The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-02

girls. I let her go out of the coun-
ty, and no other county of the state
would have permitted it.
Nov 1 ask you men to go the
limit. All 1 want is the jury to be
Just to the defendant and the state
of Indiana. I'm not afraid of the
verdict"
Mrs. Simmons, following the
deaths of her daughters, was per-
mitted to go to the home of rela-
tives in Hancock county. There
she was questioned by Hancock au-
thoritieS, but was not arrested on
the murder charge until the day
following the funeral of her chill
dren.
Dared on Jackson Charge
"The defense can not escape the
fact that Mrs. Simmons made those
sandwiches and passed them to her
own family. Perhaps sandwich is
not a deadly weapon" Scifres said.
"An unloaded gun which I would
point at Captain Ora Brown, a
juror in this case, is not deadly
weapon and neither is a sandwich
unless it is loaded with capsules.
81 want the defense to say
Horace Jackson is guilty. I dare
them to. They don't want to and
never will.
1.-THE defense case is one of con-
fusion and I'm asking you to see
through the camouhage.
whoever saw a poisoner admin
lister the poison to the cup? They
always attempt to conceal the crime
and do it in the dark.
Men frown on poison cases as a
way of taking lives.
Perhaps Tindall, with his ingeni-
Gus mind, did it or maybe I, within
a few minutes walk of the park,
did it.
Cites Other Crimes
"The only person who did it is
this defendant. The defense wants
you to believe a Boone county jury
is not quite intelligent.
IF John Simmons only would
tell the truth, which we didn't ex-
pect, he would say Jackson is the
best brother-i n-law he ever had.
1.-THE defense will ask you how
a mother could murder her own
children. Criminal annals show
mothers and fathers generally de-
stroy their own children.
Money could not be the motive
for taking the lives of these chill
dren. 1t is the result of a depraved
and perverted mind. She wanted to
wipe out the entire family.
When the human mind becomes
depraved, it sinks to depths of per-
version lower than the animals in
the fields. Any one who saw her on =
the witness stand could say she has
an abnormal mind. Her attitude was
abnormal. A
Showed No Emotion
"She had story to tell when she
took the witness stand and it
showed her condition. She has
slept but two hours each night for
ten years. What is weighing on
that mind?
when the pail of death Swallowed
the picnic ground, did she call her
children together like a normal
mother would and ask them what
they knew of the deed? She knew
when she was sitting beside Jean in
that car the child was going to die.
"She showed no emtion. Why,
Mrs. Charity Simmons had feeling
and wanted to go to her son, while
his wife, the defendant, sat in a
car in front of the hospital.
why was there such a strained !.
air at the picnic after the finding
Of the poison? I'll tell you-be-
cause those children suspected their
mother"
Scifres defended Charles w.
Indianapolis druggist,
who has testified that he sold the
accused woman sixty grains of
strychnine three days before the
picnic.
Husband Is Target
Look at the pains the defense
took 10 fight his story" he said.
They used Miss Louise Robinson.
the humanitarian, and Lawrence
Kirkpatrick, the gratuitous detec-
tive. This proved one thing-John
Simmons knew where the poison
was purchased.
Miss Robinson has testified that
she was the poison buyer and she
used it to destroy weasels that had
killed her chickens. Kirkpatrick.
friend of the Simmons family. adj
mitted Simmons asked him to aid
the defense. It was he who took
Miss Robinson to Lebanon to testify
in Mrs. Simmons defense.
Miss Robinson deserves a medal
for the way she hoped into ksr
ear and hot-footed it to Friedmans
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