Arizona republican., 1912-12-20
MAN
 ESCAPES DOOM
Large Crowd Gathers in High School Auditorium to See Philip Ladley on Trial for His Life; Case of Jennie Brice'

Tt is now my sad and solemn Guty to sentence for murder" oh, Help! Stop! Don't do it! I'm Jennie Brice. Here. alive. Oh don't dOn't-''
 Philip Ladley. the prisoner stood with bowed head as the fatefui words fell slowly from the judges lips-breathless the crowd waited in court and hall for the pronouncement ot doom-then suddenly a cry was heard in the rear of the auditorium and dishevelled figure dashed dcWn the aisle; Jennie Brice had ] come back to life and Philip Ladley
 was saved,
 1 Yesterday evening in the high ] school auditorium, Philip Ladley was l tried for the murder of his wife, an actress, commonly known as Jennie ! Brice" Judge Edward Kent presid- ] ing. The twelve good men and ] true in whose hands rested the fate
 of the accused were, Simon Pure ! pberfeder, Mrs. Lloyd Banker Chris 1 tE Jonathan Luther Guest, Mrs. Mat l tie Wanamaker Lorraine Colonel 1 Louis Warrior Coggins Mrs. Enoch
 Napoleon Phillips, David Financier ! Johnson, Miss Ruthless Doris, Royal 1 Hualapi Lescher, Mrs. Victor Lion Parke, His ENcel!ency Governor l George Walking to- Prescott Hunt and
 Mrs. C. Akers
 i At the direction Of w $. Norviel, 1 clerk of the court, the jurors swore
 L. find the defendant guilty without ] la DF tl,, nesses or the instructions of the 1 judge. The solemn enrichment was
 read, without hesitation. Philip Lad ley entered his plea of not guilty, and the trial began.
 States Attorney Bullard outlined | to the jury the story of the crime
 as he proposed to establish it, and 1 denounced the defendant as a bloody i minded scoundrel.
 The first witness for the state ] was Mrs. Pitman, the landlady who kept the boarding house in which 1 the Ladleys had lived. previous to i the 5th of March 1913, on which ] date Jennie Brice had mysteriously disappeared.
 Mrs. Putnam took oath to give 1 only such testimony as was condu ! cive to the best interests of the side 1 by which she was called. Each of 1 the other witnesses was required to l take the same oath.
 Mrs Ptman testified. that on the night of the 4th of March, 1913 the | backwater of the great flood filled l the lower story of her house at Five | Points, Phoenix, Arizona, to a height 1 Of seven feet; that during the after noon of said day she had heard the Ladleys quarreling: that Ladley had roWed out of the lower hall in q boat at o'clock the next morning and returned some time later: that on the night aforesaid Jennie Brice" had disappeared; that the next day, she. the witness. had discovered a broken knife. d blood stained towel, and 5t bloody rope; and finally that sr believed the body that had re gently been discovered to be that of Jennie Brice Attorney Bullard waved the bloody relics of the crime before the jury and called upon them to avenge an untimely and awful death He summoned MT. Reynolds who had seen Ladley on the night Of the disap- pearance: Miss Hope a coy star of the stage who knew the lost wom- an: Jennie Brice's sister who could l Tot identify the body even by the scar over the heart; Timothy Senft, 1 an Irish boatman, who had seen Lad 1 ley on the night in question; and l Mrs Agnes Murry who testified that her daughter had run away with I.adley few days after the disap- i pearance The state then rested. Attorney Marks announced to the 1 jury that the disappearance of Jen- l nie Brice was an exploiting scheme | arranged by the actress. her mana l ger. and q newspaper man; and ] further that Jennie Brice was stiLl alive and well as he would show l by testimony.
 He called Elisa Schaffer who had l
 seen the lost girl after the 5th I |
 March; Jonathan Alexander who tes- 1
 tified' that he had sold Ladley some |
 medicine for his wife on the night i
 ir question, thus establishing mo-
 tive for Ladley's midnight boat ride; l
 MT Howell reporter who had as |
 sisted Jennie Brice in her flight; and 1
 the defendant himself who mad last | seen his wife as she crossed the 1
 Center street bridge with Howell.
 Attorney Builard then summoned |
 Dr. Littlefield, who explained that 1
 the scar on Jennie Brice's breast |
 was due to an operation which he 1
 had himself performed, and that the
 said scar resembled in every detald |
 that upon the recovered body.
 Mir. Marks made his final eloquent
 appeal to the jury, and MT. Bullard
 called uDon them to avenge the law
 that is higher than mercy.
 Judge Kent directed the largest
 rart of his charge at the ladies of
 the jury. and the twelve were then
 allowed two minutes in which to
 reach q decision