Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1935, Page 15

NORRLL VERDCT T0 BE APPEALE Woman Given Life in Ax Slaying of Husband Weeps at Son’s Story. By the Assoclated Press. PORTLAND, Me., September 19.— Counsel for Mrs. Mary E. Morrill, whose 11-year-old son testified against her, pushed plans today to appeal | from her conviction of the ax slaying | of her husband. The verdict last night by a Su- perior Court jury of 11 men and 1 woman carries a mantiatory sentence | ©f life imprisonment. Attorney Hatry | E. Nixon, however, said he would file an appeal based on exceptions to the Judge’s rulings. Mrs. Morrill, first woman convicted of murder in Maine in a decade, listened unmoved to the verdict. Earlier, however, tears lined her cheeks when her son James testitied he helped sbury his father, Herbert L. Morrill, 62, who had been slain In their isolated Falmouth shack home. “Jimmy” Morrill, cared for in a| Massachusetts institution since his | mother’s arrest, said he didn't actually | see his father murdered. . “I'm glad I didn’t, either,” he told | the jury. | Staring fixedly at his mother, the | boy quoted her as telling him the morning after the slaying: “I dont it, and I'm glad I done it. | Now we'll have some peace.” | After recital of hardships and abuse | from Morrill, the gray-haired defend- ant said her husband stood over her bed the night of June 8 brandish- ing a sheet-metal pipe. “You've got to go,” she said he told | her. “I had my boy to bring up and I decided I wasn't the one to go,” she declared. “I got out of that bed and went for my ax. * * * I guess I must! have aimed for the neck. I saw the | iron coming. I said, ‘Oh, God,” and the ax went just like that.” | Afterward, she said, she “felt badly ebout it. But I done it in self- defense.” | Mrs. Morrill said she remembered nothing after having swung the ax. Re-UPHOLSTER and bring new beauty to your worn furniture ROSEMARY WALKER Will be one of the performers in the Triangle Club's production of “Mr. Pim Passes By” tomorrow night at the ¥, M. C. A. audi- torium. . THE EVENING U. . FARM POLICY ERMED DISASTER Chicago Grain Trader Hits Administration Before St. Louis-Session. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 19—C. D. Sturtevant, Chicago grain trader, charged the administration’s farm program was an “economic disaster” in an address prepared for delivery before the Grain Dealers’, National Association today. He called upon the President to re- {lneem his pledge and retrace his steps the light of the “fair administra- tive trial” accorded the experiment. Presents Record of A. A. A. Sturtevant, chairman of the Grain Committee on National Affairs, gave the record of the A. A. 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A. began functioning in Juiy, 1933, the index grain price received by the farmer was 94, based on pre-war levels, and he was paying 107 for what he must buy. “After two years,” Sturtevant said, T “the farmer is receiving 102 per cent of pre-war grain prices, and is paying 127 per cent for the products he must buy, a dreadful disparity.” Two short grain crops in the in- terim, he said, would have adjusted the disparity to normal “had it not been for the tragic blunders of brain trusters and the economic dance of whirling dervishes.” He sald, that acreage slashes and drought had reduced production below domestic needs, giving us “a danger- ously low margin of food safety,” and ballooning prices to the consumer. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935. $10 CHECK CHARGE CAUSES MAN’S ARREST Bernard E. 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