Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
Sheppard Expected
10 Testify This Week
In His Own Defense
by the Associated Press


CLEVELAND. Dec. "A de-
Tense timetable calls for DR..
Samuel Sheppard to take the
witness stand in his first-degree
murder trial next week. He Is
charged with the July 4 Staying
Of his wife, Marilyn.
= Defense Attorney william j.
Corrigan was not committing
himself today to an exact lineup
Of witnesses as he mapped his
counter-o offensive to the States
case against the 30-year-old
osteopath.
However, he said he expects
DR.. Sheppard to take the stand
in his own defense before the
eighth week of the trial Is over.
Others in Family Listed.
Five and perhaps six other
members of the Sheppard family
of osteopaths also are listed as
defense witnesses. One of them,
DR.. stephen Sheppard, "a,
launched his brothers defense
Thursday morning. He was still
under a rip-saw cross examina-
ton by the State when court re-
cessed yesterday afternoon for
the week end. He returns to the
stand Monday.
1--WE have many more questions
for him to answer" Assistant
Prosecutor Thomas Parrino said.
After DR.. Stephen, his at
tractive wife, Betty, is due to
testify. Other members of the
family listed as witnesses are an
elder brother, DR.. Richard N.
Sheppard, 81, and his wife. Dor
othy; and the father, DR.. Rich
ard A. Sheppard. The defend
ants 63-year-old mother is all
ing. But Mr.. Corrigan said he
will put her on If her health
permits.
Claims Intruder Killed Wife.
DR.. Samuel Sheppard claims q
bushy-haired man slipped into
his Lake Erie home II miles west
Of here In suburban Bay Village
and beat his pregnant 31-year-
old wife to death in her bed.
The osteopath says he was twice
knocked unconscious by the
prowler, and suffered q brain
conclusion and q spinal cord
injury.
The State says DR.. Samuel is
the real killer. driven to MUIR
derous frenzy by love for Susan
Hayes. a 24-year-old former
laboratory technician at his
family's osteopathic hospital.
The prosecutions case reached
It's climax last Wednesday with
Miss Hayes as its 30th and last
witness. It was a dramatic con-
frontation as she stepped to the
witness stand while DR.. Samuel
gazed at her intently. She never
returned his gaze.
Miss Hayes testified to init
macies with him over a period
of IS months and she said he
gave her a ring, protested his
love for her and spoke Of di-
vorcing Marilyn.
Brother Goes On Stand.
After the State rested, the de-
Tense opened its case with DR..
Stephen, the brother who has
played a key role in DR.. Samuel's
defense ever since Marilyn's
Staying.
It was DR.. Stephen who cast
about for an alternate suspect in
the case and pointed the finger
of suspicion at friends and
neighbors of Samuel and Mar
ilyn. Police investigators stuck
to DR.. Samuel as their chief
suspect after a Cleveland homi-
eide detective first accused him
within a few hours of the slay-
ing.
DR.. Stephen started out as 9
confident, compelling witness
during the friendly questioning
by Mr. Corrigan.
But when Mr.. Parrino tore al
him in cross-examination yes
terday he bagan to waver anc
his assuredness cracked.
He admitted he had been toe
sweeping in his generalization
that any one with a brain con-
cussion temporarily loses ali
: memory for recent events. His
earlier testimony had given the
). defense what seemed to be O
tight alibi for the varying YER
sions DR.. Samuel has given Of
his wife's murder.
Admits False Testimony.
And at the end Of the week
It was q perspiring and restles.
DR.. Stephen who broke dowr
and admitted that at least one
piece of his testimony was false
Insinuating that Marilyn'l
body had been tempered with
by some one at the scene Of
the crime, DR.. Stephen testi.
fed he twice visited the deatt
room on the murder morning
Marilyn's body looked different
the second time, he added.
The witness later told Mr.
Parrino he didn't actually de.
tect the change on the seen.
but by a comparison Of wha1
he saw, with what police photo
graphs revealed.
Confronted with his previous
testimony, DR.. Stephen admitted
: he testified falsely when he at
, ,tributed his views to the pic
lures.
y THAT Is not true" he sale
I Of this testimony-and thos'
, were his last words to the jury
before the trial recessed for tn,
week end.
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