Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1923, Page 13

B JOHNSON 1S READY 10 MEET CODLIOGE Welcomes Chance to Go Be- fore South Dakota Pri- mary in March. Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia declared himself today entirely content te meet President Coolldge in the South Dakota presidential preferential primaries next March, He gaid’that he considered the South Dakota convention indecisive. Senator Norbeck of South Dakota agreed with Senator Johnson that lit. tle importance was to be attached to the results of the republican conven- tion in his state. He pointed out that the action of the convention is not binding, and that the voters in the state in March will register thelr Preference for presidential nominees. “Four years ago I had not a single vote in the South Dakota convention,” #aid Senator Johnson. “Yesterday, without effort of any sort, I had more than one-third of the gates. My announcement of candidacy was co- temporaneous with the selection of delegates, and, of course, nothing /' prior to that time was done In my be- half, while for more than two months the most intensive work has been ¢ { he President. ‘I'm delighted with the s Mr. Coolidg nd [ will now the first direct primar) in South Dakota. \Yester ided nothi he republicans South Da emselves will make their ch March, and T am entirely confident of the result.” SEDUCTIONGAS VERDIY TODAY Testimony Nears Completion in Trial of Suit Against Charles F. Miller. ation Bpecial Dispatch to The St: ROCKVILLE, Md. December 6— Damaging testimony as to the con- duct of Miss Jeanette Francls Decker was presented this morning by de- fense witnesses in the trial of the » suit brought by the girl's father, Capt. . Elmer G. Decker, against Charles F. Miller, well known coal merchant of Bethesda, for damages for the alleged seduction of the girl. A the witnesses was Mrs. Rob- ert Wilson, who lives mear Mille offices. She told of having seen M Decker With a man on_the second fioor of the building. Mrs. Wilson geclared that the man Was not Mil- er. Miller Employes Testify. / Others who testified were James G. YHuddleston, Joseph M. Gayhart and Enes Her: employes for Miller, They detailea alleged discretions on the part of Miss Decker about the coal that she smoked, that r of phone conversa- and that strange men to take her out in au- Alhert . Pagan, who = to Miller's sister, told of mined the girl. t cession of court was held last night, in order that the trial may be concluded today, to permit Judge rthington to it on the Frederick ®ench tomorrow. A verdict i the case i3 expevted early this evening. In cross-cxamination this merning * Miller was unshaken In his denials of the charge. Denies Charges. After stating that he was thirty- three years old and married and that the twelve years of his married life bud been lived happlly at Chevy Chase, D. C., he began a series of de- nlais of the charges made by Miss; Detier durtng the five hours she was | on the witness stand Tuesday after- 4 noon and vesterday. { his conduct toward the young girl had always been exemplary, He testified that Miss Decker made known her condition to him and requested his aid and that he gladly agreed to do everything within his power for her. He admitted offering financial help and giving the girl's father $100 to- ward defraying her expenses at the Nattonal Sanitarium. near Rockville. Miller declared the proceedings against him to be a frame-up and stated that one of his employes, a Mr. Gayhart, had overheard a tele- phone conversation between Miss Decker and another young woman, while the former was employed by , the witness, in which the plaftift's daughter referred to her condition and expressed her purpose of “put- ting it on” Miller. Preceding Miller's appearance on the witness stand, hie attorney, George P. Hoover of Washjngton, told the jury what the evidence that would be deduced on behalf of the defendant would show. He stated that {t would be conclusively shown that Miller was entirgly innocent and the victim of a frame-up. Attorney Hoover declared the evidence would show that the young girl had been extremely careless in her conduct to- ward a number of young men, and that because of that and other things * Miller_had been comnelled to d. 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Workmen made a hole in the wall last night, but found nothing to indicate the cause of the explosione. The city's chief of police, the head of the fire department and a bullding inspector spent one night in the house without hearing any- thing unusual “The spirit won't work for us,” said the chief of police. pense with her services as stenog- rapher. Mixs Decker's Story. In her testimony, which she eon- cluded vesterday afternoon, arged that Miller be- &an to annoy her almost immediately after she entered his employ In Sepe tember, 1921, She det curences on Jung 21, the date, =0 the declaration eharges, she was seduced. On cross-examination Miss Decker admitted that she had told no one of Miller's alleged misconduct toward her and sta what had occurred she continued to work for m. The amount claimed by Decker— $100,000—Is the largest ever asked in a sult in this county. The case has attracted large crowds from different parts of the cour Every Day as Monday. 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