Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-14
STATE MAKES PROGRESS.
Several Important Witnesses Strength
on Contcnt.on s;s.hesecution.


on Content,or s;s.,Csecution.
Special to Times Republican.
Hampton, Oct. 14.-With the largest
audience Of the week present and
mentally absorbing every sentence OF
testimony with the keenest of interest.
the state began to draw toward the
close Of its main case Friday afternoon.
By actual count more than 500 people
packed the court room until the air
became fetid. Fully onehalf OF the
spectators were women. two whole Sec
tions Of seats being filled by them
alone. The window lodges and door
ways were filled and the read isle was
crowded half dozen deep.
Because the audience broke into a
laugh during the examination of a
witness, Judge Wright administered a
singing rebuke indignantly he OK
claimed, as he thumped on his desk
for silence Il won't allow this to be-
come a circus performance, and If 1t
occurs again I'll clear the court room
If it takes all OF the county to do it,"
According to an old attorney the trial
Is attracting larger crowds to the court
house than any other case ever tried IN
Franklin county.
More progress was made by the state
during the half days session than dur
inE any other similar period since the
trial began. Nine witnesses were ex-
amined, some of them bringing into the
case testimony which added threads
to the warp and wool to the fabric
with which the state Is trying to en-
fold Mrs. Rush and convict her OF first
degree murder Taken as a whole 1t
strengthened the states case. but
there were portions that were turned
in tho prisoners favor.
From the mass Of testimony offered,
the evidence OF Mrs. Carl w. Schmidt,
wife Of the Sheffield hardware dealer
who sold Mrs. Rush the revolver: A. L.
Adams and G. a. Leonard. secretary
and president respectively OF the Peo-
pies Mutual Telephone Company. Of
Sheffield. stood out prominently. In
some details it was against and in
some details for Mrs. Rush.
Focus Points Of Evidence.
Those things told by witnesses on
which interest focused during the at
ternoon were Mrs. Rush's assault Of the
telephone girl. Lulu Warner: details
OF what the post card bore which Miss
Warner sent to Rush, and which the
state claims was the cause OF practictl-
ly the only serious difficulty between
Rush and his wife and Mrs. Rush's eff
fort to get Miss Warner discharged
from the telephone office.
While the state was trying to show
that there was little more than very
friendly relations between Rush and
Miss Warner, under cross fire some OF
its witnesses added bits Of testimony
that supplemented the claim Of the de-
tense that Rush and the girl were
somewhat more than merely good
friends and that Mrs. Rush feared her
husband and sought to protect herself.
All Of the testimony on this latter
point was hearsay as told to the wit
nesses by Mrs. Rush.
Fighting For Every Inch.
Attorneys FOR both sides are lighting
for every inch as the rapidly accum-
ulating line OF evidence sways first
against then away from the prisoner
Several lively tits between Liggett and
Andrews punctuated the afternoon
hearing.
Ob1ecting on the point Of privilege"
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