Weekly journal-miner., 1919-06-25
CASE IN HANDS OF JURY LATE
 IN NIGHT
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

the Bernice Anderson case to it, .bed-chambers at a little after II o'clock last night.
 A most remarkable case, this-ac-
 cording to E. s. Clark, who closed the argument There were involved new points of law, wherein no great precedents had ever been laid down in this state. It presented, likewise, q peculiar chain oi facts, with which | the jury was more concerned
 It was the theory of the state, ex- pressed by the speaker, that the murder was cool and deliberate, with the cool, deliberate fury of a woman scorned. Every plan the defendant made to accomplish her purpose, he said, was showing that. There was no evidence that Wilson had been other than an honorable fellow. There was a grave doubt as to the conduct of the defendant. At any rate, Wilson did not lure Bernice Anderson to ruin.
 MT. Clark held that the previous attempts at suicide had been stage suicides, never intended to end her fife, but certainly set for the benefit of Wilson, whom, she thought vas slipping from her grasp. Nothing could be more theatrical than ;he morphine attempt, with its trappings and its awakening with an appeal that Wilson be brought to her at 2:30 in the morning.
 He said she had sent Wilson by telephone a deliberate summons to his death.
 LeRoy Anderson, closing for fne defense, sketched the facts lightly, told the jury that there were but two possible verdicts-hrst' degree mur- der or acquittal by reason of insan- ity, and made an eloquent plea for a humane verdict of not guilty.
 Argument Opens
 That jealousy or the fear of losing a man with whom she had become infatuated is technically and morally no excuse or palliation for a homi- eide, was the stand taken by the state in the opening argument by County Attorney Neil Clark. If there was anything in the insanity plea, the prosecution failed to be convinced, and 1t had made a sincere effort to inform itself as to the actual mental condition of the defendant before the trial and during the trial when a question was raised by the defense in its expert testimony, as to the sanity of Mrs. Anderson, both at the time of the killing and during the trial.
 MT. Clark said he felt that the dic- tionary definition of the word "wily agreed very well with the charac,er of the defense's leading alienist, all though Dr. Wylie spells his name in a different way. At any rate, pr. Wylie was the only paid witness in this case He had admitted having accumulated legal as well as medical knowledge ill order to make himself invaluable to corporations-in other words, he was sort of professional witness, who went wherever required and reeled off testimony practically to order. As a lawyer he sat with the defense. and prepared from the evidence a long and rambling suppO- sition in the form of a hypothetical question, then in his capacity as q medical man, he had gone on the stand to deliver himself of a long and rambling reply to this question. Neither question nor answer con! vinced or impressed the prosecution.
 Dr. Vivian, another witness for 5he defense, who told that Mrs Andcr- son was insane both while murdering Wilson and while Gestifying on the stand, was dismissed as a man who, by the the nature of his life-work at Humboldt, could not really qualify as an expert on mental diseases.
 MT. Clark said he felt that the evil dence of the defendant herself was of a highly significant character Iti went to prove to him what he hadn't always been firmly convinced of and that was that the murder was a really cold-blooded and conscience less affair, absolutely premeditated and committed with pure logic and clear planning ability. Witness the by-play of closing a door at the re- quest of a patient. \ truly m2niaCal mind involved i'll the execution oi a deed of such cold ierocity, could notI have been bent from it's preCipitodS course. to perform a slight service ] such a. Mrs. Hobdy requested.
 Another point that the state con sidcrcd of extreme import was tine fact that with half a dozen women, ! including her relative, her employer. . her patient and her ohum, firmly con vinced of her lack Of balance. none had taken seroius steps 10 safeguard 1. her. One had employed her in the ! most ticklish business of caring for 1 patients. One had permitted her 10 assume care of herself and her less than a week old infant. Surely, not things q person convinced of her iu- -, sanity would have done. he held.
 Judge Ellis Replies
 Judge J. A. Ellis opened for inc defense with d recital of the various facts tending to show the lack oi balance in the mind of the defendant . He told of her unhappy mother. the loss of that mothers req son. the attempted suicide pact, the three attempts at suicide on the part of the defendant He supported the testimony of the three physicians by pointing out their training, their op- portunities for observation and ahe fact that none of them could have the slightest motive for distortlng l.,