Evening star., 1950-02-14
1dxExpert.Says
KeIeher Was
Bookmaker
Accountant Testifies
He Prepared Returns
For Last Is Years

Oll1y lI11llCu dU, LUudy WAS WIlGG6Il
into the District Court record as
bookmaking.
This description Of the divorce
suit defendant was furnished by
the man who prepared Mr.. Kele-
hers income tax returns.
Keleher. So, has testified that
he retired in January, 1948. from
a business he refused to identify.
He said it might tend to incrim-
mate him. His attorney pointed
out to the court that while his
client has been retired for two
years, the statute of limitations
concerning his business" is three
years.
Keleher is being sued for q
limited divorce by Mrs. Anna T
keleher before Judge Charles F
Mclaughlin. Her first suit for
absolute divorce on grounds of
cruelty and adultery was dismissed
in January. 1949, after long
trial. Keleher's cross suit for di-
vorce charging desertion will be
heard directly after this one, if
the wife's suit is unsuccessful.
Income Was $4,000 $50, 900.
His bookmaking activities were
revealed by j. Andrew Oehmann,
an accountant who said he had
prepared the Keleher income tax
returns for the past Is years.
Keleher's income during that Pc
riod, he said, varied from $4,000
to $4,000.
Mrs. Keleher, who was allowed
800 week for maintenance
when her first suit was dismissed,
has testified that her husbands s
income is 100000 to $350,000 a
year.
The accountant said Keleher's
1948 income from all sources was
$4,000; his 1947 income, $4,000,
and his 1946 income, 100000.
Accountant Explains Position.
When Mrs. Keleher's attorney
James J. Laughlin, questioned
these figures, Mr.. Oehmann said
Il have got what I consider
O statement of his full income
and if I thought for one minute
that he had withheld informa-
ton from me, I would not have
filed the returns-and have told
Mrs. Keleher that"
Earlier, Mrs. Keleher's attrac-
tive 21-year-old niece, Mrs. Joan
Langlotz, took the stand and told
of seeing Keleher and Mrs. Doro-
thy Blake together in Atlantic
City last summer. Mrs. Blake
was named as correspondent in
Mrs. Keleher's unsuccessful suit
last year.
The niece said that at 6 pm.
she went to the door of Keleher's
room in the Hotel Haddon Hall
Chalfont and listened. She said
she heard Keleher say. Come on,
Dottie, we've got to see Alvin"
Christmas Gift Mentioned.
Keleher's lawyer Is Alvin New
myer.
Mrs. Langlotz said she then
went downstairs to the front of the
hotel where she joined Mrs. Kele-
her and both saw Keleher and
Mrs. Blake emerge from the hotel
In cross-examination, Mr.. New
myer showed Mrs. Langlotz a 1949
Christmas card she had writtea
Keleher thanking him for a $10C
gift. The lawyer asked her how
much Keleher had given her or
Christmas, 1948, and she saio
"two hundred dollars"
Keleher alleges that. on his re-
turn from Florida early in 1916
he found himself locked out o1
their Woodley Park Towers Apart
ment. His suit will follow hers
Immediately if she is unsuccessful
Saw Husband Exercising.
Mrs. Keleher, on the witness
stand yesterday, said she had
often seen her husband doing his
deep breathing exercises at the
window of Mrs. Blake's apartment
in the Dorchester, 2480 Sixteenth
street NV.
Mrs. Keleher said deep breath
ing exercises had been a habit
with her husband for years. In
response to questions, she said
Mrs. Blake's apartment was or
the ninth floor but that she could
see her husband because he
leaned out the window. This hap
pened about 10 am. three times
week. She had gone to witness
the sight because of gossip, she
said.
People had told her, she said
her husband and Mrs. Blake were
the laughing stock of the Dor.
chester because "they were acting
lovey-dovey and people asked
who do they think they are Al
their age?'"
She again brought in the name,
Of Prince Georges County Law
enforcement officials in her testi
nony. She said that long-dis
tance $elephone call she made t,
her husband In New York hat
been to tell him that Georg'
Pierson. manager of his gamblin,
establishment In Mount Rainier
"had not taken care of" A. Gwynl
Bowie, the States Attorney; GEN
Plumer, former police chief o
Mount Rainier, and Ralph Brown
Hyattsville police chief.
She said her husbands answe
was to tell Pierson to "take Car,
of them" that "that was alway
happening when he went away.
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ed PRESIDENT of the Universit,