Evening star., 1927-12-04
BEACH, UNDER FIRE,
DENIES DEATH PLOT
LiIliendahI [ Suspect Calm as
State VainIy Attempts to
Shake His Story.
Rx the Assneiated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MAYS LANDING. \. r.. December
3.-Willis Beach, pale-faCed, elderly
farmer, who is afflicted with heart at
tacks, today calmly underwent a
gruelling examination in which
he submitted testimony to clear him
self of the murder of Dr.. A. William
tilliendahl for which he and the doc.
tors wife are on trial.
On the stand for more than three
hours and half, Beach loudly denied
doctor last September Is near Ham
monitor. \. T., and reiterated his
declaration that he was at home in
South Nineland with his family at
the time the aged physician is be
Heved TO have met his death.
Brings Laughs ON Police.
Confronted with questions by Prose
cutor Hinkle concerning his exchange
of letters with Mrs. Lilliendahl, with
whom he is alleged to have had init
mate relations, Beach said he had
written her "unimportant notes ad-
dressing them to Peggy Anderson.
Beach denied intimacy with Mrs. ldl'
lendahl. With frequent smiles that
occasionally broke into soft chuckle,
the 58-vear-old chicken raiser brought
laughter from the spectators gallery
when he said he thought the New Jer-
sew police were very. very ehiclent
in the search for him during 10 days
in which he was in hiding in the at
tic nf the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Parker Of Iinwood Heights
near Chester. Pa. after the killing.
Beach raised his voice so that all IN
the crowded courtroom were able 10
hear when he declared that he never
before had laid eyes on Samuel Bark,
the self STYLED lawyer and trick las
soer from Texas, who was one of the
states star witnesses on THURSDAY.
Bark had said Beach confessed 10
him in Baltimore that he had shot Dr.
Lillendahl
u never saw Bark" declared Beach.
"until he barked from the box here.
Sticks to His Story.
Hinkle read long excerpts from in
teryiews he had had with Beach prior
to his indictment for murder in the
first decree, most of the excerpts
touching on testimony that was
brought out again when Beach took
the stand today.
Repeatedly, Beach said he didn't
recall" his answers to Hinkle when
he was held for the grand jury. but
always he stuck 10 his story that he
had notpart in DR.. Lilliendahrs death.
Today's session provided the tens
est excitement since the trial began
LAST Monday. At the morning ses-
sion, shortly after Beach, walking
with an alert stride that belied his
58 wears, took the stand. a woman in
the spectators benches toppled TO the
floor in a faint. A deputy sheriff
nj
room yesterday.
Mrs, Lilliendahl is expected to be
called to testify Monday.
Before Beach went on this morn
ing only three witnesses took the
stand, all i'm Connection with his dis
appearance before indictment, but
after he left it there was veritable
parade before court was finally
adjourned at 5:15.
The stains found on the garments
Of Mrs Lilliendahl, after her hus-
band was killed may have been caused
by milk instead of blood, a defense
witness testified today.
This testimony by DIR. Harrison s.
MARYLAND, of Newark, n. j., was IN
tended by the defense to offset that of
of the States 65 witnesses who said
that chemical examination of the
stains found no the clothing of Mrs.
I-ielliendahl, co-defendant with Willis
Beach, for the murder, showed that
they were human blood.
DR.. Martland claimed that there
were only two tests for determining
infallibly whether stains were made
by human or animal blood, and these
were not the tests which the two
prosecution chemists said they used.
He added that milk or perspiration
might give the same results as hui
man blood when examined by the
methods used by the two chemists.