Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
FEARED ATTACK,
GIRL TELLS Jury
Margaret brennan Explains
Why She Took Gun to
Bungalow Rendezvous.
az the Associated Press.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., October
2l.-Her voice breaking at times and
her eyes filling with tears, pretty Mar
saret brennan told the jury trying
her for murder today that she took a
revolver with her on rendezvous
with Paul Reeves to prevent a repe-
tition of an earlier attack.
AS Reeves widow watched her in
tently from a spectators seat directly
in front of the witness stand, the 20
year-old secretarial school student
declared that Reeves, the father of two
children, assaulted her first in his car
the night of August 7.
She learned that same night for
the first time, she said, that he was
married and father.
Agreed to Go to Bungalow.
A month later. she testified, she
agreed to meet Reeves at his Iselin
bungalow when his wife was away to
tell him she believed she was to be-
come mother.
why did you want to see Paul
Reeves?" Defense Attorney George
Burton asked her.
He was married. He was older than
I was"
ibid you take anything with your"
"I took my fathers revolver"
"Why did you take it?"
ST took it to protect me. re-
nembered what happened in Linden,
and didn't want it to happen again"
All Lights Out in Home.
She said she arrived at Reeves
home about $50 and that all the lights
we're out. Reeves called to her and,
she added, he was nude.
"It was awful" she said.
She broke loose from him after a
struggle and tried to get out the back
door, she testified.
@. Were you able to get out7
A. No.
O. Then what did you do'
A. took out the gun. 1t seemed
that as soon as he saw the gun he
started to jump.
@. How many times did you shoot?
A. don't know.
@. Do you remember now whether
you tried to get out the front door?
A. was so excited I don't remem-
Der
Margaret described the scene when
she returned home as yesterdays wit
nesses had told of it.
She was in the bath room, she said,
when her father came in. He asked
me what happened. I said, Daddy,
did it,
Voice Shaken With S0bs.
Her voice became so shaken with
sobs it was scarcely audible. Her
whole face became flushed, but she
held her head up and continued to
answer questions without interruption.
Changing their plans over night, de-
Tense counsel called the pretty de-
PENDANT as the first witness instead
of first questioning q dozen character
witnesses. George L. Burton, associate
defense attorney, began the question
ing. She wore the same school-girlish
dress she has worn each day of the
trial. Her answers to preliminary
questions were quietly but distinctly
spoken.
The court room was crowded yes
terday as Alice Mcfarland, 10, testi-
fled that Miss brennan had told her
of meeting Jack Lyons" last Spring
The defense, in its opening, contended
that Reeves introduced himself to
Miss brennan as Jack Lyons" a
single man, attacked her on an auto
mobile date, and attempted to attack
her again the night of the shooting,
September 7.
Mrs. Alice Gilroy, youthful friend
of the Drennans, said she visited their
home the night Reeves, father of two
children, was shot, and Margaret
came home "ashen white" and after
becoming i'll sat for an hour without
removing her red coat"
State witnesses had declared that a
woman in red" was seen fleeing the
Reeves bungalow in Iselin Immediately
after several shots were fired the night
the married mill worker died.
Father Testifies.
Miss oItulldl1 . 1dOlicl, OOllll, OtSOl-
fled that he spoke to his daughter
alone when she came home the night
of September 7, declaring:
Il put my hand on her shoulder and
asked her what was the matter Mar
garet said without a minutes hesita-
ton, Daddy, I did it, She put her
hand in her coat pocket and said,
Here's the gun"
brennan testified that when he asked
her why she replied: Daddy, don't ask
me now, I'll tell you later"
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