Show DEFENSE IN WILSON rt it MURDER TRIAL I. I IS BEGUN t tg Aged Father of Woman Woman la Ig C Confident She WillBe Will f t Be Acquitted f r MARYSVILLE r rR R ILLE Cal Jan The The defense e nse in Mrs Gertrude Wilsons Wilson's 0 Sial lo opened today todar confident that that she shebe i of the the- charge that be acquitted Mahe he murdered murdered- Charles A A. Brown althy stockman ope one was more c confident of an out- out Lome C e favoring the pretty d defendant t. t flan her aged father tather P P. T T. McCormick ml hick mick k of or Des Moines rones la Ia He has been constantly constantly at his daughters daughter's rs r's side I The white haired Old bId man today 1 fold loId the United Press that he will spend every every cent of or his savings to liberate his children His son Frank FrankJ J A 1 V McCormick also Is charged with the murder of ot BrownI Brown 7 t. t I know they are innocent said saidi i the kind faced old man Gertrude Isn't the kind to commit such atM ani an at II M i 1 atrocious crime as charged when t conscious of or what she was doing The has proved nothing it prosecution has Jj fi l against 0 herr hert her r t My ry boy Frank Dank I am r positive shot self defense Brown in 1 Mrs Wilsons Wilson's defense scored another another an an- 7 other point when Dr pro J H H. Barr witness witness witness wit wit- ness for the Ithe prosecution testified Brown could coald not hav have e lived more than f two forty forty forty- two or three forty three seconds after Ii ti the tho slug from s gun gunn n lodged in his neck ti j Testimony of the states state's principal j i witness s Arvin Ward was to to the effect ef ef- ef feet t ted that Mrs Wilson did not fire rire at Brown until several minutes after atter Brown was shot by her brother Mrs P P. T McCormick mother of ot the accused two returned to Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines toda today Her husband who is retired formerly was connected ed with witha a a. drug drug- company there |