The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-29
When Mrs ELAN returned to her room

When Mrs. Elam returned to her room
a voice on the telephone said:
This is the man that was smiling at
YOU I could. not tell whether l was in
bad or not by your looks"
DR.. Elan said his wife told him that
she repulsed Cramer and hung up the re-
ceiver. Cramer called again and urged
her to meet him. Mrs. Elam again hung
up the telephone; The next morning.
the witness said. and followed her into
the street. She was going on an errand.
Cramer asked her II he might go along.
got on the same car and Mrs. Elalm
was forced to permit him to accompany
her. DIR. Elan testified.
The Wife's Confession.
Dr. Elam said his wife told him
she had declined Cramer's invitation
to lunch and would not talk to him
when they met the next day. She
said she had met Cramer again in
May, 1913. in Detroit by accident
while visiting her mother and declared
the third meeting had been in Kan
sas City on September 16. DR.. Elan
asked her If that was all and she said
she forgot to mention that she had
met also in Chicago by accident. DR..
Elam said he questioned his wife
closely and she finally declared the
meetings in Detroit, Chicago and Kan
sas City were by appointment.
Thereupon. DIR. Elam said his wife
wept. became hysterical and threat
ened suicide.
DR.. Elam said he decided to inves-
tigate Cramers' character to make
sure he was not doing an injury to
either Cramer or Mrs. Elam in his
suspicious. The defense here sought
to introduce testimony against Cram
ers' character. The court ruled the
defense might show he was violent,
turbulent or Quarrelsome or might in
troduce specific acts Of immortality, but
sw~A
some one had told DR.. Elan.
Continuing, DIR. Elam said he sep
arated from his wife on October IL,
last. About October 20 he said he re-
ceived q detailed statement of her re-
lations with Cramers. The statement
denied improper relations.
The Argument.
This is deliberate, premeditated
murder and the defense is merely a
case construeted by skillful lawyers
and only such case as skillfu1 law
yers could construct declared Ed
ward Curtin. assistant prosecuting at
torney. opening the arguments for the
state.
HAS the time come" continued
into this community md kill a man.
then go free because he is an infiu-
ential doctor of st. Joseph?
you, gentlemen on this jury, have
been presented with three theories,
self defense. accident, and 'unwritten
law The defense told you in the
opening statement of Mr.. Brewster
that it would not invoke the 'unwrit-
ten law but would depend on the
written law Yet it has not done
this"
Mr. Curtin contended the testimony
that DR.. Elan was in i'll health and
weak was broken down during Dr.
Elam's recital of the scene in the ho-
tel room the ime OF the killing when
he picked Mr. Brewster up and
tossed him across the ROOM
Says Story Was Changed.
Mr.. Curtin charged DIR. Elam had
changed his story after he had seen
the hole in the chair. which was
presented in evidence and which the
state alleged Cramer was sitting in
when he was killed.
IF Prosecutor Jacobs had not been
q fair minded man." continued Mr..
Curtin. DIR. Elam today would be in
the penitentiAry. He wanted to plead
Mr.. Curtin sat In Q chair and de-
scribed the course Of the bullet that
ended Cramer's life. He conteuded II
the revolver had bean DISCHARGED ~ It
was pulled from DR.. Elam's pocket the
bullet would have taken an upward di-
rection instead Of downward course
Mr. Curtin attacked DIR. Elam for p1ac-
ing detective ON his wifeis movements
In Kansas City.
..Dr. Eiam tells yeu he had livsa Il
years happily VITA his Wife" said the
assistant prosecutor. There had been
no quarrels. TIA wasn't It strange
that when II heard 2 telegram from
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