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everybody. there we're eight,year.
old Aldred Lilliendahl, the widows
the co-defendant whose faith in her
husband apparently remains un.
shaken, and Mrs. LilliendhaIs
brother, Sherwood. Thompson.
Although refraining from mention
ing the death penalty outright,
Hinkle made it clear that the State
seeks the electric chair for the
widow and her alleged illicit lover
when he said: I'VE ask a verdict
OF first degree murder even
though 1t carries q severe punish
ment"
These people were carrying on
an improper liaison, meeting, caress-
ing, loving and misbehaving-" the
smile was wiped off the widows
face and she sohbed.
One Confessed
"Dr. Lilliendhal came to his
sudden end through violence and I
have shown you one defendant
tBeach confessed the murder. That
testimony has not been irnpeached."
Young Edison Hedges. attorney
Tor Beach, who looked like a class
DAY orator as he took the floor,
launched into a defense argument
having for its foundation a Tack
OF motive" He denied a love"
pact. scorned a money motive and
fldlculed jealousy as a cause for
murder in the Lilliendahl case. He
declared that the States star wit.
nesses were unbelievable.
Look At Defendant"
"Ail you have to do is look
upon Mrs. Lilliendahl to know what
say is the truth" Hedges de.
ciared. gazing upon the black clad
WIDOW who dabbed her face with
a lace handkerchief with all the
sentility to be expected of a daugh.
Ter OF the American Revolution. a
church worker and an active won.
ems club member.
Hedges attacked the character of
samuel Bark, the witness VINO testj.
Iled that Beach confessed the killing
TO him, and decribed him as At.
tempting to "cash in" on informs.
ton CLEANED solely from the news.
papers.
He said that character witnesses
called for Bearh and the widow
amounted to something" leaving
the Inference unspoken.
Hedges Completes Speech
AT 11:01, II minutes less than his
allotted time, Hedges completed his
summation and Robert II. McCar.
Ter, senior defense counsel and ia. !.
nous Hall-Mills defense attorney.
took the floor.
McCarter Immediately launched |
into a barrage of oratory, calling
tie crime" brutal, heinous, shocking |
and revolving" but declaring that if |
Mrs. Lilliendahl had wanted the |
aging doctor out of the way, she |
could merels have ceased her "lov-
ing care ami he would have died OF |
natural causes, and of his dope.
using habits.'
''Dr. Lilliendahl's resistance was
weakened by dope and in time the !
deadly opiate would have taken its
course, had not she, cultured and
loving woman, nursed and looked
after him." he said. Look at her,
this woman of lineage and culture.
Was she the fast, cigarette-smoking.
cocktail-drinking kind of women?
She lived a Christian life. They
the defendants) are one of us
simple, plain country folk the
warp and woof of this great coun-
try"
The majority opinion is that both
defendants will be acquitted. The
States case was built on circum-
stantial evidence and only one wit.
ness, whose veracity the defense
claims might easily be questioned,
considering the conditions under
which he testified, positively identi.
fled Beach as the man he saw near
the murder scene.
No one came forward to link Mrs.
1illiendahl with the crime. She
asserts that two negro highwaymen
killed her husband.
For the first time in the history
Of murder trials in this part of the
country the verdict will be an
nounced by a woman foreman, Mrs.
Carrie L. Calkins, of Atlantic City.
It is doubtful whether any legal
action will be taken against Harry
Sanderson, the aluminium salesman
of Sidney. Ohio, who yesterday re-
canted his testimony and positively
identified Beach as the man he saw
running out of the woods near tho
murder lane on the afternoon DR..
Lilliendahl was shot.
On his first appearance on the
stand Sanderson had stated that he
was not sure Beach was the man.
This was at variance with the state
mont the prosecution claimed he
AAA made before the trial. There