Show Two W Women omen Freed in Murder Cases Neither Are Young Nor Beautiful CHICAGO March 26 AP-A AP wo woman nan need not be young and she need not be beautiful to win ac- ac quitt l' l lon on a murder charge In Chicago Chi Cht- cago two Juries have decided on days dars Both times It wa-a wa middle aged mother charged with v th slaying her husband and both Limes acquittal 1 tTe In th the case of Mrs Bertha Hellman Hell Hell- n mi man 48 who strangled her bel husband to death dath with his own shirt during a quarrel there was va a an apparent Indifference rence to pcr lost of h bet bet- l' l adult y years rs had been spent In hard work worl as she cn- cn to the support ot of herself and familY She Is a large woman and muscular A jury required less th than thirty t minutes to io exonerate her J i Mrs Alma Olson 46 years ears old was garbed plainly And her features features fea- fea tures showed the the- strain of years ot of suffering Testifying to the slayIng slaying slay slay- Ing ot of her husband she used these words I 1 was sl sick k and tired of it an all I followed him into the bathroom and nd shot him five c times Mrs Olson said her husband held hypnotic powers over her and while she was under the Influence her husband brought other women into their home pome Even her he own attorneys had told the jury they would be If she he were o dered sent to a state Institution institution fan fOl treatment The jury after short lion Lii returned a verdict ot of not guilty that Mrs n was insane ht bit the thc time of her crime but had since recovered |