Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-04

corning the log being ON Halscy property
and Homer Eaches, former road super
visor, said he had never seen the log in the
line of the highway, but always an the
Halscy place.
MRS. HALsEy rEsTiriEs.
Then Mrs. Halsey went on the stand
in her own defence. Her version Of the
Raudman episode was in effect that she
had seen the Raudman car stop opposite
her mo trcspass' sign and back into the
lane. whereupon her husband used the
crowbar he had on previous occasions 10
stop cars. Mrs. Rnudman wanted TO
know what he did II for, and the witness
told her that u was a case of five dollars
for trspaSs and five for cuttinR-up the
lawn She told her she couldn't 90 until
she paid. AS TO the Campbell affair, she
heard loud talking and had gone To see
what was the mattcr-and saw She had
seen the Latlcy car and was OF the opinion
that IL would have used the "S" too II
the driver had not first seen Tom and
his cruwbar. As To owning n revolver or
having one upon her the day of the Raud-
man affair. she said these statements
were not true Reasons for imposing the
'iine" and damages were that motor
ists had made n cunvcuicncc out oi the
"l Ia the wreck and rum of her grass
plot md she wanted to break up the
practice. When she found five dollar
chastcnings did not achieve tho purpose
, she raised II to ten dollars,
Cross examined. she admitted the crow
bar was kept within easy reach. As TO
the dogs. ono was n shepherd and the
other a rnixed-up dog, 10y which she
seemed to mean that Il was something ot
n monrrel. but IL wouldn't bite anyone.
She didn't take the money. she said. The
mo; orists lust turned around and gave
il 10 hey husband Always she SAID, the
cars were Delaware cars, not Penn
svlvanIa ones.
Tom" as she called her husband,
said neither he nor she had revolver
tho dav of the RaIdmau fine, nor do
they own one The reason why they
took tho steps tJley did was to put q
stop to the TRASH from Wilmington
using the y 3" to turn IN. IIc had put q
sign up warning against treepassmg
ALMOST EVERY TuING nuT MURDER.
Gong to the jury with tho case. Mr.
Smith said tu the twelve that thus good
woman had been accused of and indicted
for almost everything but murder, this
! was in allusion To the wad of bills against
the defendant She had only taken steps
she thought necessary 10 break mp =
nuisance Ilc was confident the jury
/ could not hnl her guilty The lIalsey
property, he said, had clearly been invad-
cd despite the sign warning against
,rospssslng and the lialseys took the
only way thew knew to stop such in
| v,ssionS, which were those nf JoyrIders
Mr.. TAYLOR. in rrply, said that Common
wealth tende the prosecution was not
So much to punish Mira. HalFev rs to
preserve the right ~ the public ~ nae
The highways without nolestatIon The
case WAS q very important one, he de
clarrd The thing had moi happened
before and he hoped after the jury got
through with Mrs HalSov Il wouldn 9
be likely 10 happen agam u was a
hlgh-handed piece of piracy and =
rank and fragrant violation Of the law I
She herself had eaid that she was Judge,
Jury and acc,tser Such things must not
Re allowed 70 60 on and Wilmngtonians
must not be allowed 70 81 back 10 Will
inington and saw that Pennsylvania
had allowed Mrs Halsev To get away