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Show . GRPET CASE WILL GO 10 TliE JURY TODAY Prosecution to Close and the Judge to Deliver Charge Before Noon. WAI'KEGAX, 111., July J4. The fate' of William If. Orpet, charged with the murder of Marion Lambert, will .be in i the hands of the jury before noon tomorrow. to-morrow. When court adjourned tonight David R. Jo:dyn announced that he would conclude con-clude his address, summing up the cae for the prosecution within an hour after court opens tomorrow. The courtroom was crowded to hear Mr. Joslyn and in expectation that the proceedings would be brought to an end. Platform railings were utilized, as was the public entrance to the courtroom court-room and the corridor leading up to the witness room, while many others stood for hours. Camp stools and a big green picnic bench were brought in to accommodate the extra crowd. Young Orpet was plainly disappointed disappoint-ed at the adjournment. He had been counting the days until he can go swim- ming, but adjournment, in his opinion, delayed the pleasure just one day more. His mother, too, was disappointed, but she sat through the long hot hours with the expressionless fortitude which has characterized her attitude throughout through-out the trial. On his other side sat Mrs. Edwin Taylor, his landlady at Madison, undismayed by the grand jury summons served on her last Tuesday. James H. Wilkcrson, chief of counsel for the defense, concluded his argument at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and was followed immediately by Mr. Joslyn. The latter indulged in sentimental allusions al-lusions to Marion and unreserved condemnation con-demnation of Orpet 's character before coming down to a discussion of the evidence. evi-dence. He followed the same line as his associates, Srate's Attorney Ralph ,1. Dadv and Eugene M. Runyard, who preceded him. but his delivery was more oratorical than was theirs, and he appealed ap-pealed more strongly to the sympathies of the jurors in behalf of the bereaved home of the Lamberts. |