Evening star., 1938-08-06
DWYER INCAPABLE
). OF CRIME, IS HINT
Defense Has Youth Bare His
Torso to Show Inability
to Carry Body.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH PARIS, Me. Aug. 6.-The
States effort to convict former Deputy
Sheriff Francis M. Carroll of the
strangling of DR.. James G.. Littlefield
today became an attempt to prove
frail Paul N Dwyer, 10. Carroll's ac-
cuser, was incapable of moving the
65-year -old physicians body unaided.
The first week of the 43-year-old
war veterans trial came near an end
with the State intent upon proving Its
newest contention, after three days
pitiless cross-eXamination of Dwyer-
who charged Carroll with the crime
for which Dwyer began life SEN
tence eight months ago after con-
Tossing he killed both the doctor and
his 63-year-old wife, Lydia.
Mrs. Jessie N. Dwyer, mother OF
CAROLS accuser, was called to the
stand as the second witness today and
testified briefly about her sons early
life. Her examination came to an
abrupt halt when Judge William T..
Fisher reminded Prosecutor Ralph M,
ingalls, Mrs. Dwyer merely was wit
ness and not defendant
Under cross-eXamination she said
she did not believe CAROLS name ever
was mentioned by her son when she
talked with the boy after his arrest.
Mayor Testifies.
The first witness was Mayor Alexan-
der Allen of North Arlington, N j.,
where DWyer was found asleep at the
wheel of a car which bore the bodies of
DR.. Littlefield and his wife. Mr.. Allen
quoted Dwyer as saying: Il hope it
is not Carroll-he'll throw me out of
the plane" when New Jersey officers
told him Maine authorities were COM
ing to return him to South Paris by
plane.
Just before the trial adjourned until
Monday, Sheriff F. F. Francis testified
Carroll mentioned the Staying Of DR..
James G. Littlefield when the deputy
was arrested on morals charge in
volving his daughter, Barbara.
Mr.. Francis quoted Carroll as ask
ing: God. sheriff, you don't think I
had anything to do with the murder
Of Dr. Littlef1eld, do you?"
He said Carroll was absent from the
Jail between and 1890 pm. the night
of DR.. Littlefield's death, and that
he did not account for his whereabo bouts
during that time when questioned
later about it.
While he never had noticed Carroll
used liquor before the Staying, Francis
said Carroll used it excessively" after
DR.. Littlefelds death.
DWyer was returned to his State
Prison cell 80 miles away last night,
unshaken in what he persisted was
now the true story" of the slayings.
One Of his last tasks on the stand was
to remove his shirt and tie and bare
his weak torso at the direction of
Special Prosecutor Ralph M. ingalls,,
obviously to show his frail build.
Mr.. ingalls, purpose was to show
Dwyer could not have carried The
doctors body alone from a second
door bathroom in the Dwyer home.
where the Staying took place, to the
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slowed in the trunk.
Help in Crimes Indicated.
In his original confession" on
which he was sentenced, DWyer
claimed to have been alone in the
Staying and said he killed the doctor
because of an insulting remark" he
made about Dryers girl" Last We'd
nesday, in his revised version impli-
eating Carroll, Dwyer testified the
defendant helped him carry the body
downstairs and force it into the lug
gage compartment.
Lawyers believed Mr.. Ingalls, had
Dwyer show his slight physique to
make clear to the jury the first con-
fession" was lie, that Dwyer must
have been assisted.
Z, Later the state drew from William
C. Collins, Lyndhurst, N j., funeral
director, an opinion 'it would be al
most an impossibility for one man to
carry body" The court ruled out
FIVE state questions designed to put
into the record Mr.. Collins opinion
whether DWyer could have carried
DR.. Littlefield's body unaided from
the Dwyer home.
Collins removed the Littlefields'
bodies from the doctors car at North
Arlington, N. j.. after Dwyer had
driven there from South Paris in
weird death tour" through six north
eastern states.
Belts Tied Differently.
The prosecution contends DR.. Little
field was slain because Dwyer conf1ded
to him that Barbara Carroll. l8-year-
old daughter of the defendant, had
written him her father had assaulted
her when she was IL or I3. Dwyer
testified Carroll strangled the physician
last October l3 when DR.. Littlefield
threatened to send him to prison, and
garroted Mrs. Littlefield two days later
when she learned of her husbands
Staying
A disclosure that belts around the
necks of the doctor and his wife were
tied differently came from Dr. Raphael
Gilady, Bergen County, N j., medical
examiner. The doctors, he said, was
30 tight "the tongue was protruding"
Throughout the testimony the phleg-
matte defendant showed no emotion,
even when the prosecution read five
letters in which Barbara addressed
Dwyer as my Dear Little Sweetheart"
and told him Il love you with every
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