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Show MISS MITCHELL ON THE STAND. She Relates Her Remarkable Infatuation for Freda Ward. Memphis, July 27. In the trial of Alice Mitchell today for the murder of Freda Ward, the defendant took the stand in her own defense and told the story of the killing substantially as heretofore hereto-fore related. She admitted her infatuation for Freda, and said she had tried twice before be-fore to kill her, but was prevented once by the razor sticking in her pocket, and once by the publicity of the place in which she found her. She told of her inteuded marriage mar-riage to Freda and how she expected to raise a moustache by shaving. She -declared she used to like Miss Joe Ward, Freda's sister, till she went on the stand and swore to a lot of lies about her; now it w ould not be safe for Miss Joe to thrust herself in the witness' power. Miss Mitchell occasionally gave evidence of the loss of some of her heretofore remarkable self-possession. , :r |