The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-03
THE M'REE JURY IS UNABLE TO AGREE;
 MAY BE MISTRIAL
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 markable statement from this woman when poor Mrs. Garland came to the touse and asked for permission to see her poor boy. hoping that he might moi be dead. told her I'm sure he is dead. have shot him three times
 ''This woman, the expert revolver shot | and who Allan Garland knew was an expert revolver shot, knew that man | with bullet in the brain cannot talk
 Story False
 "Her story is false in every fact. IL has been proved false by every witness.
 Gentlemen, if you believe these facts as they are shown by the evidence and the facts are plain that 1t was cold blood cd murder, horrible murder, then gen. tlemen of the jury, you must decide that she must hang"
 Mir Dubuisson's voice rose to a dra- matic tone, then as he asked the death penalty, his head was bowed low.
 Last night Mrs. Mckee listened to q bitter assault upon her character from the lips of Attorney E. P. Veazie of the prosecution, who concluded his caustic address by asking the jury to render a verdict of first degree mur- der
 Attorney Teazie declared the testi- mony showed that very intimate rela- tions had existed between Mrs. Mckee and Allan Garland They were al ways running the risk of discovery" he said. "The matter must have been discussed by them as well as others. And Mrs. Mckee, fearing her husband would get the facts. determined to place that witness where he could not disturb her. It was inconceivable that she should kill him for anything that happened in that house that day :"
 Veazie Attacks Mrs. Mckee
 As to the insult which the prisoner said Allan offered, and for which sre claims she killed him. MT. Veazie said Alan did not insult her then, adding and "I doubt from the evidence whether he could have insulted her.
 Answering the plea of Attorney Lewis for the defense not to send I mother to the penitentiary. MT. Veazie thundered: why not? It is not bit too good for her if the facts are as they appear. It would not disgrace her She has already dsgraced her self and degraded womanhood."
 Judge Hunter for the defense, whose argument ended the session last night, bitterly denounced Attorney Veaz,o and concluded with a tribute to wom anhood which deeply affected the ad- dience which packed the court room.
 He denounced MT. Veaze for his accusations against Mrs. Mckee as a murderer and for his attack upon her purity without evidence to support it." He spoke bitterly of hired attor neys working for blood money" and said it appeared that MT Veazie would te gratified if the jury would make it possible for him to see the defendant suspended between earth and heaven.
 "The jury has been told to forget womanhood," he shouted This is ie- markable and Is in the teeth of the law. If the jury forgets womanhood, they forget all that is high and noble"
 He euloglzed St. Landry patriots of the past and declared that if the char actcr of men In this country had 60 come from mothers who were not per mitted to protect their honor, no such class of men as are found Tn this par lsh could be expected.
 If jurors punish a woman for de- lending herself they place their own wives at the mercy of anyone who might enter their homes and insult them," he concluded