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Show JURY VISITS RUINS OF SMALL COTTAGE Man Accused of Wife Murder Stands By Sobbing Most of the Time. , ' OSSIPKB. N. H., Dec. 27. The spot whf-re the body of Mrs. Florence Arjine j Small was found on Septemier 23. In liie ruins of her burned cottage on the shore of ike Osslpee, was pointed out today to the jury selected for t he trial of the woman's )iusbnnd. Frederick Small, who is charged with her murder, liehlde the jury stood the prisoner, nobbing most of the time; Judge John Kivel, who Is presiding at the court session, counsel and newspaper men. ounty Solicitor Walter D. Hill Indicated Indi-cated where the doors had been, the position po-sition of a revolver, r'lativp to the soot where the body lay, the site of Small' workshop in the nnr of the house, and the lo'-atlon of neighboring oottages. Svdney F. Stevens, for the defense, directed di-rected the jury's a f ten! ion to a. batch-way batch-way door over a flight of steps leading from the outside of the. house to the cellar cel-lar and to a cleat on the inner jde which served as a fastening for the door. Mr. Stevens pointed out that under this . lea t. when it was hi a position tlm t would leave, the tonr 11 n fa stencd. t he pa Int wns sen reel v damaged, while the rest of the door had been s orrhj and partly l,i:med away. It Is undertoo-l that the defense, will eon fepd that in Small's, absepc. a tramp entered the house, killed Mrs. Sma.!l, sf the fire nnd left hy the hat':hVHy door. |