Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1937, Page 7

THE BLACKMAIL TRIAL BRINGS ACQUITTAL Mrs. Krieger and Attorney | Frooks Cleared of All Charges. Mrs. Mary Krieger, former Okla- homa school teacher, and Samuel L. Frooks, New York attorney, today were free of all charges that they blackmailed the late Carroll Pierce, | Alexandria banker. | A jury in District Court exonerated the pair late yesterday after deliberat- | ing more than 25 hours. The jury acquitted the defendants on both counts of an indictment | charging blackmail and conspiracy to | blackmail. Efforts Held Legitimate. By the verdict, the jury held that | efforts of the pair to collect $2,500 | from Pierce were legitimate and in- tended solely to compel him to pay | damages for his failure to employ | Mrs. Krieger in his bank The Government contended the “breach of contract” claim was a| subterfuge employed to frighten the banker into paying money under threat of exposing alleged intimacies | Wwith Mrs, Krieger. Justice F. Dickinson Letts inter- rupted another case yesterday to hear the jury’s verdict. Mrs. Krieger shook hands jubilantly with the jurors as they left the court room and then telephoned the news to her 16-year- old daughter Rosemary, who had been & defense witness. Attorney Explains Part. take the witness stand. Frooks testi- fled in his own behalf, explaining he was employed by Mrs. Krieger to press her claim against the banker. He denied knowledge of the intimate re- lationships between Mrs. Krieger and Pierce alleged by the Government. | Mrs. Krieger was represented by John J. McGinnis and Frooks by Wil- | liam R. Berkson and Henry Gross- | man. The case was prosecuted by ‘ United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar- 1 | | | | | | The 38-year-old woman did not | P | nett and his assistant, Roger Robb, Denhardt At which its experimental shots had been fired. Paraffin Tests Negative. R. C. Sherberg of Chicago, Cook County chemist, followed W declared paraffin tests of a (Continued From First Page.) person’s | if that person had recently weapon. The Commonwealth testified paraffin tests proved Mrs. | Taylor had not fired a weapon shortly before her body was found the night | of last November 6 and that similar tests showed Denhardt had. Comparatively few spectators vere present today in contrast to the crowd that jammed into every avail- | £ble bit of court room space yesterday. Mrs. Taylor's two daughters, Mrs. Mary Prior Brown and Miss Frances Taylor, came in late. Kinsolving in- | dicated he would call them in rebuttal 25 well as calling the handsome young Jaundry driver. | The La Grange youth had been mentioned only briefly in trial testi- raony prior to the general's recital. | In the early days of the hearing Frances Taylor testified Chester drove | her mother home from work frequently | and visited their residence to give her | #axophone lessans. As the general entered the court | room today the lightening of the | etrain he has been under was appar- ent. He looked relieved and, re-| ferring to his 3 hours and. 17 min- utes on the stand yesterday, he said: “Whew, I'm glad that's over. I feel | & thousand per cent better.” Follows Wiard’s Story. Seated at counsel table he fol- | lowed Maj. close interest. E. R. Donaldson, G-man, who tes- tified for the State on blood spots on the general's clothing, was a stu- dent under Wiard. With calm dignity general told the jury that he had fallen “desperately in love” with | the pretty 40-year-old widow and | that they were engaged to be married. His voice broke once when he read some of her letters addressing him as “Dear General,” “Henry, Dear” &nd "Old Dear.” Enunciating his testimony in the packed, stuffy court room, he pictured Mrs. Taylor as nervous and worried, and said she had proposed “we both die together” the night of last Novem- | ber 6 when she was found shot to death | on a country roadside about 600 yards | from his car in which they had been | out riding. | Tells of Jealousy. His sweetheart told him, the general #aid, that her truck driver had “mis- Wiard's testimony with yesterday the construed her kindness to him” and upon hearing she was wearing a dia- | mond ring given her by the general had confessed his lo for her. Dx h testified Woolfolk told Mrs. Tay- Jor he “was not going to permit” her to marry the general She tcld me Chester was jealous me,” the general said, and that “Ches- | ter trembled like a leaf and got pale as a sheet every time I got hear her.” | nr general said the “jealousy” of C lor so much diine o gagement ring rsuaded her to take it back The problem, however, depressed her the general said, and three times that 1 day she spoke of suicide. ntil he heard the sound of a gun, however, the general said he “had no idea™ she ectually would kill herself DISAPPEARS FROM SHIP ot Captain Was Worried Over Com- | Officers Say. PORT WASHINGTON, W F. Runkel con- for Capt. George ppeared from the Wednes- passes, to the captain's n cruised Lake and She- between aid si had ip's officers told him worried throughout Pa,, because the the capt & cruise fr vessel's co WALL PAPER 100 Beautiful patterns to_ select from Enoush for room §J 50 ‘MORGAN’S Paints and Hardware 421 10th St. N.W. NA. 7888 es were not function- | Aide of Envoy to Norway | | | pital, were held at 11 am. today in | ‘Arlmmon National Cemetery, lard and | ofcers who formerly served with | fired a | Were honorary pallbearers, April MISS JACQUELINE STORY Of this city, who has been namedt sectretlgry to Mrs. J. Borden ly a ted Minister to Norway. H(ZTT”YIE'IZ, newty ppom (] A ersie: Eu*,ng Photo. EVENING Military Intelligence Division, Department. |COL. SAMUEL MACKALL FUNERAL AT ARLINGTON Chaplain Ora J. Cohee Officiates at Rites for Distinguished Intelligence Officer. Funeral services for Col. Samuel T Mackell, 56, Infantry, U. S. A, who dicd Wednesday in Walter Reed Hos- | | in Puerto Rico, Havana, Honolulu and the Philippines. ! danao, with | Chaplain Ora J. Cohee officiating. School Children’s Safety. | Walk—do not run—straight across hands some times were negative even | COl. Mackall in the 31st Infantry | streets. If you walk, you are not likely | to stumble. Approaching drivers can better judge what o do. Darting chil- experts had | had been assignea to duty here in the | dren serve only to confuse drivers. Since July of last year Col. Mackall CW@&IV 9\/02@ And Thru the Summer 4 Richard Prince T @ Gabardines 35 @ Imported Flannels *32 r. Lightweight Worsteds 32 Charge Accounts— or 12-Pay Plan F at Eleventh Monthly Settlements— BRIDAL GROUP with eight diamonds As beautiful as fove $39.75 itself! This lovely matched ensemble of white or yeliow gold features a three- d;amond e;gag:l]nent ring and a five- diamond wedding PAY 75¢ band. Note the hem WEEKLY motif! 1004 F ST. N.W. War He served with distinction overseas as a military intelligence officer dur- ing the World War; was awarded the French Order of the Black Star, and in 1904 was awarded a Gold Life Saving Medal by the Treasury De- partment for rescue of two soldiers from drowning on the Island of Min- Philippine Islands. He had served at varlous posts in the States, | Panama, S AR, 477,524 ADDED D. C. ESTIMATES $11,820 for Personnel at New Tuberculosis Sana- toria Included. Supplemental and deficiency esti- mates for the District government for a variety of purposes, amounting to $477,924, were sent to the Senate yes- | terday from the Budget Bureau for inclusion in pending supply bills. Of the total only $11,820 is for the new 1938 District appropriation bill, on which hearings will start soon. The estimate is for personnel at the new ‘Tuberculosis Sanaforia at Glenn Dale, Md. Of the remainder, $431,551.80 con- sists of supplemental items required to | complete the current fiscal year and $34,552.59 consists of deficiencies for 1936 and prior fiscal years. These items probably will be added to a pending deficiency bill before the reg- ular District bill is taken up. coast. Would Increase Deficit. The Coast Guard patrol boat Al- These estimates, if enacted into 1aw. | bert, one of three vessels sent w0 her Will increase to that extent the Dis- | aid, convoyed the Alaskan Steamship tricts impending deficit, which a | Co. liner into port. House committee is now trying to find | | Heavy seas' crippled her steering new taxes to meet. As the District | gear, but she proceeded under her bill passed the House the deficit was| own power after repairs placed at $6,000,000, if the Federal Aboard also was a crew of 48, payment remains at $5,000,000 next year, The largest supplemental estimate for the remainder of the current year 1s $150,000 to meet increased building costs on five school building projects already authorized. The Budget Bureau said bids re- ceived recently on two projects indi- cated this additional amount will be needed to be spread over the follow- WASHINGTON, D. C .__FRIDAY, £ dell, Eastern High School addition. Workhouse and Reformatory. For the Workhouse and Reform- atory a supplemental fund of $58,000 is asked for the current year. Others include: For juror and witness fees, $18,401.48; support of convicts, $11,- 509; District Court, miscellaneous ex- penses, $15,000; District Training School, $12,000; Industrial Home School for Colored Children, $2,500; Home for Aged and Infirm, $8,000; St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, $17,496; Wash- ington Aqueduct, emergency flood re- | pairs, $30,000; refund of assessments, $29,691; payment of judgments, $13,- 610; judgments, $95,748. LINER CARRYING 104 BATTLES HOLD FIRE Alaskan Steamship Co. Vessel Is five building; Convoyed to Ketchikan by Coast Guard Boat. By the Associated Press. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 30— Smothering fire in her No. 2 hold with steam. the crippled liner Cor- dova arrived here today with 104 passengers after a battle with fire and heavy seas off the British Columbia Baby, in Controversy, Dies. 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