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Hattie Stone 1929 (1)

Hattie Stone 1929 (1)

Lade-brink. (Turn to page two, TELLS HOW SISTER KILLED HER CHILD Mrs. Hattie Stone Accused By Her Own Kin At Murder Hearing 11111.AIR. Sept. 25. (Ar) Accuser and emoted sisters-in-law and formerly Intimate companions. faced each other with drawn aces across the narrow enclosure of the bar of circuit court today in the murder trial of Mrs. Hattie Stone. Mrs. May Baker on the witness stand testified that Mrs. Stone had admitted to her that she poisoned her 15-year-old George Stone to get money to leave the state with Jamea Aberts, boarder in the Stone home. Then Mrs. Baker herself went under a withering cross fire of questions from defense counsel delving Into her own past, and sat with rigid features. taking advantage of the court ruling that she need not answer. Tht (lay also saw completion of the -state's case. after Mrs. Baker her siege on the witness olarid the opening of defense lence in which tables were turned and some of the defense witnesses were subjected to the play of, the splotlight on their private lives. The defense- called 16 witnesses to testify that. Mrs. Stone Alia a "good mother" to the boy. The day closed w4th a new angle of the attack of Mrs. Baker, an Involved hypothetical question put to former-Judge William H. Harlan, in which the defense sought to show that Mrs. Baker, being an aunt of George Stone, would profit from his Insurance and inheritance if his mother should be barred from them by the accusation that she killed the boy. Court adjourned for the day, however, with this question unannounced while the jurist studiel the law on the subject in preparation for tomorrow. A left buildings high first this wore and 91, here who aged rug. It to It former the two np on The he Mrs. hi her