Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-16
STOKES CASE
WILL co TO THE
JURY TONIGHT
Lawyers Making Conclud-
ing Arguments in Trial Of
Two Show Girls for
Shooting Millionaire.

Two Snow UlIlS 1OI
Shooting Millionaire.
4 New York, Dec. 10 Although the
case of Lillian Graham and Ethel Con.
rad, charged with shooting w. E. D.
Stokes will 80 to the jury today, 1t is
possible the girls will not know their
fate until tonight and perhaps not un.
til tomorrow.
& All that was left of the trial today
was the summing up by District At.
torney Buckner and Justice Marcus
charge to the jury. Both girls are san
guine of acquittal. The very worst
1 they or their attorneys look for is con-
viction of some minor degree crime.
The indictment contains three
counts-attempted murder, assault In
the first and assault in the second de-
gree. 4
s Twenty years imprisonment is the
maximum term possible for the great
est OF these crimes. If the jury finds
them guilty OF assault In minor de-
gree they might escape with few
months imprisonment, or their SEN
tences might be suspended altogether.
Yesterdays report, it is now learned,
rather exaggerated the gravity Of Mr..
Stokes condition While his recovery
is slow, 1t was today said that he was
in no Immediate danger.
Before the prosecution began its
summing up today, Attorney Moore.
for the defense, was permitted to sup
plement his argument of yesterday by
briefly calling the jury's attention to
the fact that If the holes in Stokes
coat and hat were not really bullet
holes, more shots have been fired than
the six accounted for. Five of these
bullets lodged in the wall and one in
Stokes leg. Where" he asked, "were
the rest?' ss
When Assistant District Attorney
Buckner hegan his speech to the jury
Mr.. Stokes pretty young wife sat near
! the judges desk and Miss Graham and
Miss Conrad at their attorneys table.
The prosecutor urged the Jurors not
to consider Stokes character. He
pleaded with them to forget sympathy
and consider only the argument Of
self defense. Speaking Of the relations
between Stokes and Miss Graham, he
said scornfully:
"And they have the hardihood to call
that love. It's not love. It's lust on the
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VA hae, atrong and waa cautious !"
@ lsss. % Grahan =, covarad .har faca WITH
har herd. ard the tears trIckled he
tween her eloyed fingers. ,.7@
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Stokes was painted Dy attorney
Moore as q monster, determined 10
get possession OF beaut1fuI young
girl and by getting an exoneratlng
note from her Tree himself OF al re-
sponsioliny Ior causihs ner oo" ntai.
The chief accusation. that OF plot
OF Ine eiIls 70 sAtorl noney ,l run nIas .as
mliiionalre' ne ne,u was e'snpiy pivsSu tus,.
{py tne laee .us1e ene snie usns n1. .noA
reviewers Will Nv as.onp. g eeoi
PhotooraPn OF LHlian oranam.
Il Attorney Moore displayed photo
graph Of Miss Graham taken at the
time of her visit to the Stokes farm
at Lexington to- emphasize the point
that she had changed from beautiful
healthy, buxom girl to the worn ana
fragile creature that had wept on the
witness stand. &
He declared that Stokes took the
$1,7OO from Lillian Graham not be
cause he wanted the money but be-
cause she was a pretty girl. With her
money gone, her patrimony lost" coz
tinued the lawyer, che might say,
when you want money then come to
me-"
Clark L. Jordan. the other attorney
for the girls, apologlzed 1or saying
harsh things about man who is III,
"but these things were done by q man
who had no mercy to show these
girls who stood In the path OF his pur-
poses.
Stokes wife ron STAND. q