Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-22

tension of the trial.
 When Attorney Hull had clnsci his argument at 3.45, Judge HiHznan told the jury that his charge would consume so much time that it seemed not wo-sh while to put 1t in on Thursday so that he would adjourn court until 10 o'clock th., next morning when he would give tae cha. ge.
 Judge Rathbun Argues
 Judge Rathbun began the closing argu- ment for the defense when court opened. His voice was little husky as he start ed and he took frequent drinks of ice water as he proceeded in his effective re- view of the case.
 He reminded the jurors that he had asked them when they were chosen If they would give the accused the benefit of any doubt and claimed that the state had absolutely failed to prove it's case You know the world and none of us are what we ought to be, he said, and he made a plea for the broad mantle of charity with the quotation the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians: Though speak. with the tongues of man and an gels and have not charity I am as sound | ing brass and tinl1ling cymbals He fol lowed this with the relation of the story of the woman taken in adultery who was brought before Jesus, but against
 
 | the first stone. DO none accuse your asked the Savior, then, neither do l. Gt and sin no more"
 There is a line of dearcation in thii case that makes it different from other: in that the accused furnishes the onl, l eye witness of the tragedy. The stat knows only what occurred afterward i We the accused. furnish you the onl. direct evidence. You cannot be too carefu 1 in searching the evidence for circumstan i tial evidence is often not convincing an, contains great possibilities for error. Tn attorney Illustrated his point by relatini 1 the Biblical story of how Joseph brethren threw him into the pit and dip ped his coat in the kid of goat tna l they might make his father believe h had been killed. Attorney Rathbun use' as another illustration the story of an en l gineer whose engine plunged through i crowd and the man was about to b 1 lynched when a broken bolt from tn throttle was found to be the cause 10 his seeming rescklessness.
 pr. Tetlow to Blame
 My associate, MT. Dunn continued MI Rathbun, says that it was perhaps al Tact of divinie Providence in the taktni away of Dr. Tetlow and I think he ! E1SIll. HIS iIietn VIII AlOfCA WI SN1N CT home as he wrecked Alvin Kenyon't Dr. Tetlows end can be traced directl to his own acts. yet 1t is remarkabl that this woman's story contains 1 word of blame against him.
 | Look at the accused Do you see her ] the criminal type. Look at her. ls a criminal or the victim of circumstance the mother of four children. the wife c a faithful husband, every one of wfor needs her Good reputation is basic | l determining crime and you must kno, that a woman at 45 does not start ou to be a criminal Then he conduct a l the doctors death absolutely consister with innocence doing everything tha the heart of woman would tell her t do. Mrs. Kenyon fromf the first to th last has not sought to put the blame 0 pr. Tetlow, but I believe you knol where to put tAe blame and every red biooded man would know. The q ran from the back door when Mir Ken you came home once unexpectedly. Doe