Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05

BlalOck called Capt. Burlingame on the
telephone and told him that a suspect
had gone into an establishment acros,
the street from her studio An inyesti.
CATION was made a few minutes late,
by the second precinct police, he de.
clared. and it was learned that the s,ls.
pect had visited the place but had left
before the arrival Of the officers.
We will show the board that Mrs
Blalock came to the second precinct
station as often as so tlmes.'' Leah,
declared. I'm fact she was constantly
at the station house. She came almost
every day and on one occasion she
made three visits in one day.
Leahy then denied that Burlinqame
had ever given Mrs. Blalock "a dollar
in his life" All of this money men
toned in her testimony and In her
affidavit was her own money" the de-
Tense counsel declared. We will be
able to show you that from 1917 she
had money. always a tidy sum"
I'VE will show that the $8.7O0 was
withdrawn at Mrs. Blalock's request for
the purpose of paying off a trust on
her H street property which she con-
templated during that time. The 81 SOC
gift which she said was given her in
sealed envelope for birthday gift
actually contained Chinese silk hand
kerchief which Chinaman had given
Capt. Burlingame."
Then, touching on the widely dis
cussed love letters which have played
such prominent part in the case
Leahy said Burlingame had seen Mrs
Blalock write four of those letters on q
typewriter in his Office in the second
precinct station. Three of these letters
he said, the accused captain helped hel
write.
Although Mrs. Blalock in her testi-
mony denied that she could use type
writer Leahy said that on a number
of her visits to the station house she
used Capt. Burlingame's typewriter ano
officers at the station had seen her
There were no whispered love words
battered back and forth when Mrs
Blalock visited the station house." de-
clared Leahy. There were no clan
destine meetings, but everything was
done openly and in the presence Of the
officers.
Saw Her Write Four.
I'VE cannot swear who wrote the rest
of the letters. All We can do is tc
state that Capt. Burlingame did see Mrs
Blalock write four of them"
Leahy. however, failed to explain
Capt. Burlingame's admitted signature
on the famous "heart-sore daddy let
ter. Burlingame, through his counsel
the other day denied the authorship
of this letter
I'VE can establish disproof of any
thing which We were able to get Mrs
Blalock to stick to-" Leahy added.
I'VE can find. no reason for the in
cidents referred to by Mrs. Blalock'S
testimony" said Leahy. I'VE will show
that in talking with one officer she
said Capt. Burlingame had been ex-
tremely kind to her"
According to Leahy, Mrs. Blalock last
August planned to leave Washington to
go to Chicago. where her brother lives
because she had found it had become
extremely difficult to get palmist
license here.
I'VE will show. too" Leahy declared
that Representative Blanton made
statements that there were two officers
on the police force he was going to
get. One of them was Capt. Burlin-
game and the other was Capt. Lord.
las far as association goes I will show
that Representative Blanton has done
more in the last two months for Mrs.
Bialock than Capt. Burlingame.
Capt. Burlingame never has been
so silly as to fall into this mushy, mucky
love pictured in Mrs. Blalock's testi-
mony"
Leahy also told the board that Mrs
Blalock had not produced all of the
notes and receipts entering into the
business transactions which she had
with Capt. Burlingame.