Evening star., 1925-07-26
GROVE RETURNS
TO FIGHT SCOTT
Mother Comes to Aid of
| Slayer as Prosecutor
Plans New Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 25.-A friend and
an enemy came to Chicago today to
help and to fight Russell Scott. twice
saved from the gallows within the past
10 days, almost at the hour set for
his execution.
Mrs. Rilla May Scott of Cleveland
mother of the former Canadian f1nan.
cier sentenced to hang for the murder
or Joseph Maurer, 19-year-old drug
clerk, came to add her help to that of
SCOTS wife and father, who have
worked unremittingly for months in
his behalf
At the same time Robert E. Grove.
states attorney, returned from a va
cation to take charge of the States
case when Scott is brought into court
on sanity hearing, the latest move
to save his life.
Defense attorneys spent the day in
seeking facts to uphold the contention
that Scott has become insane while
in Jail, plea that won him stay of
execution from Judge Joseph B. David
Your hours before his scheduled hang
Ing Friday. At the insanity hearing G
on August 8 they will attempt to
prove Scott a victim of prison
psychosis.
Alienists to be Called
Alienists, Including some who testi-
lied in the trial of Richard Loeb and
Nathan Leopold, jr., will be called by
the defense. Among these will be DR..
Douglas Singer and DR.. William O.
krohn, who have discussed prison
psychosis in their book Insanity and
the Law"
George E. German, first assistant
States attorney, who will fight to
nave the verdict of the jury carried
out, today ridiculed the contention of
uefense attorneys that Scott is now
unable to comprehend his predica-
ment.
He pointed out that Scott said re-
peatedly that IF my brother comes
back and confeSSes my life will be
saved He referred to his brother
Robert, indicted with him, but never
Rpprehended.
The opening clash will occur Mon
day, when Judge David will convene
a branch of the Criminal Court TO con-
slider plea by Scott, based on the
petition filed by Attorney William
Scott Stewart for the aged father,
Thomas Scott. The State will com.
Dat every move to secure continu.
Ances.
Scott, now returned from the death
cell TO 'murdereTs row. in the coun-
~ jail, refused to see reporters today.
Mother Visits Cell.
Scott's mother tonight paid her first
ElSlt 10 her son since he entered the
jail, 15 months ago. Upon her ar
rival from Cleveland, she explained
She mad never come before because
he had asked her to remain away.
Accompanied by the condemned
mans wife and father, the mother
went to the county Jail, and Scott
was taken to them in a visitors
room. Scott and his motbar 1UeD+ oc
they embraced, while photographers'
flashlights doomed. The quartet
started to hold a private conference,
when Scott suddenly said: "I want TO
go back to the CELL" and calling out
Goodnight, mother" over his shoul-
der, hurried out ahead of his guards.
The mother, father and wife then left
the Jail, after promising to send
Scott clothing and food tomorrow.
States Attorney Grove tonight
characterized the latest move of the
defense "a deliberate attempt to trick
the law" and issued the following
statement: Scott is no more crazy
than l am. We are going to fight
this foolish claim of the defense and
demand that the law be carried out
This idea of Scott becoming insane
while in Jail is all poppycock"
William Scott Stewart, chief of de-
fense counsel for Scott, and the man
who saved him from hanging Friday
morning, said tonight that Scott will
be the principal witness for the de-
fense in the insanity hearing.
The defense. he said, will not be
so much a claim that Scott has de-
veloped prison psychosis" as that
the condemned man has developed
the deiusion that everyone is trying
TO perSecute him.