Evening star., 1933-05-10
PRIEST TELLS Jury
OF MEANS STORY
Defendant May Take Stand
Late Today After U. S.
Rests Its Case.
Continued From First Page.)

kidnapers
Later Means is said to have fixed the
evening of March 16 as the exact date
for return of the child, and Father
Hurney waited all night with Mrs. Nc
Lean. Admiral Land and a nurse at
Farview, Mrs. McLean's Maryland
home. Nothing happened, however.
Demanded Her Money.
The next day, the priest said, he met
Means at Farview and Means explained
that the plan for returning the baby
had failed because the automobile
the kidnapers found it impossible to
'break through"
Father Hurney testified he did not
see Means again for month. On April
IT year ago, the witness said, he saw
Means again at Farview and Mrs. Nc
Lean told Means her lawyers had
learned about the negotiations and were
demanding that the 100000 be turned
over by Means to Father Hurney.
Means said he had the money In
North Carolina and would go down
there and get it," Father Hurney re-
lated. He also said the kidnapers had
$4,000 of the marked money that Col
Lindbergh had paid and that they
wanted $4,000 to exchange for it.
Mrs. Mclean said she would raise
that amount Of money. She urged
Means to go to the telephone and call
his brother in North Carolina and tell
him to bring up the 100000, but
Means said he couldn't do that be-
cause his brother might think he was
being coerced in some way but said he
would get in touch with him later by
code. Means agreed to go direct to my
rectory when he got the S100 900 back
and that he would turn the money over
to me personally. The S35, 200 also was
to pass through my hands. I was to
hold the 100000 until Admiral Land
had identified the baby and then was
to give the whole Sl35,000 to Means and
the kidnapers"
Found Means at Home.
Father Hurney said that several days
later, when nothing had been heard
from Means, he went to the latter's
home on Leland street in Chevy Chase,
Nd and walked in, unannounced, about
pm. He said he found Means sitting
in the front parlor and told him he was
rather surprised to see him there.
Means asked me if Mrs Mclean had
gotten the money all right" Father
Hurney told the court Il told him no
Then he said that a man with red
lantern who had identified himself as
No. II (code number for Mrs. McLean)
had stopped him (Means) on the road
near Alexandria early that morning and
he had turned over the s10O 900 to this
man. He said he did not know the man
and told him that it was his under
standing that he was to turn the money
over to Mrs. Mclean He said the man
said that arrangement had been
changed
Says Story Changed.
Means later that day phoned me at
the rectory and asked me to come back
to his home and I went there and found
Mr.. and Mrs. Means and in a little
while Father Lloyd arrived.
Means said he had moral question
to discuss with Father Lloyd and myself
He wanted to know if we thought Mrs
Mclean had double-crossed him. After
some discussion. it was his opinion that
the kidnapers had gotten the 100000
by ruse.
"On that occasion Means extended
his story about the man with the red
lantern and this time said there were
mentioned only one man, but in the
evening it was several men,"
Means several days later came to
Father Hurney's rectory and showed
him letter from Mrs. Mclean and her
attorneys demanding return of the
100000, Father Hurney continued. He
testified Means complained that the let
ter gave him too short a time in which
to recover the money. The next day
Means again came to the rectory and
asked for an extension of time to May
Is. Father Hurney said he consulted
Mrs. Mclean and her attorneys and
they refused to agree to an extension
The prosecution of Means followed.
Notified Attorneys.
Miss Poe. under croSs-examination
disclosed that Mrs. Mclean had taken
her into confidence early in the negotia-
tlonS with Means and told her that If
the Lindbergh baby we're recovered, to
give Means full credit in any story that
she wrote for the Post and to leave
her name MRS. McLean's) out Of it.
Asked by defense counsel why she
told Mrs McLean's attorneys about the
dealings, Miss Poe, her eyes swapping,
replied:
Il did it because I felt Mrs. Mclean
was in the hands of unscrupulous per-
sons who were endangering her life
and her property"
Who were those unscrupulous per-
sons?" asked Joseph Turco, attorney
for Whitaker.
Castor B. Means and a person
whom knew as The Fox" Miss Poe
replied curtIy.
Under direct examination, Miss Poe
said Mrs. Mclean gave her the dia-
monds on April II a year ago and
asked her to pawn them for at least
$4,000 at the establishment of George
Horning across the Highway Bridge. In
stead of taking them to the pawn brok
ers, she said, she turned them over to
Albert w. Fox, one of Mrs. McLean's
attorneys
Valued at S95,000.
William H. Wright, diamond expert of
Galts jewelry store, testified today that
he appraised these jewels last Saturday
and that their minimum fair market
value a year ago was s95,000. He en-
phasized that this was minimum val
uation He said their demand loan
value" was not less than $4,000.
Charles r. Burhans. secretary to Will
ton j. Lambert, another of Mrs. Nc
Leans attorneys, testified that he with
drew $4,000 from the Commercial Ma
tional Bank for Mrs. Mclean on March
IL year ago. Ine prosecution mtenOS
to show that part of this money was
given to Means for expenses OF the
kidnapers." =
Gustave Griffoni, Mrs. McLean's but
Ter, corroborated previous testimony
concerning the turning over by Mrs.
Mclean of 100000 to Means.
Telegram Identified.
Following Father Hurney on the stand
was Harry W. Baker of the Western
Union Telegraph Co.'S Office in Chi
cago. who identified a telegram which
was offered in evidence, but not read
to the jury, sent April II, 1882, from
Chicago to El Paso, Tex.
District Attorney Rover then read to
the jury letter from Mrs. McLean's
attorneys, Frank J. Hogan, Nelson D.
Harrison and Fox. and Endorsed by Mrs.
Mclean demanding of Means a return