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Show lmm pleads FOR LIFEOF ORPET Prosecution Will Conclude Today and Saturday Case Goes to the Jury. WAT" Kr-y. AN, Til., July 13. The last argument of counsel In the case of William Wil-liam H. Orpet, charged with the murder of Marion J.amhert, will be begun tomorrow, tomor-row, and by .Saturday nijjht it Is the Intention In-tention to have the case In the hands of the jury. The culminating effort of the defense in behalf of the voun collegian was be-un be-un this afternoon by Jarnes H. Wilker-son, Wilker-son, chief of his counsel, and when he concludes tomorrow the laat word for the defense will have been spoken. In all, six lawyers will have been heard. Mr. Wllkerson's remarks to the jury today covered old ground In a new way. Ills theme was that the presumption of innocence, which the law grants every defendant until he Is proved guilty, makes clear and Innocent every detail of the evidence urged against the defendant, "The cornerstone of the case of the prosecution." said Mr. Wilkerson. "rested on the fact that Orpet had spent the night of February 8 in th garage near the greenhouse where cyanide of sodium, then thought to he -cyanide of potassium, was kept. Marlon died of cyanide of potassium po-tassium poisoning, and when tne cyanide was discovered in the greenhouse, the stale jumped to the conclusion that Orpet had poisoned her and, with the presumption presump-tion of guilt, has bent every innocent circumstance cir-cumstance to fit that theory." |