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gave no hint of the anxiety in her
heart. She might have been attired for
the boardwalk rather than for murder
trial. but those who watched her saw
something in her bearing which said
she had dressed CALAMITY to meet the
last great crisis OF her life in the same
spirit that the soldier wears his best
uniform for his greatest battle.
She wore a black taffeta frock. with
a wide. white collar, white gloves and
white shoes. Her hat was saucy af-
fair Of straw and satin topped with
white wings. She carried a parasol of
striped black and white silk.
Court Building TANNED.
The presence in court of the con-
oemned man would not have drawn 20
the County Courthouse a crowd larger
than that which gathered yesterday.
The main corridors on the ground floor
were lively with the curious before 10
o'clock, as were the stairways to the
second floor. The courtroom Is on the
southwest corner of that floor. The
hallway leading to it was so closely
packed that five court officers were kept
busy keeping the crowd from stormins
the then niled courtroom.
The work of these officers won,d have
been much harder hal not several hun
dred persons, assuming that all legal
proceedings of criminal nature are
held in the Criminal Courts Building,
hocked to that place.
The long calendar to be heard by
Justice Ford had been cleared by ad
iournments and reassignments of all
save the Becker motion when he took
his seat. District Attorney Perkins
entered with Assistants James A. Dele
hanty and Robert c. Taylor, the latter
of the District Attorneys Appeal Blu
reau. A number of persons, unable to
find seats, were crowded, standing,
against the walls when Mr.. Cochran ar
rived at l0:40. With him sat his law
partners, Martin T. Manton and Jonr
B. Johnston.
When Mr.. Cochran arose, Mrs. Beck-
err, who had been seated in the rear
near the door, moved to within a few
feet of her husbands attorneys where
she could hear the argument distinctly.
Mr.. Cochran, outlining the purpose
of the application, began his address
to the court with the history of case
which, he said, applied in this proceed
ing. A man of the name Of Benham,
convicted OF causing MS VIE uedt..
by arsenical poison. and whose appeal
for a new trial had been denied, made
a motion for a new trial similar to that
presented by Becker, asserting ttat he
had for personal reasons withheld GER
tain facts the telling of which would
have affected the verdict. When he
finally told his story, Mr.. COCHRAN said,
he won new trial.
Whitman and Informers.
Moving to the early events in the
Becker case, Mr.. Cochran said that
when District Attorney Whitman
rounded up the four informers he de-
manded from them proof Of Becker's
guilt. The attorney quoted from Mr.,
Whitman's summation at the second
trial, in which the District Attorney
said he had pounded, pounded and
pounded these men to get the truth
from them" "The District Attorney"
Mr.. Cochran said, pounded at these
men to get them to disclose that Beck
er was guilty. 1t has been said that
Whitman didn't want to learn that
Becker was guilty because of frlerd-
ship of Whitman's father for Becker.
Becker never knew Whitman's father.
"The District Attorney took three OF
these informers. with halters around
their necks and an officer ready to
draw them, and put it up to them