New Britain herald., 1922-04-05
POLITICAL GANG'
 AFTER MISS STONE
Rulers Of Cincinnati Try to Swear | Her Life Away 4
DEFENSE OF ACCUSED
Lawyer Makes Impassioned Appeal Claiming Defendant and Kinkcad Were Legally Marricl-Iawycrs Shiver Before Woman,

New York. April 5.-Summing TIT today at the trial of Miss Olivia M P. Stone. graduate nurse charge. with murdering Ellis G. kinkead in Brook. lyn last August, Edward J. Reilly, de. fense counsel, charged that the eanr that rules Cincinnati, the city tha, kinkead once served as corporation counsel, was trying to swear away the life of his client.
 In dramatic fashion, Mir. Rell, challenged Kinkead's widow. who sat weeping in the courtroom. to def, him to prove his charges that she had been woman of the underworld and dared anyone to take the stand and testify that his client, this good southern girl" lied.
 With all the evidence in. cour, opened today on a tense scene.
 Miss Stone Wceps.
 Wan and haggard after a. sleepless night in jail Miss Stone entered the room weeping.
 T put my trust in God, the jury and Judge Aspinal," she said to re- porters as she took her seat.
 Mrs. kinkead who has been an in terested spectator throughout the trial also showed the effects of the strain. When MT. Reilly brought her name into his address to the jury she so lost her composure that for mo- ment she had to leave the courtroom She soon returned, however, and sat crying as he finished his address.
 Burden Of Proof.
 ''The state must prove Miss Stone sane" Mr. Reilly said. Tt must prove her clear in mind and establish that she knew what she was doing when she shot kinkead.
 This is one of the most import ant cases that ever has been tried in Brooklyn. All the country is watch ing it. It involves every woman in the United States because it involves the honor of every woman in the United States.
 You have a right to assume that there is someone behind the scenes and from the names mentioned here you have right to assume who il is that Is trying to swear away the life of a good southern girl.
 Victim of Gang.
 'The same gang that rules Cincin- nati and which drove Olivia Stone out. has come down here and is bounding her now. They came to damn a woman's reputation.
 "Ill stop this speech here now if Marie Gormley will go on this stand and defy me to prove what I said she was.
 "Kinkead's relatives and friends are still alive, but they stay behind the scenes.
 Let one of those Cincinnati law yers come here and say that this good southern girl lies. They don't dare.
 Asserting that the ceremony through which kinkead and Miss Stone went at Atlantic City in 1918 was legal common law marriage, Mir. Reilly contnued:
 We have the real widow of Ellis c. kinkead on trial here. She was the wife of that man in the sight of God and man"
 Attacks Mrs. Kinkead.
 Mrs. kinkead left the courtroom when defense counsel renewed his at tack on her, saying:
 Tt is fine condition of affairs in Cincinnati when woman of the un- derworld can make the leading law ycrs and the chief of police shiver."
 Mir. Reilly then attacked James K. Clark, L. s. attorney in Cincinnati, who testified for the prosecution, as "crooked liar" He stated his in- tention of laying ClafN's connection with the case before the Ohio BSS association.
 Reilly charged Mrs. kinkead with coming to the trial only to gloat and sheer at his client