Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-20 | Page 3 | M'coy Offers Dual Defense in Own Behalf

OffERS DUAL DEfENSE DEFES t IN OWN BEHALf Former Fighter Uses Pantomime Pantomime Pan Pan- Pantomime on Stand in Der De- De How Mrs Mors r f Com orn 1 Suicide I 1 Dec Tec 20 The The U y s skeleton seton leton of ot sit well up upS S g s sessions of ot harge of ot mura mur- mur a d. J 1 Mors Nors ors here last when me cs s case ease late yester- yester A. A r Mrs of Mors was sui- sui according to tes- tes In in his behalf f. f Ih had finished th the other hl i ii twofold defense was re reIn rein rein re- re in depositions describing a pier her mother and younger siss siso sis- sis s v of unsound mentality o a a crowded ed courtroom the former for- for mer pugilist described in words at supplemented with panto- panto the lime how he struggled with Mrs when discouraged over her troubles and determined to end it all 1 she took a bread knife and at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to plunge It into her heart how she then despite his struggle to save her snatched a pistol from f the table at which they had been I eating enUng and fired a bullet Into her head hEnd PLANNED SUICIDE j s At first he tried to stop the flow of ot blood he said but at last real- real i that she was dead gave up to toi i A. A bitter despair and determined to toi toc i c end erni nd his life lite He la lay down beside the body and prepared to send the Remaining bullets of the pistol Into j Mils his own bodyl body l' l V Why he ne did aid not kill himself then t McCoy could not remember He lie became becan e dazed he explained to the I Jury and his mind left him I i i 1 1 dont don't even remember ever I leaving her he said Here after McCoy had clung to the essential facts of his narrative through l cro cross s examination the depositions concerning insanity offered what defense counsel referred referred referred re- re to as an explanation of McCoy's McCoys McCoys McCoy's Mc Mc- Coys Coy's probable mental condition at the time I I PARENTS OF UNSOUND MIND The depositions contained the testimony of residents of the Shelby I I family's amily's home community in In Indana Indiana In- In InI I diana dana and stated that both Frank and hd Mary E. E Selby parents of the defendant had been of unsound i minds and at times mentally de deficient deficient de- de while his sister Mabel was Insane in 1915 t tAlbert Albert A. A Mor Mors divorced husband o of Mrs Mors who had been heralded heralded her- her as the star witness of both prosecution and defense had not a single word of testimony i i I r either when the dei defense deren ne e rested Ins 4 3 case yesterday f Arguments to the jury will begin t with a possibility that the Ii he se ma may be in the hands of ot the j Jury ry before Christmas There i was no session today