The Washington times., 1929-08-10
JURY HEARS Or
SHOOK LOVE.
POTION
Continued from First Page,

| IN chemistry ana pnarmaC0iOgy, te6-
tilted that the effect OF the 'love
potion" found in Miss Hix's stomach
'.would be dependant upon the
dAsage and the condition of the per.
son taking the drug"
He said cocaine could cause
.idelirium. hallucinations and illu-
sions."
The State vigorously objected to
this testimony. cOntending no evi.
dence had been brought out to show
that either DR.. Shook or Miss Hix
used cocaine to any great extent.
The my Dear Sweetikissikums'
letters Shook penned will be avail.
able to the jury for their consider.
alton when they retire to deliberate
the formers fate,
So ''mushy" and erratic are
these love missives that the de.
Tense believes they will support
their contention that Shook IL ''in.
sane" The fact Shook signed
''MabeT" to his communications to
Theora is just one more factor that
may bewilder the jury in trying to
determine exactly what was the
mental status Of Shook when he
was romancing with his paramour.
State Admits Letters
snook's attorneys went 80 far as
to attempt to have the jury con-
slider the letters solely in support
of the insanity plea. The state
: agreed to let the jury consider the
letters for what they are worth" ]"
my Dearie" was the way Shook,
or Mabel" as he signed himself,
usually addressed Theora when he
wrote to her when she was in
Cleveland in 1927, but sometimes he
varied the salutation with my
dear Sweetikissikums" or MY dearie
: Smore."
The letters closed with such
phrases as Here's an earthquake
tremor squeeze" or Here's q great
big bear hug and squeeze and q
wee little kiss" or Here's a kiss
la Belmont to hold you until the
next letter."
Sometimes in writing to TheOra
the former university professor COM
posed poetry to express his feel
ings, as for example:
Home again and tired through
and through,
'But with loving remembraHces
Of yOu."
In one misslve he wrote:
damp Little Kiss
Here's . iOyin' wish dear that
you so along well and Weller-here's
q shudder shake and . damp little
kiss--as like 'em and . release" :"
Once be wrote:
Here IL a zwish for tonight-the
last before you 60. A big iovin'
squeeze and then last little peck
the dry clean kind you know" Also
this: Here's a diagonal greeting, q
little squeeze and a real kiss-high
power only"
DR.. Shook can see the little packet
Of love letters lying there on q
table, amid other exhibits more
gruesome--such a. the blood-stained
hammer and the slain girFs gar.
ments--as he sits amid his lawyers
and watches his trial draw slowly
to close.
On Stand IL Hours
He has completed his testimony In
his own behalf, which kept him on
the witness stand for IL hours.
During that time he proved himself
to be the strange, unfathomable
character he has been since the day
OF his arreSt--an interesting study
in psychology. One Of the hardest
things for him to do, even after he
had related to the jury how he had
beaten the girl to death with q
hammer on q lonely rifle range out
side the city limits on the night of
June 13, was that he had "mur.
dered" the girl He had KILLED" her,
yes, but murder" - well, he OBJ
viously didn't like the sound Of the
word.
Shook quibbled with Prosecutor
John j. Chester. jr., over the word
murder" Under cross-exam mination
he was asked by the young pros-
ecuting attorney:
Doesn't Admit Murder
Don't you admit the MURDER"
| mo, sir. don't" retorted Snook
truculently.
After much hsmming and having,
he finally admitted "killing" the
girl, but he wouldn't say the word
murder" He put IL this way:
'I admit killed the girl because
she threatened to kill my wife and
baby and because she threatened
! me-"
That seemed to sum up the whole
issue as tar as Shook himself was
concerned. Just prior to this admis.
sion he had stood before the jury,
blood-stained hammer in his hand,
and at the request of the prosecutor
showed how he hit Miss Hix the
lone real hard blow" that felled and
silenced her.
Clings to His StOry
Tenaciously, Shook clung to his
contention that he dealt the girl only
three or four blows, that everything
went blank, that he does not know
how her jugular vein happened to be
severed. and that he drove away from
the spot where the body lay without
finding out whether she was dead or
| alive.
The defense today continued intro.
\ ducing evidence intended to show
that Miss Hix's death may have
been caused by one Of the hammer
blows instead of the clean and ap.
parently calculated cut that severed
| her jugular vein. The indictment
against Snook accuses him or killing
her with knife and makes no men.
tion of the hammer blows. This ex.
plains the pickering over the issue OF
just what wound caused the co-ed'a
death.
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