The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-30
MRS. RUTHSTRONG TELLS HER STORY
 10 SAVE HUSBAND
Knoxville Courtroom Is Crowded When Slayer Ot Sam B. Luttrell, IT,,
 Goes on Trial

rz,,oxvi1Ie Tenn, May 29.-Pretty Mrs p,,sb strong. whose husband, Rush Strong is on trial in the criminal court ,t,aroad with the murder of Sam B. Lut- trell, IT.. on Tuesday, barred the story or auo,ad wrongs suffered at the hands or her husbands victim
 At least 500 persons crowded Into 1ne ,ir,ited space of the small courtroom cu- riously seeking to hear the story "ilisi' Mrs Strong was expected to relate 9eI7 dom in the annals of the Knox county criminal court has a trial attracted s..o" attention as that of Rush strong City and county officials, practicahy every y,en,her of the bar, prominent merchau's ana business men of the city and county eaeerla followed the proceedings or ehe day. 1,rD
 WAS NOT UNNERVED
 Mrs strong did not testify until nearly o,cIocls hut remained on the stand near iv an hour relating fully the clrcuin- a+.aces which she said led up to the Liuing of Luttrell, the happenings or the fatal dav and the things that took place u,hor +be actual shooting occurred OH Ioc,,,t street on the night of July . A
 ton to which she was sup iscted by Gen. Charles T. Gates Jr'' o during the telling of her relations WEI Iuttreu did she appear unnerNeo excited. but on the contrary answer lo,os+ions directly and distinctly with slightly defiant air, smiling at times hea e,er erect and her eyes fixed steadily those of her questioner
 CoRROBORATED HUSBAND
 ,4or testimony eorro5orated that or he hnshand in nearly every particular tf rents hefore and after the tragedy o ,rq almost identical with those told earlier in the day by her husnano'
 Mrs. strong related two instances wrong, which she said LuttreA ns heen puilty of. One of these, she sal was the drugging of a bottle of pc |. ba had given her, the consequence \ which nut her lin a stupor' and du N,nr which Luttren took advantage her The other outrage she charg had been accomplished by Ioree q Intinnidations. ,r D.
 Mrs Strong was formerly Miss Bo nfe Hurt of Alabama and whom married in Los Angeles in 1915. Strol deeply affected anu WAtAi ayes. swore that on the night or 1u "A. while he and his beautiful you wife were returning to his coun home from dance in the city, U NTrs Strong confessed to having ra1ations with Luttrell and decla that she could no longer stand Also that she had been lntoxlca and probably had been "doped." lie serted that she stated Luttrel
 declared if she did not continue U friendship and relations that pecs he loved her so much he wouia
 Strong and, if necessary, also XII strong and himself. Strong claimed sought Luttrell, who for years
 been his personal friend, in the I of an adjustment of the attalr
 that when they met on the nlgh Iu1v 8 he and his wife in their mobile and Luttrel walking upon street. a discussion ensued In Strong claims Luttrell drew wes And he, Strong, fired the fatal s in self-defense Other witnesses
 heinz examined and the case may he decided until Wednesday or TIT dav. Both Strong and Luttren
 members of prominent and wes families. Strong Is 8 nephew or late Col B. R. Strong, who left al
 tate of about s6oo,ooo to the Un
 sity of Tennessee, and which IS
 being contested by the young
 father Luttrell was son or the
 Col. J. C. Luttrell