The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-15
lW STOICAL
AS SPARTAN
Alleged Murderer Of Sweet
heart Undergoes Ordeal
4 With Indifference.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. Isl. N.
S.)-Harry s. New. Jr., alleged son
Of United States Senator New, of In
diana, and confessed slayer of his
sweetheart, Freda Lesser, awaits the
start of his trial for murder here to-
morrow with amazing indifference
and dull unconcern.
A shrug of his thin shoulders is
his invariable reply to questions con-
cerning his opinion as to the outcome
Of the trial that may send him to the
gallows or to lifer's cell.
II haven't given the outcome very
much thought" New declared. Its
not much to bother me either way,
Fifty-fifty, you might say"
Buffeted by battery of alienists In
his cell in the county jail-alienists
who pronounced him "dull"-and be-
sieged by newspaper reporters and
press photographers on the eve OF
his trial, New emerged from the or
deal still as stoical as a Spartan
chief.
What the psychologists found in
their mental soundings of News brain
beyond his being dull" will not he
known until they testify at his trial
| But in an interview granted here
today Harry New cast a flood of light
on his strange character that revealed
to public view the dark shades and
the high lights of his tragic life.
Whatever may be News inmost
feeling on the eve of his trial, that
feeling is not fear nor is it covering
remorse before the mental specter oi
the murdered girl.
Harry New believes Freda Lesser
has no blame but only lasting love
for him in her spirit heart. Alive
| she was his by the holiest tie that
binds; dead. she is yet his to have
and to hold. although in another
world. That is her lovers serious be-
| lief.
There Is only one thing that car
keep us apart in the hereafter" New
said. land that is my so-called crime
That may bar me from joining her
| that alone"
Then you think she loves yor
still?"
II do. I know it,
| New still wants to live. as he sale
Immediately after the crime, only fol
the sake of his mother and sister
He reiterated this today
Il must have beer insane when
shot Freda Lesser, the girl 1 love
but / wouldn't lift a finger or rails,
my voice in self defense If it wer,
not for the ones l love-"
He still sticks unfalteringly to hi
original motive. if the momentar,
blaze of rage that ended his sweet
| hearts life can be called motive" O
the crime. He said:
The child was as much mine al
hers. 1t was ours together. Whel
L first learned she was to be th
mother of our child, my love for he
increased wonderfully, although ha,
always loved her before. | was al
ways thinking of her and the chill
together, of how we could get mar
rled and the baby be honorably borI
and be ours.
And she had been thinking tha
way too. But suddenly she told m
the baby must not be born. I coul
not conceive of .ch q thing. Sh
didn't tell me that because she dfdn'
rove me any more. l could never be
neve that. She loved me up TO tb
iast; but she got that idea in he
mead and / couldn't get 1t out. Fred
must have been influenced bv som
other party or she wouldn't hay
thought of such a thing. The wboI
thing is terrible"
You regarded your love and her
as the holiest thing in life" he wa
asked. nv wa
Absolutely" he exclaimed. "l
was. 1t surely was"