Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1931, Page 10

BRIDGEDEATH CASE ENDS FIRSTWEK Trial Adjourned as Counsel Argue TestimonyHusband Was |l Tempered. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 28.—De- fense witnesses today pictured Mrs. Myrtle A. Bennett as the devoted wife of a violent tempered man, thus pre- paring for the defendant’s own story of the death of her husband, John G. Bennett, whom she is charged with slaying as the climax of a bridge game quarrel. From fashionably attired friends of Mrs. Bennett, who described her as truthful and of high moral character, former Senator James A. Reed, defense counsel, drew several assertions that Bennett frequently gave way to out- bursts of anger. The witnesses without exception de- clared the Bennetts were unusually af- fectionate and devoted. Adjournment for Week End. The prosecution sought to exclude the testimony about Bennett's temper as irrelevant, declaring the defense as outlined contended that Bennett met his death accidentally. Court adjourned at the end of a week devoted to the trial with counsel argu- ing as to the admissibility of testimony by L. R. Baker, who sald he had seen Bennett strike his wife previous to the night of the fatal bridge game. The State has contended that Mrs. Bennett shot her husband to death after he struck her in the face repeat- edly when angered by an argument about his loss of a bid in a contract bridge game. % State Rests Case. Mrs. Bennett's struggle up from pov- erty in rural Arkansas to become the breadwinner for her widowed mother and later the wife of a prosperous per- fume salesman was described by char- acter witnesses. The st:’z‘emmug. its case early 2:8 morning out having called as wit- nesses the defendant’s mother, Mrs. Alice Adkins, or Mrs. Charles M. Hoff- man, who with her husband played in the last bridge game with the Bennetts. it SRCBIMIY COMMUNISTS’ HANDBILL DISTRIBUTORS ARE FREED Two Youths Were Agdvertising Meeting ‘‘to Fight for Unem- ployment Insurance.” the decision of another Po- judge in a similar case sev- ago, Judge Gus A. Schuldt Court y _dismissed violation of the law. ‘The Pm;]flu. John M. Smythe and Wil- Ham ips, had been arrested by Po- liceman A. R. Houch of No. 6 precinct. ‘They had been distributing handbills advertising a meeting of a Communist to discuss a “fight for unemploy- it insurance.” youths were arraigned sev- ago Attorney Charles the de: : til ' Union Engine House, Statues ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C, MARCH 1, 1931—PART ONE. to Be Unveiled CALIFORNIANS TO HONOR EARLY HEROES HERE TODAY. Ly King Lowe Stoermer (center). Father Junipero Serra, revered Spanish padre, who founded California’s mis- sions, and Thomas Starr King, whose oratory is credited with saving Cali- fornia’ to the Union, will be honored this afternoon at 3 o'clock, when their statues are Statuary Hall in the National Capitol. Senator Hiram Johnson of California will present the statues on behalf of the State. His colleague, Senator Samuel Shortridge, will deliver the oration on King. Xanders r_will arrive in Washington today from Los Angeles to_deliver the oration on Serra. Miss Grace S. Stoermer, secretary of the California Federation of Women's Clubs, 1s in charge of the program. Mrs. William Elmer Evans, e of Repre- sentative Evans of California, will pay a tribute on behalf of the women’s clubs and Representative Arthur M. Free will speak on behalf of the native sons. MEETING IS CALLED | Association of Oldest Inhabitants Convenes Wednesday. 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