Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1917 — MAKES CLEVER DEFENSE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKES CLEVER DEFENSE

Mrs. Helen Hill Weed, daughter of the Connecticut congressman,' who by her clever defense of herself and her twelve sister-suffragettes has won the admiration of the court and all members of the bar who followed with Interest their trial for “obstructing the traffic” in front of the White House recently. This ardent suffragist took upon herself the duties of counsel and won great favor with the lawyers by her skillful cross-examinations. Mrs. Weed never studied law in her life .but she certainly made things hum some in the Washington courtroom. Despite’her strong defense, the suffragists were adjudged guilty and fined $25 apiece. Two of the ladles paid, the other eleven electing to serve three days In jail—the alternative. Mrs. Weed was one of the eleven to choose jail. Upon their release they were royally feted'by the woman’s party in the capital. A .