Evening star., 1942-05-28
New Charge Is Filed
As Brother Is Freed
In Welsh Staying
Suspect Remains in Jail
Despite DISMISSED Of
Case by Magistrate

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, May 23.-George
W. Welsh, jr., heir to q real estate
fortune, was freed today for q sec-
ond time Of murder charges In the
bludgeon-knife Staying of his pretty
24-year-old sister, Leila, but the
State Immediately brought . new
charge against him.
Justice of Peace j. j. Dougherty
dismissed first-degree murder
charge against the 28-year old
brother as a climax to q seven-day
preliminary hearing.
Spectators in the crowded little
courtroom cheered and the defend
ant grinned widely. His mother
rushed to embrace him, tears
streaming down her cheeks.
II do not believe that the entire
evidence as produced in the case
would convince q jury Of reasonable
men beyond probable doubt of the
guilt of the defendant" Mr.. Dough-
erty read from a briefly penned de-
cision. The defendant is dis
charged"
To File New Charge.
County Prosecutor Michael O'Eern,
who with Attorney General Roy Nc
Kittrick had paraded State witnesses
to the stand for six days in an effort
to build a substantial case against
the youth, asked for Is minutes To
file a new charge OF murder.
THE State has been denied the
privilege of bringing George w.
Welsh to trial before a jury Of IL
men," Mr.. O'Hern said in refiling
the murder charge. II am de-
termined as long as I am prosecut-
ing attorney Of this county that I
will use every legal means to bring
the defendant to trial"
Justice of the Peace J.. ]. Hurley
denied Welsh bail on the latest
charge and he continued to be held.
Testimony Disputed.
The State had produced second
hand dealer and q hardware store
clerk who testified they had sold
butcher knife and a pair of gloves to
Welsh identical with the ones found
by police near the crime.
A butcher knife, with which q
piece of flesh had been sliced from
the girls hip, was found sunk to its
hilt in earth, beneath her window.
A pair of gloves was found in
driveway 300 feet away.
Joseph Louis Airport, a second
hand dealer, testified he had sold the
knife to Welsh a few days before the
March 9, 1941, Staying. Two police
men, Wayne Gibson and Alvin E.
Hymers, testified, however, that Mr..
Airport originally had failed to iden-
tify Welsh as the purchaser when
they took him to the courtroom to
view the defendant.
Probed BY Three Juries.
Another State witness, George
Ehrnman, said Welsh was the man
to whom he had sold a pair of cotton
gloves like the ones found in the
driveway. The defense offered the
testimony of Mrs. Sophie chatham,
who said she had sold pair Of
gloves like the ones found to q
"sandy-haired man" few days be-
fore the Staying.
Welsh, she said, was not the man.
The defense also brought to the
stand John B. Trevor, secondhand
dealer, who related that he had sold
the hammer found in the girls bed
room to a middle-aged man March
/, 1941.
He was positive Welsh was not
the buyer. The State made no at
tempt to identify the purchaser Of
the hammer.
Three grand juries have investi-
gated the case since the former
University of Kansas City beauty
queens mutilated body was found in
her bed by her mother, Mrs. Marie
Welsh.
Two juries took no action. The
third indicted the brother. Its in
dictment was quashed on the
grounds of illegal conduct by the
jurors. Immediately after that in
dictment was set aside prosecutor
O'Hern filed q murder charge.