Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-28
snow HOLDS Up court
At TOWSON TODAY
Trial Of Sn0wden Ter brandon
Murder Is sield Up.
SO 80 ~ e. NJ.
Prosecution Expects To Close lis Case
. Today y-AIl Evidence Ia.

lie meeting Of the Court was de.
layed until nearly O'clock. The in.
ability OF Judge Duncan ana Dr. A. II.
Carr, the Washington coroner, who is
an important witness. 10 get through
the snow embargo sooner, caused the
delay.
Dr. Walton u. Hopkins, first witness,
win be succeeded by DR.. Carr, ana
igom present indications The prosecu.
tion VIII close lis case before t0day's
adjournment.
Before today is over the prosecution
in the Brandon murder trial at Towson
will haye closed its case against
John Snowden, the Annapolis negro
who is on trial at Towson charged
with having killed and criminally as
saulted Mrs Lottie May Brandon at
Annapolis on August Sth last Mute
but telling evidence against the ne
gro, showing how brayely the little
woman fought for her life and her
/ honor and was only subdued to a
brute's dendish viii after battling like
a tigress, viii be put in evidence by
States Attorney Nicholas II. Green,
of Anne Arundel, and his associate
States Attorney George Hartman, OF
Baltimore County.
Still covered on their under sides
with what the State will put an ex-
pert on the stand to identity as the
facial skin and the short beard-hairs
Of q negro man, the finger nails Of
Mrs. Brandon viii be offered in evil
dence and submitted to the jury On
whether the jurors will accept this
evidence and its significance as the
prosecution points the finger OF ac-
cusation at the SCARED and scratched
face OF the accused negro, hangs one
very important point il the chain OF
evidence so far woven about the ne
gro. That a stiff battle will ensue
when the oifer OF this bit OF evidence
is made, is assured. The defense. as
the trial progressed last week fought
hard against the steadily accumulat-
| ing weight of testimony against Snow
den. For this reason it is confidently
expected that the lawyers defending
| SnOwden viii make a bitter fight to
have the gruesome finger nail ex-
hibit excluded from the case.
Besides pointing the murdered
woman's own fingers into the very
face Of Snowden in silent accusation.
that he took her life, and that Of her
unborn babe as well, the prosecution
plans to offer today the expert testi-
mony Of one Of the most experienced
coroner's physicians in the county.
This is Dr. A. H Carr, OF Washington,
who conducted the second autopsy on
Mrs Brandons body after the re-
mains had been exhumed from the
grave to which they had been COM
mitted DR. Walton II. Hopkins.
County Health officer Of Anne Arun-
del County, who, with DR. Joseph c
Joyce, Of Annapolis, conducted the
first autopsy held IN the Annapolis
Emergency Hospital the night after
the murder was committed, and was
present at the second autopsy, will
also go back into the witness chair
today These two physicians will
close the States case.
Defense Has Difficult job.
Then the defense viii begin the diff
cult job Of breaking through the net
OF discriminating circumstances woven
about Snowden Te refute the testi-
mony OF Drs. joyce, Hopkins and Carr,
the defense has in reserve Drs. J. J.
Murphy and Louis B Henkel, of An
napolis Snowden's lawyers hope
through these two medical men to
show that ii was possible for Mrs
Brandon, while suffering from eclamp-
sia due to her. delicate condition,
to have strangled herself, and. in
falling struck her head on some
piece OF furniture, intlicting the
wounds from which she bled to death.
TO do this, however. they must in
some way eliminate the testimony Of
Leroy Sisco. the ,11-year old negro
boy. who. on Friday, threw such a
bomb into them when he told of see
ing the murdered woman in evident
struggle with a. to him unseen, assaf-
ant. who grabbed her back when she
had reached the front door and had
gotten her arm through the doorway
only to have this portal to liberty and
life closed to her at the last moment.
Then, too, Snowden's lawyers have
TO break down the testimony Of Mary
Perkins and Edith Credit, the two
respectable and well thought Of col
0red women who, from their house
Immediately across the street saw
Snowden come from the Brandon
home on the date and at about the
hour which II has been established the
murder was committed
To de this large amount Of data
has been collected b@ S. E. Williams.
a c0lored lawyer Of Washington, who
has been silent associate Of Messrs.
Brady and Grason in the defense Of
( Sn0wden. During the defense's cross
examination Of the two colored wo-
men on Friday. the many many type
written pages of this data vas used
by 8sr. Brady while MS colored col
IL sgue sat beside him and from time
&c time leaned over to whisper salient
points into his ear Not in even the
least detail could they trip or bewilder
the two women. however. and it IS
manifestedly going to be difficult