Evening star., 1933-05-09

Figures in the Means Whitaker cor
artist of The Star. Upper left, CASTOR
right, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, prin
left. Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue of
| siding at the trial. Lower tight, NorY
had to protect himself and lot of
other people.
Il told him I could get Gen. Pershing
and have the whole fort turned loose
on all of them. and I told him I was
going back to Washington, and that I
thought something had gone wrong at
the other end.
Il arrived in Washington on April
13, and the first thing knew "the Fox
phoned Il distinctly recognized his
voice. and said he was very angry with
| Means, and that Means was double
! crossing him. He wanted 10 know where
Means was, but I told him I had no
! idea
Said He Went to Chicago.
means called up about an hour later,
however, and 1 told him what the Fox
! had said. and Means explained that
The Fox had sent him (Means) to
! Chicago to get the marked money paid
| by Col Lindbergh. and that when he
| found it was marked he refused to take
| it. and that was why the Fox was
| angry.
Means came to me later in person
at my home here and said he had s49.-
| 900 of the marked money and if / would
| get S35 900 of clean money he would
get the marked money and give it to
me so I could return it to Col Lind
bergh. I told him I would get the
| money, although I didn't know how
would raise it,"
! Mrs. Mclean then told how she took
| her diamond necklace and two bracelets
and gave them to Miss Elizabeth Poe
friend employed on the staff of the
Washington Post. who was to pawn
/ them. Miss Poe, suspicious of the trans
action went to Mrs McLeans attorneys
| instead of the pawnbroker and the at
torneys promptly squelched the trans
action and convinced Mrs. Mclean that
! she was being defrauded.
| Ends Direct Testimony.
After testifying that she could not
| get the S35,0O0 Mrs. Mclean said she
| asked Means return to her the $780,
| 900 which she had previously given him
| as the child's ransom
| She said she continually, whenever
| she saw Means, asked if the baby was
| all right and was well cared for and in
each instance was assured that he was
She said that on Sunday, April II,
| 1882, Means assured her that the $780,
| 900 was in the hands of his brother in
| Concord, N. c., and that he would go to
Concord and get it and turn it over to
Rev. Francis j. Hurney. Catholic priest.
who had entered the negotiations
earlier A couple of days later, she said
e1, al
Means. who was in Concord, NJ c., and
was told that he had the money.
Il never heard from him after that, "
she said
At about II o'clock District Attorney
Rover concluded his direct examination
of Mrs. Mclean and the witness was
turned over to the defense for cross
| examination.
Code Is Described.
Attorney j. William Tomlinson. for
! the defense. took up the cross-examl-
nation, bringing out that Mrs. Mclean
approached Means to investigate the
case and try to make contact with the
| kidnapers.
She testified that in 1924. or about
the time of the Teapot Dome oil in
vestigations, Means was employed by
| her husband, E. B. Mclean, to make an
| investigation, the nature of which she
was not informed of. She said she
had known Means since that time and
felt that he had acquaintance and con-
facts which would help him in tracing
the Lindbergh baby.
| She also described at length the code
which was worked out for Identification
of the various parties, including herself
during the investigation by Means. She
| HidnQn known
as mo 49," herself as mo. H." and
Means as mo. 28" The baby was to
be known in all communications as
| The Book" or THE Manuscript" and
Col. Lindbergh was to be known as "The
Author"
Conferences Numerous.
| Before the close Of yesterdays session,
Mrs. Mclean testified about the numer-
Gus conferences which Means had with
her here, leading up to her payment
to him of 100000 in old, unmarked
bills, ito ransom the baby" and of
| $4,000 additional for expenses of the
kidnapers."
Mrs Mclean said Means made re-
peated promises to produce the baby,
but always explained his failures as due
| to inability to break through police
! lAlCo Will tllt Sllll0, vi Oe2ACA SodoSo.
She said Means warned her the
underworld crowd he was in touch with
| was dangerous and would bump cf1'
any one who double-crossed them.
Mrs. Mclean said she replied:
TIL double-cross nobody. I'm not
afraid to have machine guns trained
on me all the time. All I want is to
get that baby back"
| She described a visit she made In
company with Means to her Far View
residence in Maryland during a raging
blizzard, and the plans they made for
having the child returned to desig-
mated place in the rear of the house.
! She said she waited up all night on
one occasion to receive the baby, but
Means later declared the police lines
were too vigilant.
Eventually, she said, Means told her
it would be necessary for her to 60 to
Aiken, S. c., where she has country
home. and that the kidnapped infant
would be delivered to her there
Mr.. Means told me he would bring
! to me there one of the real men-the
head man in the kidnapping" the wit
ness related.
Jury Is Locked Up.
It was at this point in the testimony
that court was adjourned until today
The jury was locked up under guard,
with instructions not to talk with any
one outside the court room or jury
room. They will be allowed to read
newspapers from which stories Of the
trial have been cut ~
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