HER FATE IN HER MOUTH
TEETH MARKS OF EVIDENCE.
. "The case of Elizabeth _ Baksa is a.n unusual one," said the Assistant District Attorney (Mr. Talley), after a jury had been obtained to try the 19-year-old girl in New York, before Judge Rosalsky, for .the murder of her boardinghousekeeper, Mrs. Helen Hamet. "The case rests entirely on a chain of circumstantial evidence, but this evidence fits perfectly together. -Twenty years ago Carlylo Harris was convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering a girl by giving her poison as medicine. But such cases are rare. The interesting and dramatic feature of this trial, of course, will bo the establishment of exact similarity between a bite on the ami of the dead woman and an authentic impression of a bite made by the teeth of the defendant." The girl, whoso remarkably fine teeth are now of such great importance to her, appeared less constrained than on the opening day of her trial.She smiled frequently as she .talked with' Thomas C. M'Donald, Frank Aranow, and Samuel S. Koenig, her counsel. She cried when Mr Talley, opening for the State, described the finding of Mrs. Hamel's body, which had deep wounds in the head.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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198HER FATE IN HER MOUTH Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 129, 25 February 1919, Page 5
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