The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-11

Josua Klein, the self-styled Mesv
siah, who is on trial before Judge
Easterday of the superior court
for attempting TO kill Miss Dora
Culbertson of this city. was punct-
uated by a decided sensation this
morning when the prosecuting
witness completely collapsed unsl
der the merciiess grilling OF Att
torney George of the defense, and
was led from the court room In Al|
violent state of hyEteria-
Court Adjourned.
Miss Culbertson had been sub-F
jected to a running FIRE OF croeesi
questioning at the hands OF At
torney George nearly all yentor4I
day afternoon and this morning.
lowing to the sudden ternina3totas
OF her testimony 1t was nece9-
sary to adjourn court until this
lanternoon.
Dramatic In the extreme way
| the climax which came vt Al
O'Clock this morning when th4I
woman, becoming unnerved QNerl
the demeanor of Klein's attorney d
uttered a shrek Of despair ANA
began to weep.
In an effort to impeach her teay
ttimony Attorney George had a.
various times during the sesst04
lshaken his fist In her face. Fin
lally q storm of pent-up moeS0n4
tbroke forth, and the woman Wo4I
una BILE to withstand the oredall
any longer.
| Couldn't Endure II.
As she was led into the judge'as
private Office she sobbed out the
words:
IT can't stand It any longer. /
Oh, the brute. I wish someope
would stop him from asking such
horrid questions.
II was fully half an hour before
Miss Culbertson recovered her
compoeure sufficiently to Ioaxt.
the court room. "A
| Klein Defiant.
Immediately after the collapse
of the prosecuting witness Klein
turned to group of women who
have attended court since the
opening of the case and excladm-|
ed:
"It's Impossible for ma 10 synl-
pathize with the woman. You
know l have wife and childreGl
waiting for me, and II should
go to the penitentiary It would
mean destitution for them. This
is a free-for-all fight and mean
to win."
At the opening OF the morning
session today Attorney George
made the stipulation that the
matter of the enticement of Miss
Karasek and Miss Sauvageoft by|
Klein to his Swiss chalet be re-
vealed in court, al, he said, hiA
client wished to have every charge
cleared up. The stipulation Wa
granted, and during the remaind~
er of the testimony frequent men-
tion was made Of the two girls
who have been living In Kldn'o
chalet in Switzerland
Important Developments.
/ Several important revelations
/ were brought out in court this
morning as the examination OF the
i prosecuting witness progresseds
Under vigorous cross-examination
Miss Culbertson admitted that sho
had signed Josua Klein's name
to a cablegram calling Dora Sau-'
i vageott home from her retreat In
1.-THE Alps mountains. At another
thine, according to the evidence
i given by Miss Culbertson, another
member of the family sent 2 ca.
telegram with Klein's name ot-'
tached, statfag that Mrs. Nellie
Sauvageott, mother OF Dora, Wae
i fatally i'll. To the last message
Miss Sauvageott replied, Trueu
lin the infinite and his metrte
lment." ~
Damaging Statement.
Miss Culbertson was forced
to admit that she had mado
statements to the effect that
she would put that coward
Klein in the penitentiary *
i she knew any way to do It. :"
She said that she was flna1ly
lconvinced Of Klein's hypnottQ'
4 power, and that he had held both
i Miss Karasek and Miss Sauvageott
Iprisoners in Switzerland by n1ean1
LOT this power. During the oour1
OF the hearing, Miss Culbeg5(4o
became extremely nervous, nctkS
ling backwards and forwards in
her chair. and taking o4 both n9E
hat and coak because the Y !