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Mrs. Lambert Swoons While
Relating the Story of
the Murder.
Damaging Testimony Introduced Against
the Accused by the State.
'Mrs. Eva Ogden Lambert, widow of
David Samuel Rogers Lambert, the
school teacher, who was murdered at
Wilton on the night of December 17
last, told the: story of the awful affair
to the court and jury at the trial of
Benjamin R. Willis Wednesday morn-
ing.
It was an imp1essive moment when
she looked stiaight at the youthful
- prisoner, and said she recognized the
voice of one of the men as Benjamin
Willis, and she almost spoke his name,
although the black mask over his face
prevented her seeing anything of the
man’s features except his small dark
eyes.
The witness swooned during the
ordeal of cross-examination, and the
court was obliged to excuse her until
afternoon.
All during the st01y of the crime,
Willis sat unmoved. He was conscious
that many of the eyes in the court—
room and especially a portion: of the
jury, were fixed on him and this fact-
made him a trifle uncomfortable; _ At
times he would shift about in his chair
rather nervously but would instantly
He was neatly
in
regain his compcsure.
attired and wore a huge pansy
his coat front. He chatted with Dep-
uty Sheriff Plumb freely during the
sessionuntil after the examination of
Mrs. Lambert. Then he seemed more
dejected and contented himself with
frequent 00nsultations with his coun-
sel. When ‘Mrs. Lambert identified; ~«
him, he: looked her straight in the
face.
The state opened the case by placing
William G. Beers, a. civil engineer of
Stamford, who prepared maps of the
, Lambert house. He was followed by
Photographer Havee of Stamford who
photographed the scene of the murder.
Medical Examiner Burke, of South
Norwalk, was examined as to the
wounds received by the murdered man.
Mrs. Lambert was then called. She
was examined by Mr. Fessenden who
first asked her full name. She said:
“Eva Ogden Lambert.”
“What was your late husband’s full
name?” .. .
“David Samuel Rogers Lambert.”
“Now I want you to tell in your own
way what happened on the night of the
murder.’ , '
“I was sitting in the dining room
looking at some mail which had just-
been handed to me. I sat a little time
when I heard a. noise as though some
.‘ one was fumbling at the latch. I
thought it was my husband.
“I paid no *attention to it at firet.
Then I heard some one come into the
hall and I still thought it Was my hus-
band. Then two masked men’ came in-
to the room and I stood up. "The first
thing they said to me was: ‘Where is
the money ‘? Give it to us quick." Then
something else was said. I don’t ‘exj
actly remember the conversation. I
think one of them asked where my
husband was and I told him. Then he
asked me when he was coming home.
I told him I did not know. I could not
move. I was terrified.
“One of the men who had done all
the talking came alone up to me and
looked? me straight in the eye. I could
not move. ‘ I saw that the eyes were
very dark and looked small through the
mask. This man said to the other:
‘Keep your revolver on her.’ Both of
, them had r olvers. Then the man
took hold of y arm. ' I could not re-
sist then, but I said to him: ‘0, ,Christl
have you a mother ? he said roughly:'
‘Don’t say a word or I will 1:111 you.’
' Then he said to the other. ‘Where is
the chloroform ?’ I said don’t chloro-
form me; take the silver and go.
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HARPER’S WEEKLY. AFTER A DnAwnvc BY T. DE THULSTRUP.
Sagas “a
Preparing to Attack
Cervera. i
Wudrid Way 26---./l dis—
patch from Havana says the
ceniruz‘ing before Guantanamo
de Cuba, as well as the lalier
port, which seems to indicate
that the squadrons are prepar-
ing to clinch cfldnu'rol C er-
vera. 7he onxieiy increases
daily; but the public is disposed
to continue the resislunce io ibe
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uiniosi.
Spain Won’t Fight.
Wudrid,‘ Way» 26—--Sugusiu
when interviewed this morning
outlined Spain’s policy by say—
ing that there would be no fight
at Santiago unless C erveru , de-
sired ii. ,
He further said ihczi cflmeri—
cons would find that the forts,
ships and harbor oi- Suniiogo
very di/i‘erenl‘ from those de-
stroyed by ‘Dewey oi Wanila.
If cflinericons wanted a
naval battle before attempting
lo invade C ubcz, continued
Sogusio, they will need con—
siderable patience
Fight !
BRIEF WAR- NEWS.
The battleship Oregon, after coaling'
at Key West, will join Admiral Samp-
son otf Havana. _
The Spanish torpedo boat destroyer
Terror has sailed northwest from
Martiniqus. '
English residents of Manila believe
that the rifles furnished by Spain to
insurgents in the Philippines will be
used to aid our troops.
The German press is beginning to
display a more friendly tone toward
this country. |
Remigio Zapatero Jimincz, arrested"
as a spy on the Panama, ' was thought
for a time to be Lieutenant Sobrel.
Mail advices say there are three Span-
‘ ish torpedo boats at the Canaries.
Work of transporting troops from i
Tampa to Key West for the invasion of
Cuba has begun.
The president’ 5 call 1301 75, 000 m01e
' volunteeis W111 raise the strength of
the military forces to 278,500 men.
The troop-ships City of Pekin, City
of Sydney and Australia, carrying
about 2.500 men, under command of
Brigadier-General .Anderson, sailed
yesterday from San Francisco for the
Philippine Islands, which they will
probably reach about June 20.
The belief that Admiral Cervera's
squadron is caught in the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba caused important
changes in the Administration' s cam-
paign plans. It has been pratically
decided to seize Porto Rico, and a
force of 25,000 men. convoyed by some
of Admiral Sampson’s ships, is expect-
ed to start for San Juan within‘ a few
days. A determination to press the
war with the utmost vigor was
reached. ' °
Oflicial dispatches from Cuba to
Madrid state that the Spanish squad-
ron under-Admiral Cervera; is bottled
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' ficient as a base of supplies.
up in the‘har‘oor of Santiago de Cuba,
where it arrived on May 19. The
squadron of Commodore Schley is
said, on the same authority, to be in
front of Santiago, and the Spanish
Government feels that some desperate
action must be taken in View of the
situation thus brought about.
SCHLEY ON GUARD.
WASHINGTON, May 26—Commodore
Schley is on guard at Santiago, pre-
pared to make short work of Admiral
“ Cervera, who can come forth to be de-
stroyed or remain to be starved. There
is no other alternative for him. He is
even more helpless than Blanco him:
' self, for Santiago, though well fortified,
is poorly provisioned and wholly de-
Commo-
dore Schley has the cruisers Brooklyn.
Montgomery, and Minneapolis, the
battle-ships Texas and Massachusetts,
and some smaller vessels—a squadron
more than equal to the work of an-
nihilating the Spanish fleet in open
battle. Two monitors a10ne at the en-
trance of the channelcan easily prevent
the Spaniards reaching the sea, alter
the fortifications have been reduced.
Admiral Sampson, with the fighting
squadron, is evilently off Havana, or
near that port.
With nething to fear
plans for putting an army into Cuba
will at once be consummated. United
States troops in large numbers/will be
landed without further delay.
on the sea,
VAIN APPEAL TO THE POWERS.
LONDON, May 26.—T'he Rome cor-
respondent of “The Daily Mail” says:
“Spain recently sent a note inv1ting
the Powers to protest jointly against.
the blockade of Cuba. The Powers
decided to take no action, and no re-
plies have been received at Madrid.”
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LAT “T WARN EW
‘ I at'SpainWon’
l‘RIAN SHIPS POUND FOR
CUBA.
LONDON. May 26.——According to a
“The Daily Mail” from
Kaiser
AUS
dispatch .to
Gibraltar,
Franz Joseph I has arrived there, and
Cuban waters
Kaiserin
the Austrian cruiser
on Friday will sail for
with the armored cruiser
Maria Theresa.
COLLIERS AT SPANISH PORTS.
LONDON, May 26.——The Madrid cor-
respondent of “The Standard” says a
a number of merchant steamers loaded
with coal from England have arrived
at Barcelona. Cadiz and Bilbao,
THE SECOND WANTS TO GO.
NEW HAVEN, May 26—The call for
75.000 more volunteers, which came
from President McKinley yesterday.
has stiri ed 11p the men of the Second
1egiment who are anxious to take a
hand 1n the mm with Spain. The1e is
hope now that the crack regiment of
Connecticut will get a show and that the
war department will give the boys of
the Second a chance to go to the front.
QUOTA FOR SECOND CALL.
WASHINGTON, May 26.—VVhile the
‘adjutant-general’s office has not yet
undertaken to‘ make up the quotas
of the stites under the call for 75,000
more volunteers, the following give an
approximate estimate of the state
quotas :
Alabama, 1,500; Arkansas, 1,230; Ca1-
ifornia, 1,930; Colorado, 984; Connecti-
cut, 965; Delaware, 210;VFlorida, 450;
Georgia, 1,905; Idaho, 139; IllinOis,
264; Kan-
sas, 1,688; Kentucky, 2,045; Louisiana,
1,164; Maine, 579; Maryland, 1,166;
2 ,832; Michigan, 2,662;
1.295;
Massachusetts,
Minnesota, 1,729; Mississippi,
' Missouri, 3,246; Montana, 314; Netras-
ka, 1,446; Nevada, 142; New York,
7,507; NorthSHCarolina, 1,545; North‘
Dakota, 246; Ohio, 4,349; Oregon, 377;
Bari—risylvania, 6,450; Rhode Island, 425;
South Dakota, 1,110; South Carolina,
4l5; Tennessee, 1,036; Texas, 1,454:
Utah, 255; Vermout, 397:,‘yvas‘iimguoa
1,965;-3:\Vy0min,__,138'; Arizona, 107;
Disti ict of Columbia, 198; New Mexico,
269; Oklahoma, 56.
HUNGER THREATENS SANTIAGO
LONDON, May 26.—A special dispatch.
from Madrid, via Biarritz, says:
“There has been an activ\e exchange
of dispatches between the Government
and the authorities at Havana and San
Juan de Porto Rico on the subject of
\sending coal and provisions to Santiago
de Cuba. It is alleged that Admiral
Cervera has wired confirming the re
port that Santiago de Cuba is cut off
from communication with the interior
by strong bands of insurgents, andthat
in consequence coal and provisions are
getting scarce and dear.” I
DEPRESSION EXPLAINED.
WASHINGTON, May. 26.—The depres-
sion which prevails in official circles at
Madrid is explained;
news withheld from the Spanish‘press
the important
has been disclosed. Admiral Cervera
is in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba
and cannot get out. His fleet is as
useless to Spain in carrying on the war
as the hulks destroyed, by Admiral
Dewey in Manila Bay on May Day.
This unpleasant fact dawned upon the
al populace had fairly finished its cele-
bration of the announcement. so osten-
tatiously made, of the brilliant strategy
displayed by Cervera in eluding our -
scouting ships and sailing into San:
tiago.
A
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Serving The Guns.
The men who win the fight aboard
a battle-ship to-day are the men who
seive the guns. Upon their energy,
determination, and skill depends the
ultimate issue of the conflict. Of
course, in the wonderfully perfect and
econOmical organization 'of the shipls
company no man is wasted, and every
one contributes his share to the
strength of the mighty combination. _
From the sharp-shooters, turning the
Maxim guns in the dizzy, swaying1L
fighting top, to the stokers who feed
" the furnaces in the black depths be-
low, from the captain on the bridge to
the. messenger at his side, ready to
carry the word when bell and speak-
ing-tube are shot away—111 have their
important work to do, and the failure
or falteringlof any one of them would
mar in greater or less degree the
effectiveness of the great machine.
But without the constant and well-
directed fire of her heavy guns in a
battle, a ship could not stay afloat, just
as a man in a fist fight, however strong
and clever a boxer he may be, cannot
keep his feet unless his blows, strike
home. The old naval maxim is as true
to-day as it was in the time of Nelson—
“The ship must win whose crew stands
longest by the guns.”
It is man’s work to stand by the guns
on a modern battle-ship. The scene is
well represented in the stirring illus-
tration frOm Harper’s Weekly, repro-
duced to-day. The smoke and sulphur-
ous gases smother the breath and blind
the eyes, the terrific heat tortures the
half-naked bodies, the thunderous
crashes of the guns deafen the ears and
numb the senses. But the gun-crews
know that their comrades, ' from “the
old man” down, are looking to them to
do the fighting, and wounds and death
and their shipmates falling stricken
about them are forgotten in the storm
of the contest. It is the final test of
years of training, and the men move .
like clock-work at the word of co
mand. Perhaps to some of them comes
a dim picture of their last gunnery
practice on summer seas of the Roads,
but the familiar voice of the officer of
the gun now rings out the orders with
a strange hard note of battle in it, and
they pray that they have learned their
lesson well, and that nothing goes
amiss. Through the port they some-
times catch a glimpse of the havoc done
on the enemy by a well- directed shot,
and they cheer as well as they can in
the stifling smoke and heat, and bend
to their work again with ienewed de-
termination to carry to victory the flag
of their ship floating p1 oudly from the
topmost point of the 11 on mast
The marksmanship of our gunners
long since aroused the envy of foreign
navies, and now the Yankee sailors
are proving that for discipline and
devotion to duty they a1 e no less to be
admired and imltated.
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