Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-25
TWO TO FACE
TRIAL in MASS
MURDER CASE

PORT ORCHARD, Wash, Nov.
25. U.P)-The state of Washington
will seek conclusion of the case of
mass murders of Erland Point
Dec. 9, when Leo Hall and Peggy
Peterson PauloS go on trial in the
little Kitsap county courthouse
here.
They are charged with Staying
Eugene Chenevert, vaudeville ac-
tor. one of six persons murdered
March %, 1884. in one of the most
brutal crimes in west coast his
tory.
Mrs. Paulos, %, dark-haired and
attractive, broke the case late in
October of this year, when she told
Seattle police she was with Hall
the night of the murders, expect
ing only to aid him in a house
party robbery. Hall, 80, was ar
rested in Portland.
Scene of the crime was the trim,
white beach cottage of Frank
Flieder, middle-aged, wealthy, re-
tired Bremerton, Wash, business
man, located on EFland Point,
jutting into Puget Sound, and iso-
| lated from other houses.
Accused of Coercion
Hall, dark and sullen-eyed for
mer theology student, priZe-fight-
er, hockey player and dock work
er, heard Mrs. Flieder boast of her
! large income in Bremerton beer
parlor, according to the confession.
He came to the co-defendant,
whose husband was in Jail and
demanded she aid him in robbing
the Flieders.
Mrs. Paulos was unwilling, she
said, but feared Hall. They reached
the Erland Point house shortly be-
fore midnight, masked. Hall car
ried a gun as they entered the
house.
They found four persons, in a
sun room, the confession said. Mrs.
/ Flieder lay on a couch, and her
husband sat in a chair, watching
Mrs Peggy Chenevert, also vau
deville performer, and Fred Bol-
com, Bremerton bartender, play
pinochle.
All Bound With Tape
While Hall held his weapon on
the party, Mrs. Paulos said, she
bound them with adhesive tape,
shoe strings and strips of towels.
Then a car stopped in front and
CheneVert and Magnus Jordan re-
tired U. S. navy seamen, entered
with a case of beer. Hall held them
with his gun, and Mrs. Paulos
bound them.
Then, her confession said, Mrs
Flieder complained of feeling i'll
and asked to go TO her bedroom.
Hall led her into the room, and
when he returned his shirt was
splashed with blood. He carried
butcher knife in his hand.
Mrs. Paulos demanded: What
happened?" she said, to which he
replied, Nothing. We've got to
separate these people"
Hall led Bolcom to the bedroom
Mrs. Paulos said She saw him
strike, then fled from the house in
terror. Hall ordered her to stop
and fired at her, but missed.
Dogs Attracted Attention
Three days later neighbor, at
tracted by bowling of two dog
imprisoned in a car parked II
front of the cottage, peered intt
a window, then called the sheriff
Six mutilated bodies lay in tht
wrecked interior. Flieder and Chen
! evert, apparently, got free anC
I fought for their lives with furni.
] ture, canned goods and bottles ol
beer. The victims had been shot
stabbed, beaten with a hamme
I and blackjack and their throats cut
Chenevert's skull was battered b,
% hammer blows, any one o
which would have caused death.
Mrs. Paulos feared Hall, bu
worried about her knowledge unit
she could stand it no longer, sh
said. She told Ralph Horr Seattl
/ attorney and former congressman
He advised her to tell the police.
l Both defendants pleaded no
| guilty when arraigned before Su