Weekly journal-miner., 1919-11-05

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 uot found favor as a defense.
 Regarding the testimony as to tn,
 nervousness of Mrs. Anderson. mother shortly before the birth o
 the child, counsel argued that ner
 vousness at such q time was so ire quent that it occasioned but passing comment from the thousands O
 mothers of this country. And he
 had never before heard that this ordinary, natural prompting of na
 ture produced in the offspring |
 taint of insanity
 Touching on the testimony of al legged suicidal attempts, the counse
 for the state pointed out that at tho
 ripe age of 60 years the mother was
 living, writing letters, and in his
 opinion her death would be due tc
 ripe old age.
 He charged that counsel for the defense had not considered other in.
 iluences in the early life of the child through all her tender years the steady influence of friends, school mates. neighbors and relatives werC hers in abundant measure. He re alized that there were men on tn, jury before him who if their live had been as sheltered and free iron depressing influences and crise which oppress the lives and minds oi mankind, that if their troubles wer' cut down to those that the defendan had had 10 bear, they would thanl God for his abundant mercy.
 With a depth of emotion tha misted the eyes of many who heart him, E. s. Clark said he .s though Counsel LeRoy Anderson was hardl, fair when he suggested to the jur, that possibly when this litle girl (Mrs Anderson) was ministering tc some patients suffering. cooling witt gentle touches some fevered brow that perhaps the counsel for tn, state had been sheltered in a warm comfortable home. To this, he re piled that the hand of tragedy in volving a nurse had touched III home, thus recalling the death of tn infant grandson who bore his name
 Dr. Win Wylie received severe ex corication at the hands of the prose cutor. Pointing out that the Phoe nix physician stated that he fixed th time when insanity was deducibl from the hypothetical question as th, time when maidenly modesty wa abandoned by her. counsel elaine that it would have been unnatur; if at about this time some chang was not noticeable, a change norm; and natural for every woman of ht years. And there had been no tes timony introduced to show the lea; pervcfsion Of sex on the part Of th defendant, nor the least excess, nc that she did more talking on SC matters than the witnesses who tes tihed in her behalf. Taking the stats ments under oath by Mrs Riebelin! Mrs. Jack Leavell, Blanche Cast and Charles Riebeling that her mir. dwelt on sex matters, it is evider that she held her conversations wit them, that she is not the only or that is insane, but all of them ar insane, for her stories found willin ears. Yet counsel will not clair that these are insane.
 Referring to counsel for the dc fense, the states attorney declare they had brought into this case flavor of vulgarity and obscenit which has no place here. It was il tended to muddy the waters an make the hideousness of this mons trosity obscure"
 He secuted Dr. McNally's theor of her insanity as based on suicids attempts, counsel advancing that tn truth had not been told by the de fendant when she claimed the reaso she did not carry out her plan |, suicide at the hotel in Phoenix wa that the authorities might charge he habitual intimate, Blanche Castlc with it.
 "Why would Mrs. Anderson eH oect that, when she knew she herseI had written a note in her own han6 writing acknowledging that sh planned it herself, leaving direction for notifying relatives?" To counse that seemed but one of several at to set stage whereon to pla' on the pity of her lover of the mo ment
 50. too. when the defendan claimed 10 have atken the 2yy5' grain of morhpine. She had dressed i her most attractive garments to com