The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30

escape the sentence of fourteen to
twenty-five years in the state peni-
Tertiary.
Miss Lusk was under the care of
two nurses and a specialist today, still
unnerved by the verdict which drove
her in a maniacal fury at the prose-
cutor's throat. screeching: He lied
my life away" It was the most SEN
sational ending to a murder trial in
Wisconsin's court history.
Miss Lusk's finger nails drew blood
on Tullar's right cheek. She had to
be torn away by attorneys and court
attaches and was carried shrieking to
her cell.
Her lawyers will make a motion for
a re-trial in a few days, basing their
plea on the ground that she is insane.
DIR. Roberts Hid Out.
DIR. David Roberts, pilloried in clos
ing arguments yesterday as partly to
blame for Miss Lusk Staying his wife,
was absent from the court room when
the jury came in shortly after IL
D. M Miss Lusk had asked that he
be brought in and later ordered her
brother and aged father:
GO to DR.. Roberts tomorrow Don't
hurt him, but tell him what has hap
pened to me-
The father was heart broken today.
God, if could only tell all I knew
of the man who put my daughter
here" he said of Doctor Roberts.
.Some day a reckoning is coming to
him"
Hundreds of women, who hurried to
the court room when news spread that
the Jury had reached a decision. stood
with tears streaming during Miss
Lusk's collapse. The jurors filed out
with ashen faces never looking at the
defendant. Lien, women and children
sought to jump over the railing to the
side of the crazed woman. Judge
Martin ,Lueck mastered the situation
finally with his gavel, at the same time
sitting his tears.
She Could Nor Sleep.
Despite heavy opiates, Miss Lusk
failed to sleep, the nurses said today.
Her father was haggard after the all
night watch at her side.
Judge Lueck left today for Port
Washington for a brief rest. 1t was
believed he would call Miss Lusk be-
fore him for formal sentence next
"Wednesday. The motion for new trial
to be filed at that time will claim the
jury failed to find in accordance with
the evidence of insanity.
IT'S lie; it's a lie against me; he
lied, he iiedi" Grace Lusk screamed
as she sprang at the throat of d. S
fuller, acting district attorney after a
jury had found her guilty of second
degree murder at her trial for staying
Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts.
Was Dragged Away.
Grasping the throat of Mr.. Tullar
who is more than 60 years old, ir
both her hands, she shook him back
and forth in his chair at the counse
table until several men dragged hel
away. when she tainted. Recovering
several minutes later. her aged father
and one of her attorneys attempted tt
lead her from the court room, but she
struggled with them, her hair un,
fastened, tumbling about her face. A.
she was half dragged away, sh,
screamed:
That mans son lied; he lied; h,
lied my life away. Maurice Tulla1
swore my life away
Maurice Tul1ar. now in sanitariun
because of ill health, is the district at
torney of Waukesha, and at the tria
swore that four days after the shoot
ing of Mrs. Roberts. he obtained
statement from Miss Lusk in which
she said that she realized why she haC
shot Mrs. Roberts, but could not un
derstand how she had done it "st
calmly and deliberately.
d. S. Tullar was appointed specfa
prosecutor at the trial by his son, WHIT
was unable to act because of his i'll
ness. The elder Tullar took little par