Evening star., 1927-09-25
NE|GHBOR ACCUSED
IN DOCTORS DEATH.
New Jersey Man, Queried in
LiIIiendahI Staying, Said
to Confess Relations.

by tue ASSoCldteu fFess
MAYS LANDING, \. J., September
24.-Willis Beach, 5O-year-old poultry
farmer. held here for questioning in
connection with the recent murder of
DIR. A. William Lilliendahl, has con-
fessed to alleged intimate relations
with Mrs. Lilliendahl, the slain ply
sicians widow, it was announced to-
night by Richard Black, special in
vestigator for the State.
Beach was brought here from Ham
monton, where he had been questioned
by detectives and State police.
Beach confessed, Black declared, to
writing the peggy Anderson" letters
to Mrs Lilliendahl; that he had met
the physicians wife frequently at
trysting place in secluded glen and
that he and Mrs. Lilliendahl had used
a hollow in large oak tree as place
to conceal correspondence.
Late tonight Beach was released
from Jail under S. 900 bail, furnished
by his brother, Roy.
ATLANTIC CITY. n. J., Septem-
tonight after three hours questioning
at the State troopers barracks at
Hammonton in connection with the
recent killing of DR.. William A. Lii
liandahl while he was riding in an
automobile with his wife. Mrs. Lii
liandahl is under bail Of $4,000 in the
case.
At the oak tree Beach was ques.
toned for a half hour by detectives
The spot is secluded and no intruder
interfered with the proceedings.
Beach then was taken to the South
Vineland Post Office where some of
the Peggy Anderson" letters, which
vaguely have been mentioned in the
case. are alleged to have been received
by Mrs. Lilliendahl
Postmaster Is Queried.
William Tambel lain. postmaster
was called outside, and a general con-
versation ensued, the detective plying
Tanberlain with questions and the
postmaster addressing his replies to
Beach, who occasionally cut in with
comment, delivered in a calm tone.
Thus far the police have been un-
able to get a definite statement from
Mrs. Lilliendahl, they say, on her re-
ported correspondence with Beach.
Beach recently has declared that he
was merely a neighbor and friend or
both DR.. Lilliendahl and his wife.
Leon Collins, monument maker OF
Hammonton, today told authorities
Beach had been in his company be-
tween 1:15 and o'clock the afternoon
of the killing of DIR. Lilliendahl. They
discussed the matter of markers to be
placed on the Beach family plot in a
cemetery. Collins said he noticed
nothing out of the ordinary in Beach 5
dcmednOr.
WEI Revisit Scene.
Mrs. Lilliendahl contends two ne
groes shot her husband and beat her
when she tried to aid him in fighting
them off.
d. Comerst Himkle, assistant prose
cutor. said today that Mrs. Lilliendah hi
will be asked TO go with the author
tiles to the scene of the crime and re-
enact the alleged hold-up and murder
in so far as she can in few days.
and that when she is taken there 1t
will be in the Lilliendahl car, which
now is locked up in Hammonton.
This will take place as soon as the
workmen have finished hacking the
underbrush and hoeinS the ground in
an effort to locate the gun which fired
the two bullets into the head of DR..
Lilliendahl," he said.
Reports from the Vineland Bank
show that DIR. Lilliendahl drew out SIS
which is contrary to Mrs. Lilliendahls s
statement that the physician had $500
on his person at the time OF the
crime" Himkle asserted.
Late tonight it was decided to re-
| lease Beach in 5000 bail.