The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-28
Claim Noxon
Planned Deed
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CaTdpOarQ DOX ana carrying IL To-
ward DR.. Hunt said:
II offer the contents Of this box
for inspection"
Neither Noxon nor his wife showed
any outward emotion during the by
play between counsel.
DR.. Hunt, the first witness of the
day, had told that in examinations
he had found the 6-month-old in
FAINT capable Of only limited mus
cular activity. This was contrary
to the alleged statement Of NoXon
who said that death came when the
child rolled from a metal tray and
became enmeShed in a live light
wire.
1.-THE baby would move its head
from side to side and would bring its
arms up to its face" said DR.. Hunt
in describing examinations made at
his office a few hours before the
child died in the Noxon home Sept.
% last.
However, do not recall ever see
ing the baby grasp anything" DR..
Hunt added.
The babys doctor was the first
state witness after a weekend adj
journment of the murder trial. DR.
Hunt testified Friday that the dead
child had "a peculiar shifting move
ment of the eyes which we associate
medically with retarded mental de-
velopment."
Dist.-Atty. Charles r. Alberti
questioned him concerning a Schick
test for diptheria which DR.. Hunt
gave the infant only few hours
before its death. The needle used
in the test was admitted in evidence.
The defendant and his 43-year-old
wife Margaret chatted In an ante
room for a brief period before court
reconyened for the fourth day Of
the trial.
Noxon wore a blue suit and ap-
peared cheerful. He glanced at the
overlooking gallery but showed no
signs of recognizing any of the 200
spectators. It was the first day that
the courtroom had been filled since
the start Of the trial.
AS usual, Mrs. Noxon sat in a
chair only few feet from the cage
where her husband sits jotting notes
that he hopes will aid In his fight
to escape the electric chair.
Albert, who attended Harvard
Law school with the man he is
prosecuting, promised evidence that
the babys flesh was cooked show
ing that the electrocuion could not
have been completed in four or five
minutes, as the defense is expected
to contend.
Albert also disclosed that the
childs death had been re-enacted in
laboratory with animals and the
results Of the experiments Will be
disclosed In the courtroom.
Albert also is expected to intro
duce into evidence 1noulage cast
Of the child. He unveiled 1t in the
courtroom during his opening state
ment to show how the baby was
burned, but did not move for its
introduction into evidence.
Charged with first degree murder,
the penalty for which upon convic-
ton carries mandatory sentence
of death IN the electric chair, Noxon
is charged with improvising an cleo
trio chair to put his own to death.
He allegedly sat the child on. a
metal tray after putting wet diapers
on him and then attached to his
bar arms two electric wires. Noxon,
when arrested five days after the
boys body was found, contended that
the child accidentally came in con-
tact with an electric wire while q
radio was bein repaired in the AZ, 900
Noxon home.
Noxon, victim of infantile
paralysis, spent the weekend ponder
ing over legal texts in his cell and
comforting with counsel on defense
plans. He attended a salvation Army
chapel service at the red brick Berk-
shire county jail, just four miles
from his suburban home.
his wife and son, John F. Noxon,
II. visited him later.