Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
Declares Mrs. BIaIoCk Want
ed to Show "Other Man"
Still Loved Her.
EXPLAINS HIS SIGNATURE
AS JOKE TO TEASE HER
Precinct Detective Carroll, Raiding
Partner of Police Captain, Sup
ports His Testimony.


when the veteran police officer on the
witness stand in his own defense, fight.
ing persistently the charges that he
wrote love letters to Mrs. Helen F. Bla.
lock. turned on the palmist and &C.
cuseo her of writing the sentimental
notes to herself to convince her friends
that another woman had not alienateo
the affections of an unidentified man
with whom he said she was In love.
Then when Capt. Burlingame had
lett the stand, his story that Mrs. Bla-
lock had written the celebrated heart
sore daddy" letter and that he had
signed 1t as joke was supported by
Precinct Detective Raymond Carroll
who Burlingame said yesterday wit
messed the occurrence.
capt. Burllngame pictured Mrs. Bla-
JOCK as jealous woman. who. afte,
losing the man she loved. sat down and
typed the sentimental letters to exhibit
70 her friends to show that the mar
she loved was still interested in her,
The police officer said he did not
know the name of this man who had
been described to him by Mrs. BlalocE
as clvu engineer and machinist and
Sei1-made man." In fact, he ex-
pialned. ne was not concerned with the
palmist's love affairs, and never asked
her the name >'
Says He Often leased Her.
Capt. Burlingame, however, admitted
ne assisted Mrs. Blalock in writing some
OF the letters. and said he often teased
her about their contents. The phrases
which drip with sentiment he said. Mrs
blalock told him were coined by the
man" and she used them In the manu-
factured notes to make them appear
more convincing.
This explanation of the authorship OF
the letters was given by Capt. Burlin-
game near the close of hammerine
croSs-examination conducted by Walter
L. Fowler. assistant corporation counsel.
who is assisting Corporation Counsel
Bride with the prosecution. The cross
examination was concluded at 1890
O'Clock. and the accused officer was ex-
cused from the witness stand, where he
nau been since IL o'clock Yesterday
morning.
Prosecutor Fowler drew from Can't.
Burlingame the story of the other man
under a barrage of questions. 1t created
olstinct surprise, as no previous ref
erence had ever been made as to whv
the letters We're written.
Declared Guarding Against Suit.
Buriingame explained that Mrs, Bla-
lock purposely avoided attaching any
signatures to the letter In order to avoid
possible suit. Some of the sentimental
expressions used by her he said were
taken from articles in magazines and
newspapers.
The prosecution spent nearly the en-
TIRE morning questioning Capt. Burlin-
game about the love letters. Paragraph
after paragraph of the sentimental notes
was read to the witness, and he was
asked whether he had assisted Mrs.
Blalock in writing them Just before
the luncheon recess Fowler directed his
questions to the information Burlingame
said Mrs. Blalock had given him which
had enabled him to round up a number
of law violators.
Cross Examination Resumed.
Burlingame returned to the witness
stand for the resumption of cross -ex-
animation when his trial was resumed
at 1910 o'clock this morning. He
slouched back in his chair and his eyes
wandered about the table, around which
were seated members of the trial board
and the defense and prosecution at
torneys.
Prosecutor Fowler began by producing
bank paSsbook and asked Burlingame
to look at deposit of $5,366. Fowler
asked him what that represented, and
he replied that he thought 1t was money
deposited by Mrs. Blalock.
Fowler then quizzed Burlingame
about how various deposits were made
in the bank where Mrs. Blalock had an
| account. He said she would give him
| check and he would cash it for her
The money was coming back and forth
all the time" the witness said. That
| to the best of my recollection, is the
story of all the financial transactions:
Denies Reading Affidavit.
Asked If he had read Mrs Blalock' S
affidavit, he answered in the negative.
Prosecutor Fowler next inquired whether
he had read the second paragraph of
the affidavit, in which Mrs. Blalock de-
clared she left Washington because she
feared the officer, and that if she had
failed to get former Representative
Blanton of Texas to have second loans
extended, she would have lost her prop
erty NO." he answered
she was very careful in some ways
and very careless in Others" Burlin-
game told Fowler, after he had ques-
toned him about the receipts she de-
manded for small amounts of money
she returned to him for bills paid by
him.
Fowler called attention to the $8.700
and the $4,000 which have figured so
prominently in the case, and asked
whether the witness had given Mrs.
Blalock a receipt for these large sums
He answered that he did not recall.
Says He Was Not Suspicious.
After questioning Burlingame about
Bill Young, and late headquarters
detective Pat O'Brien, whom the palmist
had said the accused officer had visited
while they were in the hospital, he in
quired what precautions the officer had
taken to protect himself when the
woman mentioned Orville Staples, q
former policeman, and former Repre-
sentative Blanton. He answered None, y
| but explained that he had continued to
handle her affairs.
Fowler asked Burlingame, if he ever
suspected Mrs. Blalock was attempting
| to frame" him, in view of the fact
| that she came to the captains Office
often and wrote the famous "heartsore
| daddy" and other letters on his type
writer. He said he never had the slight
est suspicion.
You mean to say, In view of all this
that you, man of 33 years experience
in the Police Department, had no sus-
picions?" Fowler asked. Burlingame
| reiterated his answer.
| Capt. Burlingame told the board that
Miss Helen wanted him to copy the
| love letters, which, he said, were In hel
| possession because she was jealous o1
| another woman, who was telling hel
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