New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
RAY BEACH TAKES
 WITNESS STAND ID
 SAVE HIS FATHER
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This was the nearest thing to a quarrel they ever had. There was some coldneSs for time but the friendship was resumed. The doctor told Beach that they were too good friends to be angry with each other.
 To Explain "LoNc' Notes
 "The so-called Peggy Anderson notes that passed between Beach and Mrs. Lilliendahl will be shown to have been brief and harmless letters that have nothing 10 do with any illicit intimacy.
 We will bring out that Beach never in his life saw samuel Bark until he took the stand yesterday"
 Bark told Of an alleged confcs- sion Of the murder by Beach 10 him in Baltimore on October ].
 To Prove Beach Absent
 Hedges said 1t would be shown that Beach could not have been at the scene of the crime and said witnesses would testify Beach was in his own home at the time.
 Charles Phillips, attorney of rec ord for Mrs. Lilliendahl, then open cd for his client.
 He pictured the Lillicndahl home as a happy one and dismissed the quarrel between Beach and Dr. Lilliendahl as of no import.
 Phillips said that two negroes were seen in the lane when the killing took place by a woman who will take the stand. Mrs. Lillien- dahl says negroes killed her hus- band.
 When you hear the witnesses wo shall produce you can not believe the prosecutors story. he said. Phillips closed after talking ten minutes and Bishop Emanuel Fo- rando. a relative of Mrs. Lilliendah! by marriage, was placed on the stand.
 The witness was just beginning to testify when Deputy Sheriff Dan iel Gray. in the back of the room. tainted and was carried out.
 Gray, who was soon revived by ' jail. toppled to the floor at the very moment the judge was asking at tendants to open the windows so as to freshen the air in the crowd ed court room.
 Bishop F'erando said he was sui fragan bishop of Porto Rica and that his daughter, who is now critically i'll. is the wife of Mrs. Lilliendahrs son William by an earlier marriage. He testified to the good reputation of Mrs. Lilliendahl while he lived near her fin Mountain Lakes before she moved to Vine land.
 Under cross examination he said he only saw Mrs. Lillienhal once after she moved to Nineland where she lived for year before the crime.
 The bishop testified out Of turn by arrangement of counsel.
 He spoke for Mrs. Lllendahl, whereas witnesses for Beach were scheduled to be heard first. He was put on out of turn to permit his re- turn to his sick daughter.
 Jack Thornborrow, who also testi- fled for the state, was the first wit ness called for Beach. Thornton row said that he knew Beach well and that his reputation among neighbors was good. He told Of see ing Beach the morning Of the mur- der but was unable to set the time exactly.
 Under cross examination Thorn borrow said he could not recall whether Beach had ever asked him to fix the time.
 Thornborrow recalled talking 70 Beach after the killing bu: could not remember being asked to set the time of their meeting the day 0: the crime.
 The prosecutor read grand jury minutes in which the witness WAS shown to have testified that Beach pressed him to remember" having seen him at home at the time Of the murder.
 Witness "Forgcts"
 County Detective Julian rose and tho witness acknowledged having made & written statement in hi, presence. The statement was pro. duced, identified and given to the witness to read.
 Thornborrow said he could moi now remember conversation witt Beach which he had related in tho statement over his own signature.
 Don't you recall that you sail Beach asked you 10 remember thai he was with you when you wrr' punching bects at l0:%0 and latel when you went to the egg plan patch?"
 T do not. I made some sUcf statement but it was in error and asked at the time that il l." Strichcr out It has not been stricken out.
 Asked if there were any othe parts Of the statement he had asE"' to have stricken out when h" sign ed it, the witness requested permls