Show OLD LADY TRIED FOR KILLING MAN MA I Accused of Murdering Persistent Persistent Persis tent Suitor for Daughters Daughter's Daughters Daughter's Daugh Daugh- ter's Hand k- k SELF-DEFENSE SELF IS CLAIMED CLAIM EL Mrs Irs Whitman Admits Shooting I Ed lee er r ee but hul Maintains That She Site Was Justified Parkersburg W. W Va July Jul 10 Mrs 10 Sirs Hannah Whitman hitman a white haS haired red sweet faced aced old lad lady of 65 years was as placed d on trial at Elizabeth tolla today for lot forthe forthe the alleged murder of Ed Deever the suitor of her daughter who ho persisted in iii his attentions to her after he ho had been forbidden b by her parents to cometo come com cometo to the tile house hous In outlining the case caso today the tho state 8 said l l It expects to prove a n. cold cold- blooded deliberate premeditated murder murder mur mur- der Ocr and show that Mrs Whitman hUman had threatened she sho would kill Deever The defense will attempt to prove self-defense self and also the defense oChOl of oC her hOl daughters daughter's virtue alleging that Mrs Irs Whitman caught Deever trying to take advantage of her daughter arid and ordered him never to como come to the house hous again but that he ho persistently and threatened her life lire Ii In the thc trial the gun with which th the e murder was committed was Introduced and Identified b by tho the assistant prosecuting prose prose- cutin attorney as the one ono Mrs l Whitman gave him im in response to his request for the gun she shot Deever with It was brought out in the evIdence evidence evidence evi evI- dence that she had threatened to kill Deever If IC he camo came back to her house and that she herself had said that she once oneo tried to kill him him but that he saw her and got away Alice Allee Whitman tho tIme daughter a n. girl of oC 20 O years Is a witness for the state and nd in a trial today sat behind the tho prosecuting attorney while her mother tat sat at near the counsel for Cor the defense |