Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CHANCE TO REPLY
TO '0TTS DENIED
HIM, ALLEN SAYS
Former Policeman Declares
Board Should Hear His Ver-
sion of Window Episode.
CLAIMS HE SAW MAN
LEAVE NURSES ROOM
Companion on Beat Night Mrs.
McPherson's Body Was Found
Denied Statement.

Former Policeman Robert j. Aller
today charged that Robert E. Lynch
and Walter L. Fowler, assistant corpo'
ration counsels conducting the prosecu-
ton of Inspector William S. Shelby anc
Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly before the ex.
traordinary Police Trial Board. failed tc
give him an opportunity to answer
statements of Policeman Laurence
Bolts.
Bolts of the third precinct last week
repudiated Aliens claim that he saw g
man leap from rear window OF the
Park Lane Apartment on the morning
of the day Mrs. Virginia McPherSon'S
garroted body was found.
Bolts, former partner of Allen, testl-
fed before the trial board that on the
morning Allen contends he saw man
come out of a rear window in the Park
Lane he had been absent only 10 min
uteS on their round of duty. In this
short period Bolts said Allen could not
have gone from the rear of Emergency
Hospital, where he left him, to the Park
Lane and return. Bolts also declared
that Allen at the time made no state
ment to him that he saw a man leave
the apartment through rear window.
Allen on Stand Four Times.
Allen has been on the witness stand
four times since the opening of the
Shelby Kelly trial, twice since Bolts
testified, and neither Lynch nor Fowler,
he said, asked him any questions about
the window episode. Since he has been
denied the privilege of making state
ment, Allen declared it has been impos-
Sible for him, under oath, to reply to
the testimony of Bolts.
Bolts has publicly branded me as a
liar" Allen said, land have not been
given an opportunity to answer him
before the trial board, where he made
his statements. In all fairness to me,
the board should hear my version"
Allen said Bolts had given Inspector
Shelby two different accounts of the
window episode, and that stenographer
at police headquarters had disclosed
that In his testimony before the trial
board, the transcript of the policeman'S
original statement was missing and that
the notebook on which it was taken
also could not be found. Location of
the missing document, he declared,
might throw an interesting light on
Bolts testimony before the trial board.
Resume Trial Tomorrow.
The Shelby-Kelly trial will be re-
6uuIC0 al ~ " C1OCh 6O1I1OIIOW
after the two-day holiday recess. The
prosecution is expected to complete its
case before the day is over.
The trial board, however, will have
an important decision to reach as soon
as 1t convenes-whether it should fol-
low its precedent in the case of Mer-
rift o. Chance, foreman of the July
grand jury, who refused to complete
his testimony. and take legal action
to compel John P. Agnew to testify
Agnew followed Chances example
when called to the witness stand last
Saturday and announced he would re-
fuse to testify.
The trial board allowed Agnew until
Monday to confer with counsel to de-
termine whether he desired to change
his decision. Agnew. through counsel,
notified Maj. L. E. Atkins, chairman OF
the board, that he would not change
his decision.
In the case Of Chance, the trial boarc
cited him in Police Court and Judge
Gus Schuldt ordered him to appear anC
complete his testimony January
Chance, however maintains that he vii
not give further testimony despite the
( courts order.
Similar action, Maj. Atkins has indi.
Gated, probably will be taken in the CASE
Of Agnew, also member of the july
! grand jury which excoriated Shelby anC
Kelly for their course in the investiga
ton Of the death Of Mrs. Mcpherson