The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-30
GERMANS MAKE ADVANCE FROM 12 ID 15 MILES

cally as soon as the crowd had left dragged the short distance to tie jail by her father and a woman friend. In her cell she collapsed and 1t was only after restoratives had been ap- piled that she was able to get back to the court room when the jury an nounced that 1t was ready to report at $40 D. m.
 More than a hundred persons were waiting for the verdict in the dimH lighted room which quickly filled up with spectators as the word spread that the jury was ready to report.
 After the foreman of the jury had spoken the words which will send her to the penitentiary, Miss I.usk, wno had removed her hat, leaned her head back against her fathers shoulder like a child After remaining quietly at rest for a moment, her eyes closed and she slowly rose to her feet de spite Mir Lusk's efforts to restrain her and quiteiy walked around the counsel table until she confronted Mr. Tullar There was an utter sil- enCe as she paused dramati cally be fore throwing herself at the aged man with a half choked cry which could be heard n every part of the building
 At midnight Miss I.usk was resting quietly in her cell under the influence of opiates
 Judge Lueck after the outbreak re- quested counsel for the defense to hold all motions in abeyance and i'm mcdiateiy adjourned court
 Members of the jury said that ten ballots were necessary to arrive at the verdict.
 Mrs Roberts was shot and killed by Miss Lusk in the latters home the afternoon of June 2l. 1917. The tragedy followed a friendship extend ing back to the summer of 1914 be- tween Dr. David Roberts, a former state va erinarin, nationally known as manufacturer of proprietary medicines for cattle and Miss LusK who won distinction as an educator after having taken a degree at the University of Wisconsin. At the time she met Dr. Roberts she was a teach CT in the Waukesha Normal school
 After staying Mrs. Roberts Miss Lusk tried to kill herself with the same revolver. For the past ten months she has been held in jail.
 Her trial on a charge of murder began May l3. She had entered a plea of not guilty and also a special plea of insanity.
 Judge Martin T.ueck in his final in- structions described to the jury the different degrees of murder and sen tence carried with it:
 One-First degree murder, which carries life sentence.
 Two-Second degree murder, GOV i ering assaults with a deadly weapon due to a degraded mind, carrying a sentence of from If to 25 years in , prison.
 Three -Manslaughter in the third degree, covering a staying done in the | heat of passion, the penalty for which is from two to six years in prison.
 Four-Not guilty if there was any reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to whether Miss I.usk killed 1 Mrs Roberts.
 ] Fifth-Not guilty, because insane, if it were decided that the defendant was insane at the time of committing the crime. This would commit her to the state asylum.
 Walter D. Corrigan, for the prose- tuition, and James Clancy, for the de- fense, deyilered the closing arguments in the trial which began on May 13 ! Mir Corigan in demanding the maxi mum penalty for the defendant de- clared that neither Dr. David Roberts, CONTINUED ON PAGE TIIREE0