Evening star., 1938-08-09
M|X-UP ENDS TRAP
IN CARROLL CASE
Warden Tells of Attempt
to Overhear Conversation
of Two in Cell.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH PARIS. Me-, Aug. "a die
tagraph was installed in the State
Prison at Thomaston. jury trying
Francis M. Carroll for the strangula-
ton of DR.. James G. Littlefield, was
told today. in an attempt to overhear
Carroll talking with Paul N. Dwyer.
But Carroll and Dwyer-the latter
serving a life sentence for the crime
he now lays to Carroll-talked in an
other place, and the attempt failed.
Warden John H. WEIGH testified to
installation of the instrument. but
said it failed because there was q
mix-up"
The warden was one of a group of
witnesses the State presented to
bolster the circumstantial side of its
case against Carroll.
Soon after Dwyer was committed to
his custody last December 80, Mr.
WEIGH said, the 19-year-old youth
who previously had confessed Staying
both DR.. Littlefield and his wife,
Lydia, accused Carroll of the crimes.
Essentially Same Story.
He said the statement was ESSEN
TALLY the same" as the story Dwyer
told last week as the States chief
witness against Carroll
Previously, Miss Hazel Talbot had
testified she saw Carroll sitting in a
parked car" the night of the murder
in road behind the Dwyer home,
where the State alleges the doctor
was killed.
Another witness. Robert Pierce, said
he saw q black automobile near the
Dwyer home that night, but could not
recognize Carroll as the man he saw
in it.
A deputy sheriff, Clark c. Hunt,
testified he was with Carroll frequently
in 1887. when Carroll also was q
deputy anG often saw Carroll using a
cigarette lighter similar to one offered
in evidence as found at the Dwyer
home.
Wasn't Used After Oct. l3.
Deputy Hunt said he had never
seen Carroll use the lighter after
October l3.
When he took Dwyer to the Augusta
State Hospital for observation, Mr.
Hunt said, Dwyer told him there was
dope ring mixed up in the case"
and later added there was a girl
angle in it."
Capt. Henry W. Lyon. navigator
for Capt. Kingsfosd-Smith on
Trans-Pacific flight, and Newton
Cummings, Paris Hill storekeeper,
said they saw lights in the Dwyer
home the night of the Staying. Capt.
Lyon drove by at 10:45 pm and Mr..
Cummings said he went by an hour
later.
Neither recalled seeing an automo-
bile near the house.
Drove Dwyer Home.
Charles Coffren. a South Paris
night patrolman. testified he drove
Dwyer home to Paris Hill one night
about a week before the murder.
Dwyer last week testified the police
man drove him home and that shot
was fired from another automobile
after ne stepped out of the police
mans car.
Patrolman Coffren said he did not
hear gun fired that night.
Two sisters, Virginia, l3, and
Priscilla Moore, Is, testified they saw
two automobiles in front of the Dwyer
home at 7:3o pm the night of the
Staying. A man sat in one of the
cars, they said, but they did not
know him.
A record book of the Norway Ameri-
can Legion Post. of which Carroll Is
member, was offered in evidence. 1t
did not contain his name among
names of members at an October l3
meeting.
David A. Klain. then post COM
mander. testified he saw Carroll at a
supper before the meeting, but both
he and Walter Poindexter. a member,
said they did not see him at the
meeting.