Evening star., 1945-05-30
JeweIer Identifies
Ring He Says He Sold
To Mrs. Nancy Boyer
By GEORGE KENNEDY.

The trial of Joseph D. Medley for
the murder of Mrs. Nancy Boyer
stood adjourned today because of
the holiday.
Prosecution efforts to obtain q
first-degree murder verdict which
would make 1t mandatory for JUS
tice T. Alan Goldsborough to SEN
tence Medley to the electric chair
will resume tomorrow.
Benjamin Beryl Peikin, a jeweler
with a shop in the Savoy Plaza
Hotel, Fifth avenue, New York, took
the witness stand late yesterday
afternoon and identified an emerald
and diamong ring as one he had sold
Mrs. Boyer on September l, 1874.
Knew Her Previously.
"It wasn't just sale that walked
in OF Fifth avenue" Mr.. Peikin
said. Il had known her from At
lantic City, where we had a shop"
Mr. Peikin was asked by John w.
Fihelly, assistant United States at
torney IN charge Of the prosecution,
if Mrs. Boyer had been alone on that
occasion. He said a woman had
been with her.
At this point Mrs Alice T. Jensen,
1904 Nineteenth street NV, was
called from the witness room. She
stood at the door of the courtroom
a moment, short, heavy women
in black dress with white pillbox
hat over her eyes. After she de-
parted Mr.. Peikin said she was the
woman.
His Bill of Sale.
He said he could identify the
ring from a scratch number inside
the band and that he had the bill
Of sale and his designers sketch
from which the ring was fashioned.
Mr.. Peikin said Mrs. Boyer had re-
turned $3.50 aquamarine ring she
had purchased three days before
and paid difference of 1925.
Witnesses will testify, Mr.. Fihelly
said in his opening statement, that
Mrs. Boyer wore the ring during
the poker game in her apartment
that began on the night of March S
and that Medley was one of the
players. The ring was one of the
items missing when Mrs. Boyer's
body was found in the kitchen of
the apartment with two bullets In
the head.
A later witness was Grace E.
Trautman, an employe of Samuel
Levinson, jewelry dealer in Pitts
burgh. She identified the ring and
Medley as the man who sold it to
her employer for $3.50 on March 8.
Runs Guesthouse.
Mrs. Jensen was the next witness.
Asked her occupation, she said, II
have a guesthouse"
Mrs. Jensen said Mrs. Boyer had
dined with her at the Olmsted Grill
and had attended the Palace Thea
ter with her the night she met
Medley.
She wasn't supposed to play cards
that night" Mrs. Jensen said, but
I understand that after she left me
she went to card game"
Mrs. Jensen testified that she
frequently had played cards with
Mrs. Boyer's circle but she did not
attend the fatal card game that
began March, 5.
Dollar Limit Game.
In cross-examination Mr.. Hughes
asked:
What kind of a card game is
that you played together?"
A. Dollar limit stud poker.
@. Did she cut the pot after each
hand?
A. Yes, sir.
@. How much did she take out?
A. couldn't say.
Q. Do you play a dollar on every
card?
A. No, up to a dollar.
@. Dollar on a pair?
A. No, that's not the way We play.
You can bet dollar on the fourth
and fifth cafd. It goes a dime to a
dollar, then We freeze it.
@. Did you ever see 4 hundred
dollar pot?
A. No, sir.
@. How high? %
A. Twenty or twenty-five dollars.
In its report of Mr.: Fihelly's OPEN
ing statement yesterday The Star
said that Medley met Mrs. Boyer
IN the rooms Of Mrs. Dorothy Ma
gee at 10l6 Tenth street NV. Mrs.
Magee lives with Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
Ian B. Durgin at that address. It
was in their home that the defend
ant and the deceased met.
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