The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-28
.LILLIENDAHL
JURY HEARS
DEATH TALE
Widow Met Beach Secretly,
State Charges in Open
ing Statement.
JERSEY JUSTICE SWIFT
First Witness Takes Stand
Three Hours After Trial
Began.
JERSEY JUSTICE SWIFT
BY SAM LOVE
United Press Stan Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent
COURTROOM, MAYS LAND
ING, N. J., Nov. 2S.-Mrs. Msrgaret
Lilliendahl and Willis Beach sat
in court today and saw Jersey JUS
ticc" move with such amazing
swiftneSs that three hours after
court opened a jury had been Sc
lected. the State had outlined the
case by which 1t hopes to convict
them of the murder of Mrs. Lillien-
dahl's husband, and evidence hao
begun.
The State, outlining its case to
the jury, revealed that it had a
witness who is expected to testify
that Beach made a virtual adnis-
sion of completely in the murder.
Secret Meetings Charged
1t promised to prove that Beach
and Mrs. Lilliendahl had long been
engaged in clandestine love-affair
which led them into suggestive
scenes along the public highways
and into secret meetings.
The prosecutor offered to prove
that although Mrs. Lilliendahl had
maintained that her husband was
killed by Negroes who then robbed
him and also robbed her, that no
tracks leading from the murder
scene could be found and that Mrs.
Lilliendahl never owned the jewels
she claimed she had lost in the
robbery.
The prosecutor charged that the
murder was done through pre-
arranged plan and that he would
even produce a witness to testify
that Beach and his alleged mistress
had agreed upon q signal Hoo
Hoo'--to De shouted by Beach as
a sign to Mrs. Lillie.1dahl to give
the alarm of murder.
Five Women on Jury
The jury was completed in one
hour and fifteen minutes. It in
cluded seven men and i've women,
at least one Of whom opposes capi-
tai punishment.
The jury as picked is composed
of the following:
Carrie L. Calkins, Atlantic City,
housewife.
Grace wingate, ventnor City,
housewife.
Irwin Adams, Pleasantville. auto
mobile salesman.
Enoch Adams, Ventnor City, bank
employe.
Harry G. Van SAINT, Atlantic City,
boatbuilder.
Ella M. Dietrich. ATLANTIC City.
housewife.
Mary Frambes. Atlantic City
housewife.
Harry j. Smith, Atlantic City.
clerk.
Herbert G. Test, Atlantic City
newspaperman.
Carl w. Adams, Pleasantville,
salesman.
Marguerite Davis, Hammonton,
housewife.
Harry j. Buzby, Atlantic City,
bookkeeper.
The State made it's opening state
.ment as soon as the jury was sworn
in, and before noon adjournment,
Chester B. Rightmyer, engineer
from Atlantic City, was called as the
first witness. He produced 8 dia-
gram of the murder scene and
described it lonely spot on Ascicn
Road near Hamrnondton, N. j. After
he had been examined briefly, re-
cess for lunch was taken.
Hinkle described how O milkman
and his helper had found Mrs. LII.
liendahl wandering, disheveled and
distraught, along the road and how
she had led State troopers to the
scene Of the murder. She told
them, Hinkle said, that two Negroes
had killed her husband, and had
fed, but troopers looking for foot
prints Of the alleged assailantS,
could find none.
Dress Blood Stained
"She said she had not gone near
her husband nor attempted to aid or
touch him, yet her dress was stained
with blood.
Every statement that woman
made in connection with that MUIR
der and robbery was false.
GShe admitted she had quarreled
with her husband over Beach-she
first denied and then admitted she
was the Peggy Anderson with whom
Beach corresponded. She admitted
meeting Beach by the roadside"
Beach, however, denied the quar-
rels and meeting which Mrs. Liz
liendahl admitted.
Beach went to neighbors the day
after the crime and asked them to
remember they had seen him at q
certain place the day Of the mur-
der.
"He told them the police are
after me-" Hinkle asserted.
Witnesses will be called, the
prosecutor said, who will testify
that Beach pawned some Of the
stolen jewels
Beach was not even suspected
Of the murder" said F1inkle, when
he went to this man and said Tn