Evening star., 1929-12-19

ment over to Shelby about September
"a, he said. t
when defense objected on the ground
that the statement had to do with an
other matter before the Police Trial
Board, Lynch insisted that he wanted
to prove that shelby and Kelly were
taking statements fr.Yn unimportant
witnesses and ignoring written state
ments from material witnesses.
You know Bolts was questioned
about a matter before the trial board
that had nothing to do with this case"
Quinn demanded Indignantly.
Deceptive Tactics Charged.
He charged the prosecution with re-
sorting to deceptive tactics and de-
clared it could not be proved under
the specification that Shelby and Kelly
had failed to take statements from
material witnesses.
Quinn and Lynch faced each other
across the table. The defense attorney
insisted that the prosecution was try
ing to make it appear that the two
police officials had not taken proper
precaution by offering the Bolts state
ment in evidence.
Lynch replied excitedly that he was
going to put it in evidence at the
proper time.
I'VE don't object to the statement
in itself" Quinn insisted, but we would
like to know what the prosecutlon Is
irving to prove under the Specif1cation."
The objection of the defense was
overruled and as Lynch rose from his
seat to turn the paper over 10 the
witness for Identification O'Shea re-
marked under his breath, you are
still cropping for light"
A luncheon recess was taken at lz:4O
ho hnoY1 nna6P
to second statement taken from
officer Bolts.
AT the very outset of the afternoon
session, which began at las o'clock,
Attorney O'Shea requested the trial
board to remove witnesses from the
room in rear of the trial board room to
a room on the lower floor OF the sixth
precinct station house. Special tele-
phone lines to newspaper oh1ceS are IN
the rear room, the lawyer pointed out,
which makes it useless to keep witnesses
out of the trial room when they could
overhear the account of the proceedings
as relayed to the newspaper ofhceS by
reporters. The request was granted.
Ten Testify for Prosecution.
Ten of the 80 witnesses summoned by
the prosecution testified at the f1rst
DAYS session yesterday, and none OF
them developed anything which the de-
fense regarded as detrimental. In TACT,
counsel for Shelby and Kelly expressed
the opinion that some of the testimony
of the prosecution witnesses aided the
case of the defense.
The biggest surprise of the day was
furnished by Capt William G. Stott OF
the third precinct, a prosecution wit
ness, who paid a glowing tribute to
Kelly, describing him as "a competent,
kr,- &Nf nlG a.
clared that the police investigation OF
Mrs. McPherson's death had been 50
thorough that subsequent inquiries by
the grand jury and the Department OF
Justice failed to develop any new evt-
dence or facts.
The only new development that fol-
lowed the police investigation, he pointed
out, was the alleged" statement OF
former Policeman Allen that he saw o
man come out of rear window OF the
Uark Lane Apartment the night OF Mrs.
McPherSon's death.
Stott said that after Allen made his
unauthorized investigation of the death
| he asked him If he had learned any
thing the police did not already know
and he replied in the negative, although
some time later he was quoted in the
newspapers as having seen a man leave
rear window.
Testimony Proves Surprise.
Another surprise came in the testi-
mony of Louis Kaplis, former stenog-
rapher at police headquarters, who re-
vealed that Stenographic statements he
had taken from Kelly, Policeman Law
renee Bolts of the third precinct and
former Policeman Allen had been re-
moved from his possession by Corpora
tion Counsel William w. Bride. He
said the stenographic statement Of
Kelly which concerned his i11vestiga-
ton of the Mcpherson case had been
only one-third transcribed when the
note book was taken away, and he was
forced to complete the transcription in
Brides Office.
The other witnesses who testified
yesterday were Louis Mcmahon, a re-
porter for the Washington Herald; DR..
A. A. Mcdonald, who performed the
autopsy on Mrs. McPherson's body;
Headquarters Detective Dennis Culli-
name and the following members of the
third precinct: Sergt. Emil Desch,
William Burke, Frank o. Brass and
Earle P. Hartman.