The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09
DEFENSE CLOSES.
Miss Barrette Will Testify in Rebutta1
in GingIeS Case.

Chicago. July 9-The defense in the
trial of Ella Gingles has closed. StronS
evidence both for and against the
young lace maker was given. The ses-
sion came to a close with P. H. O'DOn-
nell the girls lawyer, and Captain 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 or un-
derhanded motives in the case. cap
tain O'Brien testified that during a
conversation he had with Attorney
O'Donneu Wednesday night the lawyer
said that he did not believe ~0me parts
of the girls story.
The testimony of the police captain
and of nurses at the Frances Willard
hospital, where Miss Gingles was taken
after the wellington hotel incidents
showed glaring discrepancies in the
girls various stories. With the re-
buttal testimony a new sensation IS
promised in the story of Agnes May
Barrette, the young woman against
whom Miss Gingles has directed the
stain of her narratives. Miss Barrette
wept loudly in court when Assistant
States Attorney B. ]. Short said that
Justice would be done her. John Worth
Kern, candidate for vice president on
the Democratic ticket last fall. called
upon States Attorney Waymdn- MT
Kern has acted in several matters Tor
Thomas Taggart, former chairman OF
the Democratic 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, Indiana, as
a white slave" Mr. Kern said his
visit had nothing to do with this case,
explaining that he had come on civil
case
Miss Belle A. Carston, a boarding
house friend Of the Gingles girl, testi-
fed that on January II the girl told
her of having a dream about being at
tackled and locked in a room and sub
jected to indignities. Miss Carsto ad-
vised the girl not to go out after odrk-
Miss A. Davis, superintendent of the
Frances Willard hospital, said that
when Ella Gingles was brought there
she told story about being attacked
on the street, having pepper thrown
into her eyes, being thrown into cab
and taken to a hotel room.
Miss Gingles on the stand denied that
she had made any statement of this
kind and made no reference to II IN
her story of the attack.
DR. Mary A. Maxson a trustee of the
hospital. told of seeing the girl in bed
hid behind the door," said Miss
Maxson. Il heard the girl say:
4 did not tell Mr.. O'DonneH every
thing Don't cut me- asked her
who had cut her and she said:
Miss Barrette.'
Captain O'Brien was then called to
the stand.
I went to the hospital to see her
after she was taken out of the hotel
bath room,'' he said. I was her friend
and thought she had been nistreated.
I asked her to tell me what had hap
pened.
Then she told of being attacked by
d 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 push
ed her into a cab. She said another
woman. whom she recognized as Mrs
Cecilia Kenyon, placed a damp cloth
under her nose and she woke up in the
hotel I Investigated her story and
could not verify any part of it. I told
her she was mistaken and she said.
Yes, that was a lie I told about the
cab
Then she told the other story about
going to the hotel of her own free will -