The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-09
Tlashhght in Daylight.

Flashight in Daylight.
"Then what did he use a flashlight
for?' Bates challenged sharply, while
Frey twisted uncomfortably In the wit
ness chair. Finally he said, 1T was
dusk. You always need a light in those
bottoms
j. b. King, uncle Of the girl. once
had her hailed before the juvenile court,
when she returned from a visit to an
uncle In Missouri. The girl was an
orphan and before that time made her
home with him and his stepmother,
When she came back TO Memphis, she
went to live with a city fireman and
his wife In South Memphis. King didn't
like this, and had the girl brought be-
fore the juvenile court, records of
which show her charged as incorrlgi-
BILE. This witness appeared slow Of
comprehension and his cross -examina-
"Do you know the meaning of the
word incorrigible?" Sam Bates asked
King,
mo, sir" King replied,
That's all. You're excused Mr.,
Bates snapped.
after McNamara's mother had testified
and just before his wife was called to
the stand. She was asked by Mr.. Davis
whether Aliens wife did not call on
her and ask her not to send Allen to
the electric chair, or to the penitentiary
for his baby's sake: She said Mrs. Nc
Namara had not asked her these things.
She also denied that she told Mrs. Nc
Namara that Allen had done nothing
to 20 to the electric chair for, and also
had done nothing for which he should
go to the penltentlary.
Mother Goes to Son.
When Mrs, Mcnamara, Jr., took the
stand, she recited that the girl did tell
her those things, at the Bosworth Bag
| company. where the girl worked.
The mother OF Allen Mcnamara said
he was one of nine children, all living.
Six Of them are boys and three girls.
She said she read OF the account OF Al
lens trouble In a newspaper following
the night Of the alleged assault. and that
at 4:30 Saturday afternoon she called on
the girl, who was lying on a ~daVenette
clad In her night clothing,
to tell MI just what happened" Mrs,
/ Mcnamara said she stated to the girl,
whom she never had met before,
Mrs, Mcnamara said she pressed the
girl, and finally after a direct accusation
against Allen, was told that Allen did
not assault the girl.
In describing 4 bruise which she saw
on the girls neck, Mrs. Mcnamara
| characterized It as a suck blister OF
kiss bump" 1t was blue, she said, and
as large as a dime, In this she bore oul
her sons testimony as to what he DID
In the front seat of the auto. just before
.he and the girl went onto the bridge.
Rough Telephone Talk.
Mrs. Mcnamara said that the cir
called Gus by telephone often, an'
later got to calling Allen SO frequently
that she warned her about the proprie
ty OF such conduct on the part OF young
girls.
"Il let you know you're talking Z
a lady" Mrs. Mcnamara said the cir
replied over the telephone.
"Sou may be a lady now, but yol
won't be one long II you keep this up
I told her." Mrs. Mcnamara said,
She added that she warned the cir
that Allen was married and had a wifi
and baby,
"Didn't you refer in that TELEPHONY
conversation with her to some of 70
little wenches' calling up Allen?' Bate
asked, Mrs. Mcnamara.
Something like that the witness re
piled,
As the mother left the witness stan'
she took her seat alongside her son, TO
the first time since testimony starte'
on Monday in the case, She threw ne
arms about Aliens neck and kissed hin
personal---very., while she hugged hlr
tight for a moment. She rematne'
alongside him during the rest OF tn
day, -
} Mrs. Mcnamara, Jr,, told of calm
on the girl, and OF ~the conversatio
which the girl had denied on the stano
/ She said she at one time warned tn
girl TO quit running around with Ailer
Wife Had Sued Allen.
She said she filed suit for divorc
from Allen a few days before the allege
assault took place. She had separate
: from him three times during the
f, welded life, she said. She charged hin
with running around with other womel
she said,
: When Mrs. Mcnamara, Jr,, left I'll
= witness stand she took a seat alongsid
her husband, on the opposite side frol
the mother. But she did not kiss HI
I husband when she sat down.
Sheriff Perry, next on the stan
was asked by MIR. Davis as to u
whereabouts of Fuller Longley. Pert
said he only wished he knew whel
= Longley. who is the man who escape
after the assault. now was locate
7, He had sent deputies several times
a sudden swoop on tongley's home sin,
T the crime, he said, but found no tra'
OF the fugitive. He said he could y,
'ocpta Lnrslev, should a snhooena :,
MN ne tntTuANcu 10 nun. inns WAS !
the purpose of showing in the recol
Q that the defense could not get the ben,
. 1T Of Longley's testimony,
= Gus Mcnamara said that he had gol
T with the girl. and that she sent word
. him after the assault that she want,
e to see him: that she told him that ALE
. had not accomplished his purpose, b
Y he admitted she said Allen had tried I
e Gus denied that he now was und
conviction In federal court on a whist
= charge,
T Frey's story Of the ride practical
: was the same as that told by Men
e mara, On cross examination he sa
that he had run after Sheriff Per
c arrived on the scene, II ran becau
was scared" he said. Il di.n't wa
g nobody to make no target OF me-"
After he had related his direct e.
q animation. Sam Ratha Questioned hi