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Show QSPET DEFENSE Prospects for Case to Go to Jury Early Next Week Seem Assured. Waukegan, Ills.. July 7 -The defense de-fense after introducing documentary evidence bearing on the Wisconsin statute governing the sale of poisons rested today in tho case of Will H. Orpet. charged with the murder of Lambert. , .. Attorney David R. Joslyn of the prosecSion said that he wanted Orpet recalled for further cross-examination with regard to Celestia Youker. the young woman to whom he was roport-S roport-S eifgaged. Attorneys Wilkerson and Potter of tho defense objected. Judge Donnelly ruled that the defendant could not be recalled. Waukegan, Ills.. July 7.-WI11 H. pr-pe pr-pe probably will conclude his sWe Sf the murder case against him some ?n?9lodaV. According to indlc.Uons nrlor to tho resumption of the tnai before Judge Donnelly this morning the defense will examine only w tness-ca tness-ca of minor Importance. Then It will rest and the state may, or may not put witnesses on tho stand in rebuttal. This plint was not definite early to-day to-day hit it -was believed that the prosecution prose-cution had one or two surprises to soring on the jury. Prospects for an early ending of tho trial appeared brighter today and it was predicted that tho case would be In the hinds of the jury before the mXfirst wiinelsllled by the state presented the unusual spectacle of a woman rebutting her sister . testimony testi-mony She was Mrs. Margaret You-wfr You-wfr a sister of Dorothy Mason and ried8 brother of Celestia You kor, the "other woman" in Orpet s UfMiss Lambert Hears of Perfidy. Miss Mason called by the defense had teat ifled she had learned from w mother that Orpet was engaged to nSny Celestia and that two or hre" days before Marion's death last Februarys she and Marion were looking out of a window at schorl iho 5ld her, unsuspecting, the ney According to Dorothy. Marion rcc-ed rcc-ed the news of Orpet's engagenr with the comment "do you know what I think, sometimes I think that life isn't worth living." |