Evening star., 1927-12-07
FINAL L|LL|ENDAHL
ARGUMENTS BEGUN
State Asks Death for Willis
Beach and Widow of Slain
Physician.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press
MAYS LANDING, N. j., December
THE testimony given in the
| Lilliendahl murder trial warrants a
| verdict of murder in the first degree
against the widow of the victim and
| her elderly admirer Prosecutor Hinkle
asserted in his summation to the jury
today.
Hinkle said he fully expected such
| verdict with a penalty of either
death or life imprisonment. He then
| began reviewing the testimony of
| States witnesses.
"If Willis Beach did commit this
murder" he said Margaret Lillien-
dahl, who was there. knew it and her
story of the negroes is false. If one
of them is guilty. the other is guilty
and we believe the State has made it's
case"
Spoke Less Than Five Minutes.
Suddenly Hinkle stopped. That is
ALL" he said He had been speaking
less than five minutes.
Edison Hedges then began his sum
nation for Beach.
Hedges asked what the motive could
possibly have been for Beach to have
committed the crime with which he is
charged.
1.-The only motives could have been
money or love-" he said. "And the
State has established neither of these
mo money is involved and love is
far fetched notion in this case
Beach is married. He has a family
All the members of this family have
come to his support here. Does that
indicate hat Beach was planning to
cast off his wife for another woman?'
Until Samuel Bark was put on the
stand, Hedges said, he could not see
how the State planned to connect his
client with the crime at all. Bark
said that Beach confessed the crime in
his presence
"As far as Bark goes" he said, eve
Will all agree that he is pretty slick.
He doesn't say Beach confessed to
him; he says it was to an apparently
fictitious character, one Clyde Thomp.
son, and that he was just standing by
and listening.
Attacks Bark's Story.
"Who is Clyde Thompson? Who is
Bill Bellar, another character in
Bark's imaginative recitals? Why
hasn't the State produced them? Are
they anybody at all? And if not, as
it appears. how could they have held
conversations on the strength of which
it is being attempted to send a man to
his death?"
Hedges then attacked Bark's credi-
bility as a witness, charged that the
circus lariat man could scarcely
write, and intimated that Bark had
lied when he called himself lawyer.
He read from Bark's testimony and
questioned the veracity and good faith
of practically every answer the wit
ness gave.
Hedges next summarized the testi-
mony corroborating Beachs aiibi.
Beach could not have committed
this murder even if he had wanted to-"
Hedges said. "a carpenter, who is
man of honor in his community.
has said he saw Beach at the lat.
ter's home at 1890 Another wit
ness has told of driving from South
Vineland to Hammanton in As min
utes and considering it good time"
'The defense for Willis Beach, >
Hedges continued, "is an alibi, an6
every hour of his day has been thor
| oughly accounted for. Even had there
been a motive. even though he had
wanted to commit this murder. Willis
Beach could not have done it. He
was never in the right place" He
| concluded by respectfully asking
| the jury to bring in a verdict oi
acquittal.