Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — ARGUMENT NOW EVIDENCE [ARTICLE]

ARGUMENT NOW EVIDENCE

Peculiar Testimony In Trial of the Willis Murder Case. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 26. —The spectacle of an attorney addressing th. Jury from the witness stand developed in the trial of W. Y. Ellis, charged with the murder of N F*. Willis of Indianapolis. when Judge A. Mustin of Pine Bluff, called as the first witness for the defense, rehearsed on the stand the speech he made in court at the hearing which terminated fatally for Willis. The defense is pleading temporary insanity, caused by brooding over the alleged persecutions of Mrs. Ellis by Willis, her former husband, and the speech which, in effect, outlines these wrongs, was admitted on the ground that their recital before Ellis might have an effect on his sanity Judge Guy Fulk and Deputy Circuit Clerk Lorenzo J. Gibson told how. ar an order was being made out giving Willis temporary custody of Francis Willis, the child in contro versy, E'lis drew a revolver, fired wildly once, and then breaking away from Gibson, who grappled with him, took deliberate aim and shot down the Indiana man.