Arizona republican., 1922-03-30
Juror WeepS While
Counsel Pleads For
Life Of Miss Stone
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! NEW YORK, March 29-Miss
Olivia M. p. Stone will take the
stand tomorrow as the first witness
in her fight to escape the electric
chair for the Staying OF Ellis Guy
Kinkead former corporation coun-
sci of Cincinnati, her counsel an
nounced late today.
The prosecution rested this after
noon without waiting for the arrival
of United States Attorney Clark of
Cincinnati, who has been asked to
come here to testify against Miss
Stone.
Edward J. Reilly the lawyer who
was compelled by Supreme Justice
AspinaIli to continue in her defense
after Miss Stone sought to dismiss
him, Immediately outlined to the jury
the case, indicating that both the
''unwritten law and a plea OF in
sanity would figure in the testimony.
He painted Mrs. Marie Gormley
kinkead widow of the slain man,
as the root OF the trouble, pointing
at her shrinking figure in the court
room as he charged her with being
the former proprietor OF a rendezvous
for young girls in Cincinnati. asso-
citation with whom, he declared. had
wrecked. Kinkead's life.
"This is the sad and tragic case
of a virtuous and honorable won1
an whose mind could stand the strain
no longer" Mr.. Reilly said. "and we
intend TO prove that she had no in
tention of killing Ellis G. Kinkead."
Describing Kinkead's life in in
Cincinnati, he said:
During the day he was a brill
liant man and stood at the head of
his profession. At night he sunk TO
the gutter through drugs and phys
ical excesses at a rendezvous for
girls 13 and Ia years of age in Gin
cinnati, run by Marie Gormley and
Marie Gormley held him like an oc-
topus in her grasp.
He said Kinkead's Cincinnati ply
sician had urged that he and Miss
Stone take the trip TO Atlantic City
and the two had registered there as
patient and nurse.
OLIVIA Stone was q woman who
had never known a man in her life,
he continued. She and Ellis Kink-
cad were thrown into close compan-
ionship and attracted to each other.
He proposed marriage. Olivia Stone
was not fly young girl. She was a
nurse and took him seriously.
"They went as far as the front door
of the city hall in Atlantic City. She
trusted hirn. AS they mounted the
steps he said TO her: olivia, there
is a woman in Cincinnati who inn
agines she has claim on me. If she
finds we are married she will do
everything to ruin my position. !
love YOU and you love me. / am
lawyer, as you know. Now, it is just
as sacred for me to say will take
you as my wife. and I'll place on
your hand a wedding ring
He bought her the ring she is now
wearing in this court room, and
placed this sacred band upon aer
finger"
They registered at an Atlantic City |
hotel as Mr.. and Mrs. Kinkead, he
said, and later registered as man and |
wife at hotels in New York and other
cities.
Finally, he said, on a pretext that |
be had business 10 attend to in Wash |
ington, Kinkead sent Miss Stone back |
to Cincinnati. telling her 10 await |
him there and cautioning her to say |
nothing Of their marriage
After another visit to Atlantic City, !
Mr.. Reilly said, where Kinkead and |
Olivia stone registered as. Ellis G. |
Kinkead and nurse, the pair went /
back to Cincinnati. There. he con-
tinued, Kinkead re turned to the COM
pany of Marie Gormley, while the
defendant resumed nursing.