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Show TILE OF MEANS j ! Mrs. Anne L. Robinson, the i ! Mother of Mrs. Maude A. , i Kincs Appears in Court in a Wheel Chair. ACCUSED MAN IS VERY ANXIOUS 'Unnatural Daughter Tries to Prevent Parent Prom Entering Courtroom, but i Without Success. Fy D. M. CHTJBCH, International News Service Staff Correspondent. ANfol(I.. .V. ('., Nov. A little gray-haired mother risked her life to-d:jy to-d:jy to gi e c idr-m e 1 bat may aid in cunvieting Gn-ton B. Mean of the iniir-der iniir-der of her daughter, ilr?. Maude A. King. For more than an hour Mrs. Ai.no L. Kobinsou was a witness in the ;-e aiiut Moan-1. With htr treogth ra.'id' v -ri-aui;ig, d;:c her '-t-. she i .i p.i v.ivr ed courage :"id pu r ut' her renGi t- rp.;ii :n oiri late this af If rnoun. v'he was 'orouh t into the court in a whet 1 hair and l;uc her testi:t:ony from it while a niie nas in attendance. The evidence of Mrs. Kobnisou ji-pu- Mated t he ie ocation of a t ru-t aree-nu'iit aree-nu'iit offered aa legal by Gaston B. Mean4:. This t rust agreement in favor of M i . Kob in -on had ben for $1 H "v ikh). M pans had had it revoked, according ac-cording to earlier testimony, lu bringing bring-ing about the revocation 'an offered w hat pu rpnrted to be a s . 'T-i "d i eip.ir?! j ' roin M ' s. Rob in -on a r.d v-. K i :;g lor I the r-Mucution. Mr-. L'obin.-on t o 1 1 -j fied that she had necr len aked to re.oke the jigrppinnt nor had : he made i a n ' Mi'di reouet. She denied her signature sig-nature to tho paper which was offered in e idenee. Trust Fund Revoked. A. Leonard .lohnou. assistant -eei e-taiy e-taiy v th .t ere haiit 's Loan and Tru-t company, te-ti fieri before the noon ro- es that Means s'.ui''ht to revoke a trust fund which Mrs. King had established estab-lished for her mother. Mr. Kobinson. Means was gi ven tho necrs-a rv pa-prs pa-prs and rrlnrned them w-ith tho ?ina-ture.s ?ina-ture.s of both women asking r'-ooation of the trust fund was ,loh-Mjn"s testimony. testi-mony. Trie virtual imprisonment inflicted upon Mr, Kinc "by Means a.- a!-o testified tes-tified t o by M r:-. Kohi ncon. hp de-c de-c fared that Ms. in was never allowed al-lowed to be alone with her end that Means took all of the mail that came and she did noi believe she received all of her own mail. According to the testimony of Mrs. Robinson, Means had attempted to have her sent to a sanitarium and had taken her medicine away from her "wheu she. had a very sick spell.'' Other Daughter Present. Fhinng this testimony the (laughter of Mr?. Kobinson, .Mrs. "May C. Mclvin. sat beside the defendant. She was highly excited and hung on every word her mother uttered. It was the first time she had seen her mother since the death of M rs. King. Mrs. Kobinson. who has calle.l Mrs. Mel vin an ' ' unnatural unnat-ural daughter' never once looked at. j Mrs. Mclvin and when she referred to her. in her testimony, she spoke of her as 'Mho other daughter.'' Means was nil anxiety throughout tho testimony of the woman he had been quoted as calling " 7fi. ' ' His "face was somewhat more pasty than usual and he continually mopped perspiration from his brow. At times he smiled in a leering manor at the woman and once became o anxious to hear what the-woman the-woman was saying that he jumped from his chair and attempted to cross the court room. lie was told to taJse his seat and had tho testimony repeated to him. Defense on Edge. Counsel for the defense was also evidently evi-dently on edge. F. T. Gansler burst into iuveetivu against his colleagues and censured them for attempting to dictate dic-tate to him while ho addressed the court. Mrs. "Robinson on direct examination testified that w hen she first mot Means, some two years ago, he was "some sort of a detective, ' ' living in a, cheap Harlem Har-lem flat, but soon after moved to Park avenue. When she spoke of the party arriv-(Continued arriv-(Continued on Paso Tvro.) s 1ECFKS1S ! STBOKBLY DEWED (Continued frcrni Pafte One.) in in Chicago she said she "did" not j remember, but su posed cans brought . the whole tribe with him." ref errinj. ' evidently, to W. R. Patterson and ', Dcutsoh. When they left Chicago Mrs. Robinson Robin-son said -Means told hen ''We have to go. There is a woman here that we have got to get away from." Mrs. Robinson said this woman was i4 Muster" Foraker, but she did not know why -Means felt that ho had to get rid ot this woman. Not Sure of Signature. All of the drafts which were paid" to Mrs. Robinson as the interest from her trust were presented to her. She s?.ul that at a time several months ago Moan had told her that her cheeks would increase from .fnOU momthly to flut'O. Earlier evidence had shown that after the revocation of the trust fund Means had secured a draft for $1000 each month in favor of Mrs. Robinson Rob-inson from the Chicago .bank which had held the trust fund. Mrs. Robinson was asked to identify her signature on the drafts. Her answer generally was: "It looks like my writing, but I am not sure." "There has been some deviltry and forging going on,"' she started to say onee as she dropped back in her chair greatly exhausted. Her remark was stopped by the court. She testified on examination that her money never came before the fifth of the month. She was inclined to believe the checks she received re-ceived were on white paper while the drafts presented to her were on green paper. One of the drafts bore the mark "0. K. as signature. G. M. Means." The state may contend that Means was signing the draft for Mrs. Robinson. Robin-son. Refused to See Means. Henry Van Story, a hotel manager from Asheville, testified that Mrs. Rob-inon Rob-inon had been at his hotel since July 9. Ho said that .Meaus came to the j hotel frequently and on September 7 , after the death of Mrs. King, he came' and wanted to seeMrs. Robinson, but was not allowed to. On cross-examination Van Story testified that the last i draft which Means had drawn to the j favor of Mrs. Robinson had been depos- : 'ited by Means to her account at his hotel. "He declared that the signature ; was that of Mrs. Robinson. On redi- : rect examinat ion he stated he did not . know the woman's signature well : enough to swear to if. i j Trouble was threatened when Mrs.1 j Robinson was first brought into court. ; I At the head of the stairs stood her daughter. Mrs. May (.'. Melviu. who' sought to see her mother for the f ir-t time. Henry nutseh came rushing out and aid: " Don "t let that woman go into the courtroom. ' ' However. Mrs. KobLnson was wheeled in. ' This evening Mrs. Mav C. Melvin called upon her mother at her hotel, it. wa.i the fir:t time viie has atrempted to criprfntnieafe with her parent since the d"!rh of Mrs... Ki sr. Mr. LVninson erly denounced Means, it is under-t.eid, under-t.eid, "a-.d Mrs. Melvin left abruptly an-, r a five-minute interiew. |