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Show FEN! seas IK1USKIFJ Fraijonn Teacher Attempts to Choke District Attorney When Verdict of Second Degree De-gree Murder Is Read. IS LEAD SCREAMING FROM COURTROOM Tears Stream Down Faces of Women Spectators and Jurors Stand in Places as Though Paralyzed. WAUKESHA, Wis., May 29. Grace Luslc was found guilty here tonight of second degree murder for the killing of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts. When the verdict was delivered Miss Lusk attempted to choke D. S. Tullar, acting district attorney, but was overpowered over-powered and led screaming from the court room. "It's a lie! It's a lie against me! He lied!" she screamed as she sprang at the throat of the prosecutor. Prison From 14 to 25 Years. The verdict carries imprisonment from fourteen to twenty-five years. Miss Lusk collapsed when the jury retired and her condition became such on returning to the jail that it required nearly half an hour to return her to the courthouse when the jury reported a verdict. The jury deliberated four hours. Grasping the throat of Mr. Tullar, who is more than sixty years old, she shook him back and forth In his chair at the counsel table until several men dragged her away, when she fainted. Recovering several minutes later, her aged father and one of her attorneys attempted at-tempted to lead her from the courtroom, but she struggled with them, her hair tumbling about her face, as she was dragged away, screaming: "That man's son lied! Ho lied! He lied my life away. Maurice Tullar swore mjr life away." Spectators in Tears. Several hundred spectators, mostly women, stood with tears streaming down their faces during the outbreak. The twelve men on the jury stood in their places with ashen faces as though paralyzed para-lyzed and shrunk away from Miss Lusk as she was led past the jury box. Maurice Tullar, now in a sanitarium because of ill health, is the district attorney at-torney of Waukesha and at the trial swore that four days after the shooting of Mrs. Roberts he obtained a statement from Miss Luslc in which she said that sho realized why she had shot Mrs.. Roberts, Rob-erts, but could not understand how she had done it so "calmly and deliberately." D. S. Tullar was appointed special prosecutor at the trial by his eon. who was unable to act because of his illness. The elder Tullar took little part in the case, leaving its actrve direction to Walter Wal-ter D. Corrigan of Mllwa ukoe, who had been appointed prosecutor. Emotion. Suppressd. When tho case was given to the jury, Miss Lusk, who had shown little emotion emo-tion during the day, broke down and sobbed hysterically and it was only after restoratives had been applied that she was able to get back to the courtroom when tho Jury' announced that it was ready to report. More than a hundred persons wore awaiting the verdict in the dimly lighted room which quickly filled with spectators as the word spread that the jury was ready to report. After W. H. Meadows, foreman of the jury, had spoken the words which wlU send her to the penitentiary. Miss Lusk leaned her head back against her father's fath-er's shoulder like a tired child. Dramatic Scene. After remaining quiet for a. moment, her eyes closed, she slowly rose to her feet, despite Mr. Lusks efforts to restrain re-strain her, and quietly walked around tho counsel table until she confronted Mr. Tullar. There was an utter silence as she paused dramatically before throwing throw-ing herself at the aged man with a half-choked half-choked cry, which could be heard in every part of the building. At midnight Miss Lusk was resting quietly In her cell under the influence of opiates. Judge LuecU after the outbreak requested cOUlksel for the defense to hold nil motions in abeyance and immediately (Coutinuod on Pago Three.) FRENZY SEIZES GIRL HMD GUILTY (Continued from Page One.) adjourned court. Members of the jury said that ten ballots were necessary to arrive at the verdict. Crime of Miss Lusk. Mrs. Roberts was shot and killed by Miss Lusk in the latter's home on the afternoon of June 21, 1917. The tragedy followed a friendship extending back to the summer of 1914 between Dr. David Roberts, former state veterinarian, and nationally known as a manufacturer of proprietory medicines for cattle, and Miss Dusk had won distinction as an educator after having taken a degree at the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin. At the time she met Dr. Roberts she was a teacher In the Waukesha normal school. After slaying Mrs. Roberts, Miss Lusk fired two bullets into her own body with the intention of ending her life, but later recovered and for the past ten months has been held in the Waukesha jail. Her trial ou a charge of murder began May 13. |