The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-04-06
MISS Stone IN
TEARS AS CASE
GOES To JURY
One OF Six verdicts Possible in
Case of Nurse Who Slew
Lawyer.

NEW YORK, April 6.-The fate Of
Olivia NJ. p. Stone. on trial for the
Staying Of Ellis G. I<inkead. a corpor-
alton counsel Of Cincinnati. last Au.
gust s, was placed In the hands of a
jury in the Brooklyn supreme court
today. following fifty minute
charge by Justice Joseph Aspinall.
The judge declared the jury could
return one of six possible verdicts:
Not guilty. by reason of insanity;
guilty or first-degree murder, guilty
or second-degree murder, guilty OF
first-degree granddaughter, guilty Of
second.degree granddaughter, and not
guilty because the state had failed TO
make case against her.
III the defendant is found guilty
OF murder In the first degree. she viii
pay the penalty with her life" the
Judge declared.
The jury then retired to deliberate
and reach Il verdict
The judges charge TO the twelve
men In the box was punctuated sew.
eral times by the loud sobbing OF
Miss Stone. In back of the court.
room sat Marie Gormley Kinkead,
widow of the slain man. red eyed and
intently listening to the judges ad.
dress.
The law Of the State Of New
York, and not Olivia NJ. +. Stone.
is on trial, Prosecutor Warbasse
declared in his last words 10 the
jury which will! decide her fate.
Widow Quits Court.
Mrs. Marie Gormley Kinkead.
legal widow Of the wealthy traction
lawyer slain by Miss Stone, SUP.
piled one OF the dramatic moments
OF the day. When Attorney Ed.
ward j. Reilly for the defense dared
her to take the witness stand to
refute Miss Stones narrative, the
widow rose and stalked out Of the
courtroom, cynosure for the spec
tators.
The Gormley woman has been in
this court every day to gloat and
laugh at the spectacle Of this un.
happy woman here" Mr. Reilly as
serted. She has heard herself re.
Tered TO as q woman OF the under.
world, and she has heard the story OF
how she held kinkead in her grasp
until he was forced to marry her
and week the life of this defendant.
his rightful wife.
This woman, who made powerful
lawyers in Cincinnati SILVER in their
shoes, and had. through her nerari-
Gus schemes, a hold on half the
politicians in the town, comes TO this
trial. Why? To gloat, TO laugh and
TO give out interviews. Let her take
the stand and submit to my cross
examination. Then / could show the
jury who was the vampire In this
tragedy, who forced the horror into
the story Of Ellis Guy Kinkead's
life"
Even the men among the special.
OF were moved, some of them TO the
nose blowing stage, when the attor-
ney launched into his final plea, the
narrative of Miss Stones last meet
ing with Kinkead.
Exhausted, half.maddened from
the pain in her head and the illness
incident to the suspension of her
functions" Attorney Reilly told the
jury, she waited at that corner for
kinkead, the brilliant man OF the
world who had held her love. She
had searched for him for two years
AT last he came. She was too dazed
to recognize him clearly.
Asked for Her Honor.
Ellis. she asked him, I'm here
TO ask you to give me a legal
divorce. Give me back my honor.
Let me go home and practice my
profession. | don't want alimony.
| don't want anything but my honor
and my livelihood.
His refusal brought from her
another plea, wrung from the agony
OF her two years OF effort to win her
husband back
Ellis. she begged. don't do this.
You're only dragging me down To
the level OF woman OF the streets.
Don't make common woman Of me-
I'm not common woman
God damn you he answered,
that's all you are and all you ever
will be-
II ask you. gentlemen, if that is
enough OF a shock to a woman gent.
ly born and bred, member Of one Of
the Oldest families Of the South and
racked by Illness and fever-is that
enough of shock to destroy the
balance Of her BRAIN"
Attacks Clark's Testimony.
In his attack on the testimony OF
James X. Clark, Federal district at.
torney of Cincinnati. who swore
Miss Stone asked him to prosecute
Kinkead under the Mann act, Mr..
Reilly pointed out two contradic-
lions In the Ohio jurist's testimony.
This man Clark is a monu.
mental liar and a disgrace to the
bar" Attorney Reilly declared. IF
It's the last thing ] do when I'm
through with this case I'm going to
prefer charges against him to the
Bar Association. To help out a
brother lawyer he made out a lying
AFFIDAVIT against woman who was
suing for her legal divorce.