Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1935, Page 15

DANGERS 10 SAY FERRISIS GULTY Girls Mere Pawns in Kill- ing, They Assert—Con- fession Denied. By the Assoclated Press DETROIT, August 3.—Attorneys for the three burlesque house dancers who were present when Howard Car- | ter Dickinson, New York attorney, was | shot to death last June 26 said today | the defense case for the women will | be that they were mere pawns in the hands of Willlam Lee Ferris. Ferris, whose signed confession that he shot Dickinson during a hold-up was read in Recorder’s Court today, is expected to-take the stand Monday and testify that the lawyer “killed himself while in a drunken stupor.” The women on trial with Ferris are Florence and Loretta Jackson and Jean Miller. Calls Charge Frame-up. “I'm going to get on that witness stand and blow this frame-up sky- high.” Ferris remarked with a show of confidence today. “My story will be that we went for # drive after drinking all evening. We got to Rouge Park and the girls got out of the car, and I started to get out. All of a sudden Dickinson leaned up over the front seat and muttered something about ‘What's going on here?’ T looked into the car and just then there was a shot. I leaned in and grabbed him and the gun in his hand went off twice more and he feil out.” Florence Jackson said she will teli | a different story as soon as she has the opportunity. “None of us,” she said today, “knew anything about the gun or any plan | to rob and kill Dickinson.” | Asks Man to Tell Truth. | “If Bill Ferris would tell the truth,” | Loretta Jackson said, “we wouldn't be | anything more than witnesses in this | case.” | The trial will resume Monday with cross-examination of Detective Earl | Maria Rasputin, daughter of making her debut in America as a cl Famed Daughter With Circus - THE SUNDAY STAR,” WASHINGTON, GREEN TO TAKE OVER ROADS IN SOMERSET Republican Supervisor Will Suc- ceed Harold Cullen, Démo- D, ©. ’KUGUST %, 1935—PART ONE. leader of Marion Station and promi- nent farmer of the Quindocqus sec- » tion, will take over supervision of the 4 Somerset County roads Monday. Green, who succeeds Harold Cullen, & Democrat, was named county roads superintendant by the State Roads. Commission last week. will appear with the Hagenbeck-Wallace and Forepaugh-Sells Brothers show when it arrives in Washington on August 13, the famous Russian “mad monk,' ircus wild animal trainer this season, Switzer, who took statements from the | — = = defendants. In these statements all four were quoted as admitting they| HOSPITAL AID ASKED plotted to kill Dickinson for what they | - —— believed tc be a large sum of money | ! on his persen. Shortly after taeir | TTuro Church Rector Calls for arrest they were quoted by police offi- cers as saying they actually divided only $134 after the lawyer was slain. CLUB AFFILIATES Supplies for Missions. | Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., August 3.—A request | | for hospital supplies for use in the | | mission hospitals in the State has been made by Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, rector of Tyuro Episcopal Church. in Contributions made in Fairfax 5 should be sent to Mrs. N. Peyton State Democratic Group. ‘Younm and those made in Vienna to | | Brandywrme Women Join By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. August | 3.—The Brandywine Women's Club | has affiliated with the United Demo- cratic Women’s Clubs of Maryland, Mrs. Frances E. MacFadden, Southern district chairman, announced today. Mrs. Charles S. Early heads the Brandywine club, formed shortly be- fore the 1934 campaign and active in Democratic work since its inception.¥ BRAKE RELINING American BRAKEBLOK Linin Used Exclusively Sheer Fall Suit Expressly designed for Little Women . 13.95 {and the Church of the Holy Com- | Mrs. J. E. Certel, members of the Woman’s Auxiliary of Truro Church forter, stated. respectively, Rev. 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