroll and
Dwyer, worked in concord or not"
Mr.. ingalls, argued. the result was
the death of DR.. Littlefield"
How could Carroll have stopped
DR.. Littlefield from speaking out with
out staying him!" cried Mr.. Ingalls,.
The prosecutor said cigarette
lighter found At the murder scene
could have been. and tell you it
was. Carroll's" and that Carroll had
not accounted for his time between
7:30 and pm. the night OF the
murder. although he had said he
served a summons then.
Mr.. ingalls, recalled that Miss Hazel
Talbot, State witness. placed Car
roll outside the Dwyer home between
and 7:3o pm. the night Of the mur-
der
Saying Carroll had gone to the
Dwyer home after the crime became
known, Mr. ingalls, said fingerprints
and evidence had been removed.
Carroll's pistol butt wounded DR..
Littleheld's head, Mr.. Ingalls, charged,
adding that diamond checks on the
gun grip checked with the wounds.
The gun evidence seals his DOOM"
Mr.. ingalls, asserted
The prosecutor concluded his ad-
dress by describing Carroll as man
who had "befouled his own nest and
demanded a guilty verdict.
The secret is finally out" he told
the jury. Yours 1t is to clean and
purge this case of the falsifications
which have characterized it,"
Defense Counsel Opens.
Defense Counsel Clyde r. Chapman
opened by saying there was nothing
like it (the case) in the criminal an
mails of America"
But the idea of charging man
with incest" he added. when you pro-
pose to try him for murder is un-
godly."
Charging the State had most in
geniously' built up case which. in
the last analysis. "is Paul Dryers
case" the defense lawyer declared;
"A mountain has labored and brought
fnrfh q yoolahil1n
Boiled down." declared Mr.. Chap
man, you have a cigarette lighter.
gun marks, testimony Of a girl who
said six months afterward she saw
Carroll on Paris Hill, statements Car
roll drank. Beyond that don't re-
call you really have anything"
Referring to Dwyer, Mr.. Chapman
said scathingly:
This champion now takes the name
Of the girl he said he loves and ruins
her character for all time. And the
State asks you to believe him"
The whole States case, said Mr.
Chapman. was founded on inferences
and innuendos."
while it is not incumbent on the
defense 10 prove IL was OWyeF VINO
killed DR.. Littlefield, contend 1t was
30 proved" he said.
He characterized Dwyer as . hoy
who reads detective magazines and
has his mind poisoned by them"
In the detailed description Of the
murder scene, Mr.. Chapman pointed
out Dryers wrench. his blanket, his
belt were used there in carrying out
the crime.
During his address Mr.. ingalls, de-
scribed Is . circus . defense-staged
weight-lifting demonstration yester-
day.
Philip Saucier, 1ol-pound Lewiston
High School sophomore, carried Car
rolls t50-pound brother Arthur be-
fore an amused courtroom.