The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-12
The Stra nge Case OF
Mary Page
CONTINUED from Thursdays Banner)


suite that night And if it please your
Honor l win call as my next witness,
Or Foster-to testify to the inability
Of the defendant to understand events
that We're happening"
Il see no objection to SUCH testi-
mony,' said the Judge thoughtfuly.
There was a breathless tension in
The room when Langdon, addressing
his new witness. said vibrantly:
DIR. Foster you have told the court
that the defendant, Mary Page. is a
victim Of attacks Of depressed psyche
sis superinduccd by the sight OF in.
t0Xicatl9n. and the smell Of alcoholic
K concoctions When suffering from
such an attack would the patient he
( conscious Of what went on about her?"
Certainly not No more than per
son Ia deirinm"
( "A long, quiyenAg gasp Of inctfahIs
relief floated from Mary's pale lips at
the words. and two little flames of hope
and excitement leapt into her eyes.
Even Langdon had seemed at times
to cherish vague doubts and had press
ed her cruelty to try to remember
even hazily-the events that were
blank to her; and in consequence the
words Of the great aienist were balm
TO her aching heart and seemed in
ruth wOndrous yindication
Langdon. Watching her in amazed
concern saw her slender body shake
like a reed in a storm OF erl0tion. ana
reading in 1t not the breaking OF the
icy letters Of imm2llle despair. bat the
SCATTERING Of a wonderful ccf-cOntrol.
FASTENED TO her side With an Gdmoni
tcry and lcsssurlng whisper OF cncour-
agemcnt TO his surprise she smiled
at him through the unshod tears and
caught his hand for mn instant In a
teverish grip as she murmured rcmu-
lously
There's nothing the matter. Phil
LAIN just hopeful"
81 may have 10 call YOU to the stand
for a little he went OH anxiously.
DO you think you-you-will Ire able
to-"
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Foster, who was flushing angrily TN.
der the badger.pg Of the prosecutor.
' What you tell Us Is very interest
/ inrh ila Ia tor WAS eaviDr Snrrnstical.
] M atnd ~ Vo, rolI1c1 tha ,igo ~
b tbe defendant. or letns say Won traced
hcr llfe hack wear b7 year And did
/ Won doelrs witch event was the direct
3. cause Of 'her-er peculiar mental
y breakdownsT
J. II did"
r "Wbat was it,,
"ITer fathers brutality on the night
She fed from the house in wild terror.
7 Miss Page had suffered from her horror
J. OF alcohol from baby"
"Then il was her fathers treatment.
- rather than his intoxicated condition.
that drove her lasaneY" persisted the
prosecutor: but DR.. Foster saw the
!. drif, Of tbe question and sbool, his
booI emnhoflcallv
1T was not II was the sight of his
b lntoxication. ana the reek of the whls
5. kew on his breath. The main OF his
p brutal grin on her shoulder and the
S SIGHT OF his ll.trcatment of her mother
n naturally hid their eneci-but they
+ were NOT the main cruises uf her de
d urium."
e. -rlow do vnr roov thor Mr. Pace
s. ,,inncd hor shorIIoc hrnta,,vq Isn't
hat mprolv beorsay evidence"
"No Tho marl.s of tho honl wore
nloinlv visible ou t,,o shoulder az Mis-,
pooo WHOM sbn wa hrourbt IA mo
rboso bco,-r l,r,is,s overloy /, cn,.,ou.
- birtbmor,. ,bo. coo,oond vcnt o5d IN,
Z nnils an ,rr pooo's b9nd had dny emo,
y furrovs INTO tbo Aosb tbat tho scar.
" sin rc,no,n"
n ~ have here COPY of this morn
e lng's News which Inns an article in i
entitled .ybot is depressed psvcho
d sisY hy Dr Foster Is that your bro
d ebureFr
d, "It is"
Is I'm # Won saw The cruel Grin q
n Mary pac,'s drunken father lcft IT.
y marx indeliblv ,non hor shoulder 70
undcr thc Stress of intens,. eycltcmcn
g Thar mari roanroars Is that hcorso,
or hnvo Won soon 49,