HER FATE IN HER MOUTH

Evening Star, Issue 16994, 17 March 1919, Page 6

HER FATE IN HER MOUTH

TEETH MARKS OF EVIDENCE. “ The case of Elizabeth Baksa is an unusual one,” said the Assistant District Attorney (Mr Talley), after a jury had been obtained to try the 19-year-old gipl in New York, before Judge Roealsky, for the murder of her boarding house keeper, Mrs Helen Hamlet. “The case rests entirely on a chain of circumstantial evidence, but this evidence fits perfectly together. Twenty years ago Carlyle Harris was convicted "on circumstantial evidence of murdering a girl by giving her poison as medicine. But such cases are rare. 'Hi® i,cresting and dramatic feature of this trial, of course, will be the establishment of exact similarity between a bite on the arm of tlie dead woman and an authentic impression of a bite made by the teeth of tho defendant.” ’Die girl, whose remarkably fin© teeth are now' of such great importance to her, appeared Ices constrained than on the opening (lay 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 Stale, described the finding of' Mrs Marcel's body, which had deep wounds in the head.