Show ElLINGSON GIRL LOSES BRAVADO EVE HE Or I M Matricide d e Goes I G oes Into nto C Court Cour our Thoroughly Subdued I IOn On Advice of Attorneys I Is Defense i SAX SAN FRANCISCO March l 23 By I U. U P. P Dorothy P.-Dorothy Dorothy Ellingson 1 year 16 old mother murderess fainted in superior court here today two hours after she went on trial for tor forthe forthe the slaying Sitting In a chair between her attorneys the girl paled and slipped unconscious to the floor She was was- carried to the judges judge's chambers cham I bers hers and revived sufficiently to be removed to the co county nty jail s I SAN FRANCISCO March 1 23 By U. U P. P P. P-No No matter what the result I only hope it will soon Eoon be over was the comment of year old Dorothy Ellingson today as she went on trial for her hr m mother Lacking the bravado and the disdain dis dis- dis dam dain of ot remorse which marked her I attitude shortly following her ar arrest ar ar- rest reat the slender titian haired girl of ot the cafes and jazz bands went into court a thoroughly subdued yeung person She was wearing some of ot the same clothing she possessed when officers found her sleeping in a house January 15 The past weeks have brought none of ot the bright things of ot life which Dorothy valued more than she did her mother I I dont don't think I am going to take the witness stand Dorothy said I At least that's what my attorneys ys' ys I have told me Everything Is in hands Ive been trying not to think of ot it at all aU Ive I've gone through so any n-any tests these past few weeks I J lunt mt want to even see another specialist They've given me all kinds of mental mental mental men men- I tal examinations some of ot them ridiculously silly IMPULSE DEFENSE The defense headed by Attorney expects Alexander expects to base ase its case on the claim that the girl I sas was acting on an Im Impulse impulse im- im I pulse in the murder of ot January 13 when she fired a shot into her mothers mother's back back- backas as Mrs Irs Ellingson upbraided upbraided up up- braided her for tor her fast life Ute There can be no other ether 1 defense nse than that of ot temporary Insanity fl ag as Dorothy has confessed the matri matri matri- cide clde both for the girl girland girland girland and the tho state will feature the tes tea Dorothy wants a jury of ot me men to hear beam her case Men are more mor sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic than women she has hail found fund Women Jurors come come from r homes the girl philosophizes and naturally are unable to realize the temptations and downfalls which she a woman of ot the world has fa faced ed Dorothy has admitted l she he shot her mother because Mrs 1 EllIng Ellingson Ellingsen lm objected to the gay gay gay life she led Inthe in inthe inthe the Chinese cabarets and jazz pal pal- palaces aces i v I I r loved loyed to dance and have a good time Dorothy said I wanted to to live my own life Ufe ro l Mother her upbraided upbraid upbraid- ed me when I stayed out late SIe didn't like the boys I went with I and killed herI herI herI her I didn't know mother was so good a friend she sobbed PLEA OF The defense has built up a plea I of unique fj In ethnical criminal hl history tory I I I i Psychologists will testify that Dorothy Dorothy Do Do- Po- Po rothy had a peculiar mind subject to suggestion and impulse and Jl I hl highly developed This mind warped by a mad life Ufe 1 for a girl of ot her years cau caused ed her herto 1 to yield to o m an Impulse to remove e forcibly any obstacle which presented pre pre- I itself In her path Dorothy is an attractive girl with pretty red red brown brown bobbed b hair hall and was known in the cabarets where she danced for her skill as a lance dance and for her grace and charm Dorothy in her confession conCession said she first started her gay career when she was as aged 12 and had been going ever since Neither liberty nor the death sentence is predicted for the verdict Rather it is expected Dorothy willbe will willbe willbo be bo sent to prison for a long terms of years ears away front from the Jazz the bright lights and the cabarets which she holds responsible for her down down- fall faU |