Arizona republican., 1906-05-08
MISS JENKS'
 TRIAL OPENS
Story of Sadie Jones
 Death Told
The Territory Will Conclude it's Side of the Case This Forenoon The Line of Defense.

The trial of Hallie Jenks for the murder of Sadie Jones at the insane asylum on the night of March 19 was
 begun in district court yesterday morn
 ing. Throughout the day there was a
 large attendance of women and the
 audience kept growing until the hour of
 adjournment.
 The entire forenoon was occupied in
 the selection of the jury. In the course
 of this work the cosmopolitan charac-
 ter of the population of this county
 was disclosed. In the list of talesmen
 examined for the qualifications it was brought out that they had come from
 twenty different states or foreign countries.
 The following members of the trial jury were sworn in: Ralph Murphy, Robert Cree, D. A. Donofrio, Charles Davidson, H. A Diehl, Robert Friedel, Carl Frakes, J. NJ. Pike, James Mo Nulty. J. D. Barnes, Quinn Faulkner
 and J. H. Hill.
 The defendant sat with her attorneys, Lewis and Christy and though sne was composed she was by no means indif- ! ferent to the course of events. The
 first witness for the territory was Dr. Ray Ferguson, the superintendent of the asylum, though he had no connec- | tiOn with the institution until two weeks after the death of Mrs. Jones. He presented the register of inmates showing that Mrs. Jones had been re- ceived at the asylum from COchise county only four days before she died.
 He had also a copy of the commitment
 on which she was sent in and he pre-
 sented also a copy of the rules and
 regulations of the institution which he
 found when he took charge of the in
 stitution. The witness had no means
 Of knowing whether these rules had | been enforced.
 1 The next witness was Miss Nellie
 Ditto, second assistant in ward No. 4,
 where Mrs. Jones was confined, and
 who was with her when the alleged
 murder occurred. She said that shortly before o'clock on the evening of
 March 19 she was called by her super
 for. Miss Jenks, first attendant of the
 ward, asking her to assist in quieting | Mrs. Jones. Going to the cell of the
 woman they found her standing in the
 middle Of the floor. They entered and
 Miss Jenks seizing the woman threw her upon the bed. The woman | screamed, fought and swore. Miss Jenks took a pillow case which the wo- man had torn from a pillow and pour ! ing turpentine on it crowded it into the woman's mouth. She fought until it fcame off and then promised to behave. 1 But she did not do so and the pillow case was applied again. Again the wo
 man fought it off and begged that it ! be put on her throat instead of into i her mouth. But Miss Jenks stuffed it | into the mouth again and poured more turpentine upon it.
 part of the time the witness was
 holding the left hand of the struggling woman but she said she finally turned away. She asked Miss Jenks if she ! had ever seen this treatment before. ! She replied that she had seen it. Mrs. Jones quit struggling and grew limp and both the attendants became scared. They got water and tried to revive her l but could not. Then Miss Jenks called
 the matron. and at length pr. Palmer
 was sent for. Mrs. Jones never recov- cred consciousness and died little af- ! ter II o'clock that night.
 1 The witness further stated that when ! she and Miss Jenks went into the cell 1 the latter was not angry, though the witness thought she had become so In 1 the course of the struggle with the crazy woman.
 | The next witness was Steward c. A. ! Randy. who was awakened by the call ! for the matron. His testimony related | to what he saw when he went to the ward and to his further conversation
 with Miss Jenks and to a certain state ment which he had prepared based on i her relation of the case and which she ! had then signed.
 This statement was offered in evil 1 dence. Objection was made by the de- | fense on the ground that it had not 1 been set forth in her words; that it had 1 been dictated by another person and ! then been signed by Miss Jenks, who | could have been in no fit frame of mind
 to comprehend what she was doing. The