Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-17
CHAPTER TX.
A New Clue.

. 1o0tlnutu lEofu lebleIua9O
Il d.d."
What was IT."
"Her fathers brutality on the night
she fled from the house in wild terror.
Miss Page had suffered from her horror
Of alcohol from baby. AS l have told
the court before. prenatal Influence
made her especially sensitive and with
her increasing years and understanding
enlarge the incipient horror TIL 1t be-
came repressed psychosis"
Then tt was her fathers treatment,
rather than his intoxicated condition.
that drove her insane7" persisted the
prosecutor; but DR.. Foster saw the drift
Of tho question and shook his head en-
phatically.
1T was not II was the sight Of his
INVESTIGATION. and the reek OF the whisky
on his breath. The pain OF his brutal
grip on her shoulder. and the sight OF his
ill-treatment of her mother naturally had
their effect-but they were not the main
causes of her delirium."
How do you know that Mr.. Page
gripped her shoulder brutaily? Isn't that
merely hearsay cvidence7'
mo. The marks of the hand were
plainly visible on the shoulder OF Miss
Page when she was brought to me. These
heavy bruises overlay a curious birth
mark that came and went. and the
nails OF Mr.. Pages hand had dug such
burrows into the flesh that the scars still
remain"
Abruptly abandoning this line of uues-
tioning the prosecutor now caught up a
folded newspaper that lay On his desk,
and. thrusting 1t toward the witness, said
harshly:
Il have here a copy OF this mornings 3
News which mas an article In IL entitled.
What Is Repressed PsychosisT by Dr.
Foster. Is that your brochure?"
1T is"
I'm It you say. The cruel grip of Mary
, Pages drunken father left its mark in
delibly upon her shoulder. for under the
lstress OF intense excitement that mark
reappeara.' Is that hcarsay-or have you
seen it,"
II have seen It,"
With a sneer that brought hot flush
l OF anger surging into the doctors face,
the prosecutor turned and handed the
! paper that ne held to the foreman OF
the jury saying slurringly;
: "Gentlemen Of the jury. in this news
paper which offer as an exhibit fol
3 the state, you will find long article
by the learned witness. which is pal
pably an effort to rouse cheap sym
pathy for the prisoner. In il he say
substantially what he has said in court
but In botn instances. gentlemen, h
has failed TO prove the truth Of what h
says. He offers his unsupported word
and throughout this brochure which h'
J. has written, he bertays an undue amour
q OF interest and sympathy for the woinai
. Mary Page ] leave you to draw you
y y own conclusions.
Il my unsupported has been taken i
n the court room wlthoug question befor
a this" Numbered DR.. Foster. What
4 have written and said would be accepts
before any medical board in the world :
r but this" interrupted the prosecute
Il suavely, lis not medical board. Thi
W is court OF law; and petition his homo
&c 10 strike out the evidence advanced re
"a garding this mental stats Of the prls
- oner / contend that unless the fact
p can be proved before his honor and IN
8 gentlemen OF the Jury that the entir
v testimony is most questionable--sn Q
y no value"
In With = little moaning gasp Of disma
5 Mary half rose from her chair. her lip
nt forming a mute appeal against tn
n drastic threat. Those who were watch
Is ng her saw In the movement no NOR
y than a hysterical impulse born of tn
~ legal wrangle. but It was as somethin
4. sar deeper and greater. For to Mary
q Dr. Foster stood as the keystone OF he
~ proof OF innocence. He believer her7an
10 strike out his evidence meant tina
q there was no one-no one left who-un
a derstood.
Of I.angdon, knowing that he must cal
of her TO the stand next, was aghast at he
a. agitation and. fearing general break
down, sent the bailiff for smelling salt
Ia and a glass OF water. He had no fear
y; that the evidence OF the alienist woul
~ be stricken out. but he was nevertheless
rackfng his brains for some method Q
4, proving the recurrence OF that strang
y: bruise upon Mary's shoulder when, wit
c: the abruptness that characterized hin
e, the district attorney dismissed the vii
a ness. w-t
<, And now Il was Mary whose name we
q called by the bailiff. and the little quiel
n soins stir Of interest and sympathy this