Evening star., 1945-06-01
MedIey'1riaI Recess
Granted at Request
OF Defense Counsel
By GEORGE KENNEDY.

By GEORGE KENNEDY.
Government efforts to send Joseph
D. Medley to the electric chair for
the murder of Mrs. Nancy Boyer on
March 6 were recessed today.
At the request of defense coun-
sci, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough
yesterday adjourned the District
Court trial until Monday. The de-
tense indicated that it wished time
to investigate certain angles of the
case.
The other man at the poker party
that preceded the shooting of Mrs
Boyer in the kitchenette of her
Sixteenth street apartment testified
late yesterday afternoon.
He was James G. Milton, 2012
First street NV. Medley and six
women were in the poker game,
according to testimony. Mrs. Boyer,
an attractive red-haired divorce,
was one of the six. She dealt and
cut the pot per cent for the ex-
pense of giving the party and serv-
ing food at midnight. Milton was
the only other man in the game.
Mrs. Magee Served Food.
Mrs. Dorothy (Mickey) Magee,
1016 Tenth street NV, served the
food and drinks CASUALLY soft drinks)
as she did at all the parties of the
female poker playing set that Med
ley, on a tour after his escape in
November from the State Prison
near Jackson, Mich, had attended.
Mrs. Milton preceded her husband
on the stand. She said Mrs. Boyer
was expected at a poker game at
the Millions rooming house on First
street the night of Tuesday, March
6, the night after Mrs. Boyer's party.
Milton Cross-Examined.
Mr.. Milton, a plump man of plus
SO with curly gray hair, spoke with
a strong Greek accent when he was
cross-examined by Denny Hughes,
older brother and associate of James
K. Hughes, Medley's counsel.
The testimony went as follows:
@. Have you any legitimate busi-
ness? A. No, I have a rooming
house.
@. How long is it since you have
been in legitimate business? A.
Forty years; was confectioner.
@. Where do you come from? A.
Greece.
@. What is your real name? A.
James Milton.
@. I mean your name before that?
A. Steve MeZinis.
@. What did. you do for a living
in Lynchburg, Va? A. have a
little income.
@. What did you do in Hickory,
N. C.7 A. have some income there,
too.
@. You're gambler, aren't you?
A. Well, no use deny it. I've been a
gambler, yes.
@. Are you in the numbers busi-
ness? A. No.
Not Race Gambler.
Q. Are you in the horse race
gambling business? A. No.
@. Are you in the confidence busi-
ness? A. Not at the present time.
A litter went through the court
room. The judge raped for order.
Q. Were you in the confidence
business with Mrs. Boyer? A. No.
Q. Are you married to Mrs. Milton?
A. No.
@. How long have you lived with
her? A. Seven years.
The story of Medley's participa-
ton in the poker games came from
the six woman players and Mr.. Mil
ton, who took the stand one after
another. Each identified the emer-
aid and diamond ring, sold to a
Pittsburgh jewelry dealer by Medley
two days after the murder, as Mrs
Boyer's. And all but one remem-
bered she wore it at the final poker |
party which started on the night of
March 5.
Dress Is Identified.
All identified the blood stained
powder-blue dress as the garment
she had worn that night. Most of
them had seen Mrs. Boyer wearing
the silver fox jacket found in Med
ley's st. Louis hotel room when he
was arrested. These exhibits were
shown to each witness by John w.
Fihelly, assistant United States at
torney.
The last witness was Ann M. ELL
ington, who has an antique shop at
1850 Columbia road NV, and Med
ley again stood to be identified as
one of the players.
Mrs. Ellington testified that Med
ley put her in a taxicab after the
game at 5 am. March 6.
Are you going my way?" Mrs.
Ellington asked.
She said that Medley's answer
was:
mo, I'm going back upstairs to
get Nancy and I'VE are going out to
eat"
Mr.. Fihelly asked:
WAS Mrs. Boyer alone up there
in the apartment at the time?"
"To the best of my knowledge,
she was" said Mrs. Ellington.