The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-04
A Dangerous Woman.

A correspondent, writing from
Lowell, Mass, Dec. 10, says:
The Supreme Judicial Court, which
assembled in this city to-day, has on its
hands the trial for murder of most re-
markable and dangerous woman, one
who has already been tried and acquit-
ted of the charge of numbering one low
er and is now to answer to the charge
of numbering a second, the green-eyed
monster being the alleged prOvocation,
in both instances. The woman's name
is variously given as Lulu Martin, Lucy
A. Mink, and Lucy Mank; and the first
murder with which she was charged was
committed some three or four years ago
in Warren, Me. The victim was DR..
Baker, who met his death from a pistol
shot in this woman's house, she at the
time being generally supposed to be the
Doctors mistress. She was promptly
arrested at the time, and a few months
later was placed on trial for causing the
Doctors death. The examination lasted
several days, and the proceedings were
watched with thrilling interest by
the whole community, the prevail
ing opinion being that she was
guilty. The Government failed to make
out case, however, and the woman
was accordingly acquitted. Nothing
more was heard by the public of this
woman until a few months since, when
she turns up in this city as the defend
ant and heroine in the murder of an
other lover, named Charles S. Kicker,
last August, for which crime she has
just been placed on trial. On the day
of the tragedy the woman wrote a note
to her victim, ASKING him to see her in
her room in the evening. On the same
day she went to a gunshop here in Low
ell, and had revolver cleaned and
some new cartridges supplied, and on
the same evening, a pistol shot was
heard in her room, and when the other
occupants of the house went to investi-
gate the cause, they found that her
lover had been fatally shot. Her friends
at the time set up the theory of acct
dent, claiming that she was actuated
by jealousy of another woman, and hav-
ing failed in an attempt at reconcilia-
ton she attempted to shoot herself and
that her friend, in preventing suicide,
was himself accidentally shot by a mis-
direction of the weapon. William B.
Gale, of Waltham, who was assigned
as counsel for the alleged murderess,
was quite taken back when he went to
see her few days since in relation to
matters pertaining to her de-
tense. She politely but cool
ly told him that she had not sent
for him, and she wanted no lawyer to
intercede for her. She furthermore
said that if at the trial he assumed to
act for her she would tell the Judge and
Jury that he acted without her authority
and in opposition to her wishes. She
positively refused to relate an incident
of the tragedy, choosing to keep her
own confidence, on the ground that she
did not need Mr.. Gales services or the
assistance of amy one else. She said
she made no objection to him person
ally, but did not want to talk to him as
a lawyer, and during the entire inter-
view was cool and courteous. When
brought into Court this morning the
condition of affairs was explained, and
the wheels of justice are temporarily
blocked in consequence. The woman
is by no means insane, and the motive
for her singular conduct is mystery.
The Presiding Judge and counsel on
both sides agreed to delay, and the
fair murderess was remanded to jail
pending decision how to proceed.
The case is attracting considerable at
tention from the fact that the defend
ants antecedents are mystery, and
the two men whom she is reputed to
have murdered were prominent in their
respective communities