Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-30
The Strange Case of
Mary Page
ny FREDERICK LEWIS,
Author Of
-Vuat Happened to Mary
Pictures by Essanay. Copyright.
1915, by Mcclure Publications.
Shown at the Victor Theater.

III swat Happened to Mary"
sl5 ;s'uf By 0S e ESsanay SHpsssns
II Shown at the Victor Theater.
SYNOPSIS.
Mary Page. actress. Is accused or tho
murder of David Pollock, and 10 defended
| by her lover. Philip LanEdon. POLLOCK was
intoxicated AT Mary's trial Bhe admits she
| had the revolver. Her maid testites that
Mary threatened Pollock with II previously.
and Mnry's leading man duplicates lang
don How Mary disappears from tho scene
! OF the crino Is mystery. Brandon tells
o; II strange hand print he Marys
shoulder. Further evidence shows that Nor
| ror of drink produces temporary insanity In
sis" Witnesses describe Mary's flight
from her intoxicated father and her fathers
mapping or Mary by Pollock. and Amy Barton
tells OF Mary's struggles to become an &C
,iess. ana "t Poilocks pursuit OF her She
urSeil"ce tho nervousness which the nero
presence Of Pollock causes Mary. especially
Mheh 'hrJ are stranded In small town.
Mh'ie they go I" work as servants In
h"''i They are compelled to leave because
M . ~ insNted by ono OF the hoardsrs
chars.S that Pollock secretly backed the
play in which Mary was starred. ana offers
in evidence IA threatening letter from Dan
i.ls tn. manager. to Pollock. \ ocliboy
icsiine' that Daniels WAS In tho hotel tho
night OF the tragedy. Randall Williams.
and tells "f Dnnlels's strange conduct on
me night Of tho murder. pr. F"-ter. nm
OF tho sight Of drunken man.
Continued from Wednesday,
What you tell us is very interest
Ing" the latter was saying sarcasticaI-
ly. And so you followed the lie Of
the defendant, or let us say you traced
her life back year by year. And did
YOU decide which event was the direct
cause OF her-er--peculiar mental
breakdowns?"
Il did
What was it?"
Her fathers brutality on the night
she fed from tho house In Wild terror.
Miss Page had suffered from her horror
OF alcohol from baby. AS have told
tho court before. prenatal influence
made her especially sensitive. and. with
her increasing years and understand
ing. enlarged The inciptent horror till It
became repressed psychosis."
Then II was her fathers treatment
rather than his intoxicated condition.
that drove her insane" persisted tha
prosecutor; but Dr.. Foster saw the
head empha tically
1T was not. II was the sight Of his
'ntox ication. and the reek Of the whis-
brutal grip on her shoulder, and tho
sight OF mis- ill-treatment Ct her mother
naturally had their encct-hut they
were not the main causes of her de-
lir!um."
How do YOU know that Nj. Page
gripped her shoulder brutally? Isn't
that merely hearsay cvidence?"
NO. The marks OF the hand we're
10 Sh -
Page when she was brought to me.
These heavy bruises overlap curious
hiithmark that cams md went and the
nails Of Mr.. Pages hand had dug such
! burrows Into the flesh that tn. scars
stu remain"
Abruptly abandoning thi. line Of
questioning the prosecutor now caught
UP folded newspaper that lay on hts
desk. and. thrusting IL towards the wit
ness, said harshly:
Il have here n COPY Of this morn
ing's News, which has an article In Il
entitled, What Is depressed PsychoslsY
by DR.. Foster. Is that your brochure?
ct is
In IT you say. The cruel grip Of
Mary Pages drunken father left It's
mark indelihly upon hcr shoulder. for
under the stress Of Intense excitement
| that mark reappears. Is that hcarsay
or have you seen IT,
Il have seen it."
With a sheer that brought n hot nush
OF anger surgtnE into the doctors face,
the prosecutor turned and handed the
paper that he held TO the foreman Of
the jury, saying slurringly:
Gentlemen OF the jury. In this news
paper which ] offer as nm exhibit for
the State. you Will find a long artfcl.
by the learned witness which 20 nal
pably an effort 20 rouse cheap sym
Pathy Tor the prisoner. In II he say.
substantially what he has said In
court out in both Instances. gentle
inen. he has failed 10 prove tho truth
OF what ne says He offers his unsup-
ported word. and throughout this
brochure which he has written, he be-
trays an undue amount OF interest and
sympathy for tho woman-Mary Pac.
leave you TO draw your own concIu-
! sions"
MY unsupported word has been
taken In the courtroom without oues-
lion before this" Numbered DR.. For
! ter. What ! have written and said
would BIO accepted before any medical
| board In the world"---
| but this" Interrupted the prosecu-
tor suavely, rs not a medical hoard
| This Is court OF law; and 7 petition
! Ills Honor to strike out the evidence
! advanced regarding this mental state
! or tho prisoner. 7 contend that unIcss
! tho facts can he proved before His
| honor and the gentlemen OF the turv
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