Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-02-28 | Page 6 | Denver Nurse May Tell of Love That Caused Her to Kill Officer

Denver Nurse May Tell of Love u That Caused Her to Kill Officer er DENVER Golo Colo Feb 28 United Press Press-Farice King may te tell l today of her love for Patrolman Robert K Evans a love lovo which prompted the nurse to shoot Evans to death as he lay wounded on a hospital cot If Miss Kin KinC regains her composure compo sure sufficiently she will be called to the witness stand in her trial for murder The womans woman's mother molher her hel twIn I sister and her hl testified yes yes- yesterday esi i seeking to keep leep her from i prison b by swearing she was Insane Insane- at the time she shot Evans Ivans and tried to to- commit I Miss l King on two occasions rose to her feet and screamed My poor pOor little mother she cried when her aged mother Mrs Elsie King told tearfully of MIss MIss' Kings King's conduct upon learning that Evans had deceived her and had married another woman oman Again when her attorney Lewis Mowry offered In evidence love letters letters let let- Evans had written her she lurched across the counsel table and attempted to tear the mIssives I I want those letters she sobbed hysterically The They're re mine Oh Mr 1 Mowry they're mini lIeI three brothers told how happy happy hap hap- py he hud had been as a a. girl how ecstatically happ happy she was during dUrIng dUr- dUr Ing Evans Evans' cOurtship and then how morose moros and listless she sho became after Evans had jilted hOI her You dont don't know what real love is Is F. F 1 I lA King testified his hats sister told him when he at- at attempted tempted to d denounce Evans vans Each time he mentioned Evans Miss King sank back In her chain chah Dr A A. A Leslie King dentist the next brother the happy meetings between n Farce Farice and Evans The latter lie he testified told him he planned to marry marr barter