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Show Upet regains wItnessstmjc Twice Attorney for Stat Leads Him Up to the Point of Contradicting Contradict-ing Himself. AVOIDS THE TRAPS SET BY THE LAWYER Accused Student Questioned Ques-tioned Minutely as to Every Detail Connected With the Tragedy. WAUKEGAN, 111., June L'S. William Urpet twice was in a predicament during cross-examination today, but, in general, lie sustained the ordeal much better than yesterday, and made no admissions at variance with those brought out by his own attorneys on direct examination. Tho first trap set by Attorney David it. joslyn of the prosecution had to do with the white powder marks which Or-pet Or-pet testified yesterday he observed on the right hand of Marion Lambert, with whose murder, by potassium cyanide cya-nide poisoning, he is charged. lie testified previously that when he turned back in Helms woods and saw Marion in her dying throes in the snow lie knelt down by her and called to her. Her right hand, he said, was .bare, and partly closed. Jle opened it a little and noticed the powder in the lines of her hand. Mr. Joslyn for some time today had been leading him suavely inch by inch and minute by minute on his trip from Madison, Wis., wdiere he was attending University of Wisconsin, to Lake 1 ''j"(st, into and about the woods with Marion, and to the death scene?. His tone was sympathetic and his phraseology phrase-ology apparently helpful. Taken by Surprise. The attorney began firing questions with great rapidity as to the position of the body, the state of the clothing and the like. In the midst of these his manner changed and he asked suddenly: V. 'JAnd was her hand bare or gloved?" Thc pallid witness, worn with hours of minute'qiies'tioning, hesitated. ' " I don 't just rememoer I think it was bare no, 1 remember, it was gloved.'' His head drooped and Mr. .loslyn plunged away from the subject and was midway in another when the witness recovered himself. ' ' Xo, I am sure her hand was bared I am sure now yes, it was bare," he gasped. The prosecutor turned on him with a snarl: "Yes, you are sure it was bare because be-cause now you remember that you said yesterday you saw the white powder in the lines of her hand. What did it look like to you anywav, powder or crvals?" ' i.'rvstals, " said the young man slowly, "of my own judgment I would say crystals." Contention of Defense. It is tho contention of attorneys for the defendant that Marion committed suicide by taking the poison in a powder pow-der so fine that snow melting in her hand, or moisture gathering on it in a hot room while the bodv was cold, would have acted on it the same as if it had been in a solution of two parts water. Yesterday Orpet. -testified that a sort of mental fag: dazed him when he realized real-ized that Marion was dead. His previous pre-vious four, that, his truancy from school would be discovered was lost in sheer terror at the tragedy. He rushed from the woods. Today Mr. Joslyn - questioned him minutely as to every detail of his journey jour-ney afoot to a railroad station. Ho repeated his story to the effect that he came because he was worried about an ' illness of Marion 's concerning which her friend, Josephine Davis, had written writ-ten him; he thought he could comfort her, he said, meaning, he later explained, ex-plained, dissolve her fears, which he felt sure were groundless. He brought with him, he said, a bottle of molasses and water which he intended she should think was medicine. Declined to Take It. She declined to take it and he thrust it back in his overcoat pockot. Shortly after leaving, the woods, while entering enter-ing Sheridan road, he threw it away, where one of his attorney's agents found it eight days later. This aent reached the spot through directions from Orpet and a diagram drawn by him after his arrest. Mr. Joslyn dealt sarcastically with the ' ( brain storm ' ' which sent the young man flying from the woods, and drove from his memory so many other details, but left so accurate an imprint of the position of this bottle. Then he sprung another trap, but witness did not fall into it. "And what did you do with the other bottle, Mr. Orpet?'' he asked in matter of fact tones. Tho latter hesitated hes-itated only a second. "What bottle?" he countered. "The other bottle, Mr. Orpet." - "There was no other bottle," insisted in-sisted the witness. The lawver turned on him and shouted, mi heeding objections objec-tions from the defense: "So you came to comfort her, did you? You came to comfort her and you brought no comfort, you brought" no medicine, you brought no words of tenderness ten-derness ' ' ' ' Objection sustained. " insisted Judge Donnellv, and Mr. Joslvn subsided. sub-sided. ' ' Jle will resume tomorrow. |