The Washington times., 1929-03-05
DECL.A L.ARE.S
PAM|ST
WROTE
TIPS

Slouched in the same chair
occupied only a few days ago
by Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, his
self-styled paramour, Capt.
Guy E. Burlingame today is
relating a story expected to
save his police career from an
ignominious end.
The veteran captain, accused Of
conduct unbecoming an officer and
prejudicial to the good order, reputa-
ton, and discipline of the police de-
partment, was called to the witness
stand. shortly after II o'clock.
For more than an hour William
e. Leahy, chief defense COUNSEL had
held spectators spellh with q
fiery denuneiation of the red-haired
niiddle-aged woman and the enemies
/ of Capt. Burlingame who are trying
to wreck his career.
Praises Her Aid
] Burlingame pictured Mrs. Blalock
as "a wonderful asset to the police
department" He testified that dur
ling their three years of acquaintance
ship she constantly supplied him
with information that helped him in
dealing with the criminal element in
his precinct.
When he took the stand Captain
BuFlingame said that he had cele-
brated his sixty-second birthday last
Friday and that he would have
completed 80 years Of police service
on March IS.
Leahy asked IL he had ever known
man named Tom Donahue. Dona-
hue is Mrs. Blalock's father. When
| he first came on the police force,
Rurlingame said, Donahue drove an
old might liner" in southwest
| Washington and was known to all
| policemen in that section as a good
source of information.
When Mrs. Blalock came to the
Second precinct In October, 1925,
she recalled his acquaintance with
her father. Burlfngame said, The
palmist was carrying a bundle OF
papers which she asked him to look
at, Burlingame said.
What else did she say?" asked
Leahy.
Uffefeu 10 ASSIST
she said that she had an equity
| in a house on H Street Northeast,
and that everybody was attempting
| to rob her, even her own people
and lawyers and real estate men.
She said she had heard had
known her poor old father and be-
gan crying. Finally said, Miss
Helen, I knew your father and If
there is anything I can do, I'll do
it, Then she showed me the
papers and after I looked at them
1 said, They don't look serious
enough to make you cry and get
all fused up. Leave the papers
here and I'll see what I can do y
He took the papers to some
lawyer friends of his, Captain Bur.
liz game testified, and made ar.
rangements to have Mrs. Blalock'S
affairs Strengthened out.
He encountered some difficulty in
M King the arrangements, Burlin.
game said, because Mrs. Blalock
was continually changing her mind.
"Miss Helen, / said" Captain
BurIingame testified, ''you don't
know anything about business. You
don't know your own mind. l
told her 1 thought she was crazy.
She said she was going to have
her mind examined, but I told her
not to do IL on my account, be-
cause thought sure she was
crazy
Never Took Money
Captain Burlingame said that
during all Of his business relations
with the palnist, she never gave
him a gift and that every time she
gave him money she demanded q
receipt for it.
Leahy aked Burlingsme II he
ever insisted on carrying out any
business transaction without Mrs.
Blalocks consent. Burlingame re-
piled:
"oh, no, never insisted on her
doing anything. She told me, You
are the only one can trust. You
have let me have my own way and
do more fore me than even my own
people
is Mrs. Blalock's statement that
she was at the Second precinct
only twice true?" Leahy asked.
THAT is not fact" Burlngams
replied. she was in the station
| house-from the time I met her in
1926 until the fall Of 1928, she was
fr.,4t.,,.S -. paea . rai,yra1 n