The Washington times., 1921-02-10
WOMAN TO DEFEND
YOUTHFUL SLAYER
Mrs. .MaIey Assisting Husband
ip Conducting Defense tor
William Gleason.
~ MARGERY REX.
.lnterosttonai News.

GlIit III tU' OlAto fOA WV SNs&SJ =
woman viii help defend q man on
( Mrs augusta E Maiey. OF Hacken-
sack. win be ope Of the counsel for
dsfense when William Gleason con.%a
TO trial for murder within the next
thee weeks. s
rne first woman of HackensaclS 70
practice law. she Is also the hrst wo-
man in her state 90 try criminal
case. h
~ jury OF men win hear the tosti-
Byit woman wni question thslr
tpn%ss to, pass upon tha,- testiuioay
before she permits the;n % attain a
place in thS jury boN.
"rhe next hest thing to Jury OF
women, or one with aome women
mem bcrs, is to have panel examined
and challenged by woman" said
Mrs. Mniey.
Woman challenges. man IN the su-
premc Court Of her state. Apprcpri-
ate in this town, combination of the.
old and the new
Across the street from this inn
posing home OF avensing Justice the
light winters snow falls tinorously
on a graveyard three hundred years
old.
PaEJUDrcas RrRIED.
Here lie preJudices that havc
turned TO dust buried bigotrios.
Pale moaum@uts that lock like the
lBhosts OK gravestones huddle togeth-
-cr as If to harricade their iifcless
lessees against the sharp step OF
progress.
The ;4icient hotel near by where
George Washington stopped TO rest
continues its course of uninterrupted
charm.
Down the main street OF the busy
little town here and there crowded in
between n1odrcn structures, can be
seen u whiscwRshed hiuish-white
house, iiltrA bieary-oyod Old man with
Bagsfng checks Or, p5rheps. II II q
decent old residence that has had 81
new shop front or neat red brick pilt
on 90 modernizs IL. for ell the world
ss fs,es gas-iage % ae s5ed assr .nsr
20 Keep frora freezing to death.
This Is Hackeusack the picturesque
old and the bustl,pg now.
Porfa p; a towl cam best be scan by
SOMEONE 70 whom it Is unfamiliar.
Apd PERHAPS q woman can best be
dcsaribed9by SOMEONE who knows her
very well
MIR. siALEy PRAISES WIFE.
MY wife IS not new woman" says
United States Commissioners Patrick
Henry Malsy.
''She is an eid-fashioned woman who
is up-ts7date.p
ment, and i5la me row i il calne absu,
that she viii hclp defend william
cleason when he is pat on trial for
his life ss
When cosnlissio ioner Maley, a few
years ago wanted "a take In 4 law
partner she was ouzzied rs 20
cpoiee. Mrs, Maiey. a former school
asked il sho couldn't study
law and help.
II asked Mr.. Maiey why his life
partner couldn't be his law partner
too she said.
And she began to study law got
through and passed the bar exami-
nGtion as soon as II could be done"
internosed her proud husband.
JsTEnEsTgD IN CASE.
Although Ho not consider Grim
inal practi-, the proper field for
woman lawyer have taken a great
interest ihl this case said Mrs
Maley. my husband will be counsel
for the Gleason hoy. but l have pre-
pared the case for him and viii help
IN the triala Just how | can't say
yet. Developments win decide that
for me-"
Il want no credit that is not, due
to me, but am very much inter-
eFted in the case OF this boy. He
was honorably discharred FROM ~ "
service. and was faithful and hard
" orking.
.'IIe has been Unfortunate and got
into bad associations. 20 came. 80
Hacken3ack with some other boys to
enGege a hall TO give party. The
occurrence was no planned affair."
In the courthouse corridor saw
Mrs Annie Gleason, the mother of
tho prisoner, and his TWO pretty sis
ters. well dressed, intelligent girls.
Its a. ascorfort 10 have a woman
in the case" the boys mother said
her eyes full of tears" A woman
a woman can see into
another persons heart. She UNDER
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