The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1952, Page 3

French Divorcee Testifies ‘ - Redfield Consented To Theft In Order To Win Her Favors CARSON fantastic climax to the strange Redfield burglary, a volatile French divorcee testified Million- aire Lavere Redfield consented to the theft of his 1'2 million dollars in order to win her favors. The claim was shouted at a Fed- eral Court jury Tuesday by tiny Jeanne d’Arc Michaud, 36. She re- sumes her defense today against charges she took $147,000 of the Yoot across state lines Mrs. Michaud ignored the re- montrations of her own attorney, the prosecutors and the judge as she portrayed herself to the jury of eight men and four women as! the 54-year-old financier’s “‘sweet- heart She said she proposed to Red field that she could arrange to have his safe stolen as a means of making her financially inde. pendent He consented Michaud, after she his bed at the big Redfield home in Reno Dec. 28. Mrs. Redfield Was out of town at the time. “I woke up in the dark and he came very close and tried to kiss me,’ testified the dark-haired divorcee “I told him ‘I'll never be ) unless it's a deal “Shal seal it?” yelled Mrs declared Mrs. had napped in yours aid we ‘That was consent Michaud to the packed courtroom, from which minor barred “There are other ways of sealing a deal than with pencil and paper.” Redfield sat expressionless in a back row. He later told reporters he had no comment Mrs. Michaud asked her to s were Redfield y overnight, “but I refused because I thought it un ethical, indecent and immoral to make love in her home.” The di vorcee nodded toward Mrs. Red field, who glared, grim-faced, from a front row seat The Canadian-born Frenchwom: an added “although I was very much in love with him,” she re- fused a $3,000 offer to live with him But then she said they tered as man and wife Angeles hotel said regis at a Los Government Ask Plane Builders Not To Strike LOS ANGELES \®—Faced with an urgent government appeal to continue prod jet fighter planes for Korea and postpone a strike due at midnight tonight, rep resentative of 25,000 aircraft workers and company officials today on, Director Cyrus Federal Mediation me to the ClO Worker Union pokesman for employees at three North Ame Aviation Corp Caries ( requesting the : ait The Defense Departmen Fa r te ‘ d t fect \ t ce t Far F , ked tha c \ C in W t a W ( b Guards Alerted onan It's about time for Key West to have a new Junkman CITY, Nev. —In ax. the death of Dr. Clifton Cread} The Reds were observing the White, told Detective Charles Sapp | the other went into the doctor’s | fice to help his buddy out,’’ she avahotiaed.” Urged To Join Move trying to defend himself. meeting Friday night a 30 at the ALL MILITARY ORDERED TO j Bandits Kill THEIR QUARTERS | | e > helmeted Japanese police tonight | laml octor broke up a mob of 2,500 Korean I Hi Chi . {Shinjuku Station in a brisk half. n 1S mic | in the huge suburban MIAMI (# — Police guards were | station followed by several hours : crowded Oaka area in Southern jtractive technician who was the | Japan. | principal witness to the holdup- | were hurt and 102 demonstrators his clinic Tuesday night were jailed in the Osaka area She gave police detailed descrip- | tions of the two men involved in slightly in the Osaka rioting Springmyer, 40. Police throughout | second anniversary of the Korean The technician, Miss Joyce the holdup men entered the clinic | . |painting an outer room. N. Off One man stayed with her while | ame cers j Office, she said. She heard sounds | Of Safet Club “The first man ran into the a “4 explained to Sapp. ‘‘That’s when I From 14 Through 19 Just as I left the building I heard Police said the bullet hit Dr.| ‘To Make Better Drivers! Springmyer in the chest. A 15: } his body, indicating he had been will hold its official organization Miss White told police she could Jay Cee clubhouse, Flagler Ave., it identify the two men. She was | Was announced todz PERSONNEL | | TORY ”—One thousand steel J firebombs and clubs in crowded |hour battle. | | Rioting assigned today to protect an at. (bitter anti-American rioting in the At least 34 police and 30 rioters slaying of a Miami naturopath in An American general was burned the state are searching for them 2 Teenagers To about 9:50 p. m. while she was/ of a scuffle. All Boys And Girls ran out the back door for help. | inch metal rod was found beside| The teenage Safety Driving Club JayCee \taken to headquarters to look at} Sponsored by Tony photographs of prowlers and ban-|Martinez and Florida Highway Patrolman Marvin J. Wilder, the dits known to have operated in the northwest section where the clinic is located. Miss White said the men were club will organize girls and boys from the ages of 14 through 19 for better driving habits in the county. Even though youngsters of the ; d gh 3 between 20 and 22 years old and | 14'through 16 age group do not were around six feet tall. One was wearing a maroon or wine- colored shirt and dark pants. The other had on a flowered shirt and a light tan engineer-type cap. Sapp said robbery appeared to be the motive. The doctor’s walle was on his desk. Dr. Springmyer’s mother, Mrs. Faye Springmyer, was in the build | ing which contained living quarters | as well as the clinic, but did not! snow. Wilder said see her son shot. A brother also} ji youngsters who want to join jlived there but was not present. | in this club to make better drivers The detective said three other | today and fewer accidents tomor | witnesses saw the men running | row, should come to the | south along Northwest Sixth Ave-/ clubhouse Friday night, nue just after the shot. | said have driving licenses, they are eli gible for club membership, Wilder said Officers will be elected, by laws | drawn and adopted and the ma- | chinery of the club set in motion t Friday. Big event that the club will start | preparing immediately is rodeo of machines later this summer. Scooters, and autos will be in the JayCee Wilder | “Their deseription of the fleeing; Members will soon be issued robbers generally fits the descrip-| cards showing their identification tion given us by Miss White,” | with the group. Campaigns for bet Sapp said {ter driving will be put on, and the Dr. Springmyer, a World War! youngest boys and girls will be II veteran, came here from Ohio | given some instruction in driving after the war and built the clinic | examinations MIAMI Located in the Heart of the City neasonasce ROOMS to: "nescavations with BATH and TELEPHONE : Ritz Pershing Hotel Hotel Hotel 132 E Flagler St. 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 N.E. Ist Ave. 102 Rooms 100 Rooms 80 Elevator Elevator Rooms Solarium Heated Elevator 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION THREE HOTELS IN at POPULAR PRICES Miller GUARANTEED PURE Reds Riot 'n Japan: U.S. General Burned Slightly * War with demonstrations sched uled in many large Japanese cities The bloody May Day and May 30 fights flared after a 4-hour meeting of Reds The Communists marched on the station waving Red flags and brandishing firebombs. The station police quarters were fired but the blaze was quickly quenched The police, experts at riot tactics had been waiting at the teeming station, six miles from downtown Tokyo, for the Reds. The Osaka mob carried banners proclaiming “Smash Itami Base,” “No War” and “Independ- ence!” Japanese police, using clubs and |tear gas, broke up the mob before it g& within seven miles of the big American air base near Osaka Because of the incident all Amer- ican military personnel in Tokyo | were ordered to remain in their quarters by Gen. Mark Clark, Far East commander. Thirty policemen, including two American MPs, were injured in fighting at Suita City, near Osaka, between 1,000 rioters and 800 po- licemen. Fifty-eight demonstrators|!unged into them with clubs and were arrested. U. S. Brig. Gen .Carter W Clarke, commanding a logistical unit in Southern Japan, was struck in the face by sulphuric acid hurled into his car by the Com- | munist-led mob. He suffered super-/ attacked police cars. Tokyo riot at the scene of Air |Must Stand Trial | Woman Has True. TAMPA ? — Two Tam pss ac Als 8 d be tec si Also Sad Story — | lof F jered West “a i ot he plang W PALM BEACH ?— a Ic stores were ordered Tuesday |Christie Matteson, youn to. ste al |Palm Be isn't related to the famous mechan as r, as far as her attorney trial by ice of t but she has a story seph G. Spicola on as Author Agatha’s stories burglary ion, the West Palm Beach Robert P. Ares -n keeper, eee a tav was bound over to a higher court s. o charge of ng stolen in Circuit Court w@erty from the g her marriage veral offhers, including two tee Tampa polfre offic i the son vere married in She said they of a detective e bound ston, Ga., May 31, after Mat over for trial on burglary charges. | teson told her Officers say the group broke into He'd build her a home in Coral stores and business houses in Pi- ‘i Gables: give her a $9,000 emerald nellas, Hillsboroug i Sarasota send her on a trip to Eng ‘ alii pete ring Counties, stealing $100,000 worth |iand; she wouldn't have to work — lany more; that he had a $120,000 | m schester, N. Y., and ficial burns and continued to his| OMe in Rochester, spe office. that he was a retired naval of 4 ficer with Ph. D. degree and The rioters had stolen a 4-car was on the staff of “the Medical passenger train after 4 iat : School of the University of Miami sembling during the night from the country : | side. The train roared toward| With those “untrue” statements, Osaka, Japan’s second largest city | She said, he induced her to marry him but on June 16 he left their hotel room at Miami Beach and |she hasn't heard from him since. The mob armed itself with sticks,| Sheriff John Kirk’s office said stones and at least two police pis- it hadn't heard from him, either. tols before 800 Japanese policemen’ Kirk's office is looking for a Wil- | Matteson, Rochester, N.Y., | former clerk at Palm Beach's Colony Hotel charged with em- bezzling $1,324 from the Colony and the industrial hub of the is- jlands, but halted outside the me tropolis liam G {tear gas | Fists flew and skulls were cracked by bamboo poles in wild | fighting. Sixten policemen were | Hotel Corp. stabbed with bamboo spears. Nine} H, Irwin Levy, Agatha’s attor- were hurt seriously when the mob} ney, said he’s the same fellow | that married Agatha. 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