The Sentinel=record., 1918-12-18

N'N iN'A RfiitN dbilAN ilt- lflll Htl NlJIN to the sury. Yesterday for two hours and fifteen minutes she was on the witness stand The most crucial test has been passed for her Part of that time she was pilOted by the friendly voiced interOgatories and kindly in ieNed tones of her own counsel The remainder of that time she was the target for the presenting attorney. representing the majesty of the law, stripped of all sentiment and sym pathy, and exacting everything. inter prcttng everything in favor of the law--and when the witness had fin ished she had made one of the most unusual witnesses ever 10 take the stand in a court room here
 Dressed in black suit, hat thin half ueil tkat reached to the tip of her nose. striking black eyes that flashed occasionally in dramatic emphasis. she might have Eeen d pathetic fig. are. except for the pose she held al ail times. Once or twice sine seemed on the verge of break once when Prosecuting Attorney Randolph brought her close to the scene in the room where s@e had shot and killed her husband. and must have crossed over his bloodstained body to get to q telephone
 T did not want to kill him, loved him." she declared in trembling voice.
 Then once her own counsel, Colonel Murphy. took her back to the same scene to get a different version of some strong point the state had made, and once again the tears filled her eyes. but she recovered her boise in a second.
 The stare mas developed against this woman the fact that her hus band was at telephone talking when the first shots were fired Tde state also establishes by her that the pis. tol she fired was taken from the head of tho bed near the telephone Tho state assumes that the woman started the murder of her husband while ne was thus engaged; and the thread of mechanism that carried the voice and tie sounds to a witness reui3te from the place serves to fit in for tho states cause what the presence of actual witnesses might have offered had any been pres ent in the home but these two people.
 Mrs Jonos related the domestic troubles she had encountered She assumed the position that all of these were inspired by her i'll health. She described the troubles between her self and her husband as outbursts Cf| passion on his part of short duration. and of less frequent occurrence as the years rolled on, but after she hac seemed to have made this position se tore the. tr~yedy she had decided on leaving her husband and returning toI her mother
 The prosecuting attorney sprung 5Cllt lelteIS OH tue NllHt5A lndA bft- dently had not been taken into con sideration Mrs Jonos had written her mother two letters The mother resided in Kentucky. The two let ters were never posted. One was dat ed November !. six days before the tragedy, unless the date was errone- ously made-and me other was writ ten November |, two days before the tragedy The letters told t'he mother Of the young woman that she and Gus were having more trouble, that Gus lad beaten her, and that she was coming home. and fixed the time Of her departure from this city and her arrival in the Kentucky town And these letters were sprung on her after she had testified that she did not intend to separate from her hus band and was trying 10 live with him
 Later the defense brought out more of this story. and led the witness col tell that at least three attorneys of