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Show I Nine Tragedies In Spotlight of News Six Murder Cases With Women as Defendants at Trial Stage; Eternal Triangle Figures C1I1CAG. Ills Oct. 24 Nine tragedies stand out as dramatic dra-matic spectacles in the news of America today and nil of them present women in the leading roles. They have their setting in six sections of the country. Six murder cases. five with women as defendants, are In various vari-ous stages of trial Another woman. wom-an. "Peggy" Beal. won her freedom free-dom from a jury in Kansas City M mday night. and a seventh. Madalynne ObenchaJn, awaits her third trial in Los Angeles. Most of the cases present the "eternal triangle," with variations. Briefly the nine cases appear as follows: Kansas City Marie F! "Peggy" Beal stepped out to freedom, acquitted ac-quitted MonlriN night after a hhort trial nn a charge of murdering mur-dering her love- Frank Warren Anderson Los Angeles Arthur C. Burch of Evnnston, Ills., faces his third trial on a charge of killing j. Bolton Bol-ton Kennedy Klsht women and four m-n constitute the Jury, with two women as alternate jurors. Madalynno Oben.h.iin awaits her third trial on tho same charge. Los Angeles The jury to try Mrs. Clara Phillips, accused of beating Alberta Meadows to death with a hammer, was tentatively ten-tatively completed Mrs Meadows Mea-dows was the alleged rival for the love of Mrs. Phillips' husband. Philadelphia, l'u. Mrs. Catherine Cather-ine Hosier, accused of killing her husband. Oscar Rosier, and his stenographer. Mildred Geraldinc Reckttt. faced trial for the mur-dc- of Miss Rcckitt. Hackensack. N. J. George Olne. motion picture director; Alice Thornton, and Charles Scullion, Scul-lion, brother-in-law of Cline, were on joint trial for the murder of John Bergen motion picture actor ac-tor The defense began its testimony tes-timony today. Cleveland Ohio. Mrs. Mabel Champion, 22. Is on trial charged With the murder of Thomas O'Connell, carnival promoter. Three of four jurors selected are women. While Cloud, Mich. Mrs. Meda Hodcll, on trial for killing her father-in-law, David Ilodell. with poison, repudiated her previous confession to police, declaring the confession was obtahfed bj tin-eats of being haunted bv the spirits ot her father-in-law and her husband hus-band Ramie Hodcll. New Brunswick. N. I Slate officials took over the task of attempting at-tempting to solc the murder of tho Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Elea-nor Mills. Fresno, C31 George t Harlow, acquitted by a coroner's Jury after af-ter he clubbed his wife to death, will be tried for manslaughter, according to District Attorney Dalley. H. C. Blanchard, 19. whom Harlow found in his hoTue with Mrs. Harlow, was sentenced to 90 days in Jail for disorderly 1 conduct. |