The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-22

jury and made . brief stasement of the
lire Of defense ne proposed 10 ad0pk.
Just q he Was about 20 begin Juror
rose and. addressing the court. asked 20
have Chief Jackson pus on the Stand
again. The court said he would allow him
10 testsfy il Mr.. Piles did not object But
Mr.. Piles would not allow Chief Jackson 70
be placed on the stand sgain. Nj. Psies
then said in substance:
Gsstiemn cf tie Jsrv- / an about 10 perform
one Of tie most unps essant duties have syer
oesa called upoa "a pesform-to ssate the facts
In this easa Bat have 70 do IL In order shaf
ycu may know the tfuta and the vhois Truth
In this case b my putsisg IL hescrs you
Vow In resersnes 70 this case. Ne
think we viii b able 70 prove 70
performed aii of the duties Of . wife towards
the man she 10 charged with numbering. Iviii
mot claim that this woman has always besn
pure woman. But ws viii show you that she 10
u least not entirely to b blamed ios
this fact Mr.. boyd net this woman
tn the city Of Olympia nearly
ave years ago She fell IN love with Mr. Boyd
and they lived together - man and wiic. After
while Mr.. Boyd undertook TO start morning
70 ron Mr. Boyd was . nswspape. man.
and ss the time Of his Death Vas
editor Of this paper. We will show you. gentle
men. that the very clothes this woman wore and
the jewels she possessed were pawned By this
man 70 start this paper. All OF these
isc's We viii prove. gentlemen. By let
fsrs written BY Mr.. Boyd sni now in our
possession In ashors time after this paper was
started NJ Boyd wanted 70 get moaey. he sent
this girl up to Fsirhaven Aad Whascom to get
this nouey. 70 enter house OF prost.sution, 70
cara money by wearing away her body aud soul
70 get money 20 run the Morning Cfympfdn,
while the proprietor. Mr.. Boyd. played tie gen.
siernsn In Olympia. Twill show you that this girl
sent him the money he lived upon and which
ecutsng attorney has told you about Twill
show you In his own hand writing. and God
knows regret it that he complained that she
could not earn still more money. lie wrote
her letter after letter. in each OF which he de-
manded money. In one OF these letters be said.
"Pisy Gil around men. Take advantage Of
their weaknesscs. Have no conscience. I must
have money. Play your game strorg swift and
sure and quick, for must have money" Not
satisfied with making this girl earn money for
Elm IN this way. Will show you how this man
while 10 was living apart from this
girl, wrote her letters telling her
copy letter. which he enclosed and sent them
to prominent men in this state to blackmail
them. These letters prrportiug TO be from her,
accused these snca OF having improper reia-
tons with her and demanded money.
In justics TO these men viii say that
many OF them wero innocent and the gil did
not even know them.
once, when this girl was In Fairhsven, Boyd
came up 70 Ne her, aud while there got on
quite drunk and prominent newspaper nan
OF that city, Col. Will Visscher, wrote him up In
his paper
This aroused Boyd's hatred. and he demanded
mend money Of him. accusing him Of improper
relations with her, when she well knew
he Vac IN innocent old man and quito
guiittess OF any such thing. He wanted her to
get all the money she could out Of him and
then to hor.ewhip him on the street and
break up HE home By going and tell
Ing his wife that Mr.. visscher had
been intimate with her. And visscher
was not the only man who was . mark for him.
Boyd sent the girl to Spokane, and wanted her
70 collect money from prominent man there
under penalty OF horscwhipping il he refused
It. will prove TO you tina: the real cause OF
this murder was that this girl here would not
20 up to Olympia and horsewhip
Col visscher on the street That IL
what she meant when she said. "Oh. Tom. don't
ask me to do that" and it was through her re-
lusai to do It that he made her lie 50 mi.ersbie
Iha: be drove her to do this act while in state
d partial insanity from pregnancy.
Mr.. Piles then outlined the defense that
he would make, that he would prove the
insanity Of the defendant by the testl-
mony OF physicians and by the persons
Who we're in the house with her.
The defendants first witness, Mrs. Ken
nedy. also one of the witnesses for the
was called. She testified
that in her opinion Mrs. Boyd
vas insane when the shooting
was done. A great deal of fun was caused
by the testimony of this witness ia regard
10 an insane woman she had once seen
and by Mr.. Miiler's clever attempts to
force her into acknowledging that Mrs.
Boyd might have been only suffering from
remorse when the witness saw her after
the shooting.
A. f. Sherwood. who was also called by
the state, testified that Mrs. Boyd seemed
to him to be insane at the time he saw
her few minutes after the tragedy oc-
Cured.
Mary Calligan. a servant girl who had
worked for Mrs. Kennedy. testified to
going into the room one morning
to build fire and seeing Mr..
BOYD choke the defendant. She
also testified that she was
afraid to stay in the room with the de-
PENDANT on account of her strange actions.
Allie Little. who had also worked for Mrs.
Kennedy. testified to hearing Boyd call
the defe ndant several vile names.
DIR. J. K. Crich;on testified that he had
treated the defendant for female troubles
and had performed an operation on her in
August, iS9,. At the request Of Mr..
Boyd. which soon resulted in her
becoming pregnant. He also testified that
abou, seven weeks after she vas com mitted
to the jail he had treated her for
the effects OF an abortion, caused hy
the shock of the tragedy. He gave as his
opinion that for two weeks previous TO the
of the crime the defendant
was suffering from insanity of pregnancy.
Coroner Horton vas placed on the stand
to give his reasons for no; allowing the in.
PRODUCTION of testimony on the question of
insanity At the inquest. bu; nothing came
of il.
Then cour adjourned for the day.
Edward Curtts Hopeiessly Ill.
Edward Curtis, who Is reputed 10 he
worth $4,000 in Fresno and Monterey.
Cal. property. lies at 81. Luke's hospi;a,
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