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Show 'Mi TELLS DETAILS OP IIS WS DEATH Filicide Describes Events Which Preceded Giving of Poison. The story of how he induced his little son, 7 years of age, to drink poison on last September 4, with fatal results, and of his own effort at suicide by poisoning was told yestrday afternoon and last night by J. J. Ryan, on trial for murder before a Jury in Judge John F. To'oin's division of the Third district court. The night session of court was held in an effort to finish the case before July 4. It is expected that it will go to the Jury some time today. In minutest detail, the man charged with murder told of arrangements made by himself for ending the lives of himself him-self and his son on the night of the day on which lie was to have reported for duty undr the military draft. He testified testi-fied that his action was In keeping with a suicide pact between himself and hi.s wife, reaffirmed on her deathbed after she had herself taken poison. The witness was subjected to but slight cross-examination, counsel for the state directing their batteries at Dr. George t. Pnoddy, professor of psychology at tiie university, who was qualified by the defence de-fence as an expert on insanity" and who testified that he believed Ryan to have been insane at the time of administering poison to ills son. Uuallficn t'.on of Professor Snoddy was resisted by the sta'.e on the ground that he was not shown to be a specialist in mental disorders. Permitted to qualify by the court, he was briefly examined by counsel for the defense and rigidly examined ex-amined by Assistant District Attorney Baldwin Robertson. Counsel sought to have the witness substantiate his testimony testi-mony by reference to authorities on mental men-tal diseases. The proceeding crowded the night session to bevond 11 o'clock. J , An interesting development is impend- j ing with reiraru to possible Instructions to ; the jury. It is a mooted question if the; law will permit instructions for convic- I Hon on a lesser charge than first-degree I murder, the statute specifying that kill- : ing by poisoning Is first -degree murder, j Tf the court holds that the instruction may not Include the lesser degrees of manslaughter as being within the range ; of guiit, then the verdict must be either! murder in the first decree or acquittal. J The effort of the defense is to establish j that Rvan was temporarily insane at the; time of causing his boy's" death and en-j deavoring to kid himself also by takir.sr roicon. The evidence presented vaster- , day was that, of witnesses who told of 1 having observed that he acted queerly i and was morose during the -weeks that e'apsed between the death of Ma wife, July s, 1 is, and the poisoning of him- ' self and the boy on s-eptember 4. ' The defendant recounted in detail the ' circumstances of domest. troubles prior to his wife's suicide, telling of her jeal- I ousy nf another woman living at Magna i , and ( his often repeated protestations ' 'f innoc:iee of any association with the woman. He recounted hnw they went all over the matter of a divorce "suit filed by his wife, the while they eat on a b- nch in the grounds of the citv and county building, finally making up and kissing In br a i daylight. The state rested shore iy after the opening open-ing of court vstrday mo.uing. Marv Butler. Sadie Chesler. K. II. Pudlev. Pr. J. J. Fly: in. prank Bolll-M, Mrs. Magce 1 C.eislT. Mrs. Phoebe Rubits. hung and ! Hattie Niewooheiner all te.-tified to hav- 1 i!;ir nml-'ed that. Ryan was moooy. morose and mlar.ch''iy af u-r the death of h is wifp, Pr. F'ynn test if y mtr that when he saw Rvan in Rir.cham between the death of Mrs. Ryan ai'd the poisoning of the father and so?i. the man had seemed to him to ho hysterical. Purine Ryan's testimony, two r.otrs wre Introduced ni having ben written by his wife shortly before she died at th" countv hospltah in nhich she staled that he was In no way responsible for her action in taking her own life. |