Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress by Richard O Jones

Author:Richard O Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2014-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

See “Note from the Author” at the end of this book.

THE STATE’S CASE

While biding her time in the Hamilton County Jail, Edythe Klumpp used an old sewing machine to make herself a sharp, conservative, dark-blue dress with a large EK embroidered over her left breast. In all, she made three dresses while in jail, although these were not the only dresses she would wear during the trial. Barely a day went by without a newspaper reporting her daily wear. The seamstress had so many dresses that it was a full two weeks before they reported any repetition of her ensemble.

Although she wore the dark-blue dress on the first day of jury selection, the crisp new dress was a contrast to her worn-out countenance. The papers also noted that she looked older than at her pretrial appearances. Her face was lined with wrinkles, and she had dark circles under her eyes.

“Of course I’m nervous,” she snapped at the reporters shouting questions at her. At Foss Hopkins’s insistence of “no props,” she did not carry the Bible that accompanied her on earlier trips to court. She appeared calm in front of the press and cameras but fidgeted constantly at the defense table. She responded with gulps, sighs and astonished blinks at mentions of the death penalty and elements of the case against her as Prosecutor C. Watson Hover questioned jurors.

Hopkins approached the trial with an air of confidence honed over thirty years, but he was stuck in what seemed an untenable situation. Foremost, he had a client who was obviously (to Hopkins) covering for her lover. She risked the death penalty by pinning her hopes on a false confession and the unlikely chance that jurors would believe that Louise Bergen’s death was an accident.

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