Imperial Valley press., 1933-08-21
TRIAL
STARTS TODAY
Stanford University Tragedy
Attracts Much Attention
Throughout State.

SAN JOSE, Calf, Aug. 81. tU,Pl
"A hardboiled state prosecutor will
delve into the psychological theories
of Freud in building circumstan-
tial case which he believes will hang
David LamSon, Leland Stanford
university intellectual accused of
the murder of his pretty wife, it
was indicated as selection of a Jury
started today.
The sensational climax to the
perfect marriage" of Lamson and
black-haired Allene Thorpe aroused
, such interest that crowd gath
cred around the court house des-
pite an order from Superior Judge
R. R. Syer barring spectators dur
ing seating of the jury.
The spotless white court room
will accommodate few more than the
jury panel of 100.
Prosecutor Allan P. Lindsay will
build his network of evidence on
murder motive of love, rather than
hate. He will seek to show that the
30-year old writer and advertising
salesman for the University Press
struck down his wife as she stood
nude in her morning bath.
The dark patterns of the mind
! of a man of more than average in
telligence will be mercilessly ex-
plored by Lindsay, who contents
that love may flare into a passion
of destructive violence when nor
NAL emotional outlets are closed.
To offset this theory and other
prosecution evidence, the defense
staff headed by Edwin M. Rea, who
was a classmate of Herbert Hoover
at Stanford, will contend that as
the entire campus believed, the
Lamsons led an ideal and placid
married life in their secluded flow
er-bedecked cottage.
Their romance blossomed in the
classrooms when Allene Thorpe
was a freshman They were mar
ried when she had finished her STU
dies. They had similar tastes in
writing and study. Two years ago
their daughter, dark, curly haired
little Allene, was born.
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tender and adoring husband. They
will not admit the possibility of
hidden surge of conflicting passions
that would have permitted Lamson,
last Decoration day, to crush his
wifes skull with blows.
Experts To Clash
A direct conflict in the testi-
mony of two expert criminologists
is expected as the trial progresses.
DR.. Frederick Prescher, Santa
Clara county pathologist, said that
would testify for the state that
bloodstains were found on 10
inch length of iron pipe raked from
the ashes of bonfire Lamson was
tending in the backyard when in
terrupted by two visitors.
E. o. Heinrich, Berkeley chemist,
handwriting expert and "scienti-
fic" sleuth, asserted no recognized
test would reveal blood on a pipe
after it had been heated in flames
for hours.
Three other important witnesses
will figure in the case.
SOlOriS Roberts, maid IN the Lam
son home, said in an affidavit for
preliminary hearing that the Lam
son home life had indeed been idyl-
lie.
Clare Malowitz, former maid for
the Lamsons is expected to say that
the Lamson family life was not at
all idyllic, that they quarreled fire.
quently, that Lamson had violent
temper, and that Mrs. Lamson was
jealous of her husbands real or i'm
aginary interest in former STAN
ford coed.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Buffing-
ton, who had long talk secretly
with Lamson an hour after the body
was found hanging Imply over the
edge of the bath tub, will be a
leading cog in the states case.