Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 22

. RACY LOVE LETTER Détlares Mrs. Molavi, Ac- ; cused as. SIayeg:,.Wrotg “{ ' Epistle to Man in Jail. | - kind@ to her at the jail and “The introduction by the prosecution today of a love letter written-by Mrs. year-old widow, befpre Chlef Justice McCoy and a jurg in Criminal Division 1 on a charge of munder in the second degree, to John Howry, a prisoner mow at Atlanta, whom she met in the jail; came as & great surprise to the defense. b The letter was written last June from River Springs,.Md., where Mrs. Molavi was visiting a relative shortly after her release on bail and about ten weeks after the shooting which resulted in_the death of her husband. Abdul H. Molavi, a Persian antique Cealer. Howry while In jail awajting Sen- tence on a charge of false pretenses was employed as drugglst and took the medicine to female patients. Be: cause of the sensational and, intimate phraseology of the epistle Chief Jus- tic McCoy would pot allow the letter to ‘be read in court, there being a number of women in the audience. The: manuscript, the writing of which was admitted by the accused -young woman, was handed to the jury with directions that it should: be perused by each of the members. The chief Justice took a short recess while the jurars were reading the letter, which covered several sheets and was close- | ly written. d Recalls Defendant. When the court Teconvened Attof- ney: Wampler, who said he was not aware of the existence of the letter, recalled the: defendant-and attempted to show by her that Howry had been hat ‘she had beceme infatuated with him. | Capt. Emerson objected and the court refused to receive the answers Mr. Wampler then sought to have the witness tell that she had read many Persian and French Tove stories and had even written a letter to her dead; husband while in jail, using the blank margin _around an advertisemen clipped frem a magazine. The chief] Justice ruled this letter out unless counsel would say that he was claim- ing insanity as a defense. i r then asked Mrs. Mo- came to-write the letter to. Howry, and when the court. on ob- jectton form the government, declined | to permit her to answer, the ucused} burst into tears and appeared abou to collarse ssisted from thi stand br her sister, and the court crier. who went to her aid. After a. walt of five minutes she regained her | composure, Lut did not again take the | d nd. Mrs. Molavi testified late vesterday . rnoon and declared - that the| shooting of her husband was an acci- dent and that she had no intention |3 of harming him. She was visibly af- fected in the narration of the de-j tails of the tragedy. and on one 0C: casion burst into tears and for some time was unable to proceed. She; told of how she had quarreled with her husband and that he had refused to become reconciled with her and had not spoRen to her for hours, al-! though she had rendered him cer-| tain attentions like offering him tea | and adjusting a lamp to aid his read ing. finatly she deiermined to feizn leaving him, in the hope that this-would break down the wall of silence. ‘While she was packing her valls she tame across his pistol n a bureau drawer and the thought occurred to her ithat if she threatened to commit suldde he would surely speak to her vent her. the was raising the revolver to her head to make more realistie- her acting, she said. she smelled smcke and; saw her husband fall onto the floor. She never heard the report o the pistol and had_no_idea of explod. ing it, she averred™ She said she had never shot a pistol before In her life. On cross-examination by Assistant United States Attorney Emerson the defandant declared her love and affec- tion. for her husband and denied that he had ever accused her of intimacy | with other men. i MANAGER SOUGHT IN ALK SITUATION Representative Says Busi- ness of Supply Here Would Be Solved. The proposal was made at the hear- ing on the District milk situation to- day by Representative Millspaugh of Missouri, a_member of the subcom- mittee which has been conducting hearings for several mouths, that a new government official acting as a business manager for the entire busi- ness of supplying milk in Washing- ton should be appointed as a solution. The dutles of this official would be to adjust tween the producer and the distribu. tor, at the same time protecting the consumet. This new office would be entirely distinct from the District health office, which would continue Jits health protection work with re- gard to the milk supply. Put as a_hypothetical question by Representative Millspaugh, this pro- poskl was approved by Attorney Barbour, representing the Maryland and, Virginia Milk Producers’ Associa: tion, while the attorneys for the dis- tributers reserved judgment. H. L. Black and J. J. Bowles, two ‘Waghington milk distributers, were questioned by the subcommittee to- day\ The producets_will be put. on the stand next Tuesday. The fact was brought out (DdIY’ that one producer in Maryland, with eighty-one cows, shipping to a dis tributer in the District. had his permit revoked by Health Officer Fowler be- causo he had not had his entire herd tuberculin tested. In the .test that. ‘was made fifty-one out of eighty-one cows reacted and had.to be shipped to Be slaughtered. The herd.had not ‘been tested since.1805. 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