New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 10

A1930 TriangleKilling 2000 Years Behind the Times Fierce Primal 132 s : Throwback ) ; o S ‘I held the gun near 1 ) 4 m a Oulet . ; %Zgi;elsm ;eh :gfiflfir ; / Mrs. Smithsheadand Ohio Town W& pulled the trigger” i’n a 3 ¢ At Left: Tilby J At Left, Mrs. Maude Snnt:, Eh.‘}‘ ! owther, 22—Striking, Odd, Accused, wi Mrs. Lowther, ot Almost Boyish in Respectable / N | il Quizzical Smile, the Wrist Watch Signed Confession and the Lighted Cigarette. Above 9’ . 2 Mrs. Lowther Said SRR R i / at 3 g o ted by Smith U in Arrow: Another Quotation from Awat On S - i _\-‘f:msd:j_p;:mh‘ But He % & Interview with Ashtabula Reporters. u : £ntered a Complete Denial Slaying # 4 U BRI BNV | vrimmmm——— i it BEYOND RECALL Attractive, Good-Natured Mrs. Clair Smith, 28, Who Toppled Over Dead While Her Two Infants Wailed in Terror When They Saw “Mummy” Shot. A2 CLARENCE DARROW, famous ninal lawyer, of Chicago, com- menting on the Smith-Lowther case, irregular love relations and the crimes they causegould be prevented by a greater freedom of divorce. It a cruel thing to make people live ther who no longer love each And if they are forced to do the strain will -break some: I AS SHE SAT HERE The Motor Truck of Tiloy Smith, Odd-Job Ohio. He Had Parked It on a Roadway with His Children Inside, When an Assailant Shot and Killed ) Later Mrs. Maude Lowther Signed a Confession, Slaying OO BT A ORI I LIRS BB 0001 1 “We are two thousand years be i the times in our solution and catment of crime!” - A RN RO 005355 el e il “AT AVISM Recurrence to an disease, after its disappearance for yenerations.” — %}; Y 2 A& b, ] Uy IR L e § % | % § § § AN L “pID YOU DO IT?” Left to Right: Tilby Smith; Mrs. Maude Lowther, and Sheriff Frank Shelton, Who Is Shown Questioning Them About the Killing of Mrs. Clair Smith. BRI e f:,// . nan near . he gar. When he walked out, I held y the gun ncar®Mrs. Smith's head and ternoon—her day pulled the trigger.” As the slain woman collapsed, her v into a movie theatrs on, Donald, three months old, wailed “The pictur t at the wound in her head, while Fred- rood s the se erick, three years old, screamed in ter- isters and 2 ror. “Then,” Maude went on, quite ob . hauler, lucidly, “Smith yelled: ‘Get the h - at dgwn next to out of here,” and I put the gun in my told reporters, “and we pocket and ran across the field and Later we met again. .. . Once 40 to the main road.” [ e told me he had s oon as Smith and Mrs. Lowther another ges 5 pop poisoned S A 5 Wi b mereury ere locked up in the County Jail, s RS E hrosen thermometer, e drifted listle ol to f both state and defense attorneys worked fast. When the accused man re 4 and woman pleaded insanity, prosecu- drudgery; ther rnoon he cé ¢ nouse e tor Nazor countered with: *“I have :jr‘x U‘!“Jl . r:;qé“d;’rfl; orked and gave me th \ t i\;inr-d Lkonte;s:onshof_ brf\(h defendants. b in : ave found no basi bridegroom, A. Was three weeks after their first meet- ) JOVE SO fir:’t—dig‘:eeor;uarr(‘ic}:]?agg?: ] Both Photos (C) Marraws - Lo t t Lowther, ing. On the eve of the trial, Smith, who The Town Crier of Hungerford, England, Blowing a Blast on His Horn to farmer, was twen- “ ‘Use this,” he told me. He asked me was to be tried first, wanted to waive Open the “Hocktide” Festival. The “Tuttiman” at Right Is Losing No Time ty-five .years older what night I would do it and I said I ta] by jury and plead guilty to In Getting Into Action. d than Maude. He didn’t know. He said’to make it Thurs- homicide. . had two children day night and told me he would tal While hoth oer tha his wife and two babies in his tru r stepmother and park on Center Road. He met me It was a bad sea downtown Thursday night and took me Maude in jail was more interesting <on for crops. The in his track and T walked from a strictly human point of view. Lowt 4 s a field and md in the bushes. | Neither seemed to realize that a ter- a 1 two hours rible crime had taken place; they were like carefree children Wept after ies and school, and—neither seemed to have a pointed the gun at them. 1 stood on thought for the other. e fr n the side of the truck near Mrs. Smith. The pretty decent community of ‘Now you stop!” But from the Smiling Expression on d thei e e i he * ide” with im- of a wealthy fam- I did just what Smith told me to do; Jefferson, Ohio, is shocked, puzzled, in- Her Face, This Nurse Doesn’t Mind the “Tuttiman’s” b ere pa ily Had she found asked for. money, and when they said credulous. It is having its first real S Carass Tuttiman”? escape? that they had none I ordered Smith out lesson in the meaning of “atavism.” A ce, oo, Grest Britain Bigpts Beserved. WMWM}WMWWMM#//&///W//#//I/AWM}WWM}W%WIWMMMW/W#///WW/WWW ez cided twat would too slow he told m losed “Hock £ or offici legal tangles were being take argued out and alienists were compar- ing notes, the conduct of Tilby and P - 9 N B U O ST IIIHAAIINIAIN