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Show MRSrNOmHAKEN-BY MRSrNOmHAKEN-BY MURDER DETAILS f ' Witness Hardly Able to Reach Chair in Court By HAROLD D. JACOBS. United Press Staff Correspondent. IJIUJXJKPORT, Conn., Jan. I,-Mri. Kthel H. Nott, arriving tardily today at the trial of Klwuod B. Wade, charged with murder of her husband, was so weak she had to be assisted to ntr chair. - As soon as Mrs. Nott was seated she heard a reiteration of the gruesome details of the murder, first In Wade's written confession and then by police-men police-men witnesses. Her head sank forward for-ward ana she constantly neiu a,max'K bordered handkerchief to her eyes. In the written confeaaion, which - was ail m It ted only after considerable legal fencing, Wade was Quoted as saying: 'i did it in self-defense; it was hla -life or mine." The confession further brought out that Wade and Mrs. Nott planned to marry as soon as they could obtain divorces. Wade said he had met Mrs. Nott through his wife about a year before the murder, which occurred August 29. Thomas H. Regan, who resumed the stand as the firt witness, described various conversations with Wade after the murder, including the one in which the unwritten confession was made. At one time he said Wade told him Mrs. Nott said she would kill Nott If Wade did not and that, pointing to the mutiluted botly of her husband, she had said to Wader- , "Isn't It better to sea him lying there than me?" Another point brought out in Regan's testimony was that Wade went to the Nott home the day of the murder ia response to Mrs. Nott's telephone appeal. In examination William H. Conley. chief counsel for the defense, revealed his anxiety to show Wade in the light of being mentally irrenponsible. i Daniel K. Ferguson, Nott's partner) In the "club." as their gambling place I was called, described an alleged argument argu-ment in the Nott home between Nottj and his wife, in which Nott accused! his wife of signaling to Wade with a' window curtain. f Mrs. Nott raised her head andl darted a venomous look at the witness, wit-ness, uttering, "Oh, the liar!" Inuring this particular conversation, Fereuson said, the Notts came to blows and the little Nott boy trft-d to hit his father with a stone. |