Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1931, Page 13

MOTHER DEFENDED AT POISON TRIAL Friends Describe Experimént and Contend State’s Case Won’t Stand. B the Associated Press. LEBANON, Ind., October 16.—Friends ¢, and nelghbors of Mrs. Carrie Simmons paraded to the witness chair yesterday %o try to convince a jury she is inno- cent of polsoning her 10-year-old daughter, Alice Jean. Most of them told of her being a'trial fond and proud moiher. Some de- scribed an experiment they made in an attempt to obtain convincing evi- dence the child could not have been poisoned in the manner charged by the State. The little girl was the victim of a Di poison-filled capsule placed in a sand- | Si wich which the mother prepared for the Simmons-Pollard famiy reunion picnic here last June 21. Pois piaced in several of Mrs. Simmons’ sandwiches, and not only Jean but also her sister, Virginia, 14, was killed. | | | In an effert to disprove the Btliel contention that the poison was placed | in the sandwiches at the Simmons home, friends made an expcrlmmlnl dozen sandwiches last Scptcmber in | six of which they placed poison cap- | sules at the Simmons family home near Greenfield, Ind. In six others the cap- sules were inserted after a drlve froi | the simmons heme to Lebano The capsules placed in t‘\e experi- mental sandwiches at the Simmons| ome, they declared, showed complete | | disintegration when the sandwiches were opened up at the picnic grounds. | Testimony given during presentation of | the Statc's cas mmrum the capsules | hons’ sandwiches on | ic picnic were almost | riment_also was ce to the defense | > picnic ~and\\lchts‘ Lebano 1 ly |Iln r the W. H. \ hroughout, the | have sought to ! that Horace M. and relative of Mrs, | tampered with the | marricd to & | 1s, h\l*bm d of | kinson, the estified yes- s had an un- her emotions. cited from a | mons was ap) (‘mnmmlus fol- Jowing the dea r hildren. The HUB FURNITURE CO., 7th & D Sts‘ NW The HUB Makes a Special Announcement . 25¢ A DAY Buys Your Choice of Three Nationally T, i® &) o @©), Kn THE EVENING |CHAMPIONS NAMED IN U. S. DAIRY SHOW Minnesota Sires Capture Blue Rib- bons in Guernsey Class at St. Lonis Judging Ring. STAR, WASHINGTON, plon in the 18-month to 2-year class. The largest herd entered in the show, the 40 Guernseys owned by Willlam H Williams, presldem of the Wabash Rail- road, who dled here Wednesday, were withdrawn out of respect to his memory. UNITARIAN LEADER DIES Rev. Houghton Page Is Found| Dead in Home, Suffocated by Gas. | ‘GREENFIELD, Mass., October 16 (&), | —Rev. 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