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Show I prosecutor SCORES H HEFMEf CASE Damaging Admissions Forced From the Girl During Hen Long Cross-Examination. LEAVES STAND WEEPING Defendant Will Probably Know Her Fate Sometime Today or TonighL COLCMBUS. Ohio, Nov. 21. Both fbn state and the icfcnso completed tho presentation of ovidenco today in tho murder trial of Miss Cecilia Farley, house stenographer. who is charged with shoot: np Alvin E. Zollinger, an advertising adver-tising solicitor, in a city park last May, and rho case is expected to ro to the jjrv tomorrow. .After having been on the stand more 'hnn two days, Miss Farley completed answering tho cross-esaniioiing questions ques-tions of tho prosecuting attorney shortlv after the noon recess today, he went from tho stand crying and umpletoly exhausted. Forced to Confess, prosecutor Turner scored .heavily for he stale today when upon sovercly ross-cxamining Miss Farloy, he forced her to tell of how she had intimate relations with Jerome Quiglcy, tho man whom she was to marry, after their engagement. Cloaring tho space in front of the jury for tho second time luring the trial, Miss Farley again rent through the dramatic scenes, demonstrating the story of tho defense of how Zollinger was "accidentally "hot." This time Prosecutor Turner acted the nart of Zollinger instead of IMit-s Fnrlov's attorney, Mr. Allen. Under the guidance of tho prosecutor, who rlaiiiwd' in his opening arguments that it would have been impossible for Zollinger to havo been shot m tho manner man-ner claimed by tho defenso, tho stenographer ste-nographer gave an even more graphic description of tho shooting than before be-fore Trembling and Nervous. Whilo holding tho rovolvor to the prosecutor's bond at tho same distance f-hc claimed it was from Zollinger's head when tho weapon was discharged tho distance was mensured. by attorneys and found to be seventeen inches. When Miss Farloy again took the witness chair after tho demonstration bhe was trembling and nervous. She broke down and sobbed and bad. to be helped from tho chair to the "witness room, where she was allowed to rest for i fw minutes. Tho prosecution then began its rebuttal re-buttal and introduced an expert who declared that he had made exoerimenta and that powder marks could be seen on human flesh from a revolver twont--m inches distant. The defense had provionsly introduced intro-duced an expert who declared that powder pow-der marks .could not be seen on flesh i' t in revolver were hold moro than six .'fie, away. |