The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1954, Page 2

Page2 = THE KEY WEST CITIZ Cross-examinati Ends With Accusation Of Guilt By RELMAN mMoRIN CLEVELAND EN Tuesday, December 14, 1954 on Of Sheppard 'Truman Feted At Belated Birthday Party By TOM BRADSHAW Pope’s Condition “Stationary” Is Report Today VATICAN CITY (P—A Vatican press spokesman announced that two physicians who examined Pope DEATHS MRS. FLORINNE | COOKE BLAKE Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Florinene Cooke |in Baltimore. | Norwegian Ships ‘Cope With Fi ‘After Explo NEW YORK |» Guard reported early t | Norwegian tankers, re t was some 270 miles San Juan, Puerto r that no assis be However, proceeding the i it had cutter Rico and at the Sagebrush probably would give the Fensal an escort anyway. About 100 miles northwest ef the Fensal was the tanker Braconda, , Which also reported an explosion last night. The Coast Guard said men originally had bees reported near death from injuries. ebrush | Later reports indieated they were out of danger, 100% Air Conditioned (® — The cross- ad examination of Dr, Samuel Shep- Police Work pard ended today with an assertion by the state’s attorney that he PHILADELPHIA \—The slen-| Pius XII this morning reported his | _ She is survived by one son, Wil- |by engine room expl der, little man watched the movie} condition “stationary.” Earlier a|liam Roberts Blake, Baltimore; | apparently been able through his silver-framed glasses, | Source close to the 78-year-old head | three brothers, Noel A. Cooke, | resulting fire and inju killed his wife and inflicted his injuries on himself. “That is absolutely untrue—and unfair,” Sheppard replied, This was the only time in the long cross-examination that the ac- cused man raised his voice. The state’s attorney John J. Mahon, had asked Sheppard: “Now, those injuries you re- ceived, doctor, didn’t you receive those from jumping off that plat- form onto the. beach?” “No, sir,” Sheppard answered. “T think that would be impossible.” As a brain surgeon he gave his reasons for that answer. He said) there would have to be an injury to the top of the head as well. The top of his head was not in- jured, although he claimed to have a damage to the vertebra in his neck. “Isn't it a fact that you beat your wife that morning,” Mahon thundered, “and after you killed her you rushed down those steps toward the beach and fell or jumped and injured yourself?” Sheppard delivered his emphatic denial. With that, finished. Just before asking whether Shep- pard’s injuries were self-inflicted, the state’s attorney ed Shen- pard if cold water is not more ef- feetive for removing blood stains than hot water. The suggestion ap- peared to be that the accused man} ran down the steps after the mur- der and plunged into Lake Erie to wash away blood from his clothing. Sheppard replied calmly: “I am certainly no authority. I never tried.” It was the fourth consecutive day that the handsome young osteopath | has been in the witness chair. The state accuses him of clubbing his pregnant wife, Marilyn to death in their Bay Village home during the early hours of last July 4. He asserts a bushy-haired prow- ler battered his wife while he slept in a downstairs room, and then in- jured him in two encounters—the second on the narrow beach beside his home. ahon’s earlier questioning dealt with the examinations of Sheppard after he was arrested. He has testi- fied that he underwent questioning by four teams of detectives for nearly 11 hours on one occasion. The prosecuting attorney also asked Sheppard why he did not pick up any kind of weapon on the morning of the murder Sheppard had said he heard a noise down- stairs and went in pursuit of the “form” he testified he saw in his! wife’s bedroom. | Mahon pointed out that there was | 2 pile of wood in the living room and that there were fire irons near. | Why he didn’t pick up one of these} articles? | The accused man said he could) not explain, adding: | “I have never gone after anyone | with a weapon.” | The attorney asked if’ he made| any outeries, or called for help.) Sheppard said: “I may have, ] don’t. remember.” | Just before closing his cross-ex- amination, Mahon asked Dr. Shep- Mahon said he was pard if he told the truth last July! The meeting to be held tonight | mgton cetective captain. He said at the inquest into Marilyn’s death. | ) did not tell the truth about} Miss Hayes,” the doctor replied. | At the time he had denied an af-| fair with Miss Susan Hayes, al- though he admitted it yesterday, “You mean you deliberately lied about it, Doctor? Yes or no?” Mahon shouted. “T don’t think that can be fairly | answered, yes or no,” Dr, Shep- | pard said. “I felt Miss Hayes’ rep- utation justified that answer, sir.” “That's all,’ Mahon said, ending | a cross-examination that began yesterday morning | Defense Atty. William J. Corri- seemingly unaware that hundreds of eyes in the room were glued Out Theory . On Slaying It was a belated birthday party 7 | for former President Harry S. Tru- By RAY STEPHENS |man—a dinner also arranged to BRINKLEY, Ark, (®—The slayer | "ise money for his favorite proj- of Mrs? Sue Fuller, young mother | €¢t. the érection of a library at of two children, may have been| independence, Mo., to house ‘the someone familiar with the habits of her husband. Police Chief Frank Henderson said today he is working on a theory that the nian who killed the prominent 25-year-old brunette may have known that her husband would be away from home during the predawn hours Sunday. | Mrs. Fuller was beaten to death | with a stick of stove wood at her home early Sunday morning | Henderson said her husband Mil- | ton, 31, long had made a custom of arising early and driving to a} downtown hotel coffee shop for | coffee and the morning newspap ers Long-Time Custom Fuller, an auto dealer, told police he made his usual trip to the cof- fee shop about 4:20 a.m. Sunday. He said he returned home after driving by his place of business and then stopping by the police station for a chat with officers on | night duty, After reading the newspapers, he | said he fell asleep on a couch in the living room. He said he was awakened by a noise in his wife’s | bedroom and ran in to find her | dying on the floor. Meanwhile, officers pushed their | search for a former convict, now free on parole from a federal pen- itentiary, who has served time in Illinois for the murder of a woman. | Man Disappears | When police went to the man’s | home in nearby Devalls Bluff yes- | terday afternoon, he had disap- peared. Five men and two womén are being held for questionidg in the case. Police believe Mrs, Fuller was | killed by a barefooted prowler surprised in the act of stealing her purse A footprint made by a barefooted man was found in the backyard of | the Fuller home, and two sets of | similar prints were found in the | kitchen of the house. Two sheriff's deputies found a hlaek, low-eut shoe yesterday in an alley two blocks from the Fuller home, and Henderson said there is | a possibility the shoe was lost by | the fleeing killer. School Board Meet Canceled A tentative meeting of the Mon. | roe County school board set for to- | night has been canceled, School Superintendent Horace O’Bryant said that the meeting | was called off “because we don’t | records of his eight years in the| |of the Roman Catholic Church re- | ported he had weakened percep:i- |bly in the past 48 hours and his on his face rather than the screen.| doctors fear he is threatened by | anemia, The press spokesman’s announce- ment was the first time that the Vatican had not reported continued slow improvement since the pon- tiff rallied from his. serious col- Charleston, Byron Cooke, Miami, and Shirley Cooke, Miami, and | other relatives in Key West. — Burial will be in Baltimore. | MRS. CAROLINE | HERTTELL FORD | died yesterday afternoon at Mon Mrs. Caroline Hertell Ford, 62, The S. S. Fensal, a tanker which had repo EISNER Furniture Co. Poinciana Center — Tel. 2-6951 9 Shopping Days ‘Til Christmas STRAND Box Office Opens at 1:45 P.M. CONTINUOUS SHOWS FROM THERE ON The Finest and Largest Theatre in Key West _——_. Tues. and Wed. Thurs. - Fri. - Sat. PANORAMIC PRODUCTIONS presents | President after the death of Frank-| |nouncing that a terrible new weap- |watehing his day of glory unfold ‘Worker Slain | Mmerly of Boston, who worked at al White House. The birthday celebration yester- r |day was months late because an) bee sacined se aaa the |operation had forced a postpone- Jenene iS in. eee But the guest is nae | The source who reported that the jshowed few, if any, signs of ill| Pope had grown weaker said he health. had been able to take only smail spoonfuls of food by mouth the past two days. He said’ more nutrition had been given, with difficulty, by tube. Judge Caro Hears 3 Guilty Pleas on had been used on the Japanese —the atom bomb. The man at the) ‘Three persons today pleaded head table seemed to watch this | guilty in Criminal Court before scene with greater intensity than! Judge Thomas S. Caro ever. Records in the office of Harry The screen next showed Tru- Dongo, clerk of Criminal Court, man, Winston Churchill and Josef! showed that Fred R. Blaine was Stalin at Yalta—one of the his-| fined $15 or 15 days for drunken- toric conferences of the Truman| ness; Paul L, Grossinger was fin- administration. ed $25 or 30 days for illegal park- Finally, there was a_ shot of|ing; and Harry V. Haskins was Truman with some of his military’| fined $10 or 10 days for speeding. leaders, including Gen. Dwight D.| Yesterday Willie Robinson was Eisenhower. found guilty of receiving stolen Applause For tke rely a He sentenced to There was a ripple of applause,|!V@ years by Judge Caro. but those who started it seemed b Robinson’ was charged with to realize quickly they were there | Preaking and entering the Colored to honor another President. The ce clapping faded and died. The movie ended, the ballroom lights were turned back on and, after an introduetion, the former | President arose to speak briefly of his library project, what it would mean to students, historians and the public. But it was an anti-climax. A man making a speech is a prac- ticed spectacle. The man who had sat there in Movie Shown A motion picture of the high-| | lights of his presidential career was shown the dinner guests. It{ showed Truman being sworn in as | li, D. Roosevelt. Then the scene | shifted to a closeup of Truman an-| | Citizen Want Ads Bring Results LAST CHANCE FOR A FREE. 3-Day Tour To Havana Inguire At EL PASAJE SPANISH RESTAURANT 1005 Truman Phone 2-6136 —_—————— lapse 12 days ago with a gastric! roe General Hospital after a long ailment. illness. Official reports in the past have Funeral services will be held | Thursday afternoon at 4 o’elock at St. Paul’s Church, where the body will be placed at 2 o'clock, The Rev. John Armfield will officiate at the services, Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Burial | will be in the family plot in City | Cemetery. Survivors include one son, Carl E. Ford, Jr.; two grandchildren, Bruce Allen Ford and Kent Em- erson Ford; four sisters, Miss Flo. rida L, Herttell, Mrs. Charlotte Gardner, Mrs. Rosalie Baker and Mrs. Martha Harris; one brother, Robert M. Herttell, and numerous nephews and nieces. ‘| FUNERAL RITES FOR |MRS. SAUNDERS TODAY Funeral services for Mrs, Lau- retta J. Saunders, 86, who died scheduled for this afternoon at four eral Home, officiate at the rites. Se POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires .. Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES the partially darkened ballroom | on the screen had been going through a scene unrehearsed and unaware it was being witnessed, Pretty Gov't WASHINGTON (®—A pretty 23 year-old government girl was found shot to death Monday night amid piles of Christmas packages in a fashionable apartment just across }the Potomac River in Arlington, 4 Va. * The victim was Sally Wood, for- | ; Fox News Box Office Open: 3:45 - 9 P.M., secret government installation in Arlington. Police said Miss Wood apparently was the victim of 4) 1 have anything in particular to con: | sider.” He added that a meeting | would be held later in the month| to authorize payment of routine | bills | was set after last week's meeting | was canceled because of illness among school board members. | Deadline Set For Reserved Car Tags Persons who have reserved auto tags must pay for them before Jan, 3 or lose the reserved number, it | was announced today by Howard | E. Wilson, county tax collector. Wilson said there are about 150 tags now being held. They must | freak accident but launched a full | investigation to check the Possi- bility of murder. The accident theory was ad vanced by Dudley °H. Rector, Ar- | he believed Miss Wood was killed y a chance shot from a shotgun she had purchased as a Christmas present, LAST TIMES TODAY Cartoon 2:45 - 9:00 P.M. Daily WEDNESDAYS CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE @ap~ TELEPHONE 2-3419 FOR TIME SCHEDULE ggg San Carlos Theatre Air-Conditioned Rector said Miss Wood appar- ently died Sunday night or Monday morning. Her body was discovered shortly after dark Monday when apartment officials broke into the room. Her telephone had not aa- swered all day long. The body was curled on its side beside a card table on which were piled Christmas wrappings aad gifts. The shotgun’s butt was on the floor; the barrel was supported Eskimo Nite Sunday Night. gan spent only a brief time ig re-| be paid for’ before Jan. 3 and they direct examination. | ean be picked up at Wilson's office haniennent | in the county court house any tim HST Pays Visit | between Jan. 3 and Feb. 20, 1 To Ailing Friend When calling at Wilson's office to pay for reserved tags, the pur- chaser must bring his 1954 tag re- PHILADELPHIA « — Former President Truman chatted with an old friend and fellow Democrat | gistration certificates with him, James A. Finnegen, president of City Council, in the latter’s hospi- tal room yestérday. Finnegan is recuperating from recent surgery Truman, who recently under- went surgery himself. displayed some of his famed wit wehkadsne some of his famed wit when asked what he and Finnegan had dis- cussed during his visit. Quipped the ex-President: “Our operations.” PRICES PROTESTED CULVER CITY, Calif, ie—two men who had dined earlier on $15 steak dinners returned at closing time to a cafe here and took $3,600 at gunpoint. Owner Joseph Petrilli said the men told him: “You're a good guy, Joe, but you charge too much for your steaks.” Subscribe To The Citizen, Wilson added. Regular tag sales other than re numbers go on sale Jan. 3 and continue until Feb. 20. ceiv There are only about 60 Califor- nia condors left. |PAZO TO BE TRIED | - CRIMINAL COURT | Raymond Pazo, 32, of 17-D Por- jter Place, charged with a crime | against nature involving a 12-year- , ¢ld boy, is scheduled to go to trial | i tomorrow in Criminal Court, the sheriff's department said today. Pazo has been free on $500 Bond since Nov. 5 but his bond was can-! celed last evening and he was picked up at the bus station, the aepartment said. He now is in the) county jail. 2 Pieces of Furs Each Sun Today and Tomorrow 2 DAYS ONLY will be Awarded day Night Tuesday and Wednesda Also HOT NEWS Show Times: ESCAPE FROM FT. BRAVO — 7:00 and 10:16 HOT NEWS 9:08 ONLY Thursday, Friday. and Saturday yesterday morning in Miami, were | o’clock in the Chapel of Lopez Fun- | The Rev. Harold H. 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