The Washington times., 1933-08-21
VEN|RE CALLED.
FOR PICKING
Of JURY
Stanford University Man Is
Accused OF BIudgeoning
! His Young Wife to Death

sensations, the murder trial of
David A. Lamson, handsome STAN
ford University publishing house
executive, was to open here today.
The crowds that gathered
around the old Santa Clara court
house were divided between the
appearance of Lamson, charged
with fatally beating his pretty
young wife, Allene, and the ap-
pearance of Miss Dolores Roberts,
blonde nursemaid in the Lam
sons Stanford Campus home,
who is to become mother,
according to admission from de-
tense quarters.
The 19-year-old girl was slated
to appear at the hearing today
after a weekend at Santa Cruz,
beach community, with DR.. Mar
garet Lamson, sister of the de-
fendant.
Refuses to Believe
Miss Roberts, whose baby is
expected in November, and a boy
friend Of high school days have
filed notice of intention to wed
in nearby county, according to
defense attorneys, but the mar
riage date has not been set.
Lamson, from his cell, declared
he knew nothing of the girls
condition.
Miss Roberts was maid in
the Lamson home for two years
and has been a prominent figure
in the case since it's inception.
The day before Mrs. Lamson met
death the maid left the Lamsons'
campus home and came to visit
with her parents here. The Lam
sons baby daughter, Allene. left
the same day for the mountains
with Lamson's mother.
Her Mother Aroused
Miss Roberts. when the mur-
der was reported. was called
back to the Palo Alto home of
DR.. Lamson to care for the
motherless little Allene and for
DR.. LamSon'S adopted infant son.
Since then prosecution attaches
say they have tried many times
to talk to the maid but have
never succeeded. They sought to
interrogate her on her story that
there were no controversies in the
Lamson home, a story denied by
a maid who worked for Miss Rob
erts for several weeks while the
latter was i'll.
Mrs. Chloe Roberts, the mother,
was indignant when told that the
girl was about to become
mother.
Today David Lamson comes be-
fore Superior Judge Robert R.
Syer.
Freudian He'll
From a venire of some hundred
men and women the prosecution
hopes to find IL jurors who will
believe that Lamson bludgeoned
his wife to death with 10-inch
length of finger-thick pipe-a pipe
found in a bonfire in the rear of
the LamSon some.
The prosecution will call the
witness, science-in the person of
various experts, to attempt to
prove that the red stains on the
iron pipe are infinitesimal blood
drops from the life stream of that
human organism that once was
Allene LamSon.
The prosecution will call the
witness, science-in the person of
various experts. Miss Roberts busi-
ness associates, to attempt to
prove that frigidity and frustra-
ton had secretly turned this COL
1ege campus home into Freudian
hell.
Fight to Be Hard
The defense will call the wit
ness, Science. in the person of the
famous Berkeley criminologist,
Edward o. Heinrich. to attempt to
prove that Allene LamSon could
have come to her death by acci-
dent, that the pool of blood on
the bathroom floor, the other
bloodstains could all be accounted
for if she hit her head in the way
they are prepared to show posi-
BILE.
BY chart and graph and micro
scope, by ballistics, by every known
scientific gadget, Science, speak
ing now for the defense, will
maintain that the size of the
bathroom, and of the pipe, would
have made it impossible for any,
one to strike blows to the death
in the manner claimed by the
prosecution. The witness, Science,
still speaking for the defense, will
also defy the idea that the red
stains on the pipe can scientifi-
cally be proved human blood.
Wants Rumor Killed
Strangely enough it is posi-
BILE that the family of David
LamSon would like the witness,
sex, called into court this very
day. The LamsonS will all be
there in court today-and one
member of the family, at least,
might we'll be delighted that
shameless rumor must now sub
init to the acid test of legal
evidence.
That one is DR.. Margaret Lam
son, older sister of David Lam
son, herself a Stanford graduate,
. practicing physician, and now
dedicated to the task of proving
her brother innocent.