Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1931 — Page 3

NOV. 3 1931.

MRS. SIMMONS' LAWYER CALLS JACKSON KILLER Farmer Guilty of Murder, Charge of Defense as Trial Nears End. (Continued From Page 1) the last statement to the jury in her behalf was made. "The state has produced nothing on which to bare a conviction,” Tindall continued. ‘‘They have proved Mrs. Simmons made the sandwiches, but they had that information two hours after the picnic. "Scifres told you yesterday he was t°o lenient with Mrs. Simmons. In that compassionate manner of his, vV 'hile the bodies of the two girls still were warm, he was telling Mrs. Simmons he had enough evidence to send her to the electric chair. "No one can make something out of nothing. If you jurors search vour memories, you will show by the verdict that the -defense has made good.” * The courtroom was jammed to the window sills today, as it was Monday. Friends of attorneys for both sides and friends of those friends formed the proverbial bald-headed row at the trial today. \ Guesses as to the verdict rivaled the praise given opposing counsel lor their capable oratory. Pats Wife’s Arm Charges by the state in the opening argument by Prosecutor Scifres, that John Simmons and his wife merely are united by adversity, was given the lie today and Monday, as the defendant and her husband displayed affection toward each other. On one occasion Monday Simmons patted his wife’s arm, as defense attorneys told of the dead children. Nearness of a verdict seems to have depressed them. The scourgmg by state’s attorneys brings a faraway look to the eyes of Mrs. Simmons, while her husband seems strained and ill at ease as the state makes its attack. Jackson had been given the direct verbal spotlight by the defense Monday afternoon, as Willett Parr Jr., talked for the defense. The young lawyer, battling in his first big murder trial, gave the oldsters some oratory to shoot at when he took Jackson for a “ride” in argument. He gave Jackson an alleged motive for commission of the dual murder—a seventeen-year-old threat backed by ill will. Raps at “Third Degree” He charged Jackson was familiar with the symptoms and reactions to strychnine poisoning. The state was slapped for giving Mrs. Simmons an alleged “third degree” in her cellroom in Boone county jail. Divine Providence was credited with bringing Miss Louise Robinson, Bargersville woman, to the defense’s aid, after Friedman had testified that Mrs. Simmons purchased strychnine. He described the use of capsules in the poisoning as showing that it was a “hurry-up” job. A representative of The Times was attacked for bringing Friedman’s identification to the attention of state’s attorneys. He painted Jackson blacker than Jackson painted himself while on the witness with, “You wouldn’t want a transporter of women in your home." he described Jackson, by inference, as “sullen, morose with a revengeful mind.’’ “The same mind that made the threat that he'd get John Simmons could do this,” he charged. Young Parr gave the jury its choice of believing that Jackson feigned illness at the park or that he really was ill. “And if he was ill, then his words of ‘Oh! God, this is awful and I’m the cause of it all’ were the words of a man who thought he was dying and was making a confession to clear his soul,” the youthful barrister declared. The numerous opportunities that Mrs. Simmons had at her home to poison her children was cited by Parr as showing the improbability of poisoning them at the reunion picnic. At one point in his address he said: “There is no record of how this mother guided little feet of the children she loved. There's no record of how she slipped into their rooms at night and covered them

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so they would not be cold. No record, jurors, of how she put dolls securely in their arms. No there isn’t any prosecutor, or any coroner taking any statements like that. “This is the mother,” he continued in an impassioned plea, “that the prosecuting attorney would have you place in the electric chair—and burn —yes, burn—l say.” The prosecution, in opening its argument, did not ask for the death penalty in event a guilty verdict is returned. The penalty rests solely with the judge. Young Parr charged the state with intimating that all defense witnesses were “perjurers and liars.” A review of the evidence of the case, coupled with a plea for Mrs. Simmons’ acquittal, was made by Willett Parr Sr., prior to his son’s address.

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