Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-21 | Page 24 | Anselmo May Know Fate by Christmas

1SELI0 MAY I0W ESTE EtYCHRISTMflS Case of Griffiths's Slayer Expected Ex-pected to Go to the Jury Next Wednesday. Intimations aro that John Ansolmo, on trial in the district court for the killing of Patrolman Thomas P. Griffiths, Grif-fiths, will learn his fato from the jury either Christmas eve or Christmas day. Tho defense -expects to conclude its case Monday, arguments to the jury will requiro all ol Tuesday and part of Wednesday and tho caso will bo given to tho jury in all probability Christmas eve. Continuing its insanity "pica, the defense de-fense took all of yesterday in introducing introduc-ing additional testimony to show the provalouce of epilepsy aud insanity in the Anselmo family and its indications in "the defendant himself. Examination of witnesses is a tediously slow process, owing to the .fact that every word has to be obtained through tho medium of an interpreter. Tho chief witness j'estcrday was Prank Anselmo, falhor of the defendant, defend-ant, who told of his son's afflictiou with epilepsy from tho time of his earliest ear-liest eliildhood. lie said that his son had improved after coming to America from Italy, but that the epileptic attacks at-tacks had ' occurred not infrequently during his later years. It is tho contention of tho defense that Anselmo shot the officer while in an epileptic fit and that he was . not conscious of his crimo at the time.