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Show iSLfll OF RIVAL ! BARES HER LIFE : ! i Ruth Garrison Takes Wit- i ness Stand in Trial for I 1 ! Murder. , i I SEATTLE, "Wa:-... May 6. For three hours todiiy Kuth Garrison, the lS-year-old girl charged with first -degree murder mur-der for poisoning Mrs. Grace Gleatz Storrs, her rival for the love of D. M. Storr. cn March IS last, t-Md the tragic details of her life, her love and her confessed con-fessed crime to a crowded courtroom. The fctory was simple. Ii followed a morning of swiftly moving events in her trial. The prosecution had called fifteen witnesses and in less than two houra completed its case without cross-examination by the drfenie. T. M. Askren, counsel for the diene, then presented hfs opening statement. His charge that Storrs suggested to Miss Garrison indirectly indi-rectly the poisonirp of his wile brought from the girl htr first burst of emotion. "nen she took the stand later, however, ihe told her story unfalteringly. Askren declared Miss Garrison as mentally irresponsible for her crime. Miss Garrison testified to leaving her sister's home and taking an apartment at Storrs" s suggestion. She told of visiting vis-iting him in Okanogan, where he worked as an automobile- mechanic, and or' a meeting between Storrs. his wife and herself, at which she said Mrs. Storrs promised to divorce her husband if he would marry Miss Garrison. Miss Katherine V. McCue, who saw Miss Garrison stir the poison pd cocktail, was among the witnesses called. It is expected the defense .will complete its case by tomorrow at the adjournment of court. Storrs. who is in jail here on a charge of seduction, has not been subpoenaed sub-poenaed to testify as yet by either side. On the day she poisoned .Mrs. Storrs. Miss Garrison said, cttor she nad invited Mrs. Storrs to luncheon, she was walking downtown and -it came to my mind like a flash that I could put something in whfit she was to cat. After that nothing 1 under the sun couid stop me from doing it." After several vain attempts she obtained the poison or. tlie pleu. that she wished it to kill a cat. At the department store she ordered lunch for two. The waitress-brought waitress-brought first the fruit cocktaiJs. ''before I went in the tea room," Miss Garrison continued: -'I loosened the cork in the bottle and saw It wfs strychnine. When the cocktails were brought in I took the bottle out of my pocket and poured a very little bit into the cockta'l a verv little bit. I took a spoon and dipped It in the cocktail."' After Mrs. Slorrs had eaten her cocktail cock-tail and feil back in her chair in a convulsion. convul-sion. Miss Garmon testified she asked: "What's the matter, Grace?" |