The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-24

Pii'"tS olliCc anu put fltT nduu Ou
his shoulder, and said, Now, Mr..
Boyd, we weren't there, were WEI
And he braced up and said, No,
we weren't there
Thought of Mesmerism
Il thought they had been exper-
imenting with mesmerism on my
daughter.
Il went to get Marie and pack
up her things and take her home
with me.
1t was little later, that Marie
told me her arm hurt. 1t had
marks on it, all red and swollen.
Marie was feeling very bad,
and | was very much worried, so
| went to DR.. Mary Perkins. She
said the marks might have been
made with a hypodermIc needle,
but she could not say positively.
l decided l had best have an ex-
animation, and she told me--she
could not tell-whether she had
been harmed-but she might have
been. She advised me to wait
a little, and | did.
Sees Healey.
And then | took the matter up
with Mr.. Healey, and the man in
his office didn't give me much en-
couragement that anything would
be done. | went to the prosecut-
ing attorneys office-they didn't
give me any more encouragement
i felt there wasn't going to be
anything done-I felt perfectly
desperate-and | went and got
this gun, | suppose. | don't re-
member distinctly what | did do
i was so worried"
Mrs. Adult had shrunk
down in her chair like IN
old, old woman. The muscles
stood out on her clenched
jaws like ropes. Her words
came hoarsely, with long,
breathless pausSS between.
She did not lose her self
control, however, aud her
tension relaxed when she had
finished this part of her
story.
do you believe Marie's story
at this time?" asked Deputy Pros
ecutor Roudebush.
Believed 1t, She Says.
She bent her head. 81 have no
reason to doubt it," she said.
You say you were mentally ir-
responsible, didn't know what you
were doing, when you tried to
shoot Mrs. Robertson?" she was
asked.
Il suppose l must have been"
DO you believe a person is ever
justified in taking the law in his
own hands and inflicting that pun
ishment which he feels the situa-
ton and circumstances require?"
The question was repeated four
times before she finally said,
Il suppose a person is never
justified in taking the law in his
own hands"
Girl Sticks to Story
Does Marie still insist her story
is true?" asked Hodge.
"She does" answered the moth
.er.
The testimony of DR.. Mary Per-
kins, who made the examination,
was that she had told Mrs. Adult
it was impossible at that time to
say positively whether the girl
had been harmed, but that later
developments might show.
81 did not believe the story"
she said.
II told her it sounded like the
classic delusion. | know Mrs. AL
butt believed the story entirely,
however"
Acted Strange on BUS
Mrs. Marie Stogdill, who came
in from Jovita on the bus with
Mrs. Adult the day of her attack
on Mrs. Albertson, said Mrs. AL
butt was usually "such a nice,
bright, CHEEKY woman" but on
that day she acted so queer Il
didn't really like to sit with. her."
Mrs Healey, assistant probation
officer, told of conversation with
Mrs. Adult concerning Marie's
story.
she was very much excited, in
quiet, tense way. One of our
workers, as she went out, said
That woman is beside herself. She
doesn't know what she is doing
She believed the story SO thorough
ly that | believed 1t too"
Highly Wrought Up.
l.. ID. Garwood, also an assist
ant in the office of the probation
officer, said Mrs. Adult was SO
much wrought up, at the time of
her visit to him, that 1t struck him
she was liable to do something she
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