Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-21

which stuck. "a.
did she say she undertook to dis
charge it at herself?" asked Mr. Appel
''No. sir" sale the witness.
Hosiclx said Mrs. Corwell stated she
was SO angry and excited she did not
know what she was doing. The woman
went, he said. when told OF Bennetts
death. which was the first time she had
shown any emotion.
Detective Zeigler was the next Wit
ness and testified substantially as mad
his predecessor on the stand.
"Don't you know you have given
Hosick's testimony as he gave it?"
asked Mr.. Appe,.
Eyes. 1 read the transcript" said the
witness.
Zeigler said he had carried copy of
part of the transcript in his pocket to
refresh his memory. but declared he
could have relied on his own memory.
The copy, he said. had been given to
him by Detective Hosick and had been
destroyed Sunday.
Says Prisoner Wore Hat
did Fstelle CorweL have a hat on
that night?" demanded the attorney.
Yes. she had a white hat replied
the witness, an answer which APP
peared to please the attorney greatly.
The prosecution then called Selma
De Silva and rested when no response
was given.
Md. Appel then delivered his open
ing statement to the jury. AS the at
torney began his address there was
stir in the court room and everyone
of the large number of spectators
seemed to mare an effort to approach
nearer to the jury box. 1t was neces-
gary for two bailiffs to make their
way among the gathering and restore
order.
1.-The defendant at the very outset,
declared Mr.. Appel, will present facts
which will show the relations between
herself end George T. Bennett running
back to 1901. These facts will be or
such a character that it will show the
condition of mind of this defendant
at the time when she started for the
Bennett home on the night of July
%, and will prove that she was so
irrational and so insane that she dld
not know what she was doing. IL
will illustrate to you that she had no
intention to kill Bennett
1T will be shown that she had a
suicidal mania back in 1902 and that
four or five times she undertook to
take her life.
standing on a corner one day she
saw an automobile passing with Ben
nett, Maize Bennett and Mrs. Bennett
his mother. She knelt down in the
street and cried, George, George! but
he turned his head and passed by.
Relates Benefits Acts
I'VE will show that this woman, who
had beer introduced as his wife, had
suffered mental and physical pain for
him and had bee ONE an outcast because
of him We will show that she was
born of good parents in little town
f1an W
wanted to come to Los Angeles and
at the Chester house George Bennett
who had wife and children, conn
menced to pay attentions to her, anc
Nv the mos. extravagant exhibitions
of affection he won her.
HE gave her an engagement ring in
1902, and inside that ring is inscribed,
From George to Estelle.' She was
only about 1s years old then and he
persuaded her to go to southern Call
fornia and married her.
Later in 1902 she discovered he was
married and she tried to commit sui
eide with lauGanum. That man sat
by her bedside, crying, 'Estelle, Estelle,
don't go to sleep; I'll marry you; Ill
make you my Wife
she forgave him, womanlike-her
heart was with him. Some time during
1904 Bennett lost his wife, and this
girl commenced to demand that he
marry her, ami letters were written to
her by hirl addressing her as MIS-
George T. Bennett
Then she learned that Bennett was
going with MAZE Bennett and other
women, and after trip to San Diego
with another woman, she went to MIN
at Ocean Park and asked Will you
have mercy on me? Will you make
me your wife? You deceived me-for
Gods sake, will you marry me"
Wanted No Dictation
And he replied that he would not
allow any woman to dictate to him
and when she said she wanted him
K marry he- that night he said, You
GO to h; 1 will not marry woman
OF your kind
And when she told him he must
marry her or something terrible would
happen. he said: I don't care; you
can go to h
"They were in an automobile and
she Jumped to the roadway. The back
Of her lead was injured and her leg
was fractured in two places, and Ben
nett kneeling beside her, cried out:
Tor God sake, don't tell anyone;
don't let the newspapers get hold or
this!'
And when DR.. Sands spoke of am
| putatlnE ner 1OOL, ne IOlu the physician
he was soin to marry her and asked
lin not to perform the operation. For
| three months he visited her in the Pa
| cific hospital and reiterated his prom
| Uses.
! "She left the hospital on two crutches
and he engaged rooms in the base
inent of an apartment house, place
damp and dreary. And, standing on
one foot and supported by her crutches
she washed his clothing and prepared
| his meals and his bath.
"And when he did not come home
she walked ur and down all night,
sleepless and worried She would go
TO the andlady and cry, Why don't
George come, why don't he come"
"And while sewing al the window
she would say Why, there he comes!'
and it was said then she was becom-
ing insane. no matter what he did,
she always forgaYe him.
Woman Suffers in Mind
"And we will show that she en-
deavored to bring him back to her in
another way. We viii show that some
where in May or June, 1907, she was
in a delicate condition. Then she be-
gan to have Authorizations and the
thought always uppermost in her mind
was that Maze Bennett was going to
marry George Bennett. Down on JEFF
ferson street one night she told a
friend that Male Bennett and Bennett
ad come into her room and poisoned
| her