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GIRL TAKES STAND IN TRIAL OF LEWIS; COURTROOM FILLEDBetty Demyen Subjected to Stiff Cross-Examination by Lewis’ Counsel.The scandtal-sreocta so close! \packed the OiLmtaal Superior couitroom to heaa seveinteeen-’vear-old ! Bet.tr Ten\em testify aeriinst William i: ‘Ted Lewis je«t«riUy afte noon ( sheriffs found jt nectSfcdiv to fmbicl standing and. locked the doorsasraiiijt furthei rumorspallid, slendei and childish in appearance, the glil showed no unusual emotion during a giuelling cioss-exatiunation of many horns and•s\hicli mil he continued thts morning Her mothei Mrs Mary tl otli h[)we\e.i, •went into hysterics while she wns on. the 'tand land a locoes hid to he called that she might becalmedTins 13 the thud trial in wlilch the g'ii l ha* appealed against Lewis, making- seiiou* statutory eha gres and his counsel, ^.ttoinev Jacob Ruskin cruefulK checked hei testi-monv with that given yctrteadaj and before at a cU\ court ti lal and at the tual id hi mg- the September term of the? Criminal Snpenoi court weie a number of minor discrepanciesJV1 Itu^kln had gone into incident m Miss Demems Tfc hetote she met Lewis and alter and which concerned her being * picked up’ by \ ado us men and her associations with them wh^n Jud^e L P Waldo \rar\in adused him the membeis of the jury would be lu-tructed to putout of then minds such phases of her conduct as not affecting the; specific acta alleged against LewisMi Riivskm said his examination was foi the purpose of testing h*n cie-dibilitN and not to establish hur lack of chamtjy or otherwisesheriff Simeon Pease who was’ in open court Tuesday by At-toi nec Ru^ki-ft to awav £iomthe Jury box as he did not want any juior prejudiced reci'iicd the informal apologj's of Mi Riskin \estei~ da^ H*- slt;ud ho ‘ tc-ok it all bick” Ihc she: iff cxpi e^sed his giatiflca-tion with the apology remarking he considered the attornear’s remni k3 a
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Feb 18, 1926
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