Evening star., 1927-11-29
TORN STOCKINGS
! MYSTERY DEEPENS
Witness in LiIIiendahI Murder
Trial Says Further Tearing
Was for Unknown Purpose.
By the Associated Press.

ny hns Associated Press
MAYS LANDING, November %
The torn stockings worn by Mrs Mar
garet Lillicndahl as she ran from the
scene of her husbands killing We're
subsequently further slashed for some
unknown. purpose, a witness testified
today.
Mrs Stella Carr, an employe OF the
State police. who removed the widow :
stockings on the day of the crime,
identified them in court, but acknoWl-
edged ,Andcr cross examination that
they were not so badly torn when she
first saw them.
wHss Witness.
Mrs Carr was the first witness on
the second day Of the trial of Mrs,
1illicndahl and her friend and neigh
Dor. Willis Beach, who are charged
With the murder OF the husband.
The witness sa ii she saw no bruises
on the widow.
4 State trooper. who was on the
stand yesterday and who was the first
official at the scene of the crime. was
then recalled and testified that he
found no bruises on the body of DIR.
Lilliendahl.
William Lewis, another trooper, told
of interviewing Mrs. Lilliendahl on
the day her husband was shot. He
said the widow first told of being at
tackled by two negroes with coarse
features and later said they wore
masks.
He said she tod him that each
negro had a gun, but that she heard
only one shot. Three bullets were
found in the doctors head.
She also told him, the trooper said,
that the negroes dragged her from her
car into the road and attacked her.
Coroner Testifes.
DIR. Edward Burt. Atlantic County
coroner, told of being called to the
spot near that State road To liammon-
ton, where DIR. Lilliendahl WAS killed
on September 10.
His testimony closely followed that
of previous witnesses at the scene Of
the crime.
He added, however, what the State
considered important testimony, was
that DIR. Lilliendahl's face was in COM
plete repose. There We're no indica-
tions on that face" he said, "of anger
or fear or surprise. The features were
perfectly composed"
Under cross examination DR.. Burt
insisted that a person killed while un-
der great emotion will show that fact
in the face after death.
Witnesses Testify.
Six witnesses yesterday testified
that the sandy road showed no foot
prints. but those of Mrs. Lilliendahl
herself. Lewis said she showed no
signs OF extreme distress" and there
were no bruises that he saw on her.
To an S-year-old boy, Albert Lillien
In hi tn nF nt.s .fs,,N
surrounding the killing of his 4aged
father. DIR. A. William Lilliendahl,
last September Is, the tense atmos-
phere of the crowded courtroom in
which Mrs. Margaret Thompson Lii
liendahl, and her admirer, Willis
Beach, are on trial for murder in the
first degree means nothing.
With the child's consciousness of
being a cynosure for all eyes, Albert
naively played with pennies and pen
ellis while Jersey Justice. moving with
traditional rapidity. piled up the accus-
ing evidence of 10 witnesses against |
his mother and his mothers friend.
Seemingly Carefree.
Seemingly as carefree as her son,
Mrs. Lilliendahi patted him tenderly.
showed her prominent upper teeth
in a smile that frequently broke into
q suppressed laugh, or craned her
neck for a backward glance of recog-
milton at her old neighhors, seated
among the $50 or more man and
woman witnesses who filled the court
room.
Beach, too, appeared, outwardly at
least, as unconcerned as Mrs. T4illien-
dahl or her son, his fact revealing no
emotion. Once or twice he turned
his head, flashed a wink of recognition
to friend, then lapsed into a seem
ingly vacant stare at his fingernails.
polished to Glittering iuster by mani
curist for the occasion.
Hopes of Beach.
Beach hopes to confute the testi-
mony of the 100-odd witnesses for
the State against him with an alibi
Prosecutor Hinkle, in his charge TO
the jury. gave notice of this. Beach,
said Hinkle. asked some friends, be-
fore his arrest, to remember that
they saw him at his home September
IS last, at the hour DIR. Lilliendahl
lost his life. But, Hinkle continued,
Beach is known to have told a man in
another city that he had killed some
body, was "in a jam" and needed
money.
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