The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-30
Mystery Witness Tells Of
Man in Brush Near
Murder Scene.
REFUSES TO IDENTIFY
Chain of Evidence Against
LiIIiendahI Widow Is !
Drawn Tighter.
BY SAM LOVE
United Press staff Correspondent


COURTROOM, MAYS LANDING,
N. j., Nov. SO.-The State today
called its much heralded mystery
witness" in determined effort to
prove that william Beach was at
the scene of the murder of DR.. Will
liam Lilliendahl, Sept. is, 1927.
The mystery witness proved to be
Harry F. Sanderson of Sidney, Ohio.
A quiet spoken, plump, prosperous
appearing person, Sanderson testi-
fed that he was driving along the
road near Hammonton, N. j., the
day of the murder and saw a blue
coupe" such as Beach owned, in
the lane where Lilliendahl was
killed.
Identification Not Positive
Then, Sanderson said, he saw a
man in the underbrush near the
roadside.
Can you see that man here?"
asked S. Cameron Hinkle, the prose-
cutor.
Sanderson said he wasn't certain.
Defendant Beach, stand up"
ordered the court.
Beach rose, slowly. Sanderson
eyed him.
1.-THE man I saw looked Ike that
man there" Sanderson finally said.
II don't know whether it was that
man or not. I can only repeat that
he looks like the man I saw by the
roadside that day."
Sanderson's testimony followed
that of William Driver, contractor,
who had driven forty to fifty miles"
past the scene Of the murder on the
day DR.. Lilliendahl was killed.
Picture Introduced
He had seen blue coupe come
out of the lane, but he was unable
to identify positively Beach as the
driver of the car. Later, however,
he was shown a picture of a man
and said he believed it was of the
cars driver. 1t was understood the
State would attempt to show the
photograph was of Beach.
SanderSon also was shown the
photograph, but was only able to
say that it looked like" and ere
sembled" the man he had seen in
the underbruSh.
Widow in Mourning
Mrs. Lilliendahl and Beach came
to court m high spirits today.
Beach posed for photographs ana
seemed most obliging.
Mrs. Lilliendahl, wearing her
widows weeds, swept dramatically
into court just before the coming
and spied Mrs. Beach among those
near the front of the room. Mrs.
Beach, who has stood by her hus-
band and said little, is a woman
not yet middle-aged, unassuming
and conservatively dressed.
The woman who the State alleges
was the mistress of Mrs. Beach's
husband, walked over to Mrs. Beach
and greeted her warmly. Mrs. Beach
smiled, but there was just sign
CT conStraint in her manner.
AS the testimony went on to tell
of blood spots and to intimate ugly
things, Mrs. Lilliendahl and Beach
both maintained their gay manner.
Mrs. Lilliendahl from time to time
smiled at the testimony.
Three blood-stained SIS bills came
back to court today to haunt Mrs.
Margaret Lilliendhal.
When court opened for the third
day of this swift-moving trial John
M. Arleith, chemist from Atlantic
City, was called as the opening
witness.
He testified that he had found
stains of human blood on three Of
five SIS bills found in a purse own
ership of which is attributed to
Mrs. Lilliendahl. The bills, the
State contends, had been taken
from the purse of DR.. Lilliendahl
either before or after the murder.
Confession" Promised
Then, Arleith added, stains on
the dress Mrs. Lilliendahl wore the
day of the murder, proved to be
human blood when examined chem
ically.
They mysterious confession wit
ness" depended upon to back up
the opening statement that Beach
admitted numbering DR.. Lilliendahl,
was being sought in Atlantic City by
defense investigators today.
He is Samuel Bark, Of Stricken ST.,
Baltimore, it was learned from per-
sons close to the prosecuting attor-
ney, and he will be called to the
stand Thursday.