Evening star., 1927-12-01
BEACH CONFESSED.
WITNESS ASSERTS
Baltimore Lawyer Snowman
Says He Was Told of
LiIIiendahI Shooting.
By. the Associated pres..

By the Associated Prees. ~
COURTROOM. MAYS LANDING.
N. j., December 1.--Samuel Bark, Bal
timore lawyer and Snowman. testi-
fed today that Willis Beach confessed
to him the killing of DIR. A. William
Lilliendahl. He testified to talking
with Beach in Baltimore last Septem-
Der.
Il told him I. saw by the papers
he was wanted and he said not very
bad" he testified. He and man
named Thompson asked me for $500.
but said was mo bank. They said
they wanted the money to take some
jewelry out of soak in Philadelphia.
Thompson told Beach it looked like
he was in an awful fix and Beach
said he could beat it.
"Then l asked him just how he got
in this fix and Beach said he'd got
in a racket with the old man and shot
him." 80
who did he mean by the old mann"
"Old Man" in Trouble.
"Dr. Lilliendahl. We were talking
about the murder. Beach told me the
old man had been having some trouble
about money or dope or something"
Bark said that Beach told him the
killing was staged at the isolated spot
off the Atsion road, because we had
to fix it for a getaway"
Beach told me he met the old man,
shot him in the head and ran back
to his car When he got there, he
said. he shouted 'Yoo-hoo! to Mrs. Lii
liendahl to let her know he was safely
away. and then she spread the alarm .
Under cross-examination Bark class.
ed himself as trick roper" In trav.
cling shows.
. Robert McCarter, counsel for Mrs
Lillfendahl, asked Bark IL he could
write. and then had him inscribe his
signature, which was marked for iden-
tification.
Bark said he had known Beach for
about a year, having been introduced
In Philadelphia by Clyde Thompson.
the mutual friend who was present at
the alleged confession Beach sat
calmly at ease in his chair while
Bark related the encounter in Balti.
more. Mrs. Liiliendahl. her back
turned to the spectators, remained
rigid.
Brother Takes Notes.
j. Sherwood Thompson, brother Of
the widow. made hasty notes. while
next to him little Alfred Lilliendahl
worked industriously on his latest
drawing of house in the woods.
Back In the spectators seats, Mrs.
Amanda Beach, wife of Mrs. Lillien.
dahl's co-defendant, craned her neck
anxiously for few moments, staring
at the witness. Then she resumed her
old posture of bent head and closed
eyes and seemed to pay no heed to
the accusation of the States star wit.
ness against her husband.
Bark testified that his home was
in Texas, but he was in Baltimore
for month at the time ne met Beach
there. After his conversation with
Beach and Thompson he went to the
law Office of Charles Phillips. one of
Mrs. Lilliendahl's lawyers. He said
he told Phillips he wanted 5000 for
Beach.
HE told me he was Mrs. Lillien.
dahPs lawyer, not Beach's, but he'd
see what could be DONE"
Bark denied that he had shown
Phillips two written accounts of the
murder reputedly signed by Clyde
Thompson and one Bellar. 8
Didn't you tell him. McCarter
asked. that on September 15 Thomp-
SON and Bellar were driving along
the Atsion road and turned into the
lane where the killing took place for
the purpose OF getting some mar.
cotics?
Didn't you tell Phillips" McCarter
continued, that while Bellar and
Thompson were in the lane the
Lilliendahls drove in and they hid,
and then saw Beach shoot the doctor.
Didn't you then say that Bellar
and Thompson fed to avoid implica-
tion and ran their car into the Della
ware River?
Didn't you tell Phillips you want
ed to prevent Bellar and Thompson
from testifying and so you needed
$500 to save Beach,"
NO." said Bark with a grin. 81
didn't say any Of those things"
Didn't Phillips tell you that IL YOU
had the Information you said you
had, you ought to go to the prose
cutor?" McCartcr asked.
NO"
Bark said that he had to take no
examination to become a lawyer in
Oklahoma.
''It was Indian Territory, you know"
he said. "and when it became a State.
they just ordered everybody to the
bar they found practicing law" He
told them of having been admitted
to the bar in Texas also, an apparent
contradiction of previous testimony.
He said that without examination he
was enrolled in the Circuit Court at
Dallas.
Bark sal dthat after Phillips had
failed to visit him in Baltimore. he
wrote to the prosecutor and a county
detective called on him.
As Bark was leaving the courthouse
after his testimony, to return to Bal
timore. the defense served him with
subpoena.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. December L.
Samuel Bark, while a Baltimorean,
has been living out of the State
number OF years, and only returned
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