The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 22, 1921, Page 10

BEAT BABY, MAN SAYS Testifies Mrs. Osborn, on Trial for Slaying, Struck Infant By Hal Armstrong “Looking thru the window 1 saw this woman holding the child She struck it several . don’t know how many times Aa raised it up in both hands and threw it down like this violently.” — Norman Storm state's star witness, “1 wag shaking the pillows out of some pillow slips."—Mrs. Ivy Os Dorn, witness in her own defense This, in the main, tells the story Of what transpired late yesterday at the trial of Mrs. Ivy Osborn, ac ~ cused of manslaughter for the death ‘of the babe, Helen Marie Wilson, aged 10 months. ‘MINOR DISCREPANCIES _ EN TESTIMONY ‘There were certain minor discrep: ‘fancies in the testimony of defense wa ttorney E. A. Wright, defense “counsel, that, perchance, the baby's ‘orn, but that the blood clot on the infant's brain was due to @ tra fusion operation performed in the jury was expected to retire its verdict this morning. “Osborn should know her fate it became generally kpown yes- yy that Mrs. Osborn’s tria! had Young Storm, a newspaper man; Osborn and her youthful hus- were the three witnesses attracted interest. Others doctors, investigators and living near the Osborn it on Lake Union, SAW WOMAN witnesses, and vague hints made by | ‘death was not caused by Mrs, On) THE SEATTLE STAR CHRISTMAS “DO'S” AS HANDED OUT BY POSTMASTER BATTLE Greetings, folks! are bowing neve town Worn your t by Postmaster Edgar o yet alam te 6 do their Chri induce tmag mail ali mail fully and privilere cars, While can take @ free swim in Lak Union. wal Having gotten one in the neck yes terday are in favor of the dis armament conference dixarming the | »wball amall boy with the al messages 4 | Or let's declare a snowballing | |] Pack article carefully and wrap holiday watll nexd July. | securely, but not send Poe bi! | ages your packages ou Wish to riage tnute on sal pay first class | If you desire personal Heard the call of the quail? message to go with your package, |] place it in a sealed envelope on which you have paid letter post- |] age, and attach it urely to the package on which you pay fourth | Letass postage wr aerate | | | Peter Witt, uaction expert, says knocked me backwards, I struck the) the car riders id not be paying baby's head aguinst the doorjamb, | for the ratiwa . They're not, | | “My wife taid a blanket on the [ Pete; they're not | | bed and dried the baby, and asked s | me what Vd done. 1 told her it et! and she said, ‘Get me a cald | Seattle doctor t tv: ha * | knife’ She laid the knife on the | |. Sealtle doctor to re Thane | baby's face to take the swelling | | ‘ ~ 1} down. learned that much. | | SY". Now all the kids will be | when T was a kid The baby ls buying henna leaves 2 i didn’t cry much, quieted right | Ts } Gown and went to Seep. Lioyd Peterson, 9, was taken to the! “about o'ciock in the morning | city hospital yesterday with a ' I was woke up by @ scream. The/in his ear | baby was screaming lout of the basket | stop breathing | blood flew all over me, My wife| Emmet Dalton, reformed bandit |jumped up. I built a fire. We! is appearing in person at a Seattle didn't realize there was anything| movie house. You never see a re-| serious, We worked all night and) formed politician on the stage, | in the morning I took the child to| They never reform. Dr, Davis’ house. He said she was! eee a hemorrhagic baby, and it would) Turkey prices have been better if she'd never been made a sudden and } born. He said she couldn't live and| unexpected change | told me t© take her to the city Monday, when the | hospital, which I did. price advanced “I was very much attached to the) because of a short The bean was extra I picked her! with forceps, but there is no way She seemed to known to extract a bee in the bonnet. | I shook her and “ee | chia.” age of fowls, deal HE RECALLS ets declared, Pa 3% } MOTOR TRIP Tt is atl right to guard the Panama | Osborn recalled @ trip the family! canal, put what we need in these and three boy friends had taken to ; Wenatchee by motor car a fow weeks before, He denied a story didn't mean to bu: her." said to have been previously told| = | |And the prehistoric creature seemed bootleg days ia something to keep after a long linens. by his wife, that he had been hold ing the baby on his lap and dropped her on the floor of the car. He! said he didn't know anything about | their bulldog standing on the baby's | face as it lay pillowed in the ton-/ | neau, but admitted that one of the | three boys had failen asieep with his feet up on the back of the, front seat and might have dropped Mra. Osborn then added: “ | TOOK CHILD TO pocToK “About & o'clock in the morning I woke up. My husband was hold ing the baby. He said he thought the child had papalysia, She had « convulsion. Her face was as stiff an a board. We worked on her two hours. 1 guess, then he took her to| & doctor. | Rene V, Debs will have to eat hin letetic#® \terson, 10, is near death in a al | par ouring the banks of alien enemies out of the alimentary |Thankagiving dinner in the Adanta Stat deni ‘thot Ghd eltbits o's & oniaty “Greek, Se dhiles tebe | prixon—in all probability at t hery are packing|,, Attorney General Daugherty maid) C ing of De-| accidentally poe ei, pie * ogg warch of L, P Jamas fish for the win. | Preside Harding did not plan to| c¢ r in Invited,, Russell, aged 1 D . and Roy Lennon who left P° act on the Debs case within the) Dr, Tilden is the author of “The Curred yesterday at the Patterson | y na in ar aturduy next few day, The president early | Pocket Dietitian.” ranch in the Tieton district The sne| Oday approved two Thanksgiving te ee »pped| pardons, but they were not for per PROS Fire in Produce Co.| CENTRALIA.—J. 8. § unday, and. it | the ear son® who. committed political of stroys $1,000 worth of | city nminsioner, and Ge may have run over a bank or off a fenses during the war. apples owned by BE. RK, Wells Rarner are nominated for mayor bridge “Monday Bank statement in Lima, O., ‘Timoa-Demoerat *. 0530 a year ago fell on Sun day hat sort of place in Middle- bar “Oh, great! There are two places to go—home and to bed.” ‘ee Briand says France will disarm if | properly Well, under | those conditions, who wouldn't? | | eee The garden gate is now at rest, Aw it were ‘tis on the shelf; Rut the parlor sofa squeaks aloud, And the gas bill humps itself, eee Rilly de Burm—Pleage, mister, kin 1 borrow a red lantern off'n you? I} find [ gotta sleep an the street to | night, and I'll hafta warn the traffic to drive around me - BEAUTY He was heavily constructed as a boz- car t Debs’ | HOME BREW | WASHINGTON He was squat and he was thick and he was wide And hi well.developed shoulders were as massive as the bould-| That are towering on yonder| mountainside He was rugged as a prehistoric cave-| man, Aa his muscles bulged beneath his football suit, to show in every feature, @ gentle maiden whispered “Ain't he cutet” GEORGE A. PHAIR. Widow of J. J. Hill Is Dead at St. Paul ST. PAUL, Mb . Nev, 22.—Mre J. J. HM, widow of the “empire | ullder,” died at her home here ‘capandl | And but she could not truthfully say that | the dog had stood in the baby’s face | or that the boys in the back seat had | kicked the child. She contradicted the statement of her husband that the plant standing | in the window was a geraniums “It was Wandering Jew,” she said. Carmody wasted litte time on} croms ¢xamination. “You say.” he asked, “that the baby cried « lot?’ canal in a rowboat. in the rear seat, facing his tr. W. C. Storm, who was row- the craft, a flat-bottomed, dou- skiff. gave her age as 24. she was 25. “AS we approached the Osborn + it." Storm said, “I saw a in the window. Mrs. Osborn ms at the window holding the baby GP and striking it. I stood up on towards the infant charge, Regarding the night the bost around to keep me| been standing near the line of vision. been times it it. ‘Then sh re nike |ffom the rowboat, it violently from her—like ” raised both hands above head and brought them down force, forward, demonstrating Osborn's action. was probably one of the blind down quickly. scene was ended, so far as we concerned.” his feet against the baby's side. Mrs. Osborn took the stand and! The baby wa viously said she was 27, then that| About 12 o'clock I came back and | she cried like that?’ She had herself been an adopt- ed baby, she said, and for this reason felt extremely stern and asked my father to| 27, Mrs. Osborn recalled that she had I saw. her | Shaking pillows out of pillow slips, | *¢¥@r#! cats at the houseboat and but the child—I don't know how | She intimated that this might have what young Storm observed | She remembered that had a birthmark on its face, which discovered by the doctors, After her husband had struck the “Then,” said the witness, “Mr.| baby’s head against the bathroom. “$ BOD’ D came to the window and | door, she testified she asked him: vane : “What are you trying to do, kill the baby?’ -He said, ‘No, I 1 went down to the city hospital. | ‘on the operating table. ut 9 in the morning. | “Yes,” she replied, “but she never shed a tear She had pre What did you sy to her when This was a she was stil] on the operating table.) Nothing.” “They put me on another table! “You'd just yell at her and took the blood out of my arm | Wouldn't you?” and injected it into the baby's head. No, sir; I never yelled ‘shut up’ ‘Shut up! tender left in her / | Dr, Coe maid he thought she would be! at that kid in my life.” all right.” Mre. Shirtey Sabelie, 3248 Fuhr Instead, the Infant died on Octo-| man st. aonsighbor of Mrs. Osborn, een | ver-8 tentified in the defendant's ; behalf Mrs, Ogborn testified that they had | that the infant had five birthmarks. “She looked rickety to me,” said the one dog. The cats annoyed her) Mra Sabelle. “Her nose would turn and she had once declared she would white, indicating rickets, mainutri- | kick one of the kittens into the lake, | tion, scurvy. 1 don't think # man she said, but added, quickly: | could stand up in the end of a row “When we didn't have money, IT) boat in the swift current of the leven did so much as borrow money |canal. Naturally, 1 was curious to the window the baby the “bruises” from the neighbors to get the baby | see the child at the Osborns, No- milk.” body seemed to know anything BRUISES ON about Its parentage. I gave it one jlook, | was surprised to think Mre After the motor trip over the| Osborn would think it a normal baby, mountains, she nid, there were|I advised her to turn it over to the bruises on the baby's body and face, | authorities.” “And you didn’t do anything a that horrible incident that except go home,” cut in De- Counsel Wright, cross-exam- Ba “Oh, yes, I did,” corrected Storm; reported to the police.” “You don’t even know how many you saw her strike the! v2" -“I do not; possibly half a dozen - “Did you see any curtains in that window?” hear the baby’s “Did you see a jardiniere of gerant- _Ums sitting in the middie of the win-/ dow . “Curtaing in the window, a jardin- Aere of geraniums in the window, ana all you could see was a woman beat- a baby behind them?” “I wasn't interested in jardinieres geraniums just then,” Storm came back, coldiy. “I was interested in the | that was going on inside.” Counse] hastily dismissed the wit. Mess and called Homer Oxborn, the gecused woman's husband, to the stand. He testified his age iv 23, £ hat he married hig present wife May 27, 1921, and that the baby was left | with them by a Mrs. Pappas, _ “I don’t know whether her name |}! was Pappas or Mrs. Wilson—T really three-quarter don't,” he said, “She wag to pay us $20 4 month for care of the baby. She paid one month, _* “I should think,” Osborn con- tinued, “that the baby wasn’t a healthy baby. It was small, its left leg was drawed up, its face would peel off when we washed it, it was very easily marked, always was whimpering, your fingers would make a mark on its flesh.” A Relating the experience of Septem ber 27, Osborn said: “I went out to see about some boxes about 8 o'clock that evening. » We were moving. When I came back the baby was asleep in the rocking ebair, About 11 o'clock my wife says, “We better give baby a bath and go to bed.” Well, I thought I had as ‘Much right to bathe the baby as she did—I loved it, too. #0 we fixed the | ‘water and J put the baby in the tub | and washed ft. BULLDOG WAS CHASING CAT “Our dog and cat play together. _ The bulldog was chasing the cat, they were chasing each other. The ‘ Jumped between my legs just as Women’s made. Fine-ribbed 17c, BA a eg 4 og RGAIN BASEMENT ‘Dress Up for Thanksgiving Little Tots’ Jersey Dresses In brown, henna, navy, tan and Copen. Trimmed with interlacings of ribbon and ribbon girdles, white kid collar and cuffs, hand embroidered with yarn, Heather mixed, drop stitch, Burson Sizes 8% to 10. Children’s Stockings 17c black and cordovan. Sizes 514 to 91. Men’s Wool Hose 19c Heather Wool-mixed Socks, sub-stand- ards. Sizes 914 to 1114. 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