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Guard commander here, said he
was completely flabbergasted''
about news of the Kelleys' deten-
ton.
Its Just impossible that any
thing out of the proper run of
things could have happened to
these two people," he declared.
Several other Guard officers also
expressed their confidence in the
Kelleys' innocence.
Maj. Kelley is deputy operations
officer of the Air Guards 113th
Fighter Group. He served as a
combat fighter pilot in North
Africa, Sicily, Italy and France
during the war and won numerous
decorations. including the Distin-
guished Flying Cross and Air
Medal.
Studying at Catholic u.
The KelleyS we're married three
years ago and the young ex-Air
Force officer has been studying
aeronautical engineering for near
ly three years under the CT bill
at Catholic University. Maj.
Kelley met his wife when he
was serving in Austria Just after
the war.
The younger daughter first was
believed. to have choked on orange
juice her mother was feeding her
Saturday afternoon. Sunday the
autopsy revealed the skull frac-
ture. for which Mrs. Kelley at first
offered police ne~explanation.
But as the first witness at yes
terday's inquest, she told almost
Immediately of the head-first fall
she said the baby took from her
arms about 4:30 pm. Saturday.
Details were brought out as she
was repeatedly questioned on the
incident during the hearing.
Il was just getting out of the
chair and just standing up when
the baby fell" she testified. The
baby was on my arm. She fell
out head-first over my arm. I
think she fell on her head"
"Too Upset to Tell.
Mrs. Kelley said she didn't tell
police of the accident when they
questioned her because I was too
upset" She did not even tell her
husband until yesterday morning,
before the inquest. she testified.
The young mother, who had
her 21st birthday last Thurs
day. replied in the negative when
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
asked whether the baby ever had
fallen before. She testified, how
ever, that marks started coming
up on the baby's face" last Tues
day On Friday she took the
child to DR.. Ashby w, Smith
for an examination, she said. The
mother explained she had not
done SO before because she was
sick with a cold.
The mother said blue marks"
also had appeared on the little
girls face three weeks ago, but
had gone away.
Multiple Bruises"
DR.. Smith testified the child had
multiple bruises about the face
and one on her chest" when he
examined her Friday. He identi-
fled the marks as the same ones
shown in a police photograph
taken after the child's death.
The physician said a routine
checkup March 4 had disclosed
nothing abnormal" in the little
girls condition. After the second
examination. he said, he suggested
the possibility of blood disorder
DR.. Oscar B. Hunter, jr.. said
he also examined the baby Friday
and found no evidence of blood
disease, but did diagnose anemia.
He testified that the baby's bruises
were caused by external force.
Maj. Kelley testified he also had
noticed marks on his daughters
face about February 26" and
again last Tuesday. He. didn't
know the cause, he said. and it
was arranged that his wife would
take the child to the doctor.
He said his wife never" hit OF.