Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1938 — Page 5

CARROLL STORY SUPPORTED BY

WIFE, 7 FRIENDS

Former Deputy Refuses to Answer Point-Blank Question of Prosecutor.

SOUTH PARIS, Me. Aug. 11 (U. P.)—Paul (Buddy) Dwyer added extortion to his list of accusations against Francis M. Carroll in a statement read today to the jury hearing Carroll's trial on a charge of murdering a country doctor. The statement signed by Dwyer said that Carroll once tried to extort $50,000 from a former employer.

SOUTH PARIS, Me., Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Francis M. Carroll's lawyer attempted to prove today that the murder of a country doctor, for which Carroll is on trial, was committed by Paul Dwyer, 19, seducer of Carroll's daughter, Barbara, 17. Carroll, his wife and seven of their friends had testified to his alibi for the night of Oct. 13 when + Dr. James G. Littlefield was clubbed ~ and strangled because, the State said, the doctor had learned of Car- * roll’'s relations with Barbara and had threatened to expose him. It remained for the defense attorney, Clyde R. Chapman, to blame someone other than Carroll for the murder. His opening statement yesterday implied that he would blame Dwyer, who pleaded guilty to the murder last Dec. 2 and was sentenced to life imprisonment, but later said that Carroll was the real murderer, and that Carroll had forced him under threat of death to plead guilty. Mr. Chapman's strategy was to return the blame to Dwyer. Extortion Note Cited

“Bear in mind,” he told the jury, “that a large part of the evidence on which the defense relies already has gone into the record.” He referred to the story told.by Dwyer in three days of testimony last week. He said he would prove that Dwyer wrote a $50,000 extortion note two years ago and tried to place the blame on Carroll. Mr. Chapman had 28 more witnesses under subpena. There was a poignant interlude at the end of yesterday's session when Barbara Carroll argée from her front row spectator’s seat, walked to her father’s side, embraced him and posed at his side for newspaper photographers. A month before he was charged with murder, Carroll was indicted . for having seduced Barbara, and Dwyer testified that the girl told him that it had occurred when she was 13 or 14. She mentioned it, Dwyer said, to console him after he had seduced her and was stricken with remorse.

Moral Charges Are Foundation -

Although these moral charges were the foundation of the State's theory of the murder, Carroll was not required to say: whether he had relations with his daughter, Dwyer has quoted Barbara as saying after their high school romance had been climaxed by “being married under the trees,” that “this isn’t the first time it has happened to me . . . now you know@why I hate my father so.” Carroll gave his alibi for the night of the murder as follows: He had gone to the American Legion hall with his wife for supper, proceeded from there to serve a legal paper (he was a deputy sheriff) and then had returned to the hall and met some friends for a card game. He was cross-examined by Prosecutor Ralph M. In~rlls, who slowly led up to the question:

Carroll Hangs Head

-“Is it, or is it not true, that you seduced your daughter, Barbara?” Every juror and spectator was motionless. Carroll paused, dropped his head. Finally Mr. Chapman arose and objected. “The question has nothing to do relative to the murder of Dr. Littlefield,” the lawyer shouted. Carroll glanced at the lawyer and then at Judge William H. Fisher.

The judge turned casually to Car-’

roll and said: “Your counsel has objected to your answering {hat question. Therefore I shall exclude

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CITY FIREMAN, DIES

“ William J. Savage, member of the Indianapolis Salvage Corps,

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CIVIL WAR VETERAN. DIES HARTFORD CITY, Aug. 11 (U.

P.).—The death of James A. E.|

Alfrey, 92, Civil War veteran and last commander of the local post of the G. A. R. leaves but two other Civil War veterans alive here today. Mr. Alfrey moved here from Indianapolis in 1884. Surviving are three sons and a daughter.

| MAGAZINE PHOTO CAUSES ARREST

Filling Station Operator Gives Tip on Suspect | In Murders.

‘BATAVIA, N. Y,, Aug. 1i (U. P).

“Authorities said today that a pic-

ture published in a detective story magazine brought about the arrest of Wilford B. Squires, 23, sought for more than a. year in connectipn with the slaying of two persons, one in Rochester and the other near Kingdom City, Mo. The suspect, held by stite police without charge, was questioned

further cescernifig the sling of Morris B. Close, Rochester scoutmaster, and Charles W. Padgett of Alquippa, Pa. Inspector Eugene P. Hoyt of the State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification, said Squires denied any knowledge of the slayings. | Both victims were shot. Squires was brought to Batavia

‘Monday from Emporia; Va., by State

Police Sergt. Harry -DeHollander. He was arrested after residents of the virginia town noticed ~ that the youth, a construction company employee whom they knew as James K. Howard, bore a striking resemblance to the picture in the magazine’s “wanted by police” section and reported their suspicion to authorities.

Clothes Found in Ditch

Search for the suspect, who is wanted also at Penn Yan for breaking jail while awaiting trial on burglary and parole violation

charges, began on a tip by a filling station operator at Kingdom City

on July 3, 1937. ‘That was the day after Mr. Padgett’s body and parts

‘of clothing worn by Mr. Close when

he disappeared July 19 were dis covered in a ‘roadside ditch a few miles from the city.

The filling station operator said |

a picture of Squires: “looked like” the man he had seen with Mr, Padgett when the pair bought gas from him. A few days later Mr. Close’s car was found abandoned. at Memphis, Tenn. When Mr. Close’s body was found near Rochester in October, ‘police theorized that he had ‘picked up and had been slain. by a hitchhiker.

They believed that the Riichhike: and | later picked up Mr. Padgett and |

then fled in Mr. Close’s car,

shot him. Inspector. - Eugene PF. Hoyt said that. -“we . have not finished in-

vestigating all angles of Squires’ |

movements, and until we have we cannot eliminate him.”

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