New Britain herald., 1927-12-05
MRS, L|LLIENDAHL
 TELLS OF MURDER
(Continued from First Page.)
h, many times.'
 Is D. \. K. Member

IS ID. \. h. NtIletT
 It was then brought out that Mrs. Iilliendahl was a Daughter of the Revolution and was active in church work. The prosecution protested against this line of testimony, but was overruled.
 Mrs. Lilliendahl was no longer crying, but her throat worked ner- vously as she talked in a quiet and halting voice.
 She told of Beach going for drives with her and her husband at the doctors request.
 DO you remember the 18th of September?" she was asked.
 "Oh, yes" she said, and again choked with tears.
 For moment she could not speak at all.
 Then she told of dressing her boy and taking him to school. Leaving the school at o'clock, she said, she drove to the post of flee and then home.
 Did you see Beach that morn ing?"
 Waved to Beach
 "Yes. I passed him on the road and waved to him as I do to all my neighbors. I got home about 9:2o.
 T washed my dishes and did some ironing for my husband who Waf going to New York the next day.
 My husband came in as l was doing this and asked how soon would be ready to go to Nineland. I said I'd go just as l was and we started out. I remember sayng toi him that as I wouldn't be get,ing out of the car it didn't matter that I wore an old housedress. We left the house about 10:20.'
 On the way, she said, they stopped at a gasoline station and then at a bank where he drew S25 in five dol lar bills. one of which he gave tC her. When she said she had some shopping to do he gave her tho other four.
 As these bills were mentioned Mrs Lillicndahl broke down again. State witnesses have testified that blood 1 stains were found on three 5 bills discovered in her pocket book after the crime.
 Mrs. Lillendahl then told the course of the drive which finally took them on the Atsion road. She was talking easily now and occa- sionally a phantom smile fiinched across her tear-wet face.
 It was l2:10 o'clock as they passed through Hammonton. Accord, ing to his story Reach was at this time eating lunch in his south Vine land home. which he did not leave until after 12:30
 Doctor Recalls Childhood
 As they proceeded along tb, Atsion road they passed a little rec school which the doctor recalled was the one Beach attended as a child. Did you ever correspond Witi Beach you using the name of Peggy Anderson?" she was asked. Admits Correspondence
 'I did used an assumed nam' because I knew that the postmstres' was nosey like all country stor' keepers and I didn't want her t' start gossip by saying Mrs. Lillien dahl was getting mail from q mar not her husband. So I said l wa: Peggy Anderson and had Beach ad dress me that way"
 Did your husband know of thi correspondence"
 He most certainly did. l had n' secrets from my husband. 1 told hln I was corresponding with Beach under the name of Peggy Anderson to avoid gossip, to keep him in formed Of the doctors health.'
 How many such letters did yo' write?"
 About a dozen"
 "Will you tell the contents of an, letter you wrote BeaCh?'
 Can't Recall Contents
 "The contents were so insigni6can I cannot recall them ill any detail.
 Was there any display Of atLec ton in these letters?'
 "No.'
 She denied the truth Of state tcs ,imony that she had written Reacl at least one letter day for months
 What happened to the letters yol got?"
 "I burned thcm.'
 Sine told then of several meeting between her and Beach 10 whicl state witnesses had testified and sai' they were all of a most casual nd turo.
 Beach Never Rugged Her
 Mrs. Lillendahl smiled for th inst time as McCarter asked Beach had ever but his arm aroun her.
 "Il he did never felt it." She angrily denied the next mo ,meut that the testimony of q stat witness that he had stumbled O Mrs. Liliiendahl and Beach kccpln an evening 'ryst was true in any de tail,
 "I was never alone with Will Beach after dark h. said.
 Were you ever unfaithtU to'Eou husband?"
 "Ncver.'
 A letter from Dr. Lillicndahl t Ehi9 wife sometime before the crlIu hut after the quarrel with Beac was accepted by the court to sho' relations then existing between hus band and wife.
 The letter written from Ne'