Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-04-13
STATE HAS RESTED
RAPID PROGRESS MADE IN TRIAL OF
MRS. EWING.
MRS. EWING HER OWN WITNESS
IS LIKELY TO BE FIRST WITNESS
CALLED BY DEFENSE.
State Sought to Prove That No Strug-
gle Preceded killing of Mrs.
Frank Ewing by Her Sister
in-Law-Mrs. Ewing
Breaks Down.
IS LIKELY TO BE FIRST WITNESS
CALLED BY DEFENSE.

MARYvILLE, MO-, April 12.-(Special)
At $50 this evening, the state, in the case
against Mrs. Ewing. charged with having
murdered her sister-in-law, rested, after
having made its prima facie case.
Rapid progress was made to-day. The
jury which was impaneled this morning is
composed of the following men, all of whom
are farmers, living in the vicinity OF Gull
ford and Barnard: Sherman Hefiin. Martin
Baker. James McClannahan, George Il.
Cotter. c. D. Hooker, Samuel Aldridge,
Robert E. Jones. Isaac H. Jackson, Robert
Todd, Harry Denny, Robert N. Allen and
John c. Curnutt. All are middle aged or
old men, excepting Allen. who, by the way,
would have been married to-day if he had
not been drawn on the jury.
Judge Ellison made the statement of the
states case this morning. He was very
brief. He said, it would be shown in evil
dence that Lizzie Ewing came to her death
at the hands of Ida Ewing: that neither
her clothes nor the room In which she lay
dead bore evidences of a struggle, and that
it would be proven absolutely that she was
the victim of cold-blooded murder. w.
A. Blagg made the defense's statement. He
indicated that self-defense will be the plea
entered. and stated that all the statements
be sustantiated.
Sheriff w. II. Collins. the first witness
called. said that he examined the dead
her face badly powder-burned about the
wounds.
Sloan E. While and his wife. nearest
neighbors OF the Ewings. testified that they
had seen the women together on the day
of the killing and that they appeared to
be having pleasant time. Mr.. While saw
no evidences of a struggle in the room
where the killing occurred.
John Sturgeon said that when he entered
the, the Ewing house Immediately after the
killing. Mrs. Ewing lay on her back. with
her head ON a pillow and her little son,
Harold, still sleeping on pallet near her
and the defendants babe sleeping on the
him that there had been a struggle
X. B. Luz. to whose house Mrs Ewing
came after the killing. said she appeared
Frustrated He thought the room in which
The ladies who washed and dressed the
deceased swore that her clothes were not
disarranged and that no marks on her
person indicated there had been a strug-
gle.
The effort of the state has been to es
tablish by circumstantial evidence that
Mrs. George Ewing did the killing and that
no struggle previous to it occurred It
will Introduce its most interesting evidence
herself will be the defense's first witness.
and that she will be put on the stand to-
morrow morning.
Mrs; Ewing's: courage appeared to leave
her this morning. When the jurors were
being sworn. she broke down completely
and wept bitterly almost all morning. Her
husband. who sat beside her. with his
daughter Blanche. aged 3, also cried
band. sat behind the states attorneys all
day with little Harold. his son. aged /.
on his knee. The trial is arOusng the
greatest interest. The courtroom was
crowded to suffocation all day, all the
with people standing. More than half the
crowd were women.