Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-03-23
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Court ruled that Mr. Willis could not
do this. Witness then denied state
ments of witnesses for the defense as
to minor details OF the tragedy. These
the attorneys for defense apparently
considered trifling
The State then produced two wit
nesses who testified that on the day
of the killing Mrs. Eikner said that
the doctor had killed an innocent man.
Smilingly the counsel for the defense
paid little attention to this testimony
and did not eross-examine the wit
nesses. The State then rested and the
Court took recess till 2 o'clock in
the afternoon to receive the requests
Tor special charges. Upon reassem-
bling at that hour the Judge received
the charges requested and then took
a recess until the next morning, Fri
day, at 9:30 o'clock, when it was an
nounced Mr. Willis would make the
opening argument.
AT o:30 o'clock Friday morning, the
18th, upon the assembling of Court,
Judge Langan announced that he al
lowed Is of the requests for special
charges of the Is propounded by the
attorneys for the defense, and one
from the five made by the State Mr.
Willis then made the opening address
for the plaintiff, occupying nearly two
hours in doing so. In his argument
Mr.. Willis contended that the prose-
cution had proved beyond reason
able doubt every allegation of the in
dictment and had proved the guilt be-
yond question of the defendant, and
urged that the jury return a verdict
OF murder in the first degree and fix
the penalty at death. He then read
the Indictment i'll full and followed
the reading by an analysis of the evil
dence and an expression of his views
of the circumstances attending the
killing OF Otter and the scandal lead
ing up to the tragedy He repeated
the testimony OF the principal wit
ncsses for the State and reconciled to
his own satisfaction any discrepancies
that might appear, and correctly
called the jury's attention to the fact.
undisputed by the defense, that at the
Lyon. State of Nevada. on the 10Th
day of September. 1911, w. T. Eikner
killed W. j. Otter by shooting him in
the passageway between the dining
room and lobby of the Mason hotel.
llS NidlHiSd tiidt tnS SNiuSHlG SoiAiu~
sively established that the killing was
wicked, premeditated. deliberate and
for the purpose of revenge alone; that
DR.. Eikner, after detailing his whole
life i'll Louisiana, Wisconsin and Ne
braska, had brought a young wife 10
live in the growing town of Mason
There she met a young man, hand
some of form, full of grace and vigor,
whose charms attracted the love of
the young wife, who had ceased to
love the old man, her husband, the
latter having violated the law in mar
rying the young untried girl in the in
nocence of her maidenhood before she
had reached the years of understand
ing and could realize the duties and
burdens of wifehood and maternity.
Counsel stated that the graces and ac-
complishments OF Otter, who was 25
years old and in the full bloom of his
vigorous manhood, admitted him into
the social circles to which Mrs. Elk
ner was welcome, but from which DR..
Eikner was barred because he had
aggravated the crime of growing old
by committing an otfense against the
morals OF the community by marry
ing at the age of 40 young and
blooming girl OF 20, or less. He urged
that following the inimitable laws OF
nature, as he had right to do. Otter
only exercised the prerogatives of
youth and proceeded TO win the re-
sponsive love of Mrs. Eikner, whom
the frosts of old age had naturally
estranged from her husband. He ar
gued that such being the case Otter
had the right to pursue his quarry
| into the home of the husband and that
if the husband objected and ii Otter
] had made threats to fix the husband
the latter was not justified iii the
thought to the slightest degree that
his life was in danger; that still, II
Otter was liable to beat the old man
up the latter would get what was
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