El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-22
JURY ACQUITS
MRS. SANDERS
Returns Verdict of Not
Guilty After Beg Out
Five Minutes.
The jury acquitted Mrs. Sanders
after being out less than five minutes.

aAter Deing out less than five minutes
Take me out and hang me: xii
me; do anything you want, but I vii
never answer that question"
Hysterical with tears streaming
down her face, and toying with an
empty revolver used as evidence, Mrs
/ David Drew Sanders, charged will
murder in connection with the death
Of her husband. David Drew Sanders
I corporal in company I. seventh in
I fantry. gave this answer Friday
morning in her trial to a question
Z asked by E. B. Elfers. assistant dis
trict attorney. as to when and where
she was married.
Judge W. D. Howe. Of the saith dis
| being tried, said, Mrs. Sanders. you
Will have to answer the question"
i won't answer the question; II
l would kill my father. who has hear
/ trouble, if he knew IT," the woman re-
piled.
State Satisfied of Marriage.
The jury was then dismissed while
/ Judge Howe and the attorneys for the
! defence and prosecution examined
I certain documents. Mr.. Elfers then
( said he was satisfied that they had
/ been married.
y
I informed the jurors that the court
and attorneys for the state were sat
/ i~fied from the documents Of the mar
/ rage and Mrs. Sanders was not com
/ PEELED to answer.
/ Aft,r several witnesses had been
examined. Mrs. Sanders was placed
on the witness stand and examined
/ by a J. Harper. She appeared very
/ nervous and toyed with a revolver
/ introduced in evidence as the weapon
which was used when her husband
was killed.
Tells OF QuarreIS.
On direct examination, Mrs. Sanders
told OF frequent ouarrels she had with
her husband and described how on
numerous occasions he had abused
her. When she went TO the home of
o. c. Jones for lunch with her hus-
band she testified he started abusing
her and said he was through and
intended leaving He kept talking TO
her about another girl he loved at
Waco. the witness said.
Says She Intended Shooting Self.
II intended to blow my brains out"
she said Mr.. Jones was in the room
when I got gun out Of the dresser
and 1 put II to my temple and told
him I was going to blow my brains
out He said, Go TO it I told him
to tell my husband goodby. He was
on the front porch. I was not myself
and I went to the front OF the house
determined to make my husband &C
knowledge he was my husband. When
I went out with the gun he said.
Look out, what you are doing /
said, 7 mean this, you have got to
acknowledge you are my husband
I aimed at his heart I did not in
tend TO fire If he told the truth That's
all"
Sheriff Had Woman Watched.
Sheriff Seth Orndorff testified that
he saw Mrs. Sanders in the county
jail shortly after her arrest. He said
She was very nervous and that he told
the attendants TO watch her care
fully, as he feared she would attempt
to take her own life
Evidence in the case will be COM
pleted early this afternoon and the
case viii be given to the jury, II was
expected. before 5 o'clock. Only two
additional witnesses are to be exam
ined at the afternoon session
Three Others Testify.
Three witnesses were examined
during the morning session Of court
They were DR.. VIII Rogers, O. c
Jones and Mrs. Jones, Of 719 North
Ochoa street. at whose home deceased
was shot
DR.. Rogers testified to examining
the body and described the gunshot
wound Mrs. o. C Jones testified
that she invited Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders
TO her home for lunch and that they
words The witness said that she
was in the house when she heard
the shot and ran to the front porch
and saw Sanders, who was her cousin
lying near the steps and that Mrs.
Sanders was near with a revolver.
o. c. Jones testified that when
the Sanders came to lunch they had
some words about n girl at Waco and
that Sanders started out of the house
and asked his wife for his hat She
refused TO give him his hat, he said.
and they started down the steps. Mrs.
Sanders then appeared and fired, he
testified.
The defendant Is represented by the
firm Of Hudspeth, Dale and Harper
and Rufus Daniels The attorneys for
the defence contend that Mrs. Sanders
Y as temporarily insane when she fired
he shot and that she had been in
III health Her fit Of insanity. they
was caused by her. husband
saying he was going to leave her for
!. girl who lived IN Waco.
There were many women in the I
courtroom during the morning ses- I
zion.
The jury consists Of Elmer Ellis, I
seorge +. Allen, ]. W. Crowdus. G. 3. 4
3osco. a. o. Dunagan. W. A Williams, i
Hubert Rose, J. r McKennon, J. T 4
Ferguson, P. J. Broyles. L. u. Nc
,rummen and G. T. Smith.