The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
By JOHN BRADLEY A

In the days of old when knights were bold as we are told, when those same knights went forth to battle, or entered the list for the joustings, the ladyes faire were wont to appear and cheer with their presence their own particular champion.
 And when some young squire anx- ious to win favor and win for him self the coveted spurs of kriShthood entered the lists, there was sure to be some 1ady's maid who was there to cheer for him on to his victory, to wait impatiently for the first news, or for his return from the conflict and was he victorious he was awarded the mantle of knigh: hood and thence forth wore spurs. emblem Of his vic tory and his standing.
 And so yesterday a brilliant young squire of the bar went forth to the jousting and in the presence Of as many of the legal fraternity as could possibly find their way to the crowded superior courtroom, entered the lists and emerged at the end of enc hour and twenty minutes, fully entitled to all the honors of knightllood, have earned them by delivering, what that most taciturn member of the bar, Homer S. Cummings characterized as the best presentation of a case ever made in this court during his term of office as prosecuting attorney.
 And there was none but was proud of Earl Gar1iek as a member of their profession and heaped upon him a pro- fusion of hearty congratulations. And I am sure that when he returned to his own castle and freside that his ladye faire was there with a right good welcome for her own knight It was exactly 3:25 when MT. Gar | lick began making the first presen- tation of the case to the jury for the state. It was exactly 4:45 when he sat down. exhausted, but with the satisfaction of a duty we'll done. His address to the jury was a mas l teriy, tactfu1 and fearfuIly forcefu1ar. raignment of the man before the bar It was a, tracing step by step of the events which led up to the commis- with such terrible exactitude. that lis, tening to it, one found himself won dering if there could possibly be any way in which the jurors could see any other way except the one being laid down to them by the young at torney who was presenting the case of the state against Elwood B. Wade with such deadly precision.
 we have not to deal with what is or is not a, possible doubt in this case.'' he said, 'for the defense has at no time entered one single word o1 denial in favor of their client. They admit that he killed George B. Not on the 29th day of August, but they would come before you and ask you on the f1imsiest kind of a pretense tc not find him guilty of murder in the
 
 ''They would have you believe tha, Elwood Wade was insane; did not know what he was doing. but I want to tell you and you have heard wit nesses testifying to it, that they, FL wood Wade and his associates, kill. ed gorge Mott because of hatred, envy, malice and passion."
 Telling of the day when Mary Wade who had only a, casual acquaintance with Ethel Mott happened to meet her and how she in the course of or dinary courtesy introduced her hus- band to the woman, he traced their by step, until the night when Wade and Johnson laid in a. truck waiting for Mott to come along that they might assassinate him.
 Wade was not suffering from an irresistible impulse; or was he suf- fering from any form of mental dull