The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-02
no JURY IN TEXAS
EvER'LL CONVICT
THE HARRISON GIRL
Lone Star State Places WOm-
ans Honor First Always.
Winifred Black Writes of
Southern Murder Case.
GIRL MENTALLY Unbalanced
But Murdered Man Got What
His Deed Deserved.
Women Would Divorce Men If
SIayer's Convicted.
Winifred Black Writes of
Southern Murder Case.
GIRL MENTALLY UNBALANCED
But Murdered Man Got What
His Deed Deserved.
Women Would Divorce Men ii
Slayer's Convicted.
By wINIFRED BLACK.

San Francisco, Cal, March al
don't believe there's a particle OF use
OF trying to try Katherine Harrison fer
murder-not in the state of Texas
anyhow.
No jury that ever sat or ever will
sit in Texas ever convicted or ever Will
convict a girl of murder-when that
girl killed a man who outraged her
You couldn't find such a jury if you
combed the state of Texas with 4 fine
tooth comb-and if you did find one
man who would stand out for convlc-
ton in such a case as this l honestly
believe that mans wife would sue him
for divorce in the very hour when she
found out what he had done or tried
to do.
once some of his male relations would
make him wish he had before he'd
hours.
Life has not always been held dear
in Texas, but the honor of woman is
protected there, if it is protected any
where on earth.
Katherine Harrison is only 5 years
old-and that fact alone would &C
quit her before any jury of Ameri
cans il any state in - union.
A Good Glrl.
She's always been good girl. and
that will turn the heart of the JCry-
men at the box to wax when they look
at her. And size is pretty as a picture
and / have never seen in my lie a
pretty young chdste woman convict
ed of anything really serious by
jury in the United States of America.
Perhaps this isn't as it should be. But
il is as it Is.
with Katherine Harrison; no normal
moral girl would invite a man who
had done her such serious injury to
ride along with her.
y - II ii l.
lowed him to speak to her again
but what girl of Is could get thrOu II
such hideous eXperience-and stay
normal?
have seen dozens of girls from
every walk of life come into the police
courts from one end of this country
TO the other, to appear as witnesses
against some man who had committed
this dreadful crime against them.
Girls of every race and of every ma
tionality-girls of all grades of intel
hgence and Characterization 1 had
seen three of them ! got so l could
tell such girl with a story by the
look in her eyes in a crowded court
room. They say no man can ever take
a beating from a man smaller than
himself without resenting it-and ever
hold the same sway among his fellow
men.
A Girls Instinct.
1 believe that neither can a girl be
outrageously treated and ever talk
with other women as they talk.
Whether it is because nature has
planted in n woman's breast des-
perate resolve which fights blindly
and unconsciously for the purity of
the race or what do not know
but this l do know.
And so knows every other woman
who has dealt intimately whether
sympathetically or in cold curiosity
with cases Of this kind.
A girl can be thief, a liar. a cheat
she can steal for her living or lie for
her daily bread-but she never
loses her own belief in herself until
she has lost what no human being can
ever give back to her again-the pos
session of herself.
We talk of strange things in open
print these days-perhaps it is because
we have to-such strange things hap
pen all around us every day.
A girl died in the woods near Lake
Forest a short time ago.
At the coroner's inquest upon the
body of that poor desperate creature.
her father walked into the room and
shook hands with the boy who had.
without a question of doubt, driven
his little girl to suicide-even if he
did not murder her himself.
An undegenerate heart beat in my