The Washington times., 1922-09-28
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0h:STAND THAT
/; HI. KILLED GIRL
Defense Will Contend That
Edith Layoy Met Death at
Her Own Hand.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-William
Greasy late yesterday took the stand
n the crowded courtroom at Mineola,
swore by the everything God to tell
the truth" and with a demeanor
rather OF sadness than OF fear heard
the first question:
did you, on the night Of June 20.
1929, shoot Edith Layoy?"
He answered.:
II did not"
The stiffness that had fallen upon
the room at the calling OF Greasy
broke.
Women whispered to one another
and resumed their endless toying
with the exotic beads and talismen
OF the mode.
Earlier in the day sympathizers
in the court burst into applause at
the annoyance OF Assistant Prose
cutor Elvin Edwards in a tilt with
a witness. .
District Attorney Weeks asked:
"Is this a packed courtroom
Judge Lewis J. Smith replied:
"If there is recurrence OF such
an outburst, IL will be unpacked.
Aside from this one question the
defendant served only TO identity
letters written by Miss Lavoy to
him. One hundred and fifty of them,
the defense says, must be read INTO
the record.
These letters showed Miss LavOy
courted Greasy. She met him through
a matrimonial club. She wrote the
first letter. She suggested that he
call, so they might become acquaint'
ed
Letter Is Revealed.
Henry A. Unterhart. counsel for
Greasy. picked up a correspondence
card and read:
"Cloversville, N. Y,
March 90, 1922.
Dear Sir-As you have oeen
recommended to me by the Cor
respondence Club. of Grayslake, ILL.,,
as a gentleman matrimonially in
clined and desiring correspondence
with that object in view. and under
recommendation OF J. w. Schlosser,
who sent me your description, l beg
permission to open correspondence.
II this meets with your approval
| will be pleased to hear from you
in return. Thanking you. | am, re-
speCtfully yours.
(MISS) EDITH LAVOY."
The second letter began, Dear
william" and acknowledged his
lovely letter" and told her plan TO
work in Freeport in the fall.
In the third letter she called him
Dear Billie" She told him she
was twenty.three. a teacher, and
signed herself Eide"
In stating his case to the jury
Mr.. Tntcrhart described Greasy as
young man. deeply religious.
thirty-one years old. born in the
hills near Charlottesville, Va, one
If twelve children, warm-hea rted,
fond of horses and the outdoors.
Suicide Is Charged.
The defense, he said. will claim
the girl, killed herself. He said
People who fail in problems OF
great moment. fall back on death
% solve them. Edith Lavoy was a
girl who found life hard.
she tried 70 cover this by gaiety
because she had not a mothers care.
Her mind was always turning back
on home and mother. When she
met Greasy all that longing was
cared for She called him her Ken
lucky sweetheart, sent him oceans
OF love, with kiss on every wave.
and wrote him that God alone could
separate them"
1t was Greasy, not the girl, who
broke their engagement. Mr.. Inter
hart said. and gave that as the
reason for her taking her life.
Testimony of DR.. William II.
Runcie. health officer of the village
OF Freeport. and DR.. G. A. Newton.
bore. on the blood stream. and Of the
bullets course, to which so much
| Significance has been laid.
It's course was changed. they said,
when they moved the head to see
whether the bullet had come out on
the opposite side.