Nogales international., 1931-09-23
Marshall Trial =
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Mr.. Marshall had been very kind
and considerate of her but that
''Mr. Marshall had not been any
more friendly to me than he would
have been to any housekeeper'.
Court adjourned for the noon re-
cess with the witness continuing un-
der cross examination.
Slande- Suit?
When court was resumed at l
o'clock Mrs. Seymour admitted, in
response to a question by Boyle,
that she had retained lawyer in
Tucson and had under considera-
ton the filing of a slander suit a.
gainst Mrs. Marshall. Stating that
her friends had advised her she
could do so. Questiond by Boyle re-
garding a purported conversation
with a Mr.. and Mrs. Halter, at a
bakery shop in University square.
during the spring of 1929, Mrs. Sey-
mour denied that she had told of
meeting Marshall by accident III
Los Angeles sometime previously,
or that he had given her $4,000,
or that he had bought $4,000 i'll
clothes "all that she needed from
the skin OUT. She also denied that
she had related that Marshall had
shown her a good time" during
the meeting in Los Angeles. Cues
toned as to whether she had met
or conversed with Mr.. Marshall af-
ter leaving the Marshall home last
January, Mrs Seymour stated that
she had never seen or conversed
with him
DR.. Stephens was recalled by the
prosecution. Objection by the de-
fense to Dr. Stephens being recalled
was overruIed by Judge O'Connor
and he was requested to express his
opinion Of Mrs. Marshalls sanity at
the tine of the shooting, baSing his
answer upon the hypothetical ques-
ton to the entire exclusion OF his
court room observation of the de-
fendant. DR.. Stephens then stated
that he thought Mrs Marshall was
in good mind, suffered no loss OF
memory that would have affected
her judgment and that she knew
right from wrong; that ''the opinion
of DR.. Wylie that she was near-
asthenic was probably correct.
State Closes
County Attorney VIM. G.. Hall
announced "state closes.
The defense began its sur-rebut-
tai evidence by calling Mrs. May
Halter. Mrs. Halter testified that
Mrs. Seymour had told her in the
presence of Mr.. Halter, at the hak-
cry operated by Halter and his
father at University Square in Tue
son. duri<a the spring of 1929, CT
accidentally meeting Mr.. Marshall
in Los Angeles. Mrs. Hafter told The
Jury that Mrs. Seymour ton OF
Marshall giving her $5O0.0O anil E1y-
inc her $4,000 worth of clothes as
we'll as showing her a good time.
James iisfter also testified in sur
reb,,ttal IS to Mrs. SeymourS re-
c,tai Of ineeting Marshall in Los An
geles, his gift Of money AMI put
chase of cGtheS.
Jesus Cauacl1o, Tucson city de-
tectire. who followed Halter III de-
fen, e sur-retuttal testimony, ttSe1-
fled of seeing Mrs. Seymour upon
two occasions, conversing with Mar
shall in the Court Square Park at
Tucson during the first part of last
April.
Mrs. Marshall was on the stand
all day Saturday. She was called as
a witness in her own behalf at 9:07
O'Clock and was still test.fyirC when
count edjourned at 5 O'Clock Satur-
day evening.
Occupying a large rocking chair,
the aged defendant said she was
born at Boston, Mass, 66 years ago
and came West because Of i'll health
After residing for awhile il El Paso
and Denver she located in Tucson
in 1898 and built a home there in
1901 before she married Thomas K.
Marshall. The home, she sad, was
erectd from funds given her by her
mother. It is the residence that she
has lived in all these years.
Married In 1904
She said she met Mr. Marshall
while he was a student at the Uni
versity Of Arizona in 1899 and during
the time she was a teacher there.
He was one of her students. They
were acquainted for five years be-
fore ther marriage at El Paso in
1904.
Loses $4,000
With funds which came to her
from her parents she set Marshall