Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-15

Mrs. Madelyn E. Hit of
Plymouth. Mich, accused of
killing her 6-week-old baby,
said in a statement read in
court yesterday she had been
|, intimate with another man be-
fore joining her husband in
Okinawa.
The 26-year-old mother said
she felt unclean and guilty,
and told her husband of the
affair after the child, Brady
Dean Hit. was delivered in
the Ryukyus Army Hospital.
The statement was read by
q United States Air Force in
vestigator in the United States
Civil Administration Court
which will rule on q murder
warrant ordering her to stand
trial in Washington.
Warrant to Be Challenged
(Mrs. Hits Washington at
torney said today he will chal-
lenge the validity of a fugitive
warrant issued here for her
arrest. q
CHyman Smollar said the
! warrant authorizing the arrest
Of Mrs. Init on Okinawa Satur-
: day Is based on law which as
sumes she committed q crime
on lands reserved for or ac-
Quired by the United States"
(This does not apply. Mr..
Smollar said. because Okinawa
is merely administered by the
United States under terms Of
the japanese peace treaty
spending the setting up of q
United Nations trusteeship.
(The attorney will deliver
his challenge at a District Court
hearing here Friday before Fed
eral Judge Edward NJ. Curran.
(Mr. Smollar appeared be-
fore the judge this morning to
request a writ Of habeas corpus.
His client, the wife of an cleo
tronicS technician assigned to
Kadena Air Force Base, was
charged on March 20 with
smothering her 6-week-old son,
Brady Dene Hit. on March IL.
and burying him in a backyard
garden plot.
Released in Okinawa
(She was originally charged
with murder under provisions
Of the Uniform Code Of Mill
tary Justice. However. when
Mr.. Smollar filed his petition
challenging a court-martial
trial Of the woman as improper.
Mrs. Hit was released Satur-
day and picked up by the Amer
lean Civil Court on Okinawa
on the basis Of the fugitive
warrant issued by the United
States commissioner here.
CThe Governments inten-
ton is to bring Mrs. Hit back
to the United States for trial
in a civil court.
tMr. Smollar told Judge
Curran today he would like a
delay to better prepare himself
in the light Of the late develop
mentsD
At the hearing. her husband.
Torrance, an electronic techni-
clan attached TO the Air Force.
sat with his head in his hands
as the story was read, and
rushed to her side as the court
recessed.
The statement, read after
Mrs. Hit refused to speak in
front Of a woman court re-
porter, told of her looking at
the sleeping child and deciding
to smother 1t.
The young mother said she
dug a grave in the back yard.
pried a screen of the bedroom
window with a screwdriver.
clambmered through the win
dow and killed the baby.
Mrs. Hits attorney. Paul
Kannare of Chicago, argued
that an American court had no
Jurisdiction over the case, and
that the confession statement
was inadmissible.
The session, removal hear
ing, was to establish that Mrs.
Hit was technically q fugitive
from jurisdiction Of the WASH
ington court.
Mr.. Kannare objected that
Mrs. Hit was not warned Of
her rights under the Uniform
Code Of Military Justice.
Maj. George K. Woods Of
Baton Rouge, La, special in
vestigator from Kadena Air
Base who read the statement,
said Mrs. Hit was informed OF
her rights under Article s Of
the Constitution. which gave q