The Washington times., 1920-02-08
(cOntinued from First Pase.)


protect her. II want some air" said
| the woman, calmly, almost coldly.
After most of the jury had left. Mrs.
Uhl accompanied by her father, sis
ter, Mrs. Ida Meyers, who had stood
| by her all during the trial, and Harry
A Pitzer, president OF the First Ma
| tional Bank of Mt. Savage. pushed
TO the doors and out into the Corridors
where they had to force their way
] through the crowds. Uhl followed.
carrying one OF the children.
Mr.. Pitser. friend of the woman's :
family, a neighbor. from Mt. Savage
where Mrs. Uhl was born and reared.
and where she met and later welded
Uhl, had his automobile waiting TO
take the defendant home. When he
drove TO Cumber rland yesterday morn
ing 10 testify as TO the character of
Mrs Uhl. whom he had known since
childhood, he said as he shook hands
with the defendant
Kate, I've brought my automobile
to take you home--take you away
from here, and your husband cannot
so back with u.s. not In my machine"
That's how certain Mr.. Pitzer was
OF the igirl-mother's acquittal.
Happy Over AcauittsL.
I'm happy / was acquitted" Mrs.
Snl tOiu Inc |" cor
respondent. Never for "A moment did
| believe would be convicted. was
certain OF an acquittal--certain that
I killed Pownell for a justihable
cause.
~ want TO thank tbe-Jury through.
rthe press. /-k-BefTeVe they realized
| that a -Goman's honor is not to be
ravished. They were mostly married
men with wives and children, and
they saw il brought home what q
man like Pownell can dor attempt
to do"
A short tipe later Mrs. Uhi sped
away In MI. Pitzer's automobile.
aching Mt. Savage at supper time.
The case went to the jury at 4:10
o'clock, and the verdict was REACHED
at 5:25 o'clock.
Flayed Defendant.
In summing up the case for the
prosecution, States Attorney Fuller
Barnard, jr, who, with Joshua Zim-
mermann, prosecuted the case. un-
| mertifully fayed the defendant, de-
claring that she had coaxed Pownell
INTO q trap and killed him.
1T is the theory OF the State
said Zimmerman, that this woman
(pointing to Mrs. Uhl, as he put the
hHlit "ilhlh lt"
inches OF her eyes, purchased that
hog sticker,' with its slender point,
to take human life because she fig-
ured IL would do the work well, and
she was sure when she pierced it
through his flesh it would go home
and accomplish it's mission.
In going over the details of how
Pownell was summoned by Mrs. Uhl
on~-the morning of the staying, Mr..
Zimmerman declared: mo woman is
going to call for the person TO ravish
her But, in closing he said: But
should you find this woman was JUS
tilted in Killing Powneil, l win be
the first to grasp her hand in con-
graduation. Mr.. Zimmerman, how
ever, left the courtroom before the
acquittal came.
showed Seant Testimony.
Attorney David A. Robb and Saul
Praeeer, who defended Mrs. Uhl,
made earnest pleas for her acquittal
bringing out that no evidence of a
tangible nature had been adduced
from the testimony to 'eontradict the
defense's plea that Pownell had been
slain when he attempted to assault
the woman who had called him to her
apartment to urge that he clear her
name to her husband of che suspicion
of her unfaithfulness and improper
relations with the slain aviator.me-
chanic.
The only tangible testimony that
could have created doubt of the wom-
ans guilt was that given by Coroner
Finan, who declared that when he
questioned Mrs. Uhl following the
staying that she told him that she
killed Pownell because Il thought he
fviA nj hnt hA n
to stick by me. When ne did not
stick / killed him" This was Mrs.
Uhrs first statement to the authori-
ties.
Later, however, she related the
story of Pownells attempt to assault
her when she summoned him to her
apartment to "straighten things" out
with her husband, who had arrived at
the night before, found the apart
ment dark and Pownell rushing up
the steps to his apartment on the Sec
ond floor.
"Hungcred for Love-
She hungered for love that she
failed to receive from a husband who
tore over this city with other COM
panions while she and her little
children locked themselves in their
humble home" shouted States Al
torney Barnard in closing the pre-
secution's case, as he pointed a finger
at Mrs. Uhl.
"It was because of these conditions
that she craved for the love OF some
one and she had hoped to receive it
from Bryan Pownell. When Powncil
repudiated her love, when her hus-
band had discovered or suspe ated
their intimacy and ordered her out Of
his home, she lured him TO his death
He fingered for sometime over the
testimony that Mrs. Uhl had kissed
Bryan Pownell, and then cried out
passionately: she did not resent 1t
she did not tell her husband. He
contended that Mrs. Chl was begin
ming to love Bryan when she I, III
Mrs. Louise >Pownell, his aunt by
marriage, that he was a dear cute
I. La, A duri,,nr