Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-18
ETHEL DEW BOUND
OVER WITHOUT BAIL
SClf-ConfcSscd Slayer OF Marian Vic.
key Held on Charge Of First
Degree Murder.
BELIEVES ACT JUSTIFIED
Emotionnl Insanity Probably VIII
he Plea of Mrs. Dew 20 jus
tify Killing Girl.

Emotional insanity may hc the
the plea of MrE. Ethel Dew self-con-
fcssod slayer of Marian Nickery in
the Ideal laundry last Wednesday,
is the opinion NJ J. T.. Ingram, as
sistant prosecuting attorney Mrs,
Dew, as the result of her prclimin-
ary bearing WIS bound over with
out bail In the justice court OF II.
j. Gray yesterday morning on a
charge Of first degree murder. So
large was the crowd that came 20
hear the trial that Judge Gray found
IL necessary to move the session TO
the district court room. ON account
OF the nature Of some Of the testi-
mony that was expected to he
brought out. Judge Gray ordered the
children from the court room.
At the arraignmcnt. Mrs Dew,
through her attorney has entered a
plea of not guilty OF murder II Is al,
legged on Wednesday evening. in TT
Of jealous rage, she shot and killed
Marian Nickery at the Ideal laun-
dry, 10 South Cheyenne It was
the contentLonSf Mrs Dew that Miss
Vickery, the 17ycar-old laundry
girl, had been in the habit OF re
ceiving attentions from her husband
Edward Dew was also employed at
the same laundry as a delivery
driver,
Shot In Back.
The state sought 20 show that,
with, prem editated design, Mrs Dew
traded small revolver for a larger
one and that'it was with this larger
gun that she did the shooting, Miss
Vickery was shot three times In the
right arm and once In tho back, the
last shot proving fatal, glancinG
from the inner edge OF the righ,
shoulder blade upward through the
softer parts of the body and com
ing out at the throat. The Juguiar
vein was severed.
Miss Joseph James. mother OF the
murdered girl. on the stand, stated
that Miss Vickery. her daughter bS
former marriage. and herself wcr,
living at i8 1-2 South Phoenix the
day Of tho tragedy. She and hei
daughter both were employed at tht
laundry and on the morning oi
June 12, Dew took them both to the
laundry in his car. The last time
she saw her daughter alive was at
noon on the day OF the killing. Az
little after 4 o'clock that after
noon. she heard three shots in the
front OF the laundry and ran from
the rear, where she was working.
She then heard the fourth shot and
saw her daughter stumbling across
the room, crying out to her mother
that she had been shot.
May Plead Insanity.
The defense placed no witnesses
on tho stand. II Ia thought that they
intend to Justify the crime on the
ground of emotional insanity.
City Detective Joe Del Barraco
and J. C. McCrady. placed on the
witness stand by the state, detailed
events that followed the arrest OF
Mrs. Dew at Third and Main n few
minutes after the shooting. T. $.
Garretson. the undertaken who ham
died the body OF the murdered girl
testified ss 10 the number and posi-
tion OF the rounds.
No reference was made ar 10 ths
possible relations of Miss Vickery
with the. husband Of the defendant.
The only time Mrs. Dew lost her
was when Prosecutor ]
Il. Ingram referred to her in thun-
dering tones as that murderess."
and again when someone stepped up
behind her brother, II. a. Dunlap,
and placed his hand on his shoulder
Dunlap, who is blacksmith. says
that SO far ashe Is aware, Edward
Dew has never come TO the assist
ance of his wife