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Show MRS. ANGLE IS DEFIANT wifi t jfi MURDER MYSTERY TRIAL L , '',,,: ;' ,, Ti PRINCIPALS IN MURDER M STFRY Mrs Helen M Angle, on tml charged with the death of Waldo R Bal lou rich manufacturer of Stamford, Conn Below, Ripawan apartment building, in front of which body was found 1 1 ' t Accused of Slaying Rich Manufacturer, She Faces Jury With Calmness By International News Service BRIDGEPORT Conn March 3 Twelve phlegmatic sons of Fair field county were chosen today to decide whether or not Mrs Helen M. Ang e of Stamford was re sponsible for the death of Waldo M. Bal lou the wealthy Stamford manufacturer and politician on the nUht of June "3 last They were chosen quickly They are men well on in I fe men who have reared families and nave known Intimately all the pi ases of the relationship of a man and a woman. A stolid unimag nati e lot they are the kind of men who are termed on the Fairfield farms as sot in their wajs Twice the trial was postponed because Mrs Angle s nerves broke under the strain of accu atlon. But today she was even defiant She 1 elped her counsel pick the Jury she suggested questions prompted answers al d now and then comforted her aged father Leonard Blon de 1 when It seemed that he was break Ing Two witnesses were heard One was Thomas A Brennan the Stamford un dertaker who took charge of aldo Ballous body The other was Dr Otto II. Schultz coroners physician In New York City vho performed an autopsy on the body Mrs Angle Has Failed Mrs Angle was but a wts th of her former buxom self At the time of 1 er arrest she was broad proportionately to her commanding height Today si e is almost emaciated She Is as colo less as her w te kerchief But either by a su preme draft upon her rema nlng reserve or buoyed by the tension of her great hour si e entered court as erect as a staff and as assured as though she were one of the cran ng wild eyed crowd wl ich Jammed the courtroom to watch her She wore a b ack hat with purple plumes a s mple brown su t and clumsy oxfords v th flat 1 ee s Her ha r half faded b onde and half gray was badly dressed It straggled around her face and neck She made no attempt to appear alluring Certainly she does not count on swaying sympathy by her attractive ness Father at Her Side During the day her father sat at her s de an arm enclrc ng her Around her were her lawyers Jacob Klein and N h olas C Downs At the state s attor nev s tab e sat the t rd member of her defense II btan ey J inch of Stamford who watched t e prosecutor Homer S Cummings as tl ough ho feared some unexpected move Among the t rtv se en countrymen (Continued on Page Two ) MRS. ANGLE DEFIANT AT ime TRIAL (Continued from Page One.) from whom twelve were selected for the trial, not one eajne, from Stamford. Mre. Angle's home town. One rame from Dnrien. near Stamford, and another from ilreenwirh, rot far away. Both ot these were excused by- Judge Williams, lest It be wld that they were asoeiated with Stamford and Stamford politics. SLito's Attorney Cummingrs sought to lenrn whether each prospective Juror """i on Odd Fellow, or had any scruple? ronvictig on oi rcu nisi ant al evidence, evi-dence, or would be lenient if the prs-oni,r prs-oni,r ejA a woman. Tiioso who were Odd Fellows were dismissed f ummarily. Jlif. Ar.Kte lived In en apartment house owned bv ilwt oroW. On behalf of the defense. Mr. Klen asked whether t,he talesmen were al-read al-read y "con Incd tht a crime hd been rr-nimitted." He made it plain that Waldo Fallou'e death mfht well have been accidental. Advises Her Lawyers. Now and then Mrs. An?le leaned forward for-ward end whimpered to her counsel. This resulted tpvy h bly w ith the peremptory challenge of tlie candidate by the de-fnnse. de-fnnse. Her lawyers Apparently rJd Pr cisa heed to her tudjrmont. fche aa utterly comvosed end only onc did sl.e nntfest any emotion. When F. V.. Martin, The court crk. read Vr rha ro. "did et nk end brvuse," Mrs. Annie shook her heid In fletve negative. Lr. tjchult-. tlie first witness, declared n wont to Tnclieflter. Mass.. ,Tulv 4 nnd -performed en autopsy on the body of Waldo Ballou. He declared Ballou's i-Uull li.id been burst and t'.'.a t t here wore n number of radiatlnfr fictvires uhlcb amounted to the nam result as though the skull had hurat from the inside in-side iia opinion was that a surface lai fter than t he back of nallou's bead had omo In eontni t with the skull Mr. Klein, contendh'R- that lillou had fallen, snapped nn this apparent edvantepe. Mr. i'umniinffs caused the ph!scUu to dnciuro tht nn obiect pinallor than the .skull nilt-t ha o crtuol t ! bursting. Mr. K Irln asked he! hm- it was not posalhln th.nt Gallon had been a t tacked b' n poplct v n nd had fa Hon dow nst :ira. Tho doctor ndmltlod Oat pncli mh;ht have boiui thn cusn, Hut when Klein nakod whciiu'i' ho had ramlned the biain in farch of stKnji of npoplnxy. the it-lir it-lir docla r., I that the bra in was nitr;-Inti nitr;-Inti li.ii hnd bcconio of t' o bratu nobody s. rin.-d to know. U wa tur. then iimn doclnrnd by thn doctor Ihnt Hal ton I mm t waa nil.sliiK. No one seoma tn know v hore tliat Is either. Story of the Crime. W nMo K. lia llmi, w en It bv nd pnn-neni pnn-neni in cltv HiYalts. n fm mrv cltv emm-cihnan. emm-cihnan. ;i- tmmd with hln skuU (IupIio-I. (ily on th morninw of ,I;iiim i, miitancn of (hn Uipjman a pa i t mmi t . 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