Show SNAKE f MURDER AID COLLAPSES LOS ANGELES June 25 UP UP- UP The wife murder trial of at Robert S. S Tames James T wed much barber was Interrupted today when Charles H H. Hope confessed accomplice collapsed collapsed col col- col laps lapsed on the witness stand while describing ho how they had hid forced a abare abare I Ibare bare Jeg leg of James James' beautiful young bride brido into a box containing a buzzing buzzing buzz buzz- ing rattlesnake The former sailor was in the midst of sensational testimony testimony testimony tes tes- tes- tes when ho bo could no longer continue He had described how Mary Jam James s strapped to a 8 kitchen table top top adhesive adhesive tape over her mouth mouth had had been submitted to the bite of a a. rattler In a box Hope also had told the jury of the final moments of Mrs James' James life Ufe When th the snake poison polson failed ailed to work he said James drowned her In a bathtub Contrary to former versions of the death scene Hope said there was only one snake Instead in instead instead In- In stead of ot two In the box into which the brides bride's bare foot was thrust by her husband The state evolving a new theory on this testimony believed this may have caused James allegedly to drown Mary The ho venom of two snakes would have killed quickly it was WM con con- tended I |