Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1926, Page 5

S Arsi— LAWYERS STEAL FROM CHIEF MURDER FIGURES Battle for Life by Mrs. Hall and Brothers SPOTLIGHT Overshadowed by Bitter Struggle Between Opposing Counsel. BY FRANOZS NOYES HART. I Special Dispatch to The Star. COURTHOUS Bonecvitia; x| J., November spite of the rapld procession of vitally important and dramatic witnesses that the prosecution is hurryving acros: the already crowded stage of the ville courtroom, the dramatl Iights of yesterday were fc two figures that are not wi all and on a witness whom not all the majesty of the law could summon to_its dwelling place. Those who saw the battle that raged untiringly between the ruddy- aced and eminent counsel for the . Mr. MeCarter. and the small, | acidulous prosecutor, Mr. Simy son, from three minutes after court opened until three minutes before it | 1 of en-| quiet, | n an exceliant vantage point | ed in a struggle | seemed oddly | of the fray. ] rier is undoubt- | eminent member | wl he is ap- White- with @ jutting | 1d a4 man llicose, he inglish sq life. Oc-| i t <mil heart-iil ehiur tittle courtroom, bt | part of the time ilr. McCarter is no: smiling, by the greater part of the time AMr. McCart He Swells Visibly. Growing steadily redder articulate and swelling MeCarter is objecting strenuously and tirelessly jeoting to the fact that Mr. Simpson has not yet actually proved that Mrs. Mills is dead; to the fact that Mr Elmpson is introducing witnesses in what strikes him as wantonly ctous fashion; to the Simpson is introducing interior of the Ch o angelist; t . John the I r. Simp ®on is introc - soiled blood-stained and ty card and & dozen productions of the thumb print that is suppos adorn it; to the fact that Mr. 18 pleased to indulge in wi not inaccurately characterizes stump speeches—and | principally and passionaiely and protdundly he is objecting to Mr Mr. Simpsc though msiderabiy and rev n Small, alert and feverishly intent, he is ob. 10USIY anX10us to iupiess (he fact on every within hearing in the count- room or within reach of the press out- side of it that he, for one, is not un- duly impressed by the eminence of his distinguished opponent. y He o s bitterly to the sonorous | *No, ) and “Just a moment” | with which his witng are constant- 1y interrupted—he objects even more bitterly to the fact that Mr. McCarter has repeatedly attempted to instruct him, as w s the court, as to the proper pi i to the try- | ing of th ects most bit- | ting, In the eharged day he many a blow electrically ged to land upon his antag- metaphorical jaw with un- im and emerged from each epentant and eshed. In ¢ battle, he airily dismissed S most pretentious re- mbastic nonsens: “and | 1 stole some of his dignitied opponent’s thunder when he referrea f with saturnine relish to that eminent | counsel’s 70 or 80 vears at the bar. | Many important wit came and the voi wherine 4 wor the Kev. Dr., ted intonatic s drawl; 1 pr course of man deputy com- 15 o black | —long af any one | rtroom Lo get the full | of ~affairs—no t, even re- insistence little motely, the violen; behind the Mr. M overruled > and innocent objected. Ob Between those thunder has rolled, s danced, and someihing us and threatening than piayed just below the sur- mosphere of this ded and overloaded more powertul than . and you can't put that into priv When the case opened It looked as ;1 « nee Case was more prominent we!l groomed, P ot wouldnt think S | of renting_your clothes! Your shelter is an _even more vital thing. You'll never after you see what $7 monthly a obtain here. this four rooms, bath and Porch apartment room To live in presentable, youngish, rath; voung: even-voiced and even-tempered Simpson’s rival for the inent enough part in ¢ the pitched battle has lain the old order and the new. bodied in the persons of tinguished Mr. McCarter bitious Mr. Simj the be seen whether the battle wiil be to the strong or the race to the sw.ft The jurors, meantime, actually look bt these encoun- | waiting. d behind heavy sit | of black- excep ah-shaven youne- |4 though they had | they group spectacles, smiths and mason: tion of two alert, ¢! sters, who look apparently He is, it is rumored olitical honors that may be reaped from ths trial, but while he has played a prom- ISS-examining, between as em dis- | and the am- It remains to | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Just rounded into their twenties and were finding battle, murder and sud- den death not unentertaining diver- sions. On’ the raised dais beneath the American flag sits a tired-looking old man, with deep sunk brilliant eyes that are extremely disconcerting in their level, indifferent, unsmiling scrutiny. Justice Parker is entirely capable of administering a prompt and energetic cuff to any one disputing his reign in this hall of justice, and it |is a poor .reader of character who | would tamper with Lis seeming lassi- tude. Mr. Simpson is uniformly elab- orately deferential, and Mr. McCarter, though frequently outraged, Is submis. sive. He has taken. however, enough exceptions to the judges' rulings al- ready to form one of the nicest collec tions in the United States of America “Pig Womun” Still Absent. At Judge Parker's side sits Judge Cleary, with s silky black as his [vobex and a regular-featured, pale | { voung f: He closely resembles a | rather fnpr his functions, so far as those in the | courtroom have been able to observe, | have heen an ear and a myrmur held | |at Judze Parker’s disposal. i All day long the courtroom has heen Half a_hundred times whis- have run like wildfire along the and heads have jerked about. en a fleeting rk figure who v of tile State's ouiders. not per rows eyes straining to catch limpse of the stolid. s to carry the burds ttack on broad The pig woman has vet ap - r Will Hays, and | "o t”‘m AVE peared in court, but her constant hand- niaid, rumor, has been there before the doors opened, and will linger long after they have closed. Mrs. Gibson, says rumor, is dead. No, she is dy- ing—no, slie is perfectly well—no, she has a slight temperature—she has can- cer—she has a toxemic infection—she has a nervous breakdown—she has a slight intestinal e has emotional collapse. have sent a doctor for her rant—an airplane. element, busier than she h many a long day. But since 9 o'clock | tuck consistently to one Gibson is going to appeas been in masculine leads in this drama may have been shifted abruptly from Willie and Henry Stevens, but the nine roles are still in the same ble hands. Two women-—w-il pust middle age—are intrusted with | theni, and the long-awaited ciim: | sure to occur when Mrs. Gibson and | Mrs. Hall confront each other in the ace beneath the justice's ms our sts And all ators hu | sused them to | inetory ear to| tant figures | spense ha lend somewhat D some of the mo: of the case. When Ralph Gorsline | came to the stand almost at a run | and lifted the wrong hand to be sworn in, shifiing it awkwurdly, they | came 1o attention for a minute, eye- ing the lan ve and cadave cotmten huge NUE the mouth in the narrow sallow face, the emblem in the buttonhole of the neat brown suit. But when he made a most damaging admission, that he remained in the lane some six min- utes that night after the shots were fired, many seemed to miss its signifi- cance entirely, their eves wandering FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1926. to the doorway in which any moment l might appear a squat figure. Catherine Rastall's greenclad flg~‘ ure and broad-brimmed, gold-quilled | hat and shy smile flittered deprecat- | ingly in and out—detectives, clergy- men, civil _engineers, gossips. _file | (Continued on Sevénth Page.) I HYSICIANS have for many years pr‘escri})e‘d Citrate of Magnesia because it is safe, thorough and has no weaken- ing after-effect. Make sure you obtain the best. 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