Evening star., 1926-11-05

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
COURTHOUSE, Somerville, n.
j., November o.-In spite of the
rapid procession of vitally important
and dramatic witnesses that the
prosecution is hurrying across the
already crowded stage OF the SOmer
vile courtroom, the dramatic high
lights of yesterday were focused on
two figures that are not witnesses at
all and on a witness whom not all
the majesty of the law could summon
10 its dwelling place
Those who saw the battle that
ragged untiringly between the ruddy-
faced and eminent counsel for the
defense, Mr.. McCarter. and the small
wfry. acidulOus prosecutor, Mr.. Simp-
son, from three minutes after court
opened until three minutes before il
closed, were in some danger of en-
tirely forgetting that the three quiet
dark, mildly amused individual Is watch
ing 1t from an eXCellant vantage point
were actually engaged in struggle
Tor their lives. They seemed oddly
detached from the heat of the fray.
Mr. Robert McCarter is undoubt-
edly an extremely eminent member
Of the New Jersey bar and he is ap-
parently fully aware of il. White
haired. high-colored. with jutting
lower lip and heavy jaw, and a man
ner at once dignified and bellicose, he
Is the English squire to the life Oc-
CaSI0naliy his face rrlaX"s .:.'s = truly
cherubc smile, and d warm and
heart filling charm floods ,h, stunl
little courtroom, but by far the greater
part of the time Air. McCarler is moi
smiling, by far the greater part of
the time Mr.. McCarter is obiecting.
He Swells VisibIy.
Growing steadily redder and more
srticulate and swelling visibly, Mr.
McCarter is objecting-p -passionately
strenuously and tirelessly He is oB
teoting to the fact that Mr. Simpson
has not yet actually proved that Mrs.
Mills Is dead; to the fact that Mr.
Simpson is introducing witnesses in
what strikes him as Wantonly capri
ciOus fashion; to the fact that Mr..
Simpson is introducing d map of the
interior of the Church of st. John the
Evangelist; to the fact that Mr.. Simp
son Is Introducing a small, soiled,
blood stained and tiy-Specked card and
a dozen mammoth reproductions OF
the thumb print that is supposed to
adorn 1t: TO the fact that Mr.. Simpson
is pleased to indulge in what Mr.. Nc
Garter not inaccurately characterizeS
as stump SpeecheS-and principally
and passionately and profoundly he is
objecting TO Mr.. Simpson.
Mr.. Simpson is also Objecting,
though with considerably less boom
and reverberatiOn Small, restless,
alert and feverlshly intent, he is Oh
NlouSly anxious to IMPRESS The fact on
every one within hearing in the court
room or within reach of the press out
side of it that he, for one, is not un-
duly impressed by the eminence of
his distinguished opponent.
He objects bitterly to the sonorous
No. Nos" and Just a moment"
with which his witnesses are constant
ly interrupted-he objects even more
bitterly to the fact that Mr. McCarLer
has repeatedly attempted to instruct
him, as well as the court, as to the
proper procedure in regard to the try
ing of the caSe-he objects most bit
terIy of all to Mr.. McCarter
Hits to the Jaw.
In tho course of an electrically
charged day he managed to land
many a blow upon his antag-
onist's metaphorical Jaw with un-
erring aim and emerged from each
bout unrepentant ana refreshed. In
the heat of battle. he airily dismissed
Mr.. McCarter's most pretentious re-
marks as bombastIc nonsense and
trash" and stole some of his dignitied
opponents thunder when he referred
with Saturnine relish TO that eminent
counsels 20 or 80 years at the bar.
Many important witnesses came and
Went-but the voices that fingered
We're not Catherine Rastalls pretty,
shy tones-nor the Rev Dr Pettitt s
well modulated intonations; nor
Ralph Gorslines draWl: nor the shrill
pipe of Mrs. Hoes protestation; nor
the neat cadences of eX-deputy com
misSiOners' explanations as to black
powder and finger printS-long after
the echoes of these had died away,
the court still rang with Mr.. McCar-
terS reVerberatlng objections and Mr..
simpsons emblttered protests
1t is totally Impossible for any one
not in the courtroom to get the full
force of this state of affarS-no
printed report can suggest, even re-
mOtely, the violence and inSiStence
that lie behind the innocent little
words "Nr. McCarter objected OBJ
lection UVerruled" Between those
two statements thunder has rolled,
lightning has danced, and sonnet hing
more ominOuS and threatening than
these has played just below the sur
face. The entire atmosphere of this
courtroom is loaded and overloaded
with a charge more powerful than
dynamite. and you can't put that into
print,
When the case opened 1t looked as
though Senator Clarence Case was
going to take the more prominent
part in it. He is slim. well groomed,