The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-02-21

concluded and Ealy's fate
placed in the hands of the
jury before court adjourned
Saturday night.
Deliberately. Patterson reviewed
the evidence In 40 far as IL connected
Esaiy with the crime. rccniiing discrep-
ancies In testimony and explaining
each act OF the defendant as consist.
ent with the states theory that
Eaiy chokcd Mrs. Bryan 10 death
about midnight ociober 10.
u leave IL To the jury he do.
ciarcd. whether this defendant Is a
mere. foolish hoy. He met Mar
Elizabeth Bryan. and within 10 days
both OF them had arranged to go TO
California and live together as man
and wife until such time as they
could GDrure divorces.
sAYG miE DRANK
LIQUOR At HIS HOME
within 80 days she had come to
trust this defendant more than any.
body else in the world. She trusted
him with her money. perhaps would
have given n to him outright
want TO say TO you that no woman
ever reaches that stage without the
man In the case doing something.
He says the clerk at the Piam
hotel told him to register anyhow.
whether he was the womans hus-
hand or not. IL that reasonablc7
There isn't hotel In the caty where
n man cannot go to woman's room
TO visit her without registering.
They wouldn't have asked him to
register unless he had said he was
some relation.
''Ou that day that Mrs. Bryan went
out to his home. shc drank liquor
furnished by this defendants step
father. Her tongue was loosencd and
she told OF her relations with the
defendant and OF their plans for the
future. His mother and father coun-
seicd him against II. and this mere
boy continued to meet Mrs. Bryan.
SHE WAS MOT Bad"
SAYS PROSECUTOR
Another month passes. Scptem.
her comes. Letters pass back and
forth between the defendant and
Mrs. Bryan. Business lettersY No.
There comes a day when Mrs.
Bryan leaves home. What was
the trouble. She wanted change,
that was all. She was not bad
She was foolish. weak. When the
ground was fertile, as fate would
have 1t, this defendant appears.
Al her final parting with her
husband. she said. 4 want cash.
And he gave her s4.5o0--.5o $40
bills and 100 $40 bills. She leaves
Puyaliup to see the defendant by
arrangement In Seattle and to re.
main here with him for time
and go to California with him and
let him have part Of the money
The other part she was to keep |
In case she might be mistaken in /,
her trust.
"shc let nobody else know she |
was in Seattle. She registered |
under an assumed name at the |
Plaza hotel. her mind made up to
see no one else she knew but the |
defendant.
"she met him October 1S-Sun.
day--aftcr she had paid her bill at |
the hotel for week. Would she
have paid her bill for a week in |
advance II shc had been going to
Spokane? Never.
Sunday when he camc down |
and this comes from the lips OF
the defendant himsclf--she said to |
him that Mrs. Unsworth had called |
her up. Mrs, Unsworth had called |
her up and asked her to come to |
supper She didn't say 4 called
up Mrs. Unsworth.'
"Now--how did Mrs. Unsworth |
know where to call? She never did
SAYS SHE WENT IN
AUTO WITH EALY
sunday afternoon, the defendant
says, she went with him for walk.
They walked over the waterfront,
along the docks. hack to the market
ana to Pike 1t. From : o'clock until |
about 4:3o they walked They never
went back to the Plaza, Don's for
get that.
He wants this jury to believe
that he put Mrs. Bryan on the car
to 80 to Mrs. unsworth's. that she