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Show i FURTHER LIGHT ON TWIN DOLLS Wife Unperturbed While Husband Testifies to Chicago Trip HAMMOND Ind , Oct. 20. Two 'lilrigo women who knew her as a jrhlld today went to tho defense of Mrs. , Hazel Mc.N'ally. accused by her husband hus-band of killing the twin babies ho !savs wop born to her last December Tho maternity hoax with which Mrs 'McNally said she deceived her friends (and rolatives by ' mothering' two dolis was, if true, a repetition of n Blmllar clo.-eptlon Bho worked when 6ho was 1G years old, theao women said. Hazel Hill, the name by which Mrs. Mi Nally was known, as a child, possessed pos-sessed a mania for "playing mother," according to Mrs. G. H. Kahno, whoso daughter, Rhea- was a playmate of Huel. At 10 the mania became so pronounced that the girl actually fool-icd fool-icd her closest frlonln. Mrs. Kahn" tsald. made them believe she was to become a mother and later appeared with twins" which later turned out to be only dolls. Then as in the later caso whleh brought her Into court on a charge of murder. Hazel carefully kept tho Caees of hor "twins" concealed from ihcr friends Mm. Kahno said. According to Frank McNs.ll?, the husband, who took tho stand Thursday, Thurs-day, his wife giuc birth to twins Do-comber Do-comber 8. 1921. A few weeks later thf -v disappeared, ho said Mrs. BkfcNal-l BkfcNal-l explaining she had taken them to a Chicago hospital. Tho "dummies' were substituted, ho said, for the benefit ben-efit of curious neighbors. Ill SHAN D TESTIFIES. HAMMOND, lnd . Oct. 20. Frank McNally, middle-aged factory' worker work-er who accuses his wife of murder-Ing murder-Ing twin babies he says were born to her last December, asserted at the preliminary hearing that Mrs. McN'al-l McN'al-l took the children to a hospital In unicago lost January unci iviuimvu with two dolls which she substituted for the babies Mrs .McNally. who claims that the twins never ero born and that she .winked her husband and neighbors neigh-bors by using dolls in order to satisfy sat-isfy her hus-band's ambition to be known as a father, was unperturbed by he: husband s testimony. ' McNally testified the twins were born December 8, last, asserted that he bad seen them and that the) were alive. DOLLs GIVEN AIRING. McNally said his wife bought a baby carriage for the dolls and that he frequently took the dolls out for an airing. His wife, he testified, "w at through all the motions of dressing them, washing thorn, washing their clothes and hanging them on the line. 8 nding their clothes to the cleaners and taking them to Chicago on shopping shop-ping trips." He said he carried one of the dolls on one trip to Chicago and his wife carried the other. Asked If he ever said anything about the dolls, he replied that when he trl( I to dlecuss the matter his wife "threw all the shoes at mo and tho dishes off the table." Finally, he said, neighbors discovered discov-ered the hoax and he told his wife to get rid of the dolls. Ho assorted they disappeared about May 20 and that he had never seen them since. BABIES, G I K L SAYS. I Hiss Catherine Griffiths, 15-year- 0 r.1,1 .1. lighter nt tho nnrfle who attend ed Mn. M Nally. was an important slate witness She said she learned Mrs. McNally was to become a mother when she accompanied her to a bathing bath-ing beach In the summer Of 1121 She asserted that after the time Mc-Nallv Mc-Nallv says the twins were born, lhC had "seen the babies In bed, alive and kicking, and also saw ono of the babies bab-ies nursing. Merrltt Metz, an acquaintance of ib M Nallys. said ho haci seen M Hc-Nally Hc-Nally earlv last December and that she was approaching motherhood Mrs. Ann.i Hartman, a neighbor of Mrs. McNally, also testified she had seen Mrs. McNally in December and that she was soon to become a mother. It was expected that when McNally concludes his testimony today. the midwife who, McNally says, attended his wife when the twins were born would be put on the stand, possibly as tho last witness for the state. Mr. McNally who appears to consider the affair lightly, was expected to be among the first witnesses for the defense. de-fense. rtrt lips told friends that 1 1 f - at homo w.ls unbearable and that ho fled from Clara's alternate embraces and rebuffs re-buffs to more sympathetic company. Plnr-.l hours prfcedlnjr the trial are filled with many surprises. Tho defense de-fense maintains the state adroitly Inflamed In-flamed public opinion by printing fragmentary' evidence, that only part of the Alberta Meadows diary h.is been divulged, that even Peggy Caffee, Caf-fee, eye witness, has failed to detail many obscure phases of her account of the murder, The state replies that Phillips' confession Is untrue. Through all the last -minute sur-prlces. sur-prlces. charjees and counter harpres. Clara Phillips. 26, who pleaded not guilty, sits tight-lipped but with reassurance re-assurance In her cell, awaiting trial, her husband's alleged vagrant affections affec-tions now back to her again, as he works for her acquittal |