Evening star., 1942-02-20

DlQ MISS CndInDcTllu VlSlC you III
Utah shortly after the alleged at
tack on your daughter?" Mr..
Fihelly asked.
YES"
did you ask her if she believed
Ewing guilty of assaulting your
daughter and did she reply 'Yes'?"
"Yes."
And did she say that Ewing was
facing the electric chair, and she
had to be on his side?"
YES"
The complainant and Robert
Payne, her young friend, were other
rebuttal witnesses. They both de-
MED the 55-year-old defendants as
sertion that they had been on the
second floor of the rooming house
at 1101 Sixteenth street NV. in
the early morning hours OF October
26, shortly before the alleged attack.
Miss Chamberlin is co-owner OF
the rooming house with Ewing.
The alleged attack occurred in a
room on the first floor of the house.
When Ewing resumed the stand
today he declared that police twist
ed" statements he made concerning
the events on the night of the al
legged assault.
The 55-year-old defendant, who
yesterday denied the attack on di-
rect examination, was being cross
examined today by Mr.. Fihelly
The alleged assault on the Govern
ment worker took place in a room
ing house at 1101 Sixteenth street
NV. in the early morning OF Oc-
tober 26, 1941.
One of the statements he said
that police twisted was that he was
"all nquored up" the night OF the
alleged assault, Ewing said.
Never Drunk Says Ewing.
II don't recall that I have ever
been drunk" he asserted.
At times today Ewing, with deep
circles under his eyes, leaned for
ward so far in the witness chair
that it appeared he was about te
rise. Again ana again, he shook
his finger at MIR. Fihelly in denial
of the statements. The prosecutor
held a two-page typewriter state.
ment which police claim contained
Ewings assertions made the day
after the alleged assault, but which
the defendant declined to sign un-
til his attorneys had approved 1t.
Among the allegations in the
police statement he denied was that
the complaining witness, on the
night of the alleged attack, came
over to a cot where he was lying
and kissed him.
"I did not say that" Ewing de-
clared, but that very thing had
happened only a few days before.
At that time she came over and
kissed me and woke me up when
I was lying down"
Tell us about that, Mr.. Fihelly
said.
"Weu, I guess she did it just play
fully" was the answer.
You're sure it wasn't dream?"
"Why, of course not"
Referring to testimony he gave
yesterday about seeing the COM
plaintant with her young friend,
Robert Payne, on the second floor OF
the house the night of the alleged
attack, Ewing said today under
questioning:
"I don't wish to infer there was
any immortality between Payne and
the girl by this Testimony"
There were prospects that the case
may be given the jury of II men and
one woman before nightfall.
The prosecution yet has to pro-
duce testimony looking toward in
PRODUCTION of q statement given
police by Miss Hester Chamberlin
star defense witness, and the defense
has more witnesses it may call. Thus
termination of testimony may not
be possible today.
Ewing, on trial for his life, began
his climactic testimony denying the
charge before q huShed courtroom
late yesterday.
Under questioning by Defense At.
torney Charles Henry Smith, Ewing
told in detail of his movements or
the night of October 25-26. Co.
owner of the Sixteenth street room.
ing house with Miss Chamberlin
Ewing said he was supervising con-
struction of an addition to tht
premises at the time.
In the early part of the-evenine
he was engaged in taking some lega
papers to a man in Falls Church
va, and in arranging to get ar
electric heater for an occupant o.
the rooming house who had com
planned about the cold, he said.
About 1890 am, Ewing testified
after the stove had been placed II
the room, he went to a third-f1ool
bathroom to fix a leak in a pipe
Water had run out into the hallway
he said.
Saw Defendant and Friend.
Ewing said he saw the complain.
ing witness on the second floor, II
the hall near the steps, with hel
young man friend, Mr.. Payne, 81,
clerical worker in the Reconstruc'
ton Finance Corp. Mr.. Payne ivet
IN room Oh CIldG 1lOOI dG CIle GIulC
Earlier in the trial, however, Mr.
Payne had denied that the girl hac
ever been in his room or he in hers
Continuing the story of his move.
ments, Ewing said that at this point
about ! am, he called his wife tt
tell her he was staying at the room.
ing house all night. Earlier, Mrs
Ewing had testified she received thi.
call and that her husband had moi
seemed intoxicated, as the Govern
ment has charged.
1t was shortly afterward that tht
complainant came into the room
where he and Miss Chamberlin wert
drinking, the defendant said.
Miss Chamberlin asked her 1
she would have q drink and she
said yes" Ewing related. so I got
up and fixed three drinks, one fol
each of U.s."
Ewing also said he had seen the
complainant drink on several occa-