The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-12
Daughter Fails Him

| MT. CdTTOll Ildu HIS udy III COuII, Ingalls, said, but he did not say he was guiltless. And at no time was the daughter produced to say that | her father was not guilty. If he could have denied it, wouldn't he?"
 The courtroom was crowded to capacity as the trial entered its 10th and perhaps final day. Barbara and her mother once again sat in the spectators section, only few feet from the defendant, and watched Ingalls intently.
 The prosecutor told the jury of Oxford county Yankees that they 1 faced "a strange situation" in which q "fatherless, almost unmothered. boy"-DWyer-Wa serving life sen- tence for a murder he did not com- init. Dwyer was sentenced last Dec. 2 after suddenly pleading guilty to | the murder of Dr. Littlefeld.
 Induced To Take Rap
 Subsequently, however, he said the real slayer"-Carroll-had in- timidated him into taking the rap."
 Back of this crime lies the un- fatherly act of father" Ingalls said. He killed a man who had the courage to blast out what he thought"
 The state contends that Carroll slew pr. Littlefield when the physi- clan threatened to expose and jail him as the seducer of his own daughter.
 Murder Time Let Out
 Ingalls called the jury's attention to the tact that Carroll has not &C., counted for single, solitary min ute in the interval between or per haps 7:30 p. m. and 10 D. m. on the night Oct 13." It was in that interval that Dr. Littlefield was slain, the state alleges. Turning to Carrolls contention that he served a summons on MT. Piper at about o'clock the night of the murder, Ingalls said:
 You see If he served it Oct. 13. You will take this summons into your chambers with you and you will see that it bears the date Oct. 12."
 Yesterday Carroll was recalled to the stand and testified that he had mixed his dates" in making the re- turn on the Piper summons.
 Ingalls declared that he had fur nished one person who knew Carroll and saw him in his parked car on Paris Hill the night of Oct. 13.
 Hazel Talbot said Francis Car roll was sitting and waiting on Paris Hill" Ingalls, said. What for?"
 Carroll Was at Scene
 Francis Carroll was on Paris Hill that night. After the murder, before any examination could be made, he visited there again. His fingerprints were not found there because they had been removed"
 After the murder, Ingalls said, Carols attitude changed.
 He resorts to drinking, to watch ful waiting. He watches his su- periors. He takes advantage of his opportunity as guard of Paul DWyer."
 Once more Ingalls turned to the staying of Dr. Littlefield and the victims alleged threats to expose Carroll.
 How could he stop Dr. Little field then without staying him?' Ingalls, demanded.
 The prosecutor said there was entire absence of malice on the part of Dwyer. Carroll himself says Paul always was good boy
 Ingalls pointed out that cigaret lighter resembling Carroll's and which the state says was Carroll's' was found outside the Dwyer home three days after the murder
 Carroll was never seen to use the lighter after the murder" h. gals said. "He had no better ex- planation than that he lost it.
 Ingalls showed the jury picture of the wound on Dr. Littlefield's head.
 "The head of a hammer did not kill the doctor" he said. You can take this hammer in with you and compare it with the scare (Ingalls picked up Carroll's revol- ver). There's the instrument that killed Dr. Littlefield."
 The prosecutor showed the jury how the diamond-shaped design or the revolver butt fitted the scar or the doctors head.
 Boy Athlete Derided
 Ingalls said he didn't pay much attention" to the defense demon stration yesterday of how a 1Ol- pound boy could pick up 150- pound man.: The state has con tended that Dwyer, who weighs 120 would have been unable physically to carry Dr. Littlefield's body from the bathroom of his home down flight of stairs and out to a parked car.
 T showed you weakling," In- gals said, land he showed you boy with three or four times the strength of Dwyer." Ingalls said he held mo brief for Paul Dwyer. He was old enough to know better. But that's no cc-