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Show liSSl, is TENSES PLEfl 0f Freda Lesser Held ge Irresponsible in trial Testimony. ..... c..i.. si.-Kfforts N'w-011 ,rlul vls in!tli' ;in.l Hint Miss "vfore tl-o all.'g.'d nuirdcr '"' n(.,r heio. July 0 last, '.':' ,,i cxprowed tho wish lo opening today of tho case ':".'".1S iiil New was known to ' '. 'Nauy" New. according to Tread to the jury. which closed its case hpforc noon, produced as a "'! i M Zibert. formerly a resl-!'.niwIK resl-!'.niwIK who testified New 'V ' VhorUv after the alleged 1 'net insane and objected '".LnVsoVntrodiic-ed. through f'-v of H. H. Cline. a police Weond alleged written con-v con-v 'ow lensthier Oian the first '. the Jury last week. J. 11. newspaper man. testltled ' :'vHt,-ii to him he killed Miss : iie would not marry lilm. '"'.vn.i-c in asserting there was "fer reports the girl might ' -iition of evidence by the de- r;;un this afternoon, tho state '.v -nreted its case with unex-i.-o' shortly before noon. riefense witness was A. X. -f.lent of Glendale. a suburb. f'jee1 at the local business 1". -1 Vhere Nev nnd Miss Ijes-" Ijes-" He testified that, io the lat-':j lat-':j Ji:ne of this year, he heard ;i-ci'-'3im to Miss Edna Clancy, r.-- cf New, a"d other young in the establishment: "I r v a' lie expressed surprise that r arparentiy in good health. - o despondent, and "endeav-:." "endeav-:." ; her out of her mood." But .V in expressions of a like na-t na-t v.::.ess added. Davis who. with Jud R. Jo!in L. Richardson, is defend- s.-i'i lie introduced this testi-r testi-r ,-rection with the contentions ::e."se that Miss Lesser was In ;:-; of mind because of the ex-l-jo!'aehild, that she was likely i '-irn her own life. ':e then plunged into the read-:rrous read-:rrous depositions in an at- :;: New had been considered - -sound, many years before the -i-1: or his sweetheart. Most of ;:-ors were from residents of aid Oklahoma City. i :'-?s? who gave depositions in ii;v were Oscar Smith Black. ;S'in:iie. Thomas T. Harris. y:;he'.;. Kill R. Walters, Mrs. ;r and Robert Putn3ni. These that New had brooded over "the uivfortunate cir-r cir-r - of his birth," had a poor I showed a bad temper at Corder who said N'ew- was c"- his associates as "Nutty" said he frequently told her :: so- of Senator Harry S. New t rd did not have a fair chance i-fe of prejudice against him : of his aliened illegitimate aorendant then was working 1 weeper, it was said. r-avenport, Theo Tavlor. i-o:d Mrs. E. O. Cooheran i ? Indianapolis residents who '"-.ins as to New s mental eon-who eon-who served with N'ew in la'.ional guard on the Mexi-" Mexi-" "1. expressed tho opinion ' unsound of mind because 3C, enness at that time and t leu alone, and because of - lor hunting and killing rat- |