Show I SERGEANT TODD TD TELLS ST A Tl NG STORY Of DEA DEATh T Of LW l EUla SUTTON r t Says ile e Was Deliberately Shot Down by Fellow Officers Sergeant Wonders Why ile e lias ilas Not Been Beell Called to io Testify Au Aug lOIn an Interview In Inthe inthe the Boston Post attributed to Sere Ser Sergeant geant Arthur Tood or of the United r States State marine corps aDd made public todDY Jt it Is stated that tr it he should be In the Investigation of the death of James N Sutton his testimony would be exactly Opp opposite tt Ic that given by follow officers officers cers Sergeant Todd rodd who has bas been on range duty a at Wakefield the shooting borIng baying I was corporal of oC the guard on the night Sutton was wn shot and aud from frow 1 la where here I waE waa standing I 1 sawa saw a light figure feet aw away y I saw Adams and awl recognized them They fhe dId not see me A man In shirt sleeves start started started ed to run nm and I 1 heard a voice C cry Stop running I Youre under nader arrest The mon man ran on and once more I heard the same voice cr cry out loudl loudly Stop SLOp runnIng or 01 Ill shoot The man paid no attention and ran ranall all on and then the next moment I saw J flush and heard a revolver report There three other shots shota and the theman theman man who was wa running dropped I II I ran over to hIm and bent over I IL Ii was Sutton I saw a hole In inthe the tho mans forehead where there was wasa a ragged entrance and a hole halo back of oC I the left ear car where the bullet came camo cut clean clenn come came into the guard guardroom room I then was a short time before the shooting He was with a private named Richardson and they had n a drink together At the time lime or of orthe the th shooting he wa not anywhere In Insight sight The next morning an enlisted man foune a l revolver ball Held field which was as not the regular service TO re revolver volver but a 32 caliber affair Todd said alone at one time In conversa conversation tion that he had the bullet himself lf that thaL killed Sutton Sulton but later Inter stated that I some one else had it He refus refused ed to lo state finally he knew where the bullet was or not Just aft after er cr the shooting he said came camo Into the guard room all out of breath and greatly excIted He said My MJ God Archie I think Ive 10 been shot I laughed at him at first but he was so earnest about It that I felt In his left hand outside pocket just over ovel his hi heart There was as 2 a drill regulation book there thoro and a bullet had become mushroomed In the tho pages was very verr much excited whon ivhon I pulled out the tho book and show showed showell ell ed him hini the bullet bullot and the way war In which his life had boon been saved He stripped down to the skin and there was n a reddish tinge just over his heart heak showing Just where the bulle would have hac gone gono had the book bool not Interposed OI and I wIlted talked the matter over and we agreed that ho he must have run into the fire of the bullets one of which had killed Sutton Sulton There wore were four shots that I heard In all and ono one of them I am convinced struck I I 1 have wondered more than once why I have not been called to go be before tore fore the court or of Inquiry and tell what whal I know Annapolis Md Aug the thc court or of investigating the death of James N Sutton lr Jr i opened Its here today there thereS S wore were fewer persons present than on onan onan an recent day daj notwithstanding It was understood Mrs Rose or I Suttons sister Would be placed ed on the witness stand staad and ad that great Interest centers in what she may mar say especially on Inter Interviews views between herself and Adams The interviews were verc held shortly after the death of Mrs Par hera brother Questions put to Adams while he was on the tho stand Indicate that Mrs Parker had bud been vor very cure care careful ful to answer what whal was said suld luring during interview and also that Adams had little recollection or of what passed at that time Mis Sutton was recalled to the stand at the or of her counsel Mr lr Davis and Identified two to letters as having been written hr bv Sut Sutton ton one to her and one to her brother The were chatty Intimate and hope hopeful hopeful ful In character That to Mrs Sut S ton orr was the day before ton was shot and contained no hint that ho meditated suicide but bul spoke of his plans for the futuro Mrs Irs Sutton also Identified a bill of oC lading as having been written by br her herson herson son Mr Davis offered evidence show showIng lag Ing that Sutton had no thought of suicide but looked hooked forward with pleAsure to going around the thio world on the great cruise of the United SUlton battleship fleet In 1907 It IL was admit admitted ted by br the court against the objectIon of lr Charles H Russell a laundry man manof manof of this elt city was as called ns as a witness and said Raid that on October 1 1907 he received from Adams a shirt and collar and cuffs blood stained one cuff cuI having been saturated and the right side sido of the shIrt bosom havIng a great deal of blood upon It it Russell was wa not Continued on Page Sergeant Todd o Tells Star Startling Starfling fling Story or o of ea eath o of Sutton Continued From page One Mrs Rose Rosc Sutton Parker sister of Sutton was called to the wit witness witness ness stand Mrs tIrs Parka saId she started for Annapolis on the day fol following following lowing her brothers death previous t h malting making preliminary for Cor his burin burial I at Allin Arlington ton because I as a suicide he could not be buried I In the cemetery lot of the family in I Portland Ore Oro they ther being members o of the thc Roman Catholic church She was I advised b by Co Cal Do Doyen en commandant of marines not to look at her brothers body owing to the condition of If the head which shish she said Cot Col Doren told her hor showed a number or of w wounds of oC various sorts She told of receiving at al the barracks clothing and other ef effects effects of her brothers and or of sending them home to Portland Mrs Irs Parker told of interviews at ather her room In Carver hall wIth several of the lieutenants She asked that Adams see her hor alone be bc because cause the lieutenant seemed ill at I ease when she met him and because she believed he had Inform information whIch he probably would not Sho giro her In the tho I presence o of others The rite h ervio v he be began gan at 4 and ended at 10 p Ill m Relating Ing what passed silo she said she asked II Adams to tell her everything about her brothers death and not spare her feel feelings Ings and that Adams told her of Suttons unpopularity with brother Reading from the tho record o of Adams testimony I questions which the latter had doclar ed he could not answer as he did not remember firs Parker declared Ad Adams Adams I ams had told her of the tho incidents of the tho fight that followed the automobile trip to the dump She saId Adams told her that her hor brother for weapons having de declared he be would kill lem Adams Utley and and that ho described the thEl final encounter Mrs said Ad Adams I ianus anus ams told her he would not swear her brother committed suicIde that he knew if Sutton Sulton had lived his own life would leave havo been lm In danger that Sutton would get mo Adams she said stated slated Utley hated Sutton Sulton and had declared some somo ono one ought to take It out of him Adams told Mrs Parker she saId that If CaptaIn Matrix claimed Sutton Sulton owe owed money not to pay It as Sutton owed him noth nothIng nothing Ing After the interviews Adams she said accepted her hOl invitation to din diu I Iner Inor nor ner whIch was taken with two other I men at a restaurant Adams had told her that everyone every one In Annapolis behoved ho he had killed sutton She disclaimed to him such belief Mrs Parker told Adams slue she said that all she wanted was to prove her brother was not a suicide as were wee ire he that his mother would by her faith be compelled to believe her sons soul lost She told Adams Ir if she could do this the case caso would be dap ped Mr r Davis Dais here announced that I Iho ho he hall had concluded Mrs rs Parkers direct examination The Tho unusual proceeding of legal counsel on both sides of a case pre seating argument to the public through the tho newspapers while the case is 18 be beIng being Ing hoard In court occurred today when Attorney Arthur A Birney rep representing I I resenting George E Adams and Attorney H ID D Davis counsel for i Mrs James N L Sutton bath hoth discussed in statements to lo the pros press the case caBe now before a naval court at Annapolis II Attorney for or the tho defendant lieutenant t contended Mrs I rR Sutton Pall faIl faIled Palled ed to produce any evidence when placed on the tho stand to substantiate her charges The admIssions of Mrs Sutton Sulton while on the witness stand that she Is and alwa always s has been without an any ovi i dence to sustain her charges and that they originated in III a Is Ision Islon lon ion should dispel the last lingering suspIcion In the public mind that Suttons death was caused d In by lids his brother Or that blame for COl should attach to lo them said sahl AU Attorney Davis Dals In his statement re the introduction lIe of lIelot letters lot rs written by Mrs Sutton declared ed Neither Mrs Suttons counsel nor so far us as has been learned an any of those ti In advance to a support o of the finding at aL the tho see the tho least bearing of either the letters thorn them selves or cross thorn them on the question at issue Annapolis Aug Tho rending reading of 01 the thc record o of last when the board o of inquiry Investigating tho llio death of LIeutenant lames James N Sutton Sulton conducted the proceedings of that da daIn day In secret and the of i iI I irs Sutton the mother of oC the lend dead offIcer occupied practically all of to days ars session No sooner had is hs Sutton Sulton the stand than Major Leonard judge judg advocate demanded that the letters of o Mrs Mn Sutton read In tho closed sese ses session slon sion he rend read In public along with the tho records We Ve have boon beon accused of holding a astar star lar chamber session declared the jUdge advocate and besides there are arc sundry other mothers mother who are arc en entitled titled tilled to know that their sons are arc accused ac o of crime crimeA A hot wrangle ensued Law Lawyer er Davis Da DaIs vis Is counsel for or Mrs Sutton argued against the necessity of making the letters known ns as thc they had no actual bearing on the evidence The public reading at this time would ho be entering to lo a prurient curiosity he con contended tended The Tho four letters were written i to H M IT Swartz a cleric In iii the marine corps office orrIce In ton lon by Mrs Irs Sutton Sulton The court decided that they be read Mrs irs letters showed very ven bittor feeling on her part against n a number of the officers of oC the marine marina corps und and bristled wIth lions of Sultans Suttons brother officers and the finding of the first Inquest rain rela live to Suttons death Under Yrs Mrs Sul Sulton ton bore bolo herself well |