Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-30

! Camp in Washington, after my palm
prints had been taken at Arlington
County Court House, and told Mrs. Par
sons that I wanted to protect her il
possible from any connection with the
! case. That I thought that the wires
in my Office were tapped, and for hel
not to call the Office and carry on any
conversation relative to the afternoon
in question.
Do you want me to go on from where
was, Mr.. Vandoren?
y. Yes, if you will
Goes to Store Daily.
A. went to Taishoff's store where
I do all of my buying. and where I dc
so every day of the year. We don't
nave very much more food in the house
than We cat each day. as a consequence
it necessitates me going to the store
every day.
I would judge that it was about 20
minutes past when ] got to Taish-
OTIS store. I don't think that bought
but very few things. asked him for
cake box. and with apologies he
handed me a doughnut box. He said
that that was the only thing that he
had. The sugar and grease on the
box caused Mrs. Taishoff to remark that
she doubted if Mrs. Campbell would
want to use that to take cake to any
body in. However, took the box with
me.
went from there a distance of
about two or three city blocks to Mr..
Lees house. Turned over a note and
check that had collected from a
Mr.. Morales of Fourteenth street south
east on business transaction for him.
Mr.. Morales had given me the check
when had made my first trip into
Washington on that mornfng-or Mrs.
Morales had.
MIR. Lee wrote me a check for $25.
which he handed to me. I don't know
just how long was at his place. !
stood beside his desk. Mr.. Lee was
seated at his desk. When I went in
he had some pencil drawings of a
building that he was figuring on build
ing, in front of him.
went from there up Addison avenue
to Mount Vernon avenue and stopped
at my office for moment. There Is a
pay telephone in my office; you can
only use it by dropping nickel in the
slot. And Mr.. Norwood was there. i
had shown a Miss Gertrude Presley.
hsr mother and friend some rooms
at my sisters house on the evening of
April the 10th. They were to come out
on that evening and let me know.
say rooms: it was an apartment: they
were communicating rooms. They were
to come out on the evening of April
the 18th and let me know what their
decision was. I asked Norwood If he
would stick around for a while. He
said that he would; that he would stay
as long as he could.
Identifies Check.
@. win you suspend a moment. Mr..
Campbell there, SO We can catch this
chronologically. You referred just
moment ago to a check given you by
Mr.. Lee.
A. Yes.
Q. show you defendants exhibit
for identification and ask you If you
know what 1t Is?
A. Yes, sir; that is the check Mr..
Lee gave me:
@. Will you look at the reverse Of it
know, appears thereon?
A. My own signature.
@. Did you cash that check?
A. Yes, SIR.
@. Whsn?
A. On the morning of April the 18th.
@. Where?
A. Burke 81 Herbert, Alexandria. Va.
Mr.. VandoFen-If the court please, I
offer this hi evidence. $
Mr.. Collins-It Is already in evil
dence, Mr.. Vandoren.
Mr.. VANDERBILT is marked for
Identification. I don't think I offered
it,
MIR. CollinS--No objection.
Mr.. Vandoren-May exhibit it to the
jury. your honor?
The Court-YeS. $E
MIR. Vandoren exhibiting to the jury)
This IS the check Mr.. Lee also testified
relative to yesterday. gentlemen, Mr.. Lee
identifying thereon his signature. And
Mr.. Campbell has just identified his sig
nature And the cancellation shows as
indicated thereon.
BY Mr.. Vandoren:
@. All right, proceed.
Resumes His Testimony.
A. I asked Mr.. Norwood If he would
stay at the Office for few minutes; that
expected these people out, and il he
would call me at my home II they
showed up. With the purpose in mind
of being sure that he would be able to
call up, put a nickel on the corner
of the desk, which I always did If was
going home and expected call from the
Office, because 1t would not make any
difference out there in the country. If
man had $40 in his pocket, If he didn t
have a nickel he couldn't use the phone.
don't believe that / was at the ONCE
more than two or three minutes.
went straight from there down two
blocks to my home and entered the
house. Edwin was there reading out on
the porch. And as closely as I can re-
member, 1t was possibly 5 minutes or
10 minutes of 6. want to say to you,
gentlemen of the jury, that is conjecture,
because am going entirely ON the fact
that it would take me under ordinary
circumstances, with no undue traf6c,
about 20 minutes to drive to Mr.. Tai
shoff's store. The rest of the time Is
very easy for me 10 fix in my mind,
I went back into the kitchen and
started to prepare dinner. Mrs. Camp
bell usually gets the quarter past 5 bus
from Washington and gets home about
when I got there. She came IN few
minutes later.
had peeled some potatoes, and
believe prepared the steak for cooking
when knock came on the door and
Eddie said that there was a machine
out there. Called to me and said that
there was some people out front. And
he was more or less diSheveled from his
day at school, 1 guess-anyway he got
out of sight and went back in the back
part of the house. answered the
door, and Mr.. Green was there that
had sold the house to on the preceding
| Sunday. He came over and asked me
| If / would get him the electric lights
| at the Potomac Electric Power Co and
save him the discount that had spoken
! of when he first asked me TO get the
lights told him that would be GLAD
to. And he had list of the lights that
he wanted. He said he wanted thu
frosted lights. What do you mean, the
| VI re AZ
white frosted lights. Don't you think
you would rather have the fame tint?'
He said. We'll, don't know" So thu
switch in the hall to the dining room
there is on the right-hand side of the
hall, and lights the lights in the dining