The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-09
DEFENSE CLOSES
IN G|NGLES CASE
Lawyer and Detective Get Into
Sharp WrangIe
NEW SENSATION IN STORE
Miss Barrette Is To Be Examined Yet
and States Attorney Short Prom.
ises Her That Justice Shall
Be Done Her.

Chicago, July S.-The defense in the
trial of Ella Gingles closed today. Strong
evidence both for and against the young
lacemaker was given during the day. The
session came to a close with P. H. O'Don-
nell, the girls lawyer, and Capt. P. D.
O'Brien of the detective bureau. who
investigated the girls first story about
being attacked in the wellington hotel
February 16, accusing each other of I'M
demanded motives in the case.
Captain O'Brien testified that during a
conversation he had with O'Donnell
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 Francis Willard
hospital. where Miss Gingles was taken
after The Wellington hotel incident.
showed glaring discrepancies in the girls
various stories.
With the rebuttal testimony tomorrow
a new sensation is promised in the story
of Agnes May Barrette, the woman
against whom Miss Gingles has directed
her narrative Miss BaIrette wept loudly
in court today when Assistant States
Attorney B. ]. Short said that justice
would be done her.
John Worth Kern. democratic nominee
for vice president last fall, called upon
States Attorney Wayman today. Mr..
Kern has acted. in several matters for
Thomas Taggart, former chairman of the
democratic national committee, whose
name has been brought into the record
of this case repeatedly by Miss Gingles
as the man who was involved in the plot
to send her to French Lick Springs, Ind,
as a white slave" Mr. Kern said his
visit had nothing to do with this mat
ter, explaining that he had come on
civil case. He did not say why 1t was
necessary to go to the criminal courts on
a civil case.
Miss Bell Carston, who was a boarding
house friend of the Gingles girl, testified
that on January ii the girl told her Of
havingsa dream about being attacked and
locked in a room.
Miss Davis, superintendent of the Fran
els Willard hospital, told of the Gingles
girls story when brought there, that
Miss Barrette had cut her.
Captain O'Brien was recalled to the
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 at Goethe
and Clark streets. She said Miss Barrette
threw pepper into her eyes and the man
struck her on the head and pushed her
into a cab.
Il investigated her story" said Cap
tain OBrien, land could not verify any
part of it. 1 told her she must be mis-
| taken, and she said Yes, that was a lie
! l told about the cab.
Then she told the other story about
going to the hotel of her own free will"
Have you had any talks about this
case with Mr.. O'Donnell 'recently?' asked
Mr. Short.
Yes l told him l did not believe the
story despite the fact that 1 was friendly
toward her.
What did he say to that?'
He told me he did not believe some
parts of the girls story, and said that
when she was acquitted he would ask me
to help deport her.