Milford chronicle., 1935-04-12
CONVICT CAREYS
OF NUMBERING
ROBT. KITCHENS
[Coalinued from Frs Pagel

warren Green.
Mr.. Whitney, for the defense, con
tended that the State had not show
that Kitchens was killed for prof
and therefore no motive was shown
The State argued that confessions
had been obtained from all the ac
cused and the testimony of the boy
was that the deed was committed il
order to obtain the life insurance o.
the murdered man and also to pre-
vent his building of a new home. II
was asserted also that he had al
ways been kind to his sisters boys
In his charge to the jury Chief
Justice Layton defined the three
degrees of murder and pointed out
that no evidence was presented of
self defense, as claimed by Mrs.
Carey in her statement of attacks
by her brother.
Mrs. Carey's Statement
None OF the three defendants took
the stand, but they heard Lawrence
Carey, 21 years old, Mrs. Carey's
youngest son testify as the States
principal witness. After the State
had closed its case, Defense Attor-
ney Whitney read to the jury a
statement by Mrs. Carey in which
she said:
81 drove the children to do it. It
was all my fault. You can put ME in
the electric chair or hang me OF do
what you please. They killed him
hut they would not have done it f
7 ,,,ado fbnO1 In IL y
The statement told of the attack
upon Kitchens. When the man had .
been beaten into unconsciOusness, /
Mrs. Carey quoted herself as having
said, Poor fellow. | don't want to
see him suffer, and told Howard to .
shoot him and | think he shot him
IN the temple. | also hit him with
hammer ! also opened his mouth
and poured some liquor down his
throat and set an empty bottle
alongside to make it look like he
had been killed in a drunken fight
Her statement said Mrs. Carey
had trouble with her brother and he
had chased her several times VITA
knife and also struck her several
times while her sons looked on.
When he called to see her, she
stated, she always met him outside
her home so neighbors could see her
and hear her scream if he attacked
her
She said the trouble was over the
estate of her mother who wanted her
to have it because of the three chill
lren she lad to rear.
Boys Opposed Act
Howard and James, the statement
said, objected to her plans to Kill
their uncle but Roberts actions bc-
rame such that she felt something
had to he done. She said the hovs
begged and cried for her not t. Kill
their uncle.
Confessions. said to have been
made by Lawrence, Howard ana
James Carey were read when the
,ase opened Monday morning. The
confessions indicated that the plot
G murder Kitchens was to obtain
is $4,000 life insurance policy and
ave details of the manner in which
ne killing was accomplished
Lawrence, who was IA years old at '
le time of the murder. detailed the
rime for the State. His arrest, in
ecember Of last year on a charge =
breaking and entering, resulted in
le solution of the murder. He tes-
fed that on the night of the muir
er his mother sent him to the viii
ge store to see if his uncle was
ere and that he returned home to
port i'm the affirmative.
He said his mother had discussed
e plan to kill Kitchens in his
essence and that his brother How
d whom she promised new auto
obile if he helped, had demurrcd
It his mother said he had to do it.
e testified that he saw his mother
I'd brothers 20 to Kitchens home
med with revolver, a slodge
INNER aud a white oak bludgCOn.
e testified that the plan was for
EN- to hide and when his uncle
tered, beat him to death. He de-
ared that Howard first hit Hitch
is with the hammer.
Went Home To Bed
Lawrence testified he went to bed
i'd later his mother came to his
ON and told him it was all over.
sxt day, he testified. she told him
go to school and not to worry
out anything. He testified that
mes told him just how it was
ne and later his mother told him
t he could not remember all the
tails
The alleged confession of James
.rey stated that after the arrest of
lwrence on December his mother
d urged her two sons to commit
icide and had gone down the stairs
d obtained a sharp knife and suG-
sted that all cut their throats 1t
so said Howard entered the house
st and of the mother carrying
uOT to Kitchens home to make it
pear he was killed in a brawl He
Is quoted as saying that several
nes his uncle had threatened to
I his mother. The confession by
ward was along the same lines.
Jury Is Drawn
Drawing of the jury was COM
sted shortly before noon. Forty
hit were called before the jury
s. selected. Five prospective jur-
J were eliminated because of con-
entious scrUples against the
lth penalty. One was excused be-
Ise he had expressed an opinion.
shteen others were challenged by
defense and twelve by the State.
The jury drawn follows: Roland
lins, Laurel: Luther R. Vessels,
Ves: Frank l.. Spicer, aurel;
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