The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-13

had had intercourse with the girl. He
next considered the testimony Of Hen
derson and '.Dad'' Pr,tyn ahd' asked
the jury II it believed that the county
attorney himself attached any cred.
ability to their statement.
Hall 4 Protector.
Hall Was pictured by the defense as
L. man who had become interested in a
girl and had done all he could to pro-
tect her. He asked the jury to con-
slider the fact that Hall had tried to
educate the girl; had tried to get her
away from the bad influences Of the
Matheson home by having her sent to
the orphans asylum and that he had
offered to send her to her old home in
the east when she wrote from the
asylum that her heart was in bad
condition. He asked il the act Of
sending the girl away was the act Of
a man inspired by lust, or the act of a
man with a fatherly interest in the
girl.
Greenoush Park Incident.
Rewriting to the Greenough park
episode he called attention of the jury
to unreasonableness of such a proceed
ing taking place in the afternoon.
Also to the fact that prosecution had
not introduced any testimony to the
effect that he was ever in the park
alone with the girl, which Hall had
strenuously denied. He then took up
the girls story as to Halls having let
her out near the manual training
school on Main street and maintained
that the entire testimony should be
considered false as the defense had
proved that she falsified when she said
that she went to see about house
where the Thompson's intended to
move. negotiations for which had not
been opened until the first of August,
whereas this was alleged to have hap
pened on the tenth of June. The at
duced to show that the girl falsified in
one instance of the trip, how the re-
mainder of the uncorroborated story
could be believed.
He then took up the medical testi-
mony given on the stand and the evil
dence introduced to the effect that
nothing can be proved by examination
as we'll as the fact that fake cases of
rape were exceedingly frequent in the
history of the crime.
Girls Character.
From that he passed to a discussion
of Lutte" Pruyn. He asked in regard
to the MILDLY blouses worn by the girl
since coming to the courtroom and the
attempt to make her appear as inno-
tears he designated as crocodile"
tears and asked about her gold cross
and beads while perjuring herself on
the stand. He asked the jury If they
believed the details of her story about
the time Hall pulled a gun on her
while on Higgins avenue and in the
middle of the afternoon and also if
they gave credence to her story as re-
CARDS the checks which Mr.. F'riauf Of
the Missoula Trust and Savings bank
said We're all written by the same per-
son, although Miss Pruyn said that she
had written only one.
Taking up the girls deposition prior
to the trial, which she admitted on the
stand to have been a lie, he asked the
jury if they believed that she was at
tempting to shield Hall at the time and
read them extracts from her statement
in which she accused Hall of having
had intercourse with her and of hav-
ing committed several of the acts
which caused Halls indictment.
Frame-Up.
"What can he do but deny it all ."
asked Mr.. Mulroney. IF girl should
come into my office, tear her clothes.
pull down her hair and then run into
the hall screaming that I had at
tempted to rape her, what could I do?
could no nothing but deny it and that
is what Mr.. Hall has done in this
case"
The defense closed with an impas-
stoned plea for justice to Hall and
his wife who had some rights which
must be considered. He said that the
closing argument by Attorney Hall
would be based on lust and passion
and that the jury must remember the
evidence and convict If guilty and ac-
quit of innocent and that the defense
asked for an acquittal.
Halls Argument.
Special Prosecutor Hall closed with
one of the most vitrolic speeches ever
heard in the courtroom. He depicted
Hall as moral pervert, actuated by
lust of the most fiendish kind. At
the start he defended County Attorney
Angevine against the attacks Of the
defense and then launched his attack.
The special prosecutor referred but
briefly to the detailed evidence intro
duced. this field having been we'll COW
cred by the county attorney. He con-
fined himself solely to visualizing for
the jury the conditions under which
the Pruyn girl had been reared and to
a flaying of the man whose fatherly