The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-20
WILL TELL HOW
SHE KILLED HIM
Second Trial OF Mrs. Taylor For
Murder OF Husband.
She BURNED HIS BODY
AFTER SHOOTING Him TO DE.
STROY TIE EVlDENCE-SpEC-
lAL PANEL FROM WHICH
TO SELECT JURY.

Montecello, N, Y May l9The pol
ling &C the special panel OF 200 names
from which to aelect the Jury fer the
trial OF Mrs Kate Taylor. the Sulli.
van county murderess. who burned
her husbands body in a cooking
stove after shooting him, was begun
here with the opening of the May term
court today Sheriff Royce must
subpoena each of the 200 men whose
names are taken from the wheel today
The trial will be q longer one than
he last owing to the introduction Of
a great mass of evidence ruled out
before and which f-rmel the basis
fer tho granting OF row hearing by
the court Of appeals.
Mrs. Taylor win take the stand in
her own defense ana tell how she
hillel her husband on the nigh; of
January 2G, 1908. ana cut up and
burned his body Her own daughter.
who Is to be the principal witness
against her, viii also describe The
u rrihIe scene and will show the
state hopes, that her stcpfather wa
rot killed in self defonsc
Mrs. Taylor, according to her at
toruoys. has A peculiar faculty for
reading character and they will per
nit her to arbitrarily challenge the
alisman without question a1 70 why
she does IT, She ia by long odds the
most composed and outwaraly uncon
,enad per on ever trie1 ia the county
she spends her time in jail either
sewing or reading and i5 most
exemplary prisoner Interest in the
trial is even greater shan before the pr"
Hious one ana every ono in the comn
~ dEaits the presentation Of the mass
If new evidence which was nos allow
I'd to ha presented Al the first trial
ma which formed the basis Of the
iocia0n by tho court OF appeals.
Tais evidently probably will take
an entire lay in presentation Thirty
Witnesses viii be called by Mrs Tay
'or's attorney, former District h;tor
nov " W Smith AMI Counsel John
> Lyons TO prove the prnyims char
lctcr Of tavetta Taylor the hua
blnl ho Killed
Airs Taylor viii not ap-at Of thc
narrowing ietaila Il what lollowc
he deah nf hor hush1n |. hat Distric
Attorney Frank Anderson, pr1aecu
'i.g for The state. VIII do go, missiu'
no chance to describe ;he conduct 81
the woman how she chopped tn
'e1d mans heal from th body, an
thea, during two days destroyed thc
belly in the Eitehea range ne vii
gain pat Ida May pakay the daugh
ter of The prisoner by a former mar
riago on the tanl TO prove this fear
tu story The young girl says she
av her mother at the awful work
Taylor was killed on the night :
January 2G. 1908 The first trial whicl
lasted five days. BEGAN May 25. Mrs
Taylor WIS fon.l guilty Of frs. dc
Grcn murlcr on May 20. ami on tn.
same day sentence 70 die IN n1nno
nora in the week of July 3. 1903. bu
the appeal was taken. AMI IN Januar! /
,G. last the new trial was granted
pe.e' Ycrhina Mr.. Taylor's uncle /
Who was indicted as IN accessory q /
ttc murder u Lafayette Taylor, is in /
Nc- icello jail awaiting the ou.com
1f nor second trial
Ila Dakar tha defeaAant's d1rghtc /
testified % the preyicus trial that she (
overheard Yorlfin8 promise to give l
Mrs. Taylor a farm il she killed her 1
husband