Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1937, Page 15

- MANFONDEULTY OF CABIN MURDER Life Sentence Imposed on Virginian in Slaying of Ex-State Trooper. By the Assoclated Press. CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE, Va,, April 16—Laban Blunt Howard, 43-year-old former seaman und ex- convict, ;mpassively awaited lransfer‘ to the State Penitentiary today to be- | gin serving a life sentence for the | murder of Edward N. Hawkins, former State policeman, whom he described &8 his “closest friend.” A Circuit Court jury convicted him of slaying Hawkins after an hour and | a quarter’s deliberation last night on | the basis of State witnesses’ testimany the 225-pound former tugboat captain shot and bludgeoned the man to death in a secluded Chesterfield County cabin last August. Judge Edwin P. Cox pronounced sentence a few minutes after the ver- dict was reached, denying a defense | motion to set aside the jury's finding on the grounds of “improper conduct” on the part of the court and the im- Proper admission of character wit- nesses for Joseph S. Howard, the “captain’s” son, who took the stand to help the State prove the charge. Death Unnoted 6 Months. Young Howard and Violet Merry- man, the defendant's former com- panions, were the Commonwealth's chief witnesses, It was on the strength of the Merry- man woman’s story that a body buried unidentified in Potter's field was dis- interred and later identified by rela- tives as that of Hawkins, whose death had gone unnoted for more than six | months. | The jury heard her repeat the story | she first told police while Howard was in jail on a vagrancy charge, describ- ing how Howard first fired two shots | into the former officer’s body and then | beat him to death with a towel- | wrapped hammer. Asked Death Penalty. Howard offered as his defense a story of awakening in the cabin after an | evening of beer drinking with Haw- kins and Violet Merryman to find the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937. May Merge Millions Marion Snowden Reed, young oil heiress, who was the for- mer Princess Rospigliosi, and B: radley Dresser photographed at a barn dance in Reno recently when they announced that they would marry after Mrs. Reed se: Reed, jr., whom she married M cures her dévorce from Louis F. ay 28, 1936. Dresser is the son of Mrs. Pauline Van Steese Dresser Rogers, widow of Col. H. H. Rogers, whose millions came fro file her case in about three weeks. m Standard Oil. Mrs. Reed wi —Wide World Photo. woman standing over Hawkins holding a pistol. He testified he asked her what she had done and she replied, “Hell, he had | it coming to him.” ‘Thomas B. Wingo, another defense witness, also took the stand to testify he had heard the woman tell of hav- ing “killed” a man in the cabin. Commonwealth’s Attorney Marcus A. Coghill, describing Hawkins' slay- ing as an “inhuman act,” demanded the death penalty. Japanese have organized & tug and lighterage service company in China LA ROE TO SPEAK Parole Board Head to Take Part in Civic Forum. Wilbur La Roe, ir., chairman of the District Parole Board, will give a radio talk on “Our Boys and Crime” over | Station WJSV at 10 a.m. tomorrow. The broadcast will be & part of the weekly Civic Forum program, broad- cast from 9:45 to 10.30. Drawing on his Parole Board experi- :ence, La Roe will deal especially with the causes of crime among young people and the treatment the com- with a capital of $1,000,0p0. munity accords to young offenders. N % CHARGES OF TREASON DENIED BY TROTZKY Tells Unofficial “Jury” Moscow Accusations Were ‘“False From Beginning to End.” By the Assoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, April 18.—Leon Trotzky completed his defense against Moscow charges of treason yesterday by telling the unofficial “jury” the charges were ‘“completely false from beginning to end.” The “jury,” a committee of liberals headed by Dr. John Dewey, New York educator, will begin the cross-exami- nation of the exiled former Bolshevist leader today. During his testimony Trotzky said he believed the Soviet Union could exist alongside capitalist nations “for & long time, but not indefinitely,” be- cause “‘every country gravitates either to & workers’ revolution or a Fascist dictatorship.” He told the committee he consti~ tuted no danger to the United States. TWO PASSENGERS DIE WHEN CAR LEAVES ROAD Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va.—Thomas Ott, 62, and Cleveland McDaniel, 30, both Jefferson County residents, were dead as a result of a motoring accident | at Millville, near here, late Thursday. | Ott, of Millville, died at the scene of | the accident. 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