Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 41

- TRIGG MAXWELL LIVED AS MARTYR Edith Put Violent End to Father’s “Dog Life,” Pros- ecution Asserts. By the Assoctated Press. WISE, Va, December 10.—The | Commonwealth called the first of 50 | witnesses today to support its conten- | tion that Edith Maxwell put a violent end to the “dog’s life” her father led | because of family strife. Trigg Maxwell was constructing a separate two-room shanty in which to | *live in peace and perhaps in safety,” | Commonwealth’s Attorney Fred B.| Greear told the jury in his opening statement, when a struggle with his daughter resulted in his death at their mountain cottage in July, 1935. Charging the 22-year-old former school teacher, on trial the second time, with striking her father with a deadly but unknown weapon, Greear asked the jury of miners, farmers and business men to consider it just “an- other murder * * * no more impor- tant than any other murder case.” Says Tools “Disappeared.” Challenging the defense assertion | in the first trial that Edith struck her father with a high-heeled slipper, the prosecutor admitted the State could | not name the instrument really used, but said Maxwell's carpenter tools had “disappeared” and had not been fcund. To the State’s murder charge, At- torney Charles Henry Smith said in his opening statement yesterday, the defense will reply with medical testi- mony that the 52-year-old miner was | not “killed by anybody,” but died “of natural causes.” Smith said he would produce “emi- ment authorities” who would testify that wounds on Maxwell's head *could not cause death in any human being.” Moreover, Smith asserted, blows such as the State contends were struck would have produced “immediate paraly: Argues Self-defense. Also, he argued, “if the blow did eontribute to death, she struck in self- defense.” Greear said family trouble caused Maxwell to live “what might be termed a dog's life.” He said there were discrepancies in the story told by Edith, her mother and a younger sister when the father was first found dead, and their tes- timony at the first trial. They first said he fell against a meat block and died, Greear declared. and then said the daughter struck him with his rub- ber-heeled shoe. Later, he said, they claimed a high-heeled woman's shoe was used. The jury was selected after 11 of 81 veniremen had been disqualified for statements they had formed opin- fons or “knew too much about the CHICAGO YOUTH HELD IN KIDNAP THREAT | stopped by a plain clothes policeman, Hote Good-Will Cup COLOMBIAN TROPHY AWARDED ATTACK GROUP. Presented to the United States Army Air Corps by the Republic of Colombia as a gesture of friendship, this trophy has been awarded, for the first time, to the 3rd At- tack Group, Barksdale Field, La., in recognition of its lead- ing safety record during the gast year. The trophy was rought to this country by a delegation of Colombian army pilots who attended the all- American air races at Miami last year. They were hecded by Maj. Mendez, Colombian Air Force, a graduate of the United States Army Air Corps training center. —Army Air Corps Photo. Traffic Sleuths Busy. Motorists who approach busy street crossings in Stockholm, Sweden, with- out slowing down to a safe speed, are who waves a red flag marked “Stop. Police.”” The offender is then given a ticket and must appear in court. —_— _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, STRIKERS PROPOSE U. S-OWNED SHIPS Maritime Unions Ask Presi- dent to Act to End Long Strike, By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 10.— Striking maritime unions in San Pe- dro asked President Roosevelt to con- sider operating Government-owned steamships today. Another peace pro- posal was rejected and a new plan for negotiating agreements was proposed in the 42-day-old Pacific Coast tie-up. A strikers’ mass meeting in San Pedro last night adopted a resolution asking the administration to consider recommending legislation “aimed at A DAY SINGLE FROM § udor s In NEW YORK CITY E the Associated Press CHICAGO, December 10—Federal | agents held Kenneth William Faulk- ner, 19. last night for demanding $5,000 from J. W. Behr, coach of the American Olympic boxing team, un- | der threat of kidnaping his co-ed | daughter. ! An official said he surrendered Tues- | day night, admitted mailing three let- | ters to Behr and would be arraigned | before United States Commissioner | Edwin K. Walker today on extortion charges. | Behr enlisted the aid of the Govern- ment agents when he received the let- ters threatening the abduction of his daughter, Barbara Ann Behr, 18, stu- dent at Lake Forest College. The first was delivered to the Behr home in suburban Wilmette last January 6. The second was mailed two days later. The third came Janu- | ery 10. It gave elaborate instructions | for payment of the money the follow- ing day. The writer directed Behr to send a maid with a white box containing the $5,000 to the balcony of a Loop | (Palmer House) hotel between 3 and 4 pm. A woman carried a dummy | package to the designated place. Fed- | eral agents were stationed at strategic | points in the vicinity, but nobody ap- | peared to claim the funds. SLAYER'S WIDOW TRIES SUICIDE, DOCTOR SAYS | B3 the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 10.—Norma Millen Clement, youthful widow of Murton Millen, executed machine gun | slayer, attempted suicide last night. a | eity hospital official said, by drinking & small quantity of an antisepsic. Dr. Louis E. Reese, night director of the hospital, said the woman informed him she “has become despondent.” $She was taken to the hospital by her husband, Harold Clement, with whom she eloped to Armonk, N. Y. last Bpring. After treatment she was re- | lJeased. | ‘Three years ago Norma, then 18 gears old, married Murton, only a | short time before he, with his brother | Irving and Abraham Faber, brilliant | college graduate, embarked on a career ‘ of crime that left four murdered men | BERM sand several armed hold-ups in their | dis wake. ‘The three men were executed in June, 1935, for killing two policemen during a hold-up at the Needham Trust Co. CANADA DRY’'s | heated buses; por- 2 blocks east of Grand Cemtral Station on 42nd Street. 600 rooms, | each with private bath. | THE DERWOOD MILL DERWOOD, MD. auote he followiae o “prices o8 our high-quality feeds. Terms, Cash at the Mill Laying $2.40 MASH 209%__. 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A proposal offered licensed deck officers by the coastwise shippers was voted down here and in Portland by locals of the Masters, Mates and Pilots of America. The vote here was 282 to 9 and in Portland 48 to 9. The Shipping Merchants’ Associa- tion, comprising importers, exporters and other firms patronizing shipping lines, declared negotiations between a committee representing shipowners and unions had failed and called upon individual heads in shipping lines to get together with union officials. Peace Again Dimmed. Rejection of the coastal operators’ offer by the officers temporarily ended prospects of a partial strike settle- ment which would allow resumption Imported Glass of service by about 70 coastwise freighters. These vessels carry around 10 per cent of the coast’s marine cargo. Pays 01d Speeding Fine. PASADENA, Calif. (#)—In 1928 Gwynne Allen was arrested for driv- ing at the then illegal speed of 38 miles an hour. 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