The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-13

county jury's verdict without be- traying a trace of emotion, but his 36-year-old wife, Ruby, sitting 1C feet away in the packed spectators section, shook her head in disbelief and dabbed her eyes with a hand kerchief.
 While Carroll stood, stoically calm, during the preliminaries pre- ceding the sentencing, Mrs. Carroll swayed and her chin quivered. Asked if he had anything to say, Carroll lost his poise momentarily. He gulp- ed, grasped the back of chair and said in low voice: "The only thing I can say, sir, is am not guilty"
 AS he was led from the room, his wife burst through the crowd and i ran to his side. Arm n-arm, they descended the stairs in company of guards, to his cell. There she faint ed and was taken from the court house to her home.
 But the key figure in the strange drama of murder and incest-Bar- bara Carroll, was at a movie. Romance Started It
 Barbaras romance with young Dwyer indirectly motivated the murder of Dr. Littlefield last Octo- Der 13. When Buddy" suffered re- morse for having seduced Barbara, he testified, she told him that she had been seduced by her own father. Dwyer passed on this confidence to Dr. Littlefield and the physician threatened to expose Carroll. Car roll in a rage bludgeoned and stran- gled him.
 Barbara and her cousin Lenore, IT, were watching the jungle movie "Booloo". Richard Sullivan, 2l, a friend, crept down the aisle.
 I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, Barbara, he whispered.
 "It's over," Barbara gasped. What is it?"
 "Guilty-life."
 Barbara swayed and wept She and Lenore hurried to the Carroll home through back fields. There she sent out to reporters a scrawled statement:
 Have no comment other than to say that in view of the evidence submitted by the state, I couldn't see how the verdict could be other than not guilty"
 Wanted Justice
 Dwyer learned of the verdict in his cell over the prison radio. He told a depty warden that All I want to see is justice" Though he had been downcast, guards said, he perked up and showed no fear of meeting Carroll.
 The verdict came at $50 p. m (EDT) on the 11th day of the trial. The jurors had deliberated five hours and 35 minutes. Once they returned to the courtroom to hear Dwyer's direct testimony read by the court reporter.
 Dwyer, slim, handsome "sheik" of Paris Hill, gave the testimony that clinched the states case against Carroll.
 Following his arrest three days after Dr. Littlefield was slain, Dwyer signed five confessions and on De- cember 2 pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life Imprisonment. A few weeks later he wrote a sixth confession" in which he named Carroll as the real slayer"
 For five months the states inves- tigators quietly checked and on May 27 Carroll was arrested on a charge of incest. A month later he was indicted for the murder of Dr. Littlefield.
 True Story" Told From the witness stand last week Dwyer repeated the true story" of the staying of Dr. Littlefield. He testified that Carroll had accused him of making Barbara pregnant. Carroll agreed to take the girl to the Dwyer home on Paris Hill the night of October B for physical examination by Dr. Littlef1eld. Dwyer confided in Dr. Littlefield. He and the doctor were in the Dwyer parlor when Carroll entered alone. The doctor told Carroll that he knew "all about what you did to Barbara and other girls"
 You're not fit to live with decent people" Dr. Littlefield said. "If no one else will press charges against you, will"
 Dr. Littlefield went up stairs to examine Barbara. Carroll followed and bludgeoned and strangled him.
 Threatening Dwyer with a similar fate, Carroll forced him to carry pr. Littlefeld down stairs and stun the body in the trunk of the physi- clans own car. Young Dwyer picked Up Mrs. Littiefield on the l r1pAfnxk nf kafrkva~ L.Aw %~ t.n~ ta.,s