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Show Something Else for Jury to Think About The hysterical sympathy shown for murderers led Judge Morris Soper to say at a dinner in Baltimore: "A young woman, in love with a poor young man, had killed her rich husband, and cut up his remains with a hatchet. As there could be no doubt about the woman's, guilt, her lawyer tried to get her off by the use of the sentimental stop. "'My responsibility In this ciise Is heart rending,' lie said to the Jury In a tearful voice. 'This lovely spring morning, as I motored In to the ollice. birds were singing in every tree, the green meadows were bright with wild flowers, the brooks gurgled, the' fruit trees were In blossom, and I said to myself : " 'My poor client, locked In a cold, gray cell, can see none of these beau teous things.' " 'Neither can her husband wot she cut up with a hatchet,' yelled o man In the hack of the court." Detroil Free Press. |