The Washington times., 1920-10-21
HUSBANDH|DES
FACE|NTEARS
Prosecutor Merciless in Con-
demning Movie Romance"
of Wife Who Slew DR..

NORWICH, Oct. 20.-For the
hrst time In five months, almost
half his young life, Mrs. Maybelle
Kenyon hugged her little son to her
breast today and pressed her wet
cheek against his face.
JURY GETS CASE TOMORROW.
Not since tho early days OF her i'm
prisonment on the charge OF murder
ing her neighbor and admirer. DIR.
Herbert Tetlow. has this mother q,
four sons seen her youngest
While awaiting the continuance OF
her trial yesterday, Mrs. Kenyon, i'll
and attended by a physician. begged
for her baby, Her husband. Alvin
Kenyon. put the rosy little bundle OF
smiles and blue eyes in her out
stretched arms when she reached the
courtroom this morning.
1t was the first pathetic touch of
day which brought tears OF pity and
sympathy to the crowd OF spectators
who for a week have been looking on
the barred heart Of the accused woman.
1t Is expected that the case OF Mrs.
Kenyon. charged with the murder OF
DR.. Herbert Tetlow in Pawtucket last
June, will be given to the jury in
the superior court tomorrow.
STAINED SACRED wOMANHOOD.'
After brief rebuttal testimony,
Benjamin II. Hewitt. attorney for the
State, began the summing up OF the
prosecution. He moved Mrs. Kenyon
to tears when he said:
"Wben you hear. this woman ad-
hitting on the stand, without even
lowering her eyes, that she has
stained her sacred womanhood and
no nf
Commandments, what manner of
woman are you led to think you are
dealing with?
"On the stand you were led into
a moving picture romance. But its
heroine was more than forty years
old, the mother of grown children,
the wife Of one Of the best and
noblest nen 1 have ever been hon
ored with knowing. And she al
lowed her twelve-year-old SON TO go
on the stand and testify rs to her
shame"
Mrs. Kenyon's lips trembled and
her fingers, outstretched on the
counsel table, drew up into the palm
Of her hand. Her husband reached
ever and took the hand and patted it.
HUSBAND BROKE DOWN.
Again there was a dramatic scene
when John ]. Dunn, making the first
plea for the defense and drawing
a picture of the wrecked life, used
these words: q
"a faithful and honorable hsuband
three sturdy and adOrinx boys, who
know full well the weight OF YER
dict, are loskinKs to- you. Two l$ttie
hahds wre keld Sut 70 yoa,s. Two Saby
eyes are looking up to you"
Kenyon, fighting hard for control,
broke down and wept, bitterly. un-
restrainedly,. Mrs. Kenyon covered
her face with her hands. Norah and
Francis reached to touch her and
comfort her, their own faces wet with
tears.
And beholders wept, too-the first
sign Of deep feeling that they had
given.
Dunn did not spare the aged doctor
who was shot to death. He called
upon the fury to consider that the
taken away this man. "who had
wound his trail about the little home
of his neighborhood, beguiled his
friends wife with gifts and atten-
tions and touched her heart with his
ministrations to her children"
DID NOT SPARE HERSELF.
Mrs. Kenyon's counsel dwelt upon
her courage in unfolding her sin and
shame, that the truth might not be
withheld. She might have pleaded
sels-defense. She. might have pleaded
emotional insanity had she wanted to
spare herself, he said.
As the courtroom emptied Kenyon
walked with his wife to the little
chamber, where she was to wait to be
taken back to Jail. He pressed her
hand and whispered words of cour-
age, but he lost that courage when