| Show HFRF IS OHEER RSt UUU eu H lylJLrLlil > unui Remarkable Murder Trial is v i Begun in Kansas WILLBE GREAT LEGAL CATTLE Hiss Jcssis Jilorrlson Charged With 3Ivuder of Irs Olin Castle at Eldo Lrado Placed oa Trial Both tho Accused and the Dead Woman Daughters of WellKnown Kansans Once Prominent in Society Circles in the Sunflover State Jealousy Said to Have Been the Motive Tn OV IMits Jessie 1 i Morrison charged with killing Mrs Lolln Castle last June by cutting her j throat with a razor was placed on trial m here today Thti case Is one of the most remarkable In the history of Kansas I Kan-sas crimes Miss Morrisons alleged motive for the murder was Jealousy i she having been a former sweetheart of I I Castle who is a clerk In a local racket stoic Miss Morrison who Is 26 years old Is the daughter of former Probate Judge M 1L Morrison and tVe famlly lias been prominent In EldoradoVociety I for years MjV Ca4k who yaSjaMIss Mary Vlley was the samo age us her alleged murderess and the family was also well JLO do HAD THREATENED CASTLE A short time before Castles marriage to Miss Wiley Miss Morrison who had I i formerly clerked In the aamc store ith I him is said to have threatened Castle I One afternoon a few weeks after the wedding neighbors attracted by Mrs Castles screams broke Into her house They found her lying In a pool of blood from several ugly gashes In her throat and with Miss Morrison razor Jn hand standing over the prostrate woman Miss Morrison too was bleeding from j I several cuts I Mrs Castle lived for eighteen days Before she died she made u statement declaring that Miss Moirison had attacked at-tacked her without provocation and sent word forgiving her The prosecution prosecu-tion Avill contend that the defendant deliberately de-liberately planned the murder going to the Castle home armed with a razor purchased for the purpose and that after accomplishing her mission she turned the blade upon herself WILL PLEAD SELFDEFENSE Miss Morrison will plead selfdefense lth her side of the story which IH that Mrs Castle called her Into the house and after starting a quarrel attacked i her with a razor which she took from I a bureau drawer In time room In the S struggle that followed Miss Morrison 1 declares she wrenched the weapon from her adversary after receiving several cuts and in defending herself Infilcted severaj slashes in the victims throat At the preliminary hearing last summer sum-mer Miss Morrison was held without ball Much of her time In jail since then has been spent Jn reading the Bible Thetrial will doubtless become a legal le-gal battle as emlrxmt attorneys have been engaged on both sides The defense de-fense won a point recently when It secured se-cured a copy of Mrs Cnatles dying statement which was r fuged then at the preliminary hearing ifiui i iiaiie LIIU inuii in LIIU Cctae la younger than either of the women concerned con-cerned COURTROOM CROWDED When Judge C W Shinn announced the case the courtroom vas crowded j with spectators Among them were a dozen women clerks in the store where Castle and Miss Morrison had worked or neighbors of the deadwoman and her husband On a front seat sat Judge Morrison the aged father of the alleged murderess and back of him crouching low to escape the gaze of the curious young Castle for love of whom time State will contend Miss Morrison killed his wife Presently Judge Morrison left the room accompanied by the Sheriff A few minutes inter the two men escorted Miss Moirison slender and fraillook lug to a scat beside the Judges desk The prisoner was dressed plainly und bore a dejected appearance She sat quietly through the proceedings nm king no comment and hardly speaking I a word Her five months confinement I in the county jail had apparently changed her completely Soon lifter com convened at 130 j oclock counnel for the Stale filed a demurrer I de-murrer to the plea In abatement made I by the attorneys for Miss Morrison The afternoon WHS spent In arguments of counsel on both sides Miss Mori Ison and Olin Castle sat a few feet from each other during the afternoon session ses-sion but neither even glanced at the Q timer PLEA OVERRULED Judge Shinn sustained the Stales demurrer de-murrer und told the defense to prepare Its amended plea After the amended plea was filed read and argued the court overruled the plea in abatement A motion to nuash the Information Aas filed and it too was overruled Miss Morrison and her attorneys held a conference after which a motion for a continuance was filed The motion for a continuance In on the ground that one of the principal ltnesaes for the defense Is absent from the State and cannot be hero ut this tprm of court Judge Shinn overruled llfo motion for a continuance and set tin case for tomorrow to-morrow |
