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Show -oo UNDERWENT SPIRIT BREAKING ORDEAL IX)S ANGELES. Dec. 14 Faced on the one hand by the man she is accused ac-cused of having shot because of alleged al-leged broken promises of love, money and marriage, and on the other by her former husband. Dr. William Krauss. dean of the Medical college of tho University of .Mississippi, Mrs. Daisy Tufuey Krauss underwent a spirit-breaking spirit-breaking ordeal today In her trial on the charge of having attempted the life of Franklin H. Griffith, a realty broker of this city. Detail of Relationship. Every detail of the relations between be-tween Grl flith and the former young society woman of Memphis, Tenn , was gone into in her cross-examination Her letters the lirst of which vas written when she had known Griffith only a lew hours, ant all ex-pressing ex-pressing passionate love in every line were read lo her, and she was forced to admit that she had written them. These were the same letters that formed tin- principal evidence In I)r Krauss suicessiul suit lor divorce in Yicksbiirg. Miss., several mouths ago. I Will Testify for Wife. Dr. Krauss is hero to testily In la-vor la-vor of his former wife and lo s.ppoii Per contention tha: the fasclnatlo.M of Griffith had driven her mad. Mrs. Krauss alleges that she shot Crllllth because he had f.illed to pay j back large sums he had borrowed while visiting her and her husband hi Memphis, and also because ho bad failed to keep a pact arranged during that same visit to marry her when she had obtained a divorce from her husband. The woman broke down twice during dur-ing the cross-examination, but will have to continue on the stand tomorrow, tomor-row, when a number of other letters will be introduced. |