The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
VERDICT
ISAWA|TED BY
GIRL Slayer
Hundreds lam Courtroom
to Hear Judgment in
Jacob Trial.

+ Apparently deadlocked, the Grim
inal court jury celebrating the fate
of Miss Dorothy Jacob, %, alleged
slayer of her gangster lover, had
failed to reach a verdict at 10 this.
morning.
While hundreds of persons
jammed the courtroom and adjoin-
ing corridors awaiting final judg-
ment of the case which for four
days has fed listeners with sala-
cious underworld tales, jurors had
deliberated fourteen hours when
court convened at 9.
Shortly after court convened this
morning, jurors sent word they de-
sired additional instructions. AS
Miss Jacob was not in court at the
time, the jurors were to be called
after she was summoned to the trial
room.
According to rumors that were
circulating in the courtroom the
jurors were battling several points
that had come up during the DELHI
Grafton.
Special Judge James D. ErmSton
and attorneys submitted the case
to the twelve men shortly after 5
Friday afternoon. Deliberation be-
gan at z.
Accused of Murder
Closing argument Friday after
noon marked the climax of Mis-
Jacobs trial for the first degree
murder of Robert Morrison, accused
gangster, her lover and common-law
husband. She is charged with stab
bing him in fit of jealous rage in.
their cubicle apartment at 1909
North Pennsylvania street, Aug. 7.
The state alleged she stabbed
Morrison because he tainted her
that another woman was the mother
of his child.
The defense contended Morrison
killed himself when he lunged
into butcher knife held by the
red-haired girl
Prosecutor Herbert Wilson, and
Floyd Mattice, chief deputy pros
ecutor, in final argument, bitterly
attack the underworld and gangdon,
from which the pretty ex-waitress
emerged murderess.
Plead for Acquittal
The attacked her porported cap
italizing on immortality as de-
tense. She claimed she was virtuous
until she started dating" Morrison.
with whom short time later she
lived.
Defense attorneys It. Ernest Ma
holm and Harry Raitano pleaded
yolubly for acquittal because, they
declared, Miss Jacob was the victim
of a social SYSTEM
Spectators sat tense more than
three. hours during arguments.
The defense case had included
testimony Of numerous associates OF
Miss Jacob and Morrison. They told
jurors that on many occasions Nor
rison had threatened the girl with
death in order to make her ply her
underworld trade. Morrison was
gangster, lli-jacker and gunman,
they testified.
Weeps During Plea
Miss Jacob and her mother, Mrs.
Doris McGreevy, sitting side by
side through most Of the trial, wept
brokenly as the girls attorney
pleaded for an acquittal.
Charles B. Morrison, father of
the dead man, and his daughter
were in the courtroom throughout
the trial. Both were visibly shaken
by declarations of both prosecutors
and defense attorneys that Miss ia
colo's lover was a gangster.
States rebuttal case, completed
before noon Friday, included much
damaging surprise evidence, in
which testimony of w. w. Woods,
one of the defense star witnesses,
was ;inpeached. His name was Wise,
instead of Woods. and he twice
served prison terms for felony Of
lenses. it was disclosed.
Loren Sims, 3018 Kenwood ave-
nue.. defense witness and on-looker
at one of the fights between Miss
Jacob and Morrison, apparently was
the defense key-witneSs.
Loudly insisting he did not want
to sit in the witness chair, Sims, un-
der. directions of ErTnston, told of
seeing Morrison severely iujure Miss
Jacob on one occasion in quarrel.
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