Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-11-11 | Page 8 | Periodic Insanity to be Negro's Plea |

Type	issue
Date	1913-11-11
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Periodic Insanity to be Negro's Plea
Type	article
Date	1913-11-11
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	8
OCR Text	Show PERIODIC INSANITY TO BE NEGRO'S PLEA Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 11 Peri odlc insanity was the plea entered today to-day In behalf of Burr L Harris, the young negro, charged with the murder mur-der of Mrs. Rebecca P Gay, a Christian Christi-an Science practitioner, who was beaten beat-en to death in her office here two months ago. Harris confessed the murder wh'n arrested and admitted also attempts on the life of another white woman. The prosecution opened Its case today to-day with witnesses who told of tho precautions Harris tool'. to guard against detection, counsel contending that there was no evidence of insanity shown by his acts to support the plea.
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