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KOCXmHAM’S STATER ATTOR-mt TEIXS OF C0WFESSIS1 ACCUSED MABfc TO HIMDEFENSE OPENS ITS SIDEWill Attempt to Prove Meadows Was Not Meptally Responsible for Doable Killing.mid *isos 20 iber srec-?red who over k*r. Inks the radly and eye dko.wiiy;lead au jays, n of i byTiAfter Commonwealth's Attorney D. Wampler Eannan. of Rocking-ham, had tesliled as to the alleged confession the accused made to Ulm the morning after the tragedy, the' prosecution yesterday rested its base against L. Gruver Meadows who is being tried in the Greene county circuit court at Stanardsville for the murder of his wife, Mrs. Serena Meadows, and his Irst cousin, Stain-ton Dean.The telephone communication between Harrisonburg and Stanards-ville. having been impaired *by a storm late yesterday, the DallyNews-Record was unable to obtain any further details from the Meadows trial. iMr, Earman, who interviewedMeadows the morning after the shooting when the * Dean mountain lumberman came to Harrisonburg and gave himself up to Sheriff Dove, told in court yesterday the story given him by the accused. It was not until several hours after Mr. EarmaA interviewed Meadows on ^ tfc last that it was learned the f was committed in dreene’coun'/y and not in Rockingham.The defense placed the first of its 70 odd witnesses on the stand yesterday afternoon and will endeavor to prove that Meadows was. not mentally responsible for hi£ act and that he was justified in shooting Dean for alleged improper relations with his * wife. The latter was assigned by Meadows as “tbe causa the slaying when intervieweimtmjmi '; • *(whamsibSetchikgithenoistationetthfSfTeslion
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Wed, Jun 24, 1925
Page 4
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