The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-09

attack os the previous month She
was iured 70 the bath room. she tss.
tihed. drugeed and the circumstances
Of the previous attack repeated with
the addsd detail Of being cut and
scratched by some sharp instrument
BY the man who had led her to the
room. Tss szssz w.s assisted We
man who. however, left ahead Of the
man. locking the door. The man es-
capped over the transom.
Defense Closes Case.
The defense closed today. strong
evidence both for and against the
young iaceuraksr was given during
the day. The session came to q close
with p. q. oDonneli, the girls lawyer,
and Capt. p. D. OBrien Of the detec-
tive bureau. who investigated the girls
frst story about being attacked in the
wellington Hotel. Feb. 10, accusing
each other OF undernanded motives In
the case.
Captain o'Brien testified that during
q conversation he had with Attorney
ODonnell Wednesday night. the lawyer
said he did not believe some parts OF
the girls story.
The testimony Of the police captain
and of the nurses at the Frances VIII
lard Hospital. where Miss Gingles was
taken after the wellington Hotel IN
cident. showed giaring discrepancies In
the girls various stories.
with the rebuttal testimony tomor-
row, a new sensation, IL promised IN
the story OF Agnes May Barrette' the
woman against whom Miss Gingles has
directed her narrative. Miss Barrette
wept loudly In court today when Assist :
ant States Attorney B. j. Snort said
that Justice would be done her.
John Worth Kern, Democratic nomi-
nee for vice-President last fail, caiieo
upon States Attorney Wayman To-Day.
Mr.. Kern has acted in several matters
for Thomas lTaggart, former chairmau
of the Democratic National COMMITTEES.
whose name has been brought into ING
record of this case repeatedly py Miss
Gingles as the man who was invoIveo
in the plot to send her to french LicA
Springs, Ind, as whlte siaVe
Kern said his visit had nothing to DO
with this matter, explaining that ne
had come on a civil case. He DID not
say why il was necessary to go TO the
criminal courts on civil case.
Miss Belle Carston, who was q BOARD
ing house friend of the Gingies ei,.
testified that on Jan. IL the girl TOTO
her of having dream about peink
attacked and locked in a room.
Miss Davis, superintendent Oh the
Frances Willard Hospital toio OF ~
Gingles girls story. when otousn'
there that Miss Barrette mad cut ho''
Captain O'Brien Recalled.
Captain OBrien was recalled TO .he
stand. He related that when he asked
the girl to tell what had happened In
the hotel bathroom, she told Of being
attacked by a man and two women az
Goethe and Clark Streets. She said
Miss Barrette threw pepper into her
ewes and the man struck her on the
head and pushed her into a CAB:
.I investigated her story, SAID cap
tain O'Brien, "and could not verify
any of It. I told her she must be mis-
taken. and he said, Yes, that was lie
1 told about the cab
Then she told the other story about
going to the hotel of her own free
will 49,.
Have you had any talk about this
case with Mr.. ODonnel recentiyT'
asked Mr.. Short.
yves. told him I did not believe
the story despite the fact that l was
friendly toward her"
what did he say to thatT'
HE told me he did not beiieve some
parts Of the girls story and said that
when she was acquitted he would ask
me to help him deport her"