Show SHE NEVER WANTED SYMPATHY l Mrs Lilliendahl Alone She Faces Vividly O as Trial per per- 4 s v k i iS 1 S v x t M 4 W s 3 k 3 c cF cW F W i L Mrs Irs Margaret court face is sketched at the upper right At the upper left Is It Willis Beach Deach co- co codefendant C codefendant defendant In n the New Jersey Jer y murder mystery Below Belol Beach ch is J J. Sher Sher- Sherwood Sherwood wood food Thompson radio merchant of Bridgeport Conn brother of Mrs who says he will spend every cent to clear her At the lower right aro arc Fred rut Pugh of Philadelphia and Louis detective LudvIco Lud- Lud vIco is to holding a pistol which the themay state may attempt to prove proe Push Pugh loaned Willis Beach w n 1 V t l tF F s s 1 f t ts s e 4 T i f Si 7 ift 1 El Y r 1 J a v i Iw 3 awe uM i I I By HORTENSE SAUNDERS NEA TA Service Ice Writer MAYS AYS LANDING N. N J. J J. I I am nev nev- never never never er lonesome I 1 never have hwe been conscious cf wanting sympathy I never have needed other people around me Mrs Margaret Marguet Lilliendahl said that thata a 3 few weeks ago Soon she goes on trial here for the murder of her hus hus- husband band Dr William under circumstances that promise to test to the fullest her stole stoic spirit of self- self reliance Priding herself In her aloneness as os one takes It she sh does Mrs Lilliendahl must find the setting for her court battle a 8 peculiarly satisfying one It ItIs Itis Is easy to Imagine her smiling secretly over the manner In which It befits her traits of mind Willis Beach Deach and for for- former former former mer neighbor of the Is a a. I co But as Mrs der and Judd Gray went separate ways In New Yorks York's famous amous Snyder case caC of last summer so there 1 Is no reason to believe Mrs Lilliendahl and Beach Deach will not make common cause at Mays Landing ONLY OJ KINSMAN KINS AN Mrs parents are arc dead Her lIer only son Is with Ith relatives his mother does not want him to know what has happened Of kinsfolk or acquaintances personally active e In aid aid- aidIng aldIng aiding Ing her there seems ems to be but one one one- J. J Sherwood Thompson Thomps n of Bridgeport Brid Conn her brother To Mays Landing and the country roundabout Mrs Lilliendahl is a a. stranger This drowsy old-fashioned old lower Jersey town Is 15 made up up of peo peo- people people who seem not exactly hostile to her but certainly not at all excited over her predicament Mrs Lilliendahl lived In this vicin vicin- vicinity vicinity ity only a 0 little more than a II year prior to her arrest and she Is not the sort of person who makes friends quickly TOWER OF STRENGTH Robert H. H McCarter outstanding New Jersey lawyer who ho defended el Mrs Frances Hall at Somerville Is about the only tower of strength on Mrs side so far as person person- personalities personalities personalities go Ho He Is her chief counsel counsel- and In any part of New Jersey having havinga a McCarter as counsel means much There remains a 0 good deal of mys- mys cry ery about Willis Beach B ach He is a 0 cu curious cu- cu curious curious rious character One Ono moment since Investigation of of the murder m rd i- i started he hens hens hens ns been the boaster boaster no no suspicion possibly could attach to him Then Continued Contino cd on Page Five c NEVER ASKED FOR SYMPATHY Continued from Pate Pare One he IB has been the fugitive hiding while the grand Jury deliberated Then more recently he has been reported d the victim of heart attacks and a a. probable casualty If subjected to the tress stress of an open trial BEACH CLAN CUN LOYAL LOYALEe Beach Ee Ch has plenty of friends His brother Roy Beach is 13 one ono of Mays landings Landing's most substantial citizens The Beach clan including Beach Beachs f wife and up grown-up children are all aU staunch and loyal It was at Vineland some Ome 20 miles mlles away that Willis Beach and the Lil- Lil lived led l ed Vineland Is a center cf of the chicken Industry Along the spur of road where the th doctor and Mrs lived are many prosperous middle class ClaM homes including Beachs Beach E EYes Yes I knew her but not well a neighbor will tell you jou ou very Cry conserva conserva- conservatively ely tI She often went riding with the doctor They took Ions lon drives together No I never Defer heard of any scandal between her and Willis Beach But there is one who Is more lo loquacious lo- lo Mrs William the postmistress of South who received and delivered the Peggy Anderson letters sometimes as many manyas as three a day She was always dolled up In gay colors with her skirts getting shorter and shorter till they got go to her knees was her comment on Mrs LIWendahl Lilliendahl Mrs own gingham skirts almost concealed her ankles DOCTOR TALKED T OF ADENOIDS ADE I x never never ne knew she was the doctors doctor's wife He used to come In here for forIce forIce forice Ice cream cr fine cream ine am-ine fine old man who told me I ought to have ha my children childrens s adenoids taken out He asked me about his wife but I 1 never connected her with this gay guy creature who used to meet I et Beach here day after day and sit for h hours urs with him out In front frontin in his automobile u But it was another Mrs who appeared In court asking ball bail following her Indictment Here was wasa a stern stun frowning woman in a a. long black velveteen coat c t. t a black hat and ard anda arda a black veil eU all aU a bit shabby but un Un- uncompromising compromising Mrs comes from Amen Ameri American can Revolution lineage but the events even of gf her life seem to have ha been not in inthe Inthe inthe the least I est colorful or romantic up to the time Dr was slain After finishing convent she spent years vears caring for a brother who ho later died Her marriage was as comparatively comparatively late 34 34 to a man thirty years yean her senior s I or There Is nothing to sug lug suggest suggest gest gut that teat t at she has had a a. happy and carefree life fife and much to suggest that she he learned to repress and to build up p defenses all along the way SnOT SHOT ON OS LONELY LO ELl ROAD Dr Lilliendahl 72 was killed on a lonely road four miles mUes from Hammon- Hammon Hammonton ton N N. J. J J J. between 12 and 1 o'clock in the the- morning of cf September Septem r 15 was was vas shot ahot in the brain and In the throat with a 32 calibre revolver which had been en fired at such close range that his face was powder po mark mark- marked ed His wife told the police that two negroes had stopped the car In which she was driving her husband taken her Jewelry robbed the doctor of and then murdered him Most of ot the Jewelry liter deer ter was found near the scene of the murder Dr had specialized In the care of nar nar- narcotic narcotic narcotic cotic addicts |