Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-21
ATTORNEY DUNN's APPEAL
 BEINGS TEARS IN TRIAL (Continued from Page Fivel

consistent with innocence, when she knew she had the goldfish globe all the time. She did a pretty good job when she swept up the fragments of that globe. bue if innocent would she have been calling for help or would she have been sweeping that room clear of all discriminating evil dence?
 The attorney indicated that a possible theory was that she had got the pistol with the intention of killing the doctor f'e baby and herself. He spoke of the = possible verdicts kn this case. which \ guilty as charged, guilty of second de murder, guilty of manslaughter or not guilty. and went on to speak of the test of yeracity which was brought into the case between the statements of Mrs. Kenyon and the statements of Dr. Scan lon, the several women. Constable Wheel CT and Sheriff Stanton. all disinterested witnesses, while she was supremely inter ested. She even casts doubt upon the truthfulness Of the town clock, said At torney Hewitt
 Dr. Scanlon's acts, said the attorney. were all those of a good American citizen and he is not to blame if the facts prove this woman to be a periurer. adultress and murderess. Crime knows not sex. although the defense has constantly re- minded you that you are trying a woman You are trying a crime and not woman Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn- | ed, quoted the attorney. as he spoke of her romantic acting and said she was too | old for this moving picture romance. | which, however, had all been shot to | pieces when she allowed her 12 year old ! son to come 10 the stand and testify to | her shame. If she ever gets out of this she should say: Would to God I had died 1 rather than allow him to testify to such a l story"
 She says the doctor didn't even get up l from his chair when she fired the shot in the hall, continued the attorney. What | would you have done? It is the probab,l-
 ity that he did start from his chair. tha; 1 he appeared in the doorway and that she
 let him have it as he partly turned away from her
 T believe this was a deliberate. wilfuI and premeditated murder" concluded MT
 Hewitt. You should find her guilty a.
 charged in the indictment"
 Attorney Dunn for the Accused.
 Attorney Dunn began his argument when the court was again in session aftei 1 a snort recess. He referred to Mrs Ken
 Ton as this little woman and declared
 that nothing is too harsh for the prose
 cution to say about her. because they ar
 hard pressed to convict her. He referee
 to the eminent iHrartiality of the judg
 during the trial and 10 the attention r which the jury had given to tho case. al ? winning gratitude from the defendant and he ridiculed the idea that the littl frail woman could have killed Dr. Tetlo1 in struggle. The states evidence is al circumstantial, relying on the position o l the body. the furniture. the course of th bullet and the statements of the defend ! ant The facts brought out, Mir Dun declared, made the issue between a cas-
 of intentional killing or the. accidents
 discharge of a firearm while the accuse n was trying to kill herself There is n = law that if you grasp gun with whic
 I am attempting to commit suicide an n you are killed that am guilty of mai f slaughter.
 n Prefacing hs reference to witnesses
 the case, the attorney said he did n, s mean to accuse anyone of deliberate lt
 ing and perjury. but sometimes peop
 got ideas that they had really seen thin; happen after hearing others tell abo | tory autopsy would have revealed q | bullet. Dr. scaplon, prize witness for il
 state, carries off the lace coffee pot N
 one picture escaped the doctor, but
 has not one word of good for this lit woman. This doctor. lawyer. Indi:
 chief has not one word of feeling for tl 70 woman when he steps on the stand al }; says her words are absolute faisehood l. He is prejudiced witness and not to le relied upon.
 Officer Wheeler now remembers wor Id that he could not before said the auto is ney, but T loved him so' was merely > incoherent statement on Mrs. Kenyor l. part and not an answer to a questio