Show i in Lawyer l aWyer Who rank pk Poison Poso i 2 I To Win a c c m In lU rt I U U U II U U II U u U 1 U U U U U U U U U U U U U U I pen Leonard L W Colby Cathy C who B Is III under charged In connection I with the tho alleged misappropriation I of ot funds belonging to tho the Ka Kit has hns figured urell In tn the public eye W oy Won oyon on several occasions He lie Is Inordinate Inordinately Ily ly fond of or show hov Iho Many years ago ngo ho bought the tho white Arabian stallion which was presented to Jen Oen Grant by bytho b bythe the tho sultan of or Turkey lurkey This T ls spread his bile fame abroad throughout the land mail tho the horse became the Iho center of or attrite attraction n lion tion In every overy parade In which Colby took look ho be misted missed few tow west treat of or ortho tho the Missouri river nut lint ColbI greatest claim to tl notor notoriety holy lety rests on the tits fact that he ho Is 18 probably probably ably the tha only lawyer who ever swallowed lowed deadly poison in III n order to obtain a II clients client acquittal At It this time he ha h was n I struggling lawyer In I Neb Nob Ho lie WOK was called upon to tn defend n a 1 woman accused of ot killing her husband by poisoning him hint with arsenic evidence was WIS practically out and there their was n hardly n Him I in the cube case Util presented by b tho the prosecution The body budy had hud been exhumed the tho poiron found and II lilt placed In hI n II bottle battle There was indubitable proof that I tit tin woman had Imd administered this the nail Gen don Colby did not content ORI title this point lie He merely lull laid nn In the thO contention that t the thu titan man Imd hwd dl died l trout from natural cause lO U lie and Inti that the ilia poison oll found In hn Ills hits stomach was Willi not Ium I Ill Stem dent ll lIt to III cause CRue his hla hl On tithe Ihl point however llla hili expert Willi rather menk and anil he hI lm had l to lO Im Un Impress press H the Jury by b gome gone other method Ihy s oilier was 1119 In III h a n 1 battling ad adjoining ne adjoining joining tilt court hilt house When he hl en n 1101 t the th lOUn house lions titter after the noun noon r 55 to hIs bis nt for tor Co I the Ih lie appeared a n bit attire mure uyu i nervous nerous than usual ltd bul this Willi w Rt at tr V to the thc nl 8 ic tempera lempera ment nent that of th the thu born bent Ills speech leech was eloquent at J the peroration dramatic Gentlemen of or limo thu jin jury lie he mM said In III summing up l I contend lint dent the poison polson my toy client Is to have td Lid lit ministered to her liu hu 8 was not 1101 oC enough to kill II man to finy ay nothing or me possessing lo his constitution tulion Ho died front from Sortie some other lither cause If It that poison have killed him It u would bravo lulled hilled me Ito ill II thin bottle hottle ot of f poison from the table before him There Is nut i enough there t to kill 0 ii u II I l will to o you o that there is II not lIot Ot enough to kill klu a II inan BeCore anyone Anone could prevent him ho pulled out the tho cork ork threw back his heM head and drained the bottle Then hA hn the iw 18 black ck eyes eye lie hin und and thundered out temen JI of nf the tho Jur jury If lf this Jol pot son fOil Mils lulls MII 1 m In me you OU con cnn convict my Iny tiu Ill cut Int nt but If I 1 I J will have to briny bring In III a verdict In her fa a or With a parting bow to in the judg dad thu the W JI then men In the jury jUI box lux h hI he walked rapidly out of nf the till court roost room to hl hI hit ethics where he locked in fn In W 10 minutes minute he hI was wn buck In III the tM court room smiling mid confident it look took the Jury Jur about three thre minutes to bring In n q 1 verdict of ot acquittal A fw few t dAys afterward It II leaked out nut flint lien en Colby had n a 1 dOlor doctor In hits hll office flee and that the physician had ro me moved the to have killed 10 a n C stomach pump Of ot ours there corns nn nil uproar but the law nys says a II r life cannot hI w twice placed In Jeopardy An A And 1111 l as nil a n wise 10 old oil law or loud had th tro tilt the tit mily nully I upon which fi b II Iii se 11 urd In event nl of ot another trial Wash hit ton Times rimes |