New Britain herald., 1927-12-06
SANDERSON LIED; . SAYS BEACH FLED . FROM DEATH LANE
States Star Witness Tells Court
 he Told Untruth and Posi- tiFsly Identifies Defendant
MRS. LlJLIEEDAHL ENDS
 HER STORY OF SHAVING

Kitchen Ware salesman Cause,
 sensation by Admitting He Wa,
 Liar and Picking Chicken Man a. One He saw Hurr,ing Fron scene Where Doctor Was Slaiu- Widow Concludes Testimony.
 Mays Landing. \. J., Dec. 5 tP}- The defense rested in the Liliendah murder trial today and the state i'm. modiately struck one Of its most telling blows by putting on witness who Swore that he had testified falsely when he previously said that he could not identify a man he saw at the scene CT the crime as Willie Beach.
 Beach and Mrs. Margaret Lillien- dahl are jointly charged with the murder of the woman's husband, Beach having an alibi as his defense.
 Harry Sanderson, a sydney, Ohio. kitchen ware salesman. had been the states star witness in their at tempt to break down the alibi San- derson was expected to identify Beach positively as q man he had seen running from the place where Dr. William A. Lilliendahl was killed. But when he took the stand he said any such identification was impossible. After he left the stand he suffered q nervous breakdown.
 Today Sanderson crcpt to the stand and admitted that he had lied when he said he could- not identify Beach.
 Didn't Mean to Lie
 "When l took the stand" he said "1 fully intended to tell the truth, that Beach was the man l saw"
 And you can now so identify
 
 Absolutely" Sanderson replied and left the stand without making any explanation of why he had changed hi; teS'inou..
 No reference was made to an ai- hdaVit Sanderson is known to have given the judge Saturday and which printed reports have said contained the reason for his actions. Those re- ports have not been denied by any one publicly.
 After SanderSon left the stand the prosecutor began calling a long list Of rebuttai witnesses who were eX- pected to occupy the stand all day. Mrs. Lilliendahl finished her 1esti- lnony ill the first few minutes of to- days session. Beach had previously testified.
 On stand Nearly Hours
 Mrs. Lilliendahl who took the witness stand yesterday and stuck to her story of the murder of her bus band by two negro robbers last Sep .cmber .. finished her cross exam nation at lO:l0 a. m., today. hay Ing testified in all for five hours and 50 minutes.
 If there was blood on her cloth ng after her aged husband was killed. 1t came from d noSc-hleed her little son had and from mos luitoes she slapped as they were her and not from her hus- ,ands wounds, Mrs. Lilliendahl tes- flied.
 Prosecutor Hinkle resumed his >ross-eXamination, asking the wit less about her answers 10 questions police put to her shortly after the 
 Memory Is Faulty
 The widows memory seemed as aulty as it was yesterday. She ire Iuently replying nothing but T don't 'ecall," or Il don't know"
 The examination dealt with a meeting between Mrs. LiIliendahl lnd Beach on the morning of the 'rime. To police she sad she saw 3each driving past her house. Yes erday on the stand she said she lrove past Beach between Nineland md South Nincland Mrs. Lilliendahl said she could not ecall having made the earlier an wer and insisted her testimony of esterday was correct. Well, now" Hinlle asked, "can ou tell me now how many times ou saw Beach on that day." 'l only remember that one time fhen l drove past him. Then you did not see him go- ng by your home?" T don't recall Do you remember ever saying ou saw him there?"
 "No.' Mrs. Lilliendahl answered ques- ions with quiet firmness and oc- asionally broke into a smile. What dress did you wear when on got up that day." The one now i'll evidence" Was it bloodstained then" "I don't know.' Your son had q noscbleed that ou think might have stained it?" "Ycs." But on that day were you wear lg the same stockings you had on [ the time of the noseblecd ?''
 Skipping Mosquitoes ''No, but l had been skipping at losquitocs while l wore those stock lgs. Hinkie then turned to considera- ion of a quarrel Beach and Dr. had several months be- ore the crime and which the state ontends constituted a motive. He contrastcd the widows story 'ith that of the police on this point 1 lst after the killing and her testi- 1 lony on the stand.
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