The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-27

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 Ye shall pay for-one by one:' This thought, though perhaps not couched as effectively as kiphng has done it, must be uppermost in the minds of most people who are attend ing the trial of Ethel Hutchins Mott,
 now fighting for her life in the County Court House on Golden Hill street. Wade has paid with his life on the scaffold for his part in one of the has soiled tme fair escutcheon of the state. No matter what the outcome of the trial, Ehel Mott is paying now in ears and a mental strain beyond ina gining the horrible debt. ''One by one!''
 Wade paid his part of the debt alone; Ethel Mott is paying hers alone for no matter how kind her kin, how thoughtful her friends, she is treading in solitude the Gethsemane of her own making. And her cross Is woefully heavy!
 ! Everywhere is unfriendliness. The dingy courtroom is full of it. The desultory hand clasps of her attor- neys are forced ones; the occasional smiles from one or two in the audi ence are not wholehearted ones; they are merely a sorry signal from one human being, free, to another human being, imprisoned.
 The whole drama being unrolled with the courtroom as a stage Is mel odramatic and crasse-the old theme has been done to death in the ten, twenty and thirty cent theaterS-lhe Eternal Trian gle.
 A man, much older than his wife, abuses heT-so she says. A young man, full of youth and promise. to her the perSonifica ton of what she should have, but doesn't, comes into | her life. Instead of repulsing him, | as she should, she encourages him to
 an intimacy at once forbidden and 1 deba sing
 l The Inevitable happens The young man, fired by the tales told him by
 his inamorata, sets himself the task
 world, himself and his lady, of. to 1 him, at least, an undesirable citizen-- This is the skeleton of the famous
 Mott case, that will go down in legal 1 history a striking example Of what | solid citizens shouldn't do.
 And the surprising part of it all is
 the apparent responsibility of the | principals.
 Wade was a likely looking boy. He
 could have been called handsome, as
 | the term goes A su1len look depress-
 ing the corners of his mouth was the
 only unredeeming feature in a face
 that was more than pleasing.
 Ethel Mott is a good Joking woman
 To be sure her paleness and black
 garb accentuate her pallor, but her
 | figure is good, her features reguIar'
 1 her hands and feet small and we'll
 shaped. and her eyes rarely beauti-
 full There is nothing of the blatant | type about her. and it would be diff
 cult for the casual observer to be- lieve that she was ever a scarlet 1 woman"
 And the blow that has almost shat tered Bethel Mott is falling unbeliev- ably hard upon her poor old mother l and her two little children. Mrs. Hutchins, sits, in the fullness of her 1 years, a pitiable figure, staring all | most imnn ovafbly at a spot on the court room floor.
 1 Little George Mott, a manly looking 1 little fellow, listens respectfully and | intent1y to all that is being said. see 1 ing scenes that will be enlarged on his i1nrprssionable mind for years to 1 come.
 1 Ruth, the little daughter a beauti- | full blossom in a sorry garden, sits l taking in all that happens with the 1 wide and fascinated eyes of youth.