Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-26
WOMAN WILL
TELL OF LIFE
WITHBENNETT
CORWELL CASE MAY LAST TEN
DAYS LONGER
DEFENDANT TO GO ON STAND
THIS WEEK
District Attorney Is Thought to Have
information Bearing on Case
Which Will Prove of Great
est Importance

The trial of Mrs. Estelle Corwell will
bgein it's third week tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock, and the prediction of both
sides prior to the opening of the case
that it would occupy three weeks seems
likely to be more than fulfilled.
Although the defense expects to close
it's side by tomorrow night or Tuesday
noon, the rebuttal evidence to be in
troduced by the prosecution, it is be-
lieved, will occupy the balance of the
week, and it is improbable the case
will go to the jury in less than ten
days
This depends, in great measure, on
the character of the evidence which
the prosecution hopes to introduce fol-
lowing the close of the defense, and no
inkling of the plans of the district
attorneys Office has been given out.
AS the trial proceeds the interest in
the outcome appears to grow stronger,
and Notwithstanding the rule put into
effect early last week that no person
should remain IN the court room unless
seated, scores of more or less interested
men and women haunted the corridors
each day.
AS the time for the adjournment of
each days session approached large
gathering waited outside the court
room door, hoping to catch glimpse
VI the WOlllcil do SllC PdSSCd
on her way to the elevator.
Crowds Fill Corridors
Down stairs in the corridor which
leads to the north entrance of the court
house there could always be found a
goodly sprinkling of curious persons,
while seated on the stone coping at
the edge of the large court yard another
crowd waited eXpectantly to see the
prisoner on her way to the county jail
across the street.
The most important witness in the
trial will probably take the stand to-
morrow or Tuesday. This is the de-
PENDANT herself, and she is expected to
go into every detail of her life from the
time she first met George 7. Bennett,
the man she is charged with. killing,
until the night when, revolver in hand,
she gave herself up to the police.
When Mrs. CorwelPs attorney, Hor-
ace Appel, delivered his opening state
ment to the jury he declared the de-
Tense would show conditions in the ex-
istence of his client while associated
with Bennett almost revolving in char
acter.
Many details have already been given
which would appear to prove Bennett
to have been insincere and something
of a master in duplicity during his
later years. but the story which is eX-
Jury will be that of Mrs. Corwell, and
it is believed the attorney had this In
mind when, two weeks ago, he made
his statement
Testimony Disconnected
The testimony thus far given by the
defense has been somewhat discon-
nected, but the threads of the evidence
are expectd to be brought together
within a comparatively short time after
the opening of tomorrow's session.
The majority of the witnesses who
have thus far testified were called to
tell of the defendants reputation either
in her Arizona home or since she
reached Los Angeles. A number of
these persons have come from Arizona
for the express purpose of aiding one
whom they knew as school girl and
at whose home they had always found
a welcome hand extended by her pa
rents.
A great deal of what might be re-
garded as contradictory testimony has
also been introduced thus far, and 1t Is
hoped to clear this up during the COM
ing week The greater part OF TINS