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Show Something Else for Jury to Think About The hysterical sympathy shown for murderers led Judge Morris Soper to any at a dinner In Baltimore: "A young woman, In love with a poor yonng num. had killed her rich husband, and cut up his remain with a hatchet. As there could be no doubt about the woman's guilt, her lawyer tried to get her off by the use of the sentlrientnl stop. "'My responsibility In this ease Is heart rending,' he sold to the Jury In a tearful voice. 'This lovely isprinj! niorniiiK, us I motored In to the office, birds were singing In every tree, the jcreen meadows were bright with wild floweis, the brooks gurgled, the f-ult trees were In blossom, tint I suld to myself: 'VMy poor client, locked tit 11 fold, jjruy cell, can see none tif these beim teous thliiRR.' "'Neither can her liuidmnd wot utic cut up with a hiitclict,' yelled a limn in the buck of the court." Detroit Free Press. |