Evening star., 1949-06-23
Hiss May Take Stand
Late eToday;;Typewriter
Issue Before Court
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he said, might have been a weei
after he received the machine
and certainly was not more thar
three months after the transfer.
Makes Dramatic Challenge.
Before the witness was dis.
missed. Mr.. Murphy dramatically
offered to prove that there was
no repair shop at Connecticut and
K prior to September, 1888.
The prosecutor was attempting
to convey that the secret docu-
ments could have been typed on
the Woodstock by the Kisses be-
fore they gave it to the Catletts
The date of the last secret docu-
ment in evidence in the trial Is
April /. 1888.
AS Mr.. Hiss prepared to take
the stand in his own defense
probably late today, defense and
prosecution lawyers fought hard
on the typewriter issue because it
directly involves the purjury
charges against the 44-year-old
former State Department officer.
Mr.. Hiss is accused Of having
falsely denied to a Federal grand
: jury here last December that he
gave State Department secret
documents to Mr.. Chambers and
that he saw him from January /,
1887. to last August.
Hunt Asked by Donald Hiss.
The Government has sought to
prove, through FBI experts, that
typewriter copies of State De-
partment documents Mr.. Cham
bers said he got from Mr.. Hiss In
January, February and March,
1888, matched samples of personal
!. correspondence by Mr.. or Mrs.
Hiss on a Woodstock typewriter as
late as May. 1887.
Raymond and Perry Catlett,
sons Of former maid of the Hiss
family in several Georgetown
houses. admitted today that when
first interviewed by the FBI sew
eral months ago they said moth
ing about having received a type
writer from the Hiss family. Perry
told the court that at the time of
the first FBI interview he did not
think the matter was important.
Raymond testified that he spent
considerable time trying to locate
the typewriter this year at the re-
quest of Donald Hiss, but that he
himself never found it.
Two other witnesses, Charles H.
Houston, jr.. Washington colored
lawyer, and Ira Lockey, colored, of
1872 Kenilworth avenue NE, a
night guard with a Washington
construction company. told of the
discovery of the typewriter.
Mr.. Jockey said that attorneys
for Mr.. Hiss visited him at his
home and paid him SIS for the
typewriter.
Mr.. Houston told how he helped
defense attorneys trace the type
writer to the Lockey home. II
After Raymond Catlett testified
that Donald Hiss gave him aps
proximately $50 to pay any one
who could locate the typewriter,
Edward c. Mclean, an attorney
for Alger Hiss, asked the witness
II the FBI interviewed after the
typewriter was found by the de-
tense last month.
"Yes,'o the Witness answered.
"About 11yes-Inen and Aswomali
questioned me from 4:30spnf. 10 q
pm. one day. An agent. offered
me '$2n0 If I'd get him the type
whiter.''
Murphy Jumps to Feet.
Mr.. Murphy jumped to his feet
and demanded:
What agent told you that?"
"His name was Jones" Raymond
replied.
"The big. thin fellow?" Mr..
Murphy asked.
Eyes, he was in the court room
corridor here yesterday" the wit
ness said.
did the agent say it was his
money or Government money!"
the prosecutor persisted.
II don't know. I just said I
wouldn't take his money" the wit
ness answered.
who told you to tell that 5000
story?" Mr.. Murphy shouted.
Nobody told me-" the witness
asserted.
The typewriting issue has vital
bearing on the perjury charges
against Mr.. Hiss. He is accused to
having falsely denied to Federal
grand jury here last December
that he gave confidential govern
ment information to Mr.. Cham
bers or saw him from January /.
1887. TO last summer.
The 44-year old defendant, until
recently the $20,000-a-year presi-
dent of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, was to 60
on the witness stand today In an
effort to rrefute the detailed de-
nunciation by Mr.. Chambers, who
was a 30.000-a-year senior editor
of Time Magazine until a few
months ago.
Frankfurter and Reed Appear.
His start in his own defense
that has been set back several
hours because of a yesterdays pro-
1onged session full of contrasts
and frequent commotion.
Supreme Court Justices Frank
furtkr and Reed and Chief Judge
Calvert Magruder of the United
States Court of Appeals in Bos-
ton shared the witness stand with
q Negro woman who served as
maid at Hiss homes in prewar
years and her son who did odd
jobs such as auto washing for
the Hiss fanny during that time.