Evening star., 1933-08-20
LAMSON'S TRIAL
OPENS TOMORROW
Stanford University Man
Charged With Killing Wife
on Campus.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Calf, August ia
romance which blossomed on the cam
pus of Stanford University and ended
there tragically five years later will
be recounted at the trial Of David A
Lamson, handsome 31-year-old repre-
sentative of the Stanford University
Press, on charge Of numbering his
wife, Allene Thorpe Lamson, %. The
trial opens tomorrow.
Mrs. Lamson was found dead last
Memorial day-beaten to death. the
State asSerts-in the bath tub Of theil
campus home. Her head had beer
crushed by blows.
The Lamsons were active in the af-
fairs of the school they attended to-
gether. Lamson, leaning toward lit
erature, worked on a newspaper, wrote
occasional playlets. and after gradua-
tion became a representative OF the
school publishing house. Mrs Lamson
tended toward social welfare. She be-
came secretary of the Y. w. C.. A. on
the campus.
Known as Happy Couple.
They were known as a happily mar
ried couple. Then, last Memorial day
caller saw Lamson burst out Of the
front door of their home to cry: my
wife has been murdered
Lamson's story. as told to those sum-
moned to the cottage that morning, was
written into the transcript of the pre-
liminary hearing. two months ago, from
the testimony of a half dozen wit
nesses. Briefly, this is how the wit
nesses told it:
He and Mrs. Lamson had been al
the home Of friends the evening before
They had returned about midnight
Mrs. LamSon told him she was mot
feeling well" and he told her he would
sleep in the back bed ROOM used as
q nursery. The nurse for their 2l2-
year-old daughter was away for the
night. About am. Mrs. Lamsor
called him, saying she could not sleeI
and was hungry.
Lamson said he arose and prepared
her some soup. Two hours later he sale
he got up ate his breakfast and an houl
later went into the garden, where III
cleaned the yard and burned rubbish
At he went into the house, awoke hi.
her into the bath room. He fixed hel
breakfast in the kitchen and returned
to the yard.
Tells of Finding Body.
About 10 o'clock a rental agent came
into the yard and said she had ellen,
to see the LamSon home (the couple
had planned to lease the house and gc
away for the Summer. He told tht
woman agent to go to the front dool
to be admitted. On his way through
the house, witnesses said he told them
he picked up his bathrobe and pa jamas
from the front room and tossed them
into the bed room. Passing the bath
they said, he glanced in. to see his wife
lying in the tub, her head and one arm
hanging over the side. The bath watei
was discolored with blood and on thu
floor were several large pools Of blood
The prosecution case includes:
A 10-inch length of pipe found ir
the rubbish fire LAmson was attending
in the yard. On this pipe DR.. Fred
erick Proescher, county pathologist, sait
he found evidence of charred blood.
Blood stains. said by the pathologisi
to be of human origin, were found ir
many parts of the home. There vert
indistinct blood stains on Lamson's pa.
jamas and bath robe.
DR.. Proescher declared the wounds or
Mrs. Lamson's head were neither self.
inflicted nor accidental.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Burlington
testified the bed in the nursery did moi
have the appearance of having beer
occupied, while he found a pillow on q
couch in the front room. indicating
Lamson had slept there the night be.
fore.
Defense Attorney E. NJ Rea declared
Lamson would take the stand to deny
any guilt Defense witnesses include
two Stanford students, William Pratt Of
San Francisco. and John L. c. Vaderl
of Coalinga, who earlier in the case were
informally quoted as saying they hac
seen a stranger lurking about the Lam.
son home that morning.