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wife of her former Dupont employer. “I welcome questioning by the state. I have told the truth and hffe # 10 Way 10 twist tha ” she

Court recessed yesterday for Good Friday and the Easter week-end as the defense completed questioning the “Good Samaritan.” First in Own Defense The 63-year-old housekeeper was the first defense witness to take the stand. After questioning by her chief attorney, Joseph Cooper, ‘she said: “I hope that you have faith in me. I have-told the truth and that is all any person can do.” Tot emphatically denied ever giving mercury to any member of the McConnell household. In reply to

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ever placed poison in any food, drink or medicine, she said: “I did not. I should say not. I did not.” The hymn-singing housekeeper’s voice rose to a high emotional pitch on answering. The 1000 spectators were equally tense. This was the testimony they had been waiting to hear for two weeks. Tot then denied she ever had spoken obscenely of or to the .alleged victim. She also said she bore no affection for her former employer, Forrest McConnell, well-to-do sales manager of a Chicago dairy company. The state based part of its case

on affection for Mr. McConnell in}.

trying to prove motive for the alleged poisoning. The defendant also denied testimony of Mr. McConnell that she had made statements which might be interpreted as admissions of guilt. : . “I never said to Mr. McConnell or any one else that ‘nobody had any-

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"TOT" TESTIFIES —Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, central figure in the “mercury and old lace" trial at Madison, took the stand yesterday in her own defense.

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