The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-04
STRANGE Love
TANGLE aired
IN FLIER TRIAL
Mrs. Keith Miller Tells How
She Planned Suicide
With SIain-Lover.
TESTIFIES OF QUARRELS
Lancaster Told Her He
Would Crash, Give Insur-
anCe Wedding Gift.
By United Press

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 4.-Pretty
Jessie M. Keith-M Miller, aviatrix,
testifying at the murder trial of
one OF her lovers, revealed from the
witness stand today that she had
suggested to Haden Clarke that
they commit suicide together as a
way out of their strange love tri-
angle with Captain w. N. Lam
caster, British f1ier
Lancaster, on trial charged with
Clarke's murder, planned to crash
his plane and give her the $1,000
insurance on his life as a wedding
present, Mrs. Keith Miller testified
Wednesday,
Clarke, writer, to whom she was
engaged to be married, vas killed
April 81 in her bungalow where the
three had been living.
God Haden," she testified today
she told Clarke, IF we could only
end it all together"
eyes, I wish we could, she
quoted him as replying as they sat
in the bungalow living room.
Tells of Triangle QuarreIs
"Haden sat on the lounge" the
tiny aviatrix said, and after a while
he screamed;
q can't stand it any longer. I'm
going nuts
She had described intermittent
quarrels between the two men dur
ing the evening in which Clarke
had shown his jealousy of Lancas-
ter by refusing to allow Mrs. Keith
Miller and Lancaster to- talk to-
gether outside his presence.
Clarke had objected when Lam
caster urged them to postpone their
marriage for one month to allow
him to recover from a disease, and
had vetoed plan to go to West
Indies to seek aviation positions,
because all three would be going
together.
Then the woman f1ier, testifying
for the prosecution although called
by both sides, and obviously trying
to save Lancaster from conviction,
launched into the dramatic story
of the events in the love cottage the
night Clarke was killed.
Tells of Death Night
"I read detective story in bed
after we had retired that night. I
could hear the murmur of the mems
voices on the sleeping porch.
Il heard Haden go to the bath
room. and then return to the sleep
ing porch. Then I went to sleep.
Bill called me later. I got up,
unlocked the door and Bill said, IAN
awful thing has happened. Haden
has shot himself"
Her defense of Lancaster was i'm
FASHIONED. She admitted during the
course of her examination that she
would sign a statement that I
killed Haden Clarke if thought ii
would help Captain Lancaster out
of this trouble"
Decided to Be Married
Mrs. Keith-M iller's story was a
dramatic tale of her affection for
Captain Lancaster, of their 'pov-
erty" together in Miami when, with
out funds and without means of OBJ
tanning money, they used to for
age the neighborhood for rabbits
and chickens to cook"
She told how Lancaster went
away on a flying trip while she and
Clarke, the young newspaper man
with whom she was trying to write
her memoirs in hope that the book
would make a fortune, became Smit-
ten with each other.
She described the growing init
macy of Clarke and herself, and
their decision to be married.
Finally, she told how she sent a
letter to Captain Lancaster, tell
ing him of her love for Clarke and
their decision to marry.
Lancaster, she said, was heart
broken. r