| Show GAINES WIFE IN TEARS AS LAWYER TELLS OF SUSPICION Defense Dc Attorney Says Husband Thought Wife C Slew Daughter CASE NEAR E CLOSE Unna Unnatural tural Rela Relation tion Stressed t tp ip Show M Motive Says Prosecutor SEATTLE Wash Aug Aue 19 Dy By The Associated Press The Press rate fate of Wallace Cloyes Gaines so- so accused ac accused of murdering his 22 year year old old daughter Sylvia by beating and choking her was expected to tobo tobo bo placed with w a superior court jury here today Ethan Allen Alien Peyser old year 2 deputy prose pros prosecutor prosecutor opened arguments at nt the conclusion of o testimony yesterday with an arraignment of ot the th tic tic- de defendant John D Carmody an- an an him by attacking the credibility of ot states witnesses re- re rc the eVidence e and plead plead- pleadIng plead log Ing the Innocence of his client Carmody had not finished when court adjourned Robert S S Mac Mac- Mac Mac-Farlane was to follow him today In the concluding defense argument argument ment mont with Ewing D Colvin coun coun- county coun- coun county county ty prosecutor q the state states state's rebuttal I STATES STATE'S PURPOSE The Tho states state's purpose In irs intro Intro testimony concerning an unnatural affection Gaines and his daughter was waB ex- ex explained ex explained plaIted by Deputy Prosecutor summed up the stat case caso In the trial or of o G Gaines oh on on a first degree murder charge Tho The Purpose of Introducing u evidence e of ot unnatural relations between daughter 11 the defendant null and JI hh daughter was not to prejudice th jur jury but to show motive Ic ser declared This murder Is not like ono one committed In liv a when the cause develops in a quarrel within a a few minutes but butIs butis butIs Is one In which the motive grow greW from Crom the tho time when th the tho defend defend ants ant's relations relation with his r began for It could c Uld lend lead to but bi n Cl TI I 1 Ii F CJ It It is not necessary for or the tho stalL to to show how that there OM any brood broor- brooding ing or contemplation of the act actIons long lon lonIn In advance A matter or two or three seconds Is ta sufficient to show premeditation Peyser Insisted Circumstantial evidence l is ismore more reliable than direct I el I Imore denee of or eye eye- witnesses eye said Circumstances Circumstance are man Inanimate I mate mato and never lie Witnesses for forthe orthe the tho stat state aro are a fair laIr crois I of the citizenry and have no mo motive tive but to tell lell the tho truth Al- Al Al Always as ways in a case there Is on theother the llio other side members member of tho tIm ti tie fondants fondant's family Can you Imagine a wife moth mother or or son ton telling the tho truth when lien It will convict member of her family Tho The prin prin- prin principal principal cipal witnesses for tor the defense o aru the defendant his wife ICe hl his brother and relatives and em- em em of the tho brother Their mony should weIghed No O SYMPATHY S1 When MrS lira Mr Gaines shot her her- hor celt Sylvia and her Iler father had no sympathy for the woman They left leCt her Iler to go fo for foran foran foran an automobile ride Peyser recalled quarrels be- be between be between tween Gaines and Syl SyRia Sylila la Sylvias las body Peyser sat was found at 7 0 the tho mornIng of Juno June 17 the day dllY after arter she was Wll wa murdered nut Hut It was not until 11 o'clock that morning that lt it was Identified end ond news of f the d on AIt ls 1 Iwo livo Yo GAINES WIFE WEEPS AT TRIAL Continued from Page One murder went ent abroad Yet at 7 0 we find Gaines standing In th the house of ot Mrs Mr Memmer a neigh nelch-bor nelch I bor and toiling telling her I think I Ikno kno know who did It It I say this When he h made md that statement tho the guilty knowl edge edre dc was foB wa welling up In him that the tho girl Irl had been be n murdered murd anti that her body had been beon found und and that h he was as already laying the foundation to Cost cast the th suspicion on some on ne else olse A little later l t r ho he h had h d conver conversation with the tho witness Jack el 1 lCd loer Iou and ho he h tells him that at he will get the man who killed his Itla daugh ter he b points point at a a little dOg doc and anc n isay says las hi hl was wu as Inno info Innocent cent as aa that puppy What did Ito ho h hman mean man by that ANSWERS There Ther Ia i no way that h te to could have ave known at that at time tim that hia d daughter was at murd murdered murdered-if red red-It l what he tells tell is I the th truth Attorney John D P Carmody who opened for tor the th defense ans Peyser I Let me m say y something that thai will w tall all hard upon some lome om ears an Ir this courtroom But It ha has haa rut gut gutto to be b said laid aid It IC Gaines had the horrible thought that something I had befallen Ills his daughter It wa was because ho h knew lenew that she ahe h was waa wa not nol safo at under his own root roof He thought possibly It was as his bis own wife who did It Mrs Mra Mr Gaines burst bunt Into tears She was en on route rout to Seattle from California when S Ivl ws slain and has haa steadfastly pro pro- proclaimed pro proclaimed claimed her hr husband husbands Innocence on 00 |
