| Show MOTHER TAKES I SlOE SIDE Of SON IN KELSEY TRIAL I Eliza Kelsey Gives Det Details De- De t tails ils of Last Illness of i Her Daughter in in- inLaw Law I Believed Poison Victim ST. ST April 10 Eliza kelse Kelsey mother of Frank Kelsey Keisey alleged New Harmony mur wife deter deer on trial here for his life was called today as a defense witness s. s As she related Intimate details of the Ue last illness ss of of her daughter in law Mrs Irs Kelsey broke down and sobbed Bobbed The defendant I remained unperturbed In the n mothers mother's oher t tes relative to the joint Ur n iSn policy taken out on hr r rown own and her sons son's life life the st t laid f foundation for impeachment of the witness Under direct examination by Defense De- De De Dc- Attorney Samuel A A. King Mrs Kelsey related h how w the the dead dead woman had acted on various occasions occa occasions several months before her death In February 1921 Lottie Kelsey gave birth to a baby her mother-in-law mother testified today One Mae Onemo mo month th later tills this baby died and de defendants de dei i fondants fondant's described how Lottie held the dead baby In In her herI II I j arms and cried j I Never mind darling mot mother will soon be with you Lottie Kelsey crooned to her dead baby accordIng according accord accord- I Ing to the witness I At this point the witness broke e down and had to be composed be before be- be fore tore continuing She then related d how she had intended going to Idaho but Lottie Lottle requested her not notto notto to go because of a dream In which I the latter had the spirit I of her own mother dead This spirit had told Lottie that she or or 01 Frank would have to come and id I I tend the bab baby as it was crying and could not be quieted Witness said I Lottie was despondent and melancholy melan melar choly continuously from the time of ot other I her hez baby's death to her own nearly one year later Eliza Kelsey testified that her herson herson son and his wl wife e had always been happy She claimed to have suggested stag sug the joint life policy which the state has contended furnished Frank Kelsey with a motive for at at- tempting the murder murden by poison of his mother Mrs Kersey Kelsey testified that she had promised to pay a portiOn portiOn- of the premium and It was In this reference that Prosecutor W. W B. B HIggins Indicated he would attempt to Impeach the testimony of defendants defendant's mother William Prince testified that he helped the defendant saw wood on December 5 1921 the day Mrs Kelsey Kelsey Kelsey Kel Kel- sey her fatal The witness said he ate dinner with the defendant at their grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grandfathers grandfather's grand grand- fathers father's hou houie e. e During the day word was brought that Franks Frank's wife was ill m but the defendant continued to saw wood Kelsey's mother t testified f that on on this same day her son helped his wife to start the family washing and then went to work worIc The witness witness witness wit wit- ness said she went to help her law in with the washing which was finished about noun noon She Sho and Lottie then got dinner and at ate It While washing the dishes afterwards Lottie complained complained com corn of a headache and re remarked ro- ro marked that she had eaten too fast No o alarm was t taken ken Until late that evening when the tho defendant telePhoned telephoned tele tele- phoned her to come right over oer as Lottie was very ery ill Upon Ullon her arrival al Lottie told tod her that she bilious bil mother-in-law mother was ious lous and had a headache The Th Mormon eiders elders were called caned In to administer to the sick woman and anda a mustard plaster was applied to her ter head The following morning Lottie was feeling worse She seemed despondent and refused to take medicine saying Raying it made her feel I worse The witness told of the I circumstances of the Illness and arid death I Ideath Ac Io to the states state's contention that I her son was unduly Intimate with Nora his wife's sister Mrs Kelsey testified that tha t Lottie asked Frank to send for Nora to help in inthe inthe the tho housework She also declared that the ring which states state's witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses had been C given cn by by- defendant to Nora Ballard has In her possession since his wife's death She t explained that her son wanted her to havo have the ring as a remembrance of hi his wife |
