Show IN THE CRMINAL COURT Mrs Hutchinson On Trial For House breaking f INSANITY THE DEFENSE DEFENDANT SHOWS SIGNS OF va Y POOR HALt + Joe Walker Sentenced to Eighteen Sent Months In the PcnitentiyJ In the Schach Case Could Not Ageeome Heavy Judgments Against Joli Beckourt Notes In the criminal branch of the Third district court the trial of Mrs F E Hutchinson charged with housebreaking housebreak-ing began yesterday and at the time of adjournment seven of the eight jurors had been accepted The information alleges that the defendant de-fendant broke into the residence of W D Mathis at 55 East Fourth South street on Oct 19 last and did take therefrom the following articles One sie waist valued at 10 one silk waist valued at 135 one silk skirt valued at 25 one pair gloves valued at 2 one gold necklace vaue at 30 the property of Mrs Mathis also one silk waist valued at 15 one ladies coat valued at 45 one watch yalued at 15 tM property of Miss Laura Ma thisThe The state represented by Assistant Assist-ant County Attorney Putna who was assisted by his chief Mr Van Cot while the rights of the defense were looked after by E B Crichlow and Grant H Smith Mrs Hutchinson a present bit in a very bad condition apparel ly She looked ill and weal ad several times had to be led from the court room fainting once or twice during the course of the afternoon Her wants were attended at-tended to by Deputy Sheriff Ferguson who sat near her and took particular care she needed nothing I was evident from the examination made of the talesmen that the defense will be that the prisoner is not responsible sponsible for her actions This statement state-ment was corroborated by 1lr Smith who told a Herald man she was mentally men-tally unsound Asked if the defense of kleptomania would be offered he sad no because the term was not broad enough in its scope She is mentally unsound and fa from being a criminal crimi-nal said JUdge Smith for she has none of the thoughts actions or inch nations of a thief She comes from a good family is refined and educated Mrs Hutchinson was informed the night before she would be brought into court yesterday and it affected her neres She was fatigued s she told night the deputy and had not slept any all The panel of jurors was soon ex hausted E E Rich was excused by the state a were J E Oglesby Henry Walters Phi largetts and William Everett William P Davis and John i Catwrght were challenged by the de tense peremptorily Rock Savage George Spiers and Samuel Cody were challenged for cause I was evident from the answers made by 111 largets he would have I done his best to give the accused a fair trial but he admitted having a sympathy sym-pathy for a woman which he would not have entertained for a man and so he stepped down Each talesman was interrogated I in-terrogated a to his knowledge of insanity in-sanity and whether he would consider 1it a gopd defense It At the time of adjourning court the following jurors had been selected i Samuel Perry Samuel Bateman W H Leverich John R Bennion E C Bag 11ey Joseph W laynes W J Yard A special venire returnable at 930 this morning was ordered for the following names drawn out of the box B F I Stewart Thomas J Curtis William E Sedley William 1fcIlan Charles Crismon and Golden H Guiver At the conclusion of this the court adjourned until 930 this morning |