The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-10

Of the Hall trial. Nh Han then hronGh,
out from the witness the admission
that they had many parties at tn"
Thompson home, affairs which the
prosecutor referred to hitinGlN as
..beer parties" and which Mrs. TheHP-
son admitted were the occasion IF tn"
service Of beer
"On one of these parties, said Hall
didn't Hall get drunk and Try 70 ht
Lutte on the head With hrrr bottle
and he was prcvcutcd and Knocked
down by blank, n third person there -
Il have no recollection q such =
thing" said the witness.
Didn't that make enough impress
sion on YOU 50 mat Sou can recall i ~
mo, sir" said Mrs Thompson.
The prosecutor then asked about tn"
clothes (which had been bought for
Lntic. and She denied They were ~
loud that the tcaracr al scho" sent
the Sirl home aud forbid her to come
with them again.
Mrs. Thompson. somewhat batter, Vol
untecred the remark that her 'raSpon
sihility" she considered cudei 50 far
as Lutte was concerned N JuH"
though the girl did not leave her hom"
until August when She was sent To the
asylum al Twin bridges Aud Mrs
Thompson declared, the responsibility
was not resumed in her opinion Wt"n
Lutte came back to live with her Two
months later,
Didn't YOU know She had no mother
and no home and that she MAS living
in your charge" asked Mr. Hall
Yes sir, but | didn't consider my
self responsible for what she did
Mrs. Thompson later declared that
She could not remember of having
taken ride with Hall and Lutte in
AN automobile on the daN Luti" left to
so to- Twin Bridges
Did Han give YOU SIS oil that &c
casion"" asked Mr., Hall
NO, sir said the witness
-. And didn't YOU leave The money
in Your pocketbook in the automobile
when YOU left ii AT YOUR house and
Han had to come back and bring il
To YOU that night?
~ / don't remember anything about
it.
Throughout Mrs. Thompsons direct
#t'SI|iiEoiiA fHt al l'di u t'lt 'i'''-'-N-
animation, she gave very little con-
structiye testimony, her entire appear
ance on the stand being what amounted
to a categorical denial Of everything
that had been charged against her, Her
only admission was that the Thomp-
sons We're accustomed to having aico-
holic drinks in the house. and this adj
mission was made in her denial of tn"
testimony Of Policeman Lease that
she had told him there had been none
III her home for p years.
The remaining defense testimony
WAS brief. The witnesses called wer"
Lutte Pruyu, who Mr. Murphy an
nounCed, was summoned in the nature
OF cross examination, Dad" pruSn,
her father and Miss Margaret Court
ney of the Fashion store Miss Court
ney offered the only new cvidenc"
when she gave a sdelisht on the char
actcr Of Lutte i'll the days she was at
til" Thompson home by telling of tn"
purchase of hose with a forged check
at the store,
She SAID she wanted something
'flashy for she liked that kind" de
ciarcd Miss Courtney, and she told
me she had II pairs at home"
State Rebu.ta Brief.
For the rebuttaI of the state, the
witnesses we're even hricfcr than those
who had closed the dcfcnse's ease,
They wcr" Nj rruyn. Miss Gazella
Schlossbcrp and Arthur Higgins. IN
dcrsheriff IF MIss1oa county, and
Lutte herself. Lutte told Of the oeea-