The Washington times., 1929-08-02
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panIon and drove into the city
and notified the police"
The witness told how the police
went to the scene and how the
police photographer took pictures
of the body.
Two photographs were introduced.
by the state as evidence. The wit.
ness was shown the pictures. Were
the photographs true likenesses Of
the body az found by them? The
witness replied that they were.
Young Kumlauf was excused and
Ephriam johnson. 76-year-Old
farmer, was called to the stand. He
corroborAfed KumIauf's testimony.
II was ploughing when ] saw
two young fellows running toward
me-" said johnson. They shouted
that there was q wOman's body
lying back near the road. We
went there and saw the body.
She was lying face downward.
CAKES ut Ceiling
"I told the two young fellows
they better go notify the police.
They did,
Shook. reclining in an orange,
black and green beach chair, which
had been provided for him because
he is indisp0sed as q result Of a
spinal fluid operation, listened TO
the testimony without showing the
slightest emotion.
The witness was saying:
Her face was bruised and Gov.
cred with dry bleed and she was
in bad shape" but the defendant
continued 10 gaze af the ceiling
90 II he did not hear him.
The courtroom was again thronged
to It's capacity. Women and girls
were banked five deep around the
walls and at the main entrance to
the courtroom . group OF more
than SO spectators were massed.
Recites GruesOme Tale
On cross-examination. Defense At.
torney John r. Seidel asked the
elderly, bald-headed farmer:
Isn't It a fact, Mr.. johnson,
that many petting parties take place
out near the rifle ranger"
''Oh. yes indeed, lots OF them,
replied Johnson.
The witness was excused ana
John p. May. police corporal. took
the stand. He was one of the off,
GERS who went to the scene after
the two boys had reported the find.
ing Of the co-ed's body.
In considerable detail he de-
scribed the gruesome condition of
the girls bloody head which had
been struck a dozen or more ham,
mer blows. There was a scratch
on her abdomen about two inches
long. There was a deep cut on
her throat. Her long hair fell
across it.
Shook heard all this without bat.
ting an eye. He lay I'm his beach
chair, his head resting under his
hands and gazing upward nc the
courtroom ceiling.
The jury. IL men and a woman,
certainly must wonder as they look
down upon him from their seats.
For the jurors have not been told
why he has that sunmery-lo cooking,
comfy beach chair.
1t was provided upon the in.
sistence Of the defense that the
professor was feeling Eretty badly
as q result of a spinal fluid opera
ton which he underwent last Sat.
urday. If he sits erect. they say,
he Is subject to severe headaches.
Allowed to recline and relax he feels
all right.
And how the doctor can relaxl
Its an art under these conditions.
Impossible 10 Guess
A. rlaa0ES1yAy. rRr11vaFNr mat
what the doctor was thinking about
when the State hurled its surprise
thunderbolt. This was the charge of
Prosecuting Attorney John j. Hand
some jack Chester that Shook
killed his campus mistress because
she repulsed him. According to
Chester, Theora did not want to
make an appointment with Shook on
the fatal night OF June 1S. But she
did.
And 50 Shook took her motoring in
his blue coupe. On the way. the
professor stopped and got a sand
wieh. Upon the sandwich, the prose
cutor alleges, SnoOk sprinkled q sex.
exciting drug which she ate.
They drove TO "a rifle range on q
lonely road outside the city. The
drug concoction, however, failed to
work, and when Theora repulsed the
professors advances he became
angry and struck her down. with the
hammer. Such is the contention Of
the State.
Shook must have given some
thought to his old college associa-
tons as he lay there listening 10
some of the first witnesses pro.
duced by tn State. Miss Alice
Dustin, for instance.
She was Theora's roommate.
They had a little apartment near
the campus. She testified she
liked Theora." She was o nice,
quiet girl who had no confidantes,
as far as she knew.
She was Woodworking and
economical. She did not know that
Theora had taken any abnormal
interests In medical courses that
might have led her to experiment
with narcotics or drugs. She knaw
nothing Of any dates with men
TheOra may have had.
StiIl LOlls About
And when Miss Dustin left the
stand. Miss Bertha Dillon. a tele.
phone girl at one of the university
buildings and the last person to
see Miss Hix alive with the pos
sible exception OF Shook, took her
place. She told of bidding Theora
good-by at quarter to eight and
never seeing her again.
Theora remarked that she had q
date On cross-examination she
was asked IL Theora had said she
had a ''hot date" and Miss Dilloh's
reply was a sharp mo"