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HU2H TESTIFIES* HIS HI BEHALFtin I hiinanwiiDEFENSE PUTS IN A BIG DAY AND A GOOD ONE DURING THREE SESSIONS OF COURT— PROSPECTS REMOTE THAT PRISONER WILL BE FOUND GUIL TY OF KILLING HIS WIFE— ARGUMENT THIS MORNINGofWITI: if SOIIGOl!oitaticai! ncircuit Court devoted three sessions Saturda to the trial of Joseph Frazb r a da\ laborer of the Island Ford neigh-lorhood. charged wirh the murder of I his wife, Mrs. Mollie Frazier With1 the end of t’ne night session all the*evidence in the rase had been sub-!1 fluin it ted.The aceussed, who was the last wit-1ness in his own b'nan, left the wit-! nesH stand at *J:ir» o’clock, whereupon, after a brief conference, engaged m by Commonwealth’s Attorney C. I). Harrison. the lawyers for the defense and thlt;* lt;onrt. Judge Haas ordered an ad* adjournment until 10 o’cick this morn-1 inc., when it is probable that the case*\. til In* .ironed aft« r the jury has* been jd b\ the Fourt in regard to I jh,th • law. The arguments of counsel, it is helit ve«t, will occupy no great amount ol time. jDefense Hat a Good Day I or Tin «lef« me. which cot under way] shortly after the morning session be-1 gau, not only Had a mug day but ajgood lt;ne Saturday, th** case for the!*1 *prosecution being vigorously assailed j ^.r‘ and at times battered hard. As a result when the testimony was in many of those who had followed the trial oJoslu 1\ were of opinion that it would I e impossibU . : the State to convict j on is* an ’ cu of # ither first or second ( CJ-lt; -ree murder. Any verdict againatadticduarlt;1 razier coul dnot possibly, in their ef inion. he for anything inor * than one ot Hie lesser degrees ot crimeptIB]1«4 Icharged in the ii.' Mnent. *JtinSt;MiPrifoner Makes JvC^ Witness It was at the night session that Frazier took tin* stand. The witness was* I AT1 calm and collected under crosa-exami-nation. as well as while giving his ieriinun in chief, and he made a luvoraMe impnssion on the average sp*ctator, which if is not unreasonable to pit sume war shared by the jury.I receding him on the stand for the defense were two of his children, Ike Harris Frazier, nine years old. and Addie Frazier, his 13-year-old daughter, who pro\cd to be most valuable wiMit sses m behalf of their lather, withstanding the assaults of the (Continued on Page Three) o—Kt*T.knpi;W I.:iiisare
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Daily Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Mon, Dec 09, 1912
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