Evening star., 1943-05-19
Mrs. Rand|e Pleads
Innocent in Staying
Of High School Boy
Jury Picked Within Hour,
Court Warns Against
TriuI 'TheutricuIs'
BY the Associated Press.


ANNAPOLIS, May 19.-Brunette
Mrs. Helen Aileen Randle pleaded
innocent in firm, quiet voice today
to charge of Staying 17-year-old
Allen Wiley at her Bay Ridge home
January 80 after the court had
warned from the bench that no
one will be permitted to make a
theatrical performance of this trial"
The 12-man jury. composed of II
white men and one Negro. was
chosen after "a minutes of challenges
by the States Attorney, Marvin I.
Anderson. and the defense attorney,
George B. Woelfel. Seven of the
total of Is were rejected for jury
service because they were, over 10.
The average age of the jurors ac-
cepted was approximately 40.
Indictment Read.
Mrs. Randle, 81, third wife of
Ulmo S. Randle, "a, wealthy horse
man who is a chief petty officer in
the Coast Guard. stood quietly dur
ing the reading of the indictmert
charging her with the Staying of
the high school youth in a domestic
argument. She also was indicted
on a charge of assault with intent to
murder her husband, who was shot
in the leg.
Mr.. Randle, who was seated with
other witnesses, did not look at his
wife as she entered the courtroom.
pale, but composed, on the arm of
her attorney. Mrs. Randle in turn
never once glanced toward her hus-
band.
She appeared very calm and
showed no trace Of nervousness. At
the conclusion of the reading, she
pleaded innocent and took her seat.
about 10 feet away from Mr.. and
Mrs. Addison w. Wiley, parents of
the dead boy.
Before the opening of the trial,
Chief Judge Ridgely P. Melvin of
the 5th Judicial Circuit told the
spectators in the small. crowded
courtroom that this trial will be
conducted precisely as all other trials
in this courtroom. No one will be
permitted to make theatrical per-
formance of it in any sense"
Tells of Argument.
Immediately after the selection of
the jury was completed. Mrs Randle
again stood and faced the men
selected to try her for murder while
the indictment accusing her of slay-
ing young Wiley was read a second
time.
States Attorney Marvin I. Ander-
son. in his opening statement. de-
clared the State expected to prove
that the shooting was the result of
an argument of which he remarked
"1t was right furious, it was right
dirty, it was right filthy
He asserted the State would prove
that the argument began about 9
m. on January 30 and continued at
intervals--part of it in the presence
of Mrs. Stinchcomb-until the time
of the shooting.
The defense did not make ar
opening statement.
The first witness called was DR.
Samuel Borssuck. physician anc
surgeon attached to the Emergency
Hospital in Annapolis, who told OF
performing an operation to remove
the bullet from young Willey's alb
domen.
DR.. Borssuck said the bullet hit
Wiley in the right side and in
flicted several internal wounds.
Chief Witness on Hand.
Seated at the other end Of the
long counsel table as the trial began
was Mrs. Leonard R. Stinchcomb
chief witness for the State. Mrs
Stinchcsmb, neighbor OF the
Randles, was the only eyewitness to
the shootings.
She testified at a magistrates
hearing that young Wiley said
something that no woman would
stand for. It was something I don't
care to repeat"
Mrs. Randle, a native Of T. B.,
Prince Georges County, was quoted
by Sergt. Brooke Meade of the Anne
Arundel County police as stating
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