The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-17
CLUB WOMEN
IN front ROW.
Mrs. Morrow on Witness Stand, Tells
Her story Of the Murder
Of Her Eccentric
Husband.
SAID HE WAS DRUNK
Woman Charged With the Crime
Shows No Emotion or Signs
Of Excitement While
on Stand.
SAID HE WAS DRUNK

NJ 6HICAGO, July 17.-Nerved TO. the
ordeal OF an entire day Of merclless
one stioning by attorneys for the state
Who are trying to prove her guilty OF
killing Chas. B. Morrow, her husband.
Mrs. Rene B. Morrow sat in the Wit
ness chair today in Judge Kersten's
court, Her chin was set at a firm an
gle and her voice did not betray any
nerve usness. Only once did she show
any sign of excitement. That wss
wher she was asked the direct qnes-
.icl:: did you shoot and kill your
husband?" Lifting herself half out OF
her chair, she leaned toward the at
torney and her eyes snapped as she
shouted, mo! No! MOI
That their presence in front seats
in the court room might encourage
Mrs Morrow to retain her self control
and Withstand the ordeal OF the cross
examination today, several members
of clubs to which she belongs attend
ed the hearing. Mrs. Morrow glanced
lin their direction frequently and seem
led reassured by the sight OF her loyal
friends who have proclaimed their be-
lief in her Innocence and their con-
4 fidence that she will be acquitted. It
required but one hour for Mrs. Morrow
i to tell the story Of the tragedy in her
fyswn wniy. She related Incidents that
lied up to the night on which her bus.
band was killed. She told Of her ef
Il forts to aid her husband, who was an
letcentric inventor and was trying tn
4 recover a fortune which he had spent
slir worthless inv Fl lions and the use o.
|intoxicants and finally Of despo ldency
witch grew out q his financia losses
Iand professional failures.
4 Il loved my husband said she
1 "and he loved me. I had taken board
4 ers into my Michigan avenue home
{, because wanted to help him ou'
) financially until we could get on oul
/. feet
4 Mrs. Morrow told the details Of the
( happenings on the night Of the trag
edy. She said her husband mad re
turned home intoxicated. A:ser he
d ILecame quiet she said, she went to hel
\ lown room. wrote a few verses o
poetry which she entitled lmpres
I sions,'' read her Bible, bathed and re
: tired. She said the first knowledge
r that her husband had been shot came
: to her next morning.
ii Mrs. Morrow concluded her testi
mony before the noon adjournment
and three other witnesses We're callet
t by the defense. IT was believed tina
! the case would be given to the 1ur!
T tomorrow. At the conclusion OF he
5 testimony the accused woman testifies
/ that on three occasions she had takel
4 revolver from her husband to pre-
!. vent his killing himself.
9 Mrs. Hattie Pitkin, who lived nea
4 the Morrow home, said that she wa
8 passing there on the night of th
Q death OF Morrow, and that she hear
! two revolver shots from somewher
lin the rear Of the house When sh
= reached q small passageway betwee'
r the Morrow home and the one adjoir
/ ing. she testified man excitedly ra'
l. out of Morrow's house, brushe
4 against her, muttered something sh
s did not understand and hurried o
h down the street.
8 DR.. James Herman testified that h
h had examined the wounds inflicte
It upon Morrow and that 1t was easil
8. possible for him to have caused bot
s of them himself. The physician sal
= that he would have lived long enoug
after either wound to have inflicte
: the other.
John Bennett, son Of DR.. osca
Bennett. testified that Morrow ofte
visited his father. He said at on
! time the man for whose death Mr.
Morrow is on trial had boasted to b
. father that he was an expert with
+ revolver and could use one equal
q well with either hand.
4 New Department Voted.
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