Weekly journal-miner., 1921-05-25
MRS. HOPKINS
 FOUND GUILTY
 FELONY CHARGE
tFrom Fridays Daily,

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 Hopkins for assault inquired the dis position of the accused in case she were acquitted by reason of insanity were that the defendant would be so acquitted, but an hour and half later, the jury came into the court room with a verdict of guilty.
 Her jury arrived while Mrs. Hop kins was waiting and Judge Sweeney was presiding over the interrogation of talesmen to try J. M. Monteros. Judge Sweeney retired and Judge Jenckes came on the bench. During the short period of preparation for receiving the verdict, the roll call and such preliminaries, Mrs. Hop <ins sat with her hand slightly grip ped in those of Clarence V. Hop kins, her husband. James Daughter ty sat on her other side Mrs. Hop kins gave a little sign of emotion. [ Her cheeks were drawn and she breathed rapidly. As Foreman John Massing handed the written verdict to the bailiff for delivery to the judge, Mrs. Hopkins released her hands and sat upright, apparently calm. The reading of the verdict by the clerk brought not a shade of passing emotion to the faces of the three persons most concerned in it.
 Across the auditorium sat Lucille Gallagher, the prosecuting witness, her father and mother and some friends. Following the closing of the trial they had personally thanked Judge Ellis for his manner of con- ducting the defense case so as to bring as little offense as possible to the prosecuting witness and her family.
 Sentence to Come Monday E.
 Judge Jenckes set Monday morn ing at 9:30 for passing sentence on Mrs. Hopkins. He remanded her to the custody of the sheriff and she Kissed her husband and brother and went back to her cell in the women's ward in custody of the matron, Mrs. J. R. Lowry. A few minutes later, Mrs. Lowry was back at the side Of the diminutive prosecuting witness in the Monteros case.
 Hot Shots
 All morning was required for the arguments, and Judge Jenckes start ed reading his instructions a few minutes after F. He finished about 12:30.
 County Attorney Sullivan opened for the state with a brief synopsis of the evidence. He denounced the act as one of cruelty and attacked the insanity defense. He questioned the logic of declaring Mrs. Hopkins in sane in view of a lack of action in the past to restrain her. He charged the offense to her "undisciplined temper" and said she had become so habituated to overriding the will of others that when she was baked, she adopted the melodramatic method of throwing acid in order to achieve her ends.
 Judge Ellis, for the defense, denied any inclination to look into the mo- tives of the state or others ill secur- ing a special prosecutor. He said Dr. Wylie, the states alienist, had taken a number of dissociated incl dents and denied they pointed to in- sanity, and in rather scathing terms, flayed the states witness. Mrs Hopkins planned her campaign and then drew the eyes of the world by her melodramatic act. That's your paranoiac."
 He characterized Dr. Wylie as d Thy brid' lawyer and doctor. He con trasted the manner in which he had testified and that of the defense specialists and of Mrs. McNally, the friend of the defendant, when they bore witness. He compared the cred ibility of the opposing witnesses to the extreme detriment Of the states witness.
 The address of Special Prosecutor Robert McMurchie was couched ill strong terms. He decried the 'sar- casm" of Judge Ellis and called the latter's attack on Dr. Wylie "pecu- liar" He alluded to the beautiful head of Dr. Olds, the beautiful scientific mind of Dr. Schwarz and the beautiful features of Dr. McNa1- ly,' whereupon there was a sup pressed laughing ill which the doctor joined unaffectedly.
 Reciting matter relative to the hy- pothetical questions, McMurchie was challenged by Ellis as to the accur-