New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-17
UNBORN BABY
WAY POSTPONE
WALTERS TRIAL
State, Despite Woman's
Lawyer, Denies Case Will
Proceed To-day.
CALLS 1T lNHUMAN
TO PROSECUTE NOW
Prisoner. Father of Her Chill
dren and Physician Argue
for Immediate Action.

Will the trial Of Mrs. Ida Snifen
Walters. indicted for the murder Of
her two children, begin to-day?
Her lawyer, Abraham Levy, Of 10
BROADWAY. declares that 70 will. Jus
tice Brady. OF The Bronx Supreme
Court. mas set the case for 10 o'clock
Monday morning" he said Saturday
"and we are ready. ] 90 TO The Bronx
County courthouse Monday 10 defend
thi, woman. and ! shall clear her. /
realize that 7 have a battle before me-
but am confident of acquittal.
But at the Office Of District Attorney
Martin Of The Bronx they were Just
as positive that the trial would not be
gin to-day.
1T is on the calendar" Assistant
District Attorney McKinlry said, but
il is by no means sure that It VIII take
place. We shall oppose an immediate
trial with all the means at our com
mand. We protest against the placing
on trial of pregnant woman. IL :
against all humanity The trlal snouid
be DELAYED until after the birth OF her
child, which will be about four months
from now"
Mr.. Levy. Lorlys Elton Rogers, father
Of Mrs. Walters's children; Sherif
~ /
phvsician. who sees her daily, have all
held that she is in good physical con
dition now and that it would be lar
better for her and for the coming child
to bring her 10 the bar at once and end
the strain Of waiting to know her fate.
Mr. McKiniry was reminded Of this.
The trial will be the uncoyering OF
one of the saddest Of the many TRACE
dies the law unfolds. Mrs. Walters, in
her room at the top of The Bronx
County Jail Sheriff O'Brien took her
out of the cell portion some time ago
and gave her the prison chapel Is
those about her say, a pathetic ngure.
The facts % the case are well known
how, on December %, Mrs. Walters gave
bichloride of mercury to her babies,
John and Lorida, and took a large
dose herself; how a few days later the
little ones died in Lebanon Hospital;
how Mrs. Walter recovered, and how
the deed uncovered the double life Of
Lorlys Elton Rogers. who divided his
time between his wife, Mrs. Caroline
Giddings Rogers, who has since dl-
vorced him. and Ida Sniffen Walters.
at is a great pity" Mrs. lnez Mil
holland Boissevain, sufraglst ana prac-
Using lawyer. said recently in speaking
of this case, that psychologists aren
permitted to testify IN such trials.
Some time, hope, they will be as much
a matter Of course as the allenist Is on
the stand. But now there is only one
consideration: Was the prisoner sane
when the deed was committed p"
Mrs. Boisseyain was IN favor for an
early trial for Mrs Walters, and so
are most women who have been heard
TO express themselves.
al think that woman has been pun
ished enough" Mrs. william L. Colt,
Of Bronxyile, active worker in the
1T is chastity the way she IS being tor
tured BY men. do wish she could be
taken out Of this state long enough
for Mr. Rogers to marry her. He is
forbidden by the terms of his divorce
70 marry again in this state, but II
should be made possible for him to
give her his name before the child is
born"