The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-16
MORE ABOUT
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had taken it from the kitchen table
!, because she was afraid OF mee1lhg
, Mrs. Bordeaux on the playground
and felt she was no match for the
other woman in her poor state Of
Health.
| Necessary To Cut
Il had been necessary to cu'
Mrs. Bordeaux, said the defendant,
because she had hemmed her IN
between the see-saw and a post
She had to pass the dark-haired
woman in order to escape.
Mrs. Collins said that on visits
to the Bordeaux home she had been
told about the knucks by Mrs. Bor-
deaux. She said the other woman
had told her they were made for
her by her husband, that she would
use them in a fight and had sent
one woman to the hospital with
them.
knowledge of the knucks, mis-
trust of her own strength, and fear
of Mrs. Bordeaux's disposition led
her to carry the knife, she said. In
fighting her way out OF the trap
her only thought when striking Mrs.
Bordeaux was self-defense.
To that statement she added that
she was unaware of the injury she
had doae until Mrs. Bordeaux dis
covered the wound herself. She
described the other womans ago.
nized scream when, after starting
to walk toward her apartment she
reached back to her left shoulder
and found the cut.
Saw Blood Squirting
Then, said Mrs. Collins, she her
self could see the blood squirting.
AS she returned to the Granger S
she said she saw Mr.. Bordeaux
standing with his arms about his
wife. He was ''nollering to lady
to get a car"
The state council took the wit
ness after this testimony anc sub.
jected her to a withering verbal
fusilade for soma Is minutes
District Solicitor Clifton Moore
made a special issue of her state
ment that she was only frightened
and unnerved by her niece's in
jury by the Bordeaux child. He
took pains to elicit a direct yes-no
answer to the question of her an
ger over the episode. Mrs. Collins
Glove to her original reply.
Attacks Statements
The state also attacked the logic
of Mrs. Collins trip to the play
ground contending that Bobbie
Jeans mother was better qualified
in strength and relationship to re.
dress wrongs done the child.
Geraldine Granger, also niece
to the defendant, took the stand
early in the session. She told of &C.
companying her aunt to the play.
ground and seeing the outset of the
fatal quarrel.
She said "Coreen was sitting
down when Mrs. Bordeaux come
towards her, at the same time
taking the knucks from out o.
her waist" Mrs. Bordeaux words
at the time were "who the ---
has been picking on my little birl?,
said Bobbie Jean.
Left Before Stabbing
!, The Granger girl told Alton Len
non, private prosecuting attorney
that she left before the stabbing
because she could see trouble com.
ing.
City Detective E. B. MURRAY con.
trlbuted the evidence of Mr.. Bor.
deaux's statement that he had
owned the knucks fever since he
was a small boy"
In summing up the case for the
Jury the attorneys were allowed
an hour apiece by Judge R. Hunt
Parker. Prosecuting Attorney Len
non and Defense Attorney Rhodes
made their addresses in the period
remaining before the P. M. re.
cess.
The afternoon session conmen
ced with the argument of Aaron
Goldberg. The defense couase
5 spoke rapidly and powerfully dur
Ing his allotted time, assailing the
evidence of Mrs. Dorothy Bufki,
who gave her witness accoun
at Thursdays session. He had lef
: the bulk of reviewing to Rhodes ant
played the strong cards of the de
Tense.
Points To Knucks
Acid-testing Mrs. Bufkin's accur
acy, Goldberg also emphasized tn,
seh-preservation aspect of tn,
4 stabbing. He contended that Mrs
bordeaux would be the present OBJ
u lect OF state prosecution and Mrs
: collins the Staying victim had no
q the defendant struck in her own de
: tense. Then he said, hourishing tn,
u knucks, the state would say, ''thi
= deadly weapon has brought Mrs
4 Collins to her grave"
) Clifton Moore, in the concludin
4 argument, braced the states evj
ID dence as delivered nv T.anror IT