Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-20
LEEHAN EXPECTST TO
BEFREE TONIGHT

as expect him to be, my money and
efforts will be devoted to running
down the real perpetrator of this
crime" she declared.
1t is said that Mrs. Lynch has in
her possession facts that will remove
| all mystery from the case.
The name of a wealthy business
man in indianapolis who can tell
where and how Mrs. Turner was slain
| is said to be in Mrs. Lynch's possess
sion. This is reported to have been
| furnished by a prominent business
man of Cincinnati.
Leehan on stand.
| Leehan took the stand at the ses-
sion last night.
He said he had lived in Lakewood
since 1901; that he had had various
jobs, one being private secretary to a
Pittsburg lady.
where were you on April 20, 1917"
asked his counsel.
81 was in the house until o'clock
| In the afternoon"
"Did you know Caroline Turner?
Knew her by sight only; never
spoke to her"
'Did you see her at all on April 2e,
1917"
81 did not, sir"
HAD you been drinking prior to
that date?"
at had been, quite a lot"
| His counsel then led him over sew
eral points in his alibi He stated
1 the day of the supposed murder he
was awakened from his sleep on a
couch downstairs by the phone bell.
my wife and Mrs. Curtis were tel
ephonng. l snatched the receiver
from her hand and through an acct
dent struck my wife on the forehead,
Mrs. Curtis pounded me and my wife
phoned for the police. then ran out
| to a studio in the rear of my home,
where I stayed for a few minutes,
and then came back into the house."
i Drink His Downfall.
Drink has been my downfall" he
testified 81 feel that it has been the
curse of my life"
Leehan told how he had been
tempted to drink by George Jamlson,
private detective; told how he had
been lured by detectives to hospital
in Ossining where Jamison was
dying and signed some sort of
paper there.
Leehan spoke in an even monotone
and made q good impression. The
courtroom was jammed by a throng
even greater than usual. The Misses
Louise and Peggy Lynch. pretty
daughters of Mrs. Jasper Lynch, were
eager spectators.
Leehan said the private detectives
practically third-degreed him for
three days, threatening him with
physical harm.
ibid you kill Caroline Turner"
asked Lawyer Stokes for the defense.
mo. sir; No, sir: No. sir" he re-
peated. with increasing emphasis.
Walter H. Bacon cross-examined
Leehan. The glare from an oil lamp
at the stenographer' table accen-
tuated the prisoners staring eyes and
pallor.
To refute Jamison's testimony Ell
Goldenburg. an engineer of Baltimore
| was put on. His testimony proved a
sensation. He quoted Jamison as
stating to him on August last, while
they were aboard boat on Chesa-
peake Bay:
at found Leehan. l caused his ar
rest and I've got to get a conviction
TO uphold my reputation and my
| firms. It'll be a great thing for me
If we convict Leehan. I'll be com
PEELED to lie like hell to get him."
"Jamison told me-" continued thu
witness, that Leehan had confessed
to committing the murder to WON
. an with whom he was living. HI
{ said:
"'The State of New Jersey will pa.
! us well If we secure a conviction
Mrs. Leehan was then called to tn,
stand. She testified that on the day
of the murder her husband had beer
drinking and was drunk at noon
when he came home and lay down or
the couch. She said he remained in
, the house until she telephoned fol
the police in the afternoon. and ther
he went out. Less than ten minutes
later she sent her son out to looh
for him and then Leehan came bach
into the house through the cellar
window. He did not leave the house
again that afternoon.
She denied the testimony of Jami
son, the detective, in which he saio
that Mrs. Leehan threatened to gt
back to Lakewood, when she was
} living In White Plains, and show III
her husband as a beast and de.
generate.
EVERY word of that testimony i:
an untruth," said the witness. 90
had often spoken of my nice home
In Lakewood, which / had to give vi
on account of my husbands drink
ing. My husband never said he was
the cause of Mrs Turner's death.
"Jamison was drunk nearly all the
time he was about my house. He
kept my husband drunk, too, most OF
the time. 7 know this because my
husband had no money and | would
give him none and he was always
with Jamison. / heard Mrs. Pratt
the Iandlady, order both Jamison ant
my husband out of the house because
she found them both drunk.
my husband told me that Jami-
son had often tried to get him to &c
out with other women"
Mrs. Leehan explained the cut on
her husbands hand by saying that
one day, while drunk, he went out in
the yard to chop off the head of a
chicken and that. because of his con-
dition, the AK slipped and he cut his