The Washington times., 1919-12-17
women ON JURY
TO TRY HARRY new
Questions Asked TaIesmen lndi.
cate Mothers Story Of Early
Life Will Be Barred.
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here todsy. Rumors have been in
circulation for week that he was
coming TO Los Angeles quietly to rep
resent, the Senator's interest In the
trial.
Ixilled On July 4:
Z Freda Lesser was killed about mid
ntgfrt July last At 3 o'clock the
following morning, Harry s. New, Jr-
,sppeared at central police station IN
Los Angeles. summoned Ben McCann
night chief of detectives, by beating
on desk in the, detective bureau with
the butt of an automatic pistol, and
said:
Here's my gun; the girls outside
In the machine!"
In small sedan car. which New
had driven to the police station. and
which has since been sold to raise
funds for his defense, McCann found
the lifeless body Of Freda Lesser,
bullet hole in her head.
New. in a signed confession, stated
he and Miss Lesser had driven to q
lonely gtrysting-place in Topanga
canyon, several miles from Los An
geles, where they had quarreled be-
cause the girl wished to postpone
their wedding. which was TO have
taken place the following night
Pressed for her reason for insisting
upon the postponement. Miss Lesser
admitted. according to New, that she
was expecting motherhood and in
tended having nurse who lived near
her perform an operation to prevent
the child. of which New is said to
have been the father. from being
born.
Then 1t was. New declared, that.
crazed by her refusal to permit their
baby to come into the world, he, fired
the shot that ended his sweetheart's
life. Following the commission OF the
crime. he said, he had driven aimless-
ly about for hours, finally reaching
the police station.
SensatieR After Sensation.
Following News Incarceration, SEN
sation after sensation was sprung in
the case. which; is one of the
strangest and most dramatic in GRIM
inal annals OF southern California.
New Is said to be the son Of United
states Senator Harry s. New. of In
diana. and Mrs Lillian Burger, for
merly Miss Lillian Scudder, famous
beauty of Indianapolis. thirty-five
. ootc o oso. -1NtW, on the nlG nt ne sur
rendered to the police, stated he was
the Senator's son. This claim was cor
roborated by his mother, who hasten
ed from Indianapolis to aid him in his
fight for life. Senator New, noncom-
initial at first. is said to have admit
ted the prisoner was his son and
TO have asserted unlimited funds
would be provided to save the young
man from the gallows. Harry News
defense, 1t Is assured, will be conduct
ed by some of the most eminent GRIM
mai lawyers in the United States.
An autopsy developed the fact that
MISS Lesser was in delicate condi-
tiop at the time Of her death, which
physicians declare was practically in
Simultaneous, thus bearing out News
statement as to his motive for the
crime to which he confessed.
Police investigation proved that
Miss Lesser was the daughter of
Emil Lesser, who mysteriously disap-
peared about three years ago while
secret agents of the allied govern
ments were seeking him as a danger
Gus German spy.
Rival Theory Advanced.
A Birmingham man, who was
Freda Lesser's sweetheart before the
family moved to California, has been
suggested as q possible cause of the
crime which cost the girl her life.