Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-21
PRISONER rs AFFECTED
LONG ISLAND DOCTOR ON TRIAL
FOR MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
Special Dispatch to The Star

FLUSHING, L. l., N. Y, June 21.-When
DR.. Guy, the former Queens county coroner,
who is on trial in the supreme court mere
for the murder of his wife, walked into the
courtroom today he plainly showed the
effects of having spent bad night. HIS
face had a CHASTITY color and he tottered
like palsed old man. According to his
keeper, he had not slept a wink all night.
The testimony of his fourteen-year-old boy,
Harold, yesterday, who told of the many
uuarrels between his father and mother,
apparently affected the prisoner deeply.
He was on the verge of break down all
morning but pulled himself together at
noon and took a deeper interest in the pro-
ceedings
They have set my boy against me-" said
the doctor, with tears running down his
cheeks. I'm after years he will come to
realize what he has done and will be sorry
The boys face haunted me all night and
could not sleep. 1t is awful awful that a
child should be set against his rather IN
this way. May God forgive them for Il; l
forgive my boy fully, for he knew not what
he was doing. l love him with all my
heart
Court to Hold Late Sessions.
When court convened today Justice Jay
cox announced that he would hold late ses-
sions until the trial was over. He will sit
until 10 o'clock tonight, by which time the
prosecution is expected to have finished and
the defense to be at least half through
Henry j. Franz, letter carrier of Far
Rockaway, was the first witness today. lie
gave corroborative testimony to having
seen Annie Hansen run out of the Guy
house calling for help and to having seen
Dr. Guy leave the house short time later
DR.. George b. Foster of New York gave
expert testimony as to the muscular &C
| tivity of human being after being shot
The district attorney sought to show by
him that Mrs. Guy did not die instanta-
neously after being shot,. but lived long
enough to stagger into the kitchen. The
doctor thought that Mrs. Guy could have
walked or staggered at least fifteen feet
after being shot.
Mrs Althause, the sister of the dead
woman, was recalled to tell of quarrels be-
tween her sister and DR.. Guy. She said that
one day the doctor said that he wasn't go
ing to work any more and he didn't give
a d. where he got his money
my sister replied that he fool to
talk in that way. Once, just before my
fathers estate was settled continued the
witness, DIR. Guy said he was going to be
a bookmaker at the race track and she told
him that he had lost 5000 there already"
The witness said that the defendant re-
peatedly called her sister fool, bockhead
and liar, and once a harsher name.
Shortly before II o'clock District Attor-
ney Darrn announced that the prosecution
rested. Lawyer Mathot, for the defense,
| then made motion to dismiss. Mr. Ma
| thot in his argument gave the first tntima-
| ton OF the line of the defense. He main
| tanned that the evidence in the case pointed
| far more to the guilt of the servant girl,
Annie Hansen. than to the defendant. He
also argued that no motive had been es-
| tablished. Justice JaycoX denied that mo-
| ton. and former District Attorney George
| A. Gregg made brief address in opening
the defense.