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Show MENTAL ATTITUDE OF WILLI HIS CHANGED Favorite With Fellow-prisoners at Jail and Is Now Optimistic. WIFE IS IN SECLUSION Refuses to Be Interviewed at Father's Home; Refers All to Attorneys. "Professor" la the name which his el-low el-low inmates in tho county jail have given to Arthur VVilkirrl, who 1h awaiting trial nn the charge of having shot and killed Or 11 Hull ties in HlriKham last Wodnes-day Wodnes-day afternoon. Klucu hia arrest Willard haw changed from abject despondency over bin deed to llght-hoadted optimism, and his cheerfulness has established him an a prime favorite among the prisoners. On only two subjects 1m Willard silent. 11a will not discuss his case, and frankly Hays ho. Any question about his wife, whose alleged inl in mry with Holmes is unld to have been the. prime cause of the murder, !h met with eloquent silence. Wlllard's eyes will momentarily be filmed with learn as he turns his face from his quentlonr. L'very possible leniency is given to Willard Wil-lard in the jail, aa he is not considered a dangerous prisoner. And Willard is quick to show his appreciation of hiH treat ment hy devoting all possible time to lightening the lonesome hours of his fallows. II Is 11 nu sun 1 Intelligence and knowledge of world conditions has made him the arbiter in the settlement of innumerable in-numerable disputes regarding the war and other matters of current news. Defense Collects Evidence. Judge I . N. Straup, counsel for Willard, Wil-lard, still declares that he has not determined de-termined upon the course of the defense, but yesterday expressed the belief lhat he would be nble to Hear his client of the murder charge. Judge Straup admitted admit-ted that a number of Investigations are being conducted under his supervision and that satisfactory progress is being made in the compilation of evidence. Deputy County Attorney Sam l. Thur-man, Thur-man, who interrogated a number of the witnesses of the tragedy, will go to Bingham Bing-ham this morning for the purpose of making mak-ing additional investigation and securing further deposit Ions from those who may be called as witnesses in the case. No date has yet been fixed for the preliminary pre-liminary beyond a general agreement between be-tween counsel that it shall be held next week. Mrs. Willard still remains intrenched in tho home of her parents, ',iS Kast First Nor tli street, and positively refuses to be interviewed relative to the impending trial. Wife Undecided, Her father, J. Golden Kimball, in an interview with a newspaper representative representa-tive yesterday at his home, declared that no decision has as yet been reacned as to what stand Airs. Willard will take when the 'Wheels of Justice begin to, move and her husband is put on trial for his life. When asked if Mrs. "Willard might be Interviewed, Mr. Kimball expressed irritation irri-tation at the question and insisted that the persistency with which the newspapers newspa-pers were seeking out Mrs. Willard in the endeavor to obtain some kind of a statement from her lips was bordering on persecution. He asserted that she had nothing whatever to say and that she was entirely in the hands of Judge Le Grand Young and Oscar W. Moyle, her counselors. He referred all inquirers to these attorneys. Mrs. Willard, according to the statement state-ment of her father, is still in poor health as a result of the nervous shock she sustained sus-tained at tho lime of her husband's crime, She is still attended by physicians. |