The Washington times., 1938-08-02
STRANGLING OF PHYSICIAN
DETAILED IN CARROLL TRIAL
Confessed Slayer
Mere Spectator
State AUerS
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ingalls, declared Carroll walked
In, alone, and said:
IT suppose, Littlefield, you
know that this little - - has
got my girl in trouble"
ingalls, said the physician
answered:
Carroll, know this whole
story. Paul has told it all to
me. I know everything-the
letters, Barbara, and all. You
belong in the State prison. If
there is no other man in oxford
county who will see that you
get there, I will do it"
mot FIT TO LIVE"
The attorney said Carroll fol
lowed the 63-year-old physician to
the second floor of the house and
shouted
What the hell do you mean?"
DR.. Littlefield retorted:
"You are not fit to live"
Young Dwyer will testify, the
prosecutor said, that a few Sec
onds later he heard commotion
and a groan.
Paul Dwyer picked up a
wrench" ingalls, told the jury,
land rushed upstairs. The doc
tor had been severely kicked.
Paul struck at Carroll. The lat
ter grabbed the wrench from
Paul's hand and struck the
doctor. He reeled back into the
bathroom and fell.
DOCTOR ATTACKED AGAIN
Carroll said he had a car,
and would get it for the injured
physician. Young Dwyer helped
DR.. Littlefield to his feet.
Carroll soon came rushing
up the stairs. In his hand he
had a gun and he struck the
doctor over the right eye. The
doctor fell to the bathroom
floor.
STRANGLED WITH STRAP
"Then Carroll reached up and
seized a belt which was in the
bathroom. He told the boy to
put the strap around the doc
tors neck. Paul refused, so Car
roll did it and strangled the doc
tor to death"
Carroll was arrested last May
81 on a morals charge involving
Barbara when she was child
Of 120
/ ingalls, told the jury that in the
summer of 1885 the interest of
Barbara and Paul in each other
heightened into love-"
Their affections grew, ex-
pressed by word of mouth and
in writing he said, "and there
came the time when they trans
gressed the rules of propriety
and became intimate.
IMPLICATES FATHER
Paul will tell you that later
he berated himself for what had
occurred-that he finally told
her they must not see each
other. He will tell you that
Barbara wrote to him, and in
one of her letters she said:
"This is not the first time,
Paul, that this occurred to me.
Did you know I had such ex-
periences before? Do you under
stand why I dislike my father
SOP"
There were other letters, even
more accusing the prosecutor said.
and Carroll tried to buy them.
Failing in this, he wrote DWyer
warning him that if he didn't see
fit to sell the letters there would
be "other methods" taken to get
them.
On Thursday, October 7 last, In
gals said, Carroll drove alongside
Dwyer on the street in Norway
and asked him into his car. Car
roll, the prosecutor said, demanded
the letters.
OFFERS TRADE"
Carroll said to Paul, Barbara
is pregnant" the prosecutor
asserted. II can disgrace your
mother and ruin you. But if
you produce those letters, I'll
take care of the situation my
self.
Paul didn't believe Carroll.
He said so. Carroll told him:
"'I'l show YOU'LL bring
Barbara to your house Tuesday
night, and have her examined"
After the Staying of DR.. Little
field, according to ingalls,, Carroll
turned to young Dwyer and said:
"If I don't get those letters.
there will be another homicide"