The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-28
OFFERED s25o BY WILLIS TO TIES. TIFY FALSELY AGAINST THE
 CHARAc OF MRS. ELLIS.
Most of the Day Was Spent in Evl- dence Showing the Insanity Faint in the Ellis Family
 Tree.

Little Rock, Nov 27.-After an ex- tended battle between counsel the al legged attempt of N P. Willis to be. smirch the character of his former wife by means of bribery, and the presence of a detective in Pine Bluff and elsewhere watching Mrs. Ellis and the baby, Mary, were placed be- fore the jury today in the case of w. Y. Ellis, charged with killing Willis last July.
 The evidence referring tt the char acter of Willis was submitted over the repeated objections of the prose cution.
 The changes in the character of the accused man, his peculiar actions and disposition just before the killing. burdened the testimony of half dog en witnesses from Pine Bluff, Ellis home, who were examined 6.-9ing the day.
 The changes in the defendant from cheerful man to morose, absent minded, nervous individual, is one of the symptoms nf the development Of the insanity which the defense hopes to prove the defendant was under the influence of at the time he shot down the Indiana man.
 Mrs. Lonia Nyberg, 416 Spring street, Little Rock, former chamber maid at the Hotel Marion, to whom Willis is alleged to have made the offer of $250 for false testimony against his wife's character was the feature of the day.
 Miss Adeline Reynolds, 15-year- old girl of Pine Bluff, a neighbor of the Ellis, testified to the present in Pine Bluff of Viola Gray, woman de- tective allegedr to have been fin the employ of Willis.
 Judge A. Grace was recalled to the stand this morning He was asked Ii Mrs. Grace remembered what oc- curred during the periods of her in. sanity after she recovered, and he said she did not; and would ask who broke the articles that she had brok. en herself
 Asked by NIT. Rhoton what the first indications of her insanity were he replied carelessness in dress and Ian. guage He said she was committed to the asylum in 1878, several weeks af. ter the attack was first noticed. Af- ter the melancholy appeared it was four or five days before she became violent and then she had to be guard. ed to prevent her running out in the street Sne was in the asylum four months, and then she seemed to re cover suddenly, her mind came back all at once, and she was then very weak physically. She never showed signs of hysteria Witness said the doctor at St. Louis elasged her trouble as acute mania, and the doctor rat Little Rock called it intermittent in- sanity.
 Dr. A. q, Thompson, a physician of Pine Bluff, who has resided there for the past twelve years. said he knew Mr. Ellis, the defendant. for four or five years. He had prescribed for El- ss, but had not been his regular phy- sician. He had also been Mrs. Ellis physician. He saw the defendant the day before the killing between 5 and o'clock in the afternoon, and al that time did not recognize him. He said Ellis came to his porch and sat down on tho steps, after having been invited to take seat.
 Ellis asked about his wife and was told that she was getting along very well, He said the man looked blue. aud told the witness they were going to take the child away from his wife anu If they did so at that time it would either run her crazy or kill her. Witness said Ellis broke down and cried Ike ! child Ali one time when