The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-04
Wife Murderer Ellis Attempts to
Shift Responsibility Upon
Grandfather and Father.
STATE INTRODUCES ARRAY
ALIENISTS IN REBUTTAL
Evidence All In--Arguments Begin
Today With Case to the Jury
on Thursday.

Chicago, March S.-A motion
made today by his attorney TO taHe
from the jury the case of William
g. Ellis, on trial for wife murder,
was denied.
The motion was made on the
grounds that Ellis was insane when
he killed his wife at hotel last Oc-
toher but is sane now.
The defense rested today immedi-
ately after the introduction in Cvi-
dence of a telegram from Mrs. Ellis
to Fred Cauldwell Of Brantsford.
Ont. Ellis took the courts railing
as matter of course.
Il am willing to abide by the de-
cision Of the twelve men," he said.
Physicians testified for tho state
today that Ellis could distinguish hc-
tween right and wrong at the tlre
he killed his wife, contradicting the
testimony of the defense that Ellis
was insane when he committed the
murder
Arguments TO the jury will begin
tomorrow and the case is expected 20
reach the jury Thursday.
Psychic epilepsy" or "transitory
dimentia" are offered as a defense
in the scarlet case of William Che
ney Ellis now on trial for his life in
a Chicago court charged with the
Staying of his wife in the Hotel Con-
gress last October.
A host of erudite alienists testi-
fed Monday in behalf of the pris-
oner, And also the little, ashy-face1,
trembling prisoner returned to the
witness stand, and, in addition to
the attack made on the honor of the
murdered woman. dug into tha
graves of his dead father, and grand.
father and charged them with re-
aponsibility for his awful crime.
lis grandfather, he said hal
been religious fanatic and his
father had died from blindness, 1rd
he intimated that both his father
were sufferers from the disease men
toned in Damaged Goods" with
which he was also infected.
The court and the Western Union
Telegraph Company locked horns in
rcrards to the production at the trial
cf kilograms which the defense in.
sists Mrs. Ellis sent from Cincinnati
To Y. G. Cauldwell of Brantfo.d
Ont, whom Ellis insists was 'ttlt
man in the case" John S. IIender-
son, special agent of the Western
Union, and M. G. Cook, assistant
general manager, were called as wiz
nesses and said they knew Of no such
messages and that there. were nc
records of these messages in th
Chicago office. They also said that
acting under advice from the attor
ney of the company in New York
they did not believe it was within
the law for them to produce in li!r
nois records of the Company's Gin
cinnati office. Judge Petit order
that any messages sent by Mrs. EN-
to Cauldwell be produced today i:
court at 10 o'clock. Otherwise IT.,
court strongly intimated that some
body m ght go to jail. He place,
che responsibility of producing tht
messages equally on the shoulders c
the three officials.
Couldwell Wires Denial
In telegram yesterday Mr.. Cauld
well, who is now at his home il
.Brantfold d, said
There is absolutely no truth I;
the statements made by Ellis.
have never been in Chicago and
see no reason why | should testify.
The defense showed that it WA
gong ID rely on an aCqulttal on th
same grounds for which Harry X
Thaw fought for his life. In Thaw'
case a brain storm" was set up h.
the defense. In the case of Ellis th
medical witnesses affirmed that 4
the time the defendant murdered Iii
wife he suffered from transitory ia