The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-05-12
MRS. SAWYER GOING To
n. G. WITH HER MOTHER

b<su before.
MRS. SAWYER GOING TO
u. G. WITH HER MOTHER
- Fishing. swimming and plenty OF
outdoor iife-that's what she Is going
20 have with her mother. Mrs p. ID.
Fighter. Of Vancouver. Il. c.. she
told The star Thursday.
Il have decided today" said Mrs
Sawyer. ito so with my mother
yes" said the mother. happy and
as youthful. almost as her daughter.
"rd do anything for Mndgr. I'm
taking her away with me for rest
''Shc shall have sunshine and plcn-
~ Of fresh air. In the last year the
giri had almost forgotten how to
smiic-
when I come back Mrs. Sawyer
added. Il shall decide then what to
do. Divine power which has come
10 my assistance at tho eleventh
hour in all my difficulties WIN not
desert me either then or now
She denied that she had received
any offers Of work from anybody
and concluded by saying
you can make NJ your mind I'm
going to learn to be n happy girl
again before do anything else
VERDICT PRECEDED
BY ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
The verdict. almost too svffsiy
arrived asP<oz hdvSr cecn physically
possible. lad been prrcsssed by four
Eloquent addresses to shc jury--two
br the prosecution and two for the
! icSense.
Judge Inward c. Mills OF waIla
waila. presiding. had delivered his
instructions to the jury nj II q m.
pointing out that the state was
under obligation 20 prove four
things--that Mrs. Sawyer fired tho
shot; that she did 30 with design
to effect the death Of her husband.
Howard l. Sawyer: that as a result
Of the shot. fired willfrify. unlaw-
fully and feioniousiy. Sawyer died.
and that the shooting was not done
In self defense
Tho defense. he said. need not
prove her innocence II need
merely prove that the state has not
proved her guilt
Promptly At .. m. after ad-
journment had been taken for
luncheon. Deputy Prosecutor T. n.
Patterson began his closing argu.
un,ent. He was the generalization
Of righteous indignation.
Bitingiy sarcastic and colby
analytical. he attempted to strip
the defense of every emotional
aspect and 10 convince the Jury
that Mrs. Sawyer had either been
untruthfnI concerning the mania
with which she said her husbs nd
was afflicted or else that the al
legged mania did not affect her ms
she had claimed.
"she WINS a woman Of the wordi."
cried Patterson. And Attorney
Walter s. Fulton. for tho defense.
Vas on his feet at once. charging
that the prosecution had no right
TO use the phrase whereupon
the court warned the jury to he
BY attorneys arguments And Pat
terson explained his remark to
mean Mrs. Sawyer had loaned
money as a business and had visited
Seattle alone.
KILLED HIM IN ANGER
NOT SELF DEFENSE
The hsppiest time Of her life was
when she was the wife OF Howard 1.
Sawyer" Patterson continued
"she killed him not in self Defense
not By accident. II was anger!
Anger he shrieked.
George II. Rummens. associated
with counsel for defense. followed
with brief but telling explanation OF
why Sawyer didn't shoot first
II shall convince you" he said
"that Howard I. Sawyer dug his own
grave and by his own hands he is
dead
Taking the pistoi-revoiver found In
sawyer's hand when he was killed,
Rummens demonstrated that the
spring by which bullets were placed
Oh position 90 fire was defective.
That is why" he explained. "that
Howard !. Sawyer liz not on trial here
for murder and Madge Anna Sawyer
IL not In her grave.
He played his game Of brutality
and unrighteousness, and at the Last
the little fates played this trick on
him. ,-he little fates always turn the
trick IN the long run. RetriDution 10
sure"
Walter s. Fulton began his nd Trees
at 215 .. m. He spoke until 40.
making an exhaustive review Of all
the evidence in the case and OF the
law as expounded by the judge in his
,Hsfructions 10 the jury.
1.-THE state" he sald, lis asking
you 70 convict this girl on suspicion.
in spite OF overwhelming and uncon-
tradicted evidence In her favor"
He insisted that she was quite a
noble woman" in spite OF the fact
that she had been consigned 10 the
ephssnging Of a stepfathe, and had