The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-11
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1 tiny sprinkIing Of men. Most Of
the women look like good capable
housekeepers.
Kelly IS very much interested in
tHe jury.
he has a habit Of thrusting his
chin out sharply and gazing at the
Jurors in an uuWinking fashion. He
holds the pose, as he used to hold 1t
before the camera.
Doesn't Look Her Part
Dorothy Macake is interested by
tits and starts,
Somehow she doesn't look at all
like q woman whose husband died
8 violent death less than three weeks
ago. She is out of character, the
stage directors for whom she used
To work would tell her.
Neither has she, so far, looked par
ticularly like q woman whose adj
mfrer-if that is what Paul Kelly
has becn-is on. trial for his life.
As matter Of fact, except for
the occasional moments when she
frightened into attention and listened
hard for few minutes. Dorothy
Mackaye, so far, hasn't looked like
much of anything out OF the ordia
nary.
II sho were not. sitting inside the
rail nobody would notice her.
There is one rather odd thing
though. The eyes of Paul Kelly and
OF Dorothy Mackaye are almost pre-
cisely the same; startlingly alike in
color, expression and mannerism.
They both have hard, emphatic
brown eyes, that narrow and be-
come intense at almost the same
instant.
They sit apart in the courtroom,
Kelly with his back turned to the
corner where Miss Mackaye SITS
and yet the same thing seems to-
strike them as the hearing goes on,
and their eyes tighten and retreat
into watchfulness.
The jury Is sworn in, and the
Testimony starts with Mrs. A. r.
Cedarbloom, Ray Raymond's mother.
Overlooked His Mother
It would be interesting to know
thinking as Mrs. Cedarbloom goes
slowly to the witness stand.
Probably they never thought Of
her at all in those days Of party
ing around" and now here she is,
roughly, unexpectedly thrust into
the picture. the one person in the
whole affair about whose emotions
and attitude there can be no doubt.
She is pathetically small and
shrunken in her black garb and
her long, black veil. Her face is
thin and sharp with grief.
A little muscle in Kelly's throat
witches as he looks at her and
he swallows as il his mouth were
dry.
He didn't think about Raymond
having mother.
Crowd Out for Trial
The tension is relieved when DR.,
a. +. Wagner takes the stand. He
IL very matter-of-fact Autopsies
are his business. He has thousands
OF them. All in the days work.
he describes Raymond's injuries
IN detail. He is nearly through
before Dorothy Mackaye puts her
hands over her ears for moment,
The crowd Is out for this trial,
Of course.
They are lined up in the CORR.
dor, waiting from early in the morn.
ing and all through the noon hour.
They are not quite sure what
they are going to see, but If there's
anything doing, they don't want to
miss it.
The jurors. Superior Judge
Charles S. Burnell. and court at.
PENDANTS piled into motor-busses for
the trip to the scene, OF the tragedy.
Kelly, manacled to- q deputy
sheriff, preceded the mobile court
in a police car.
His return to the home which
he stormed three weeks ago to
.have it OUT with Raymond, an.
peared to unnerve the big-framed
youth and his hand trembled as he
stopped to pat the actors dog which
greeted his arrival.
Once inside the house, the Jurors
were led into the room where the
fatal fight had taken place.
The maid, standing in the door.
way from where she said she
watched the fists fly, explained
everything in the room was Just as
It was at that time.
She pointed out the davenport on
which the two men sat to talk
things over and then showed where
Raymond crumpled on the floor as
Kelly put on his coat and hat and
hurried from the house.
Dorothy Mackaye, Raymond's
widow. and admittedly the cause of
the trouble between Kelly and her
husband. absented herself from her
home during the court visit.