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Show SKILLFUL DEFENSE CF SEE BY GIRL CHICAGO, June 22 Mildred . . IfW Bridges, the 17-yca-o'd dlscipls o Lie $?H "Absolute L.fe" cult, with whose ab- cH duction Eveljn Arrlur See, ;o.iadcr of ,H the cult, is chaiged. dsL'ml-.i re H when cross-examined by his counsel to- day For two days, while-Ln.g ex fH amined by the state, the g rVskillfml jH parried questions by which ne j rco"- 'H cullon hoped to reveal conditions in H See's temple, where she lived with i5tH him and Mona Ree nuotbc- . 0 ig nH girl disciple. When questioned b" j I See's attorney she answ-r. ej questions r'l readily. Letters thit had passed be- LH twoen See and the witness and which ffrRj she had hitherto pressed herself un- -H able to explain, were declared to be lH jokes indicative only 0? the i-eaco and H friendliness of the cilt Fifty chil rjH dren, she declarpd. were under the iV(Rfl care of See, Mona Reos anl herseli, & and See, she said, taught them how to Fl solve problems of home and of Hre, tfl which perplexed them. M |