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STATE IS EXPECTED TO END CASE AGAINST WOMAN TODAY• * \Effort to be Concluded to Send Quarter-Breed Indian Girl to Electric Chair at Ohio Prison.JefTersojj, O., June 5, Completion of the state’s case in Its fight to send Mrs. Maude Lowther, quarter-breed Indian girl, to the electric chMr for the love murder of Mrs. ClRrft Smith was expected today.Before the state ends presentation of its testimony, however, two star witnesses were to take the stand and toil the jury of the gun-glrl’s. written confession of • the murder plot and Its execution.Defense Attorney Prank L. Marvin was expected to wage a vigorous fight to prevent admittance of theEDUCATIONAL MEN TO MEETconfession Into the record. He would not reveal by what means he would attempt to spike the state’s heaviest guns.The star witnesses are former Sheriff Prank S. Sheldon and h. C. Kelsey, who was a deputy under him. Both were present a year a.?o when the confession was alleged to have been made at Ashtabula.Two Ashtabula policemen, Lieut. Albert C. Snow and Patrolman Harold Coates, were to be recalled by the state for further testimony. Both were among 15 state witnesses who marched to the stand yesterday.Tilby Smith, former Ashtabula trucking contractor and paramour of the Indian girl, twice has been convicted of first degree murder for^Continued on Page Thirteen)
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1931
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