The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-27
MOVED HER TO TEARS
ARGUMENT of PROSECUTING At
TORNEY IN THE TRIAL OF MRS.
GEORGE EFFECTIVE
DEFENDANT MUCH AFFECTED

Sat With DOwncast Eyes and Often
Wept as She Listened to the Story
of Her Unfortunate Life-PrOse-
cutOr Did Not Spare Her In Sum-
ming Up Case, Though He Was
Considerable with Her Witnesses
CANTON, o., April 26.-The closing
Argument in the trial of Mrs George
was in progress when court adjourned
this evening. Prosecuting Attorney
Pcmeran began his argument shortly
after o'clock, and will probably occupy
the greater part, If not all, of tomorrow
afternoon in completing It, 1t Is now
thought that the jury will be charged I'M
mediately after the noon recess on Thurs
day.
The day was without special incident
so far as the accused was concerned. Mrs
George sat all day with downcast eyes,
and was occasionally moved to tears as
the story of her life was narrated
Prosecuting Attorney Pomeran spoke
briefly on the legal propositions of the
case, although he cited number Of au-
thorities for the judges consideration in
connection with the charge to the jury.
He insisted that the extent to which the
testimony of one addicted to opium habits
should be excluded was for the jury to
decide according to the testimony on the
use of the drug, resisting the proposition
of the defense that the court should order
the jury to ignore the testimony entirely
of one addicted. He also took ground
opposite that of the defense on the mat
ter Of threats, insisting that these
threats should be considered in the line
of a motive for the crime and circum-
stantial evidence thereon as well as on
the question of the degree Of premedita
ton and elaboration.
SUMMING UP.
In summing up the case to the jury the
prosecuting attorney insisted that the
jury should not consider what the char
acter of SaXtOn was, or was not, and that
If the accused was found guilty the jury
should so find dwelling at some length
upon the subsequent facts Of an acquit
tai under such circumstances when tes-
tlmony had proven guilt. He insisted an
alibi attempted and not established is an
evidence of fraud and deception, and In
sisted that the alibi in this case had not
accounted for the accused at the moment
Gus time involved. He argued that the
accused was not the simple country
woman her attorney had represented her.
but that she had been carried away by.
her vanity, her ambition and her desires
for what only a rich man could provide
her. He insisted with much vehemence
that when she secured divorce from her
husband she must either have sworn tru-
ly to the good grounds for that divorce
from her husband or else have falsified to
the court, either of which he said was
pertinent to this case. He insisted that
her language and conduct had not been
that of a woman such as her attorney
had represented her, and recalled the tes-
timony of witnesses who had sworn that
Mrs Georges words were too profane
and too obscene to be repeated on the.
witness stand.
AS to most of the witnesses for the ac-
cused, the prosecuting attorney was dis
posed to be kind and considerable. He
charged them with nothing worse than
a mistake as to the time of the Incidents
they narrated, and this he did only
through the testimony of others. He was,
however, very severe and scathing in his
references to Mrs. George.