Show 1 tRUEL MURDER IS LAID TO NEWS NEW'S SHATTERED 11 LOVE IDEAL IDEA I IRl Sl SLAYER YR STUNNED BY JURY H Harry rry New Nev Falls Back as I Hit by Club When Revo ver He Used Is at Coroners Coroner's By John A. A Gray Los Loi Angeles July 12 What What Fret Free Lesser would have with a aher aher her woman womans woman's instinct were she Ilyin was tho the long-kept long secret yielded 1 i her hor dead body under the autopsy su suge ge Jn's examination The fact tact that she was to become mother which has carried Its new bu buden buden den of woe to her mother with h already Immeasurable desolation c e es s soul Jul has through the tho Irony ot or tl ti strange e situation become the come corne stone in the structure of the doZens the hope of tho the prisoner An effort was made by the girls re me aUve to prevent pre a post mart em J. J Clark an attorney on behalf of ot Mr Clyde Minnis Fredas Freda's cousin serVE sery a formal notice on the coroner that tl ti autopsy should not be held heid but butth th wa was disregarded and the law abl ably took Its course with the truth a as ns th the thu finale Scene a R Gripping Tragedy The drama of ot tho the discovery corroborates the story of or Harry S. S Ne No Jr the girls girl's slayer was the tho dims to tho brief but tense inquest seen which was heavy with the tho of or t the e tragedy of ot both the living U athe ar all the dead It Is doubtful if It the body of ot Fret Leaser lying in an adjoining rOOT was so poignantly expressive of ot deal dealas dealas as the animate man of ot the under d cl vel ja jaw who sat with head averts avert and strained eyes looking through the puffed flesh around theas theas the theas as he heard In Its simplicity but tr conclusiveness the story t ry the murder from the lips of the ft It witnesses examination Set After this New still sUll clinging to tl paper bag he had brought to the i II quest which contained a a. pair of or soca sock a suit of ot underwear and a litte fruit nIl all brought to him in the morning 1 I Edna Clancy his devoted half sister halt was arraigned before Justice HI sha shaw The Tho setting of his examination for tor Monday was followed by his transfer to tl county Jail where he hc occupies a a. cin cc in ward No 1 Tho The same samo precaution against po sible self sell destruction which w w. adopted in tho the city Jail is being o oi 01 served In his new prison home a tru t ty will occupy the cell with him e e ery cry night During the day h he will I 1 under close guard Suard Girls Girl's Mother Seek Death And it is the tho same sam which has caused the thc relatives ar nurse at the bedside of Mrs Lesser t be un relaxing In their watchfulness was reported that she had a wish to die in such terms that m men meD z suros wore vore taken to forestall an nn violent act As there has never neer been a case i the history of the local courts in a a. man has hns' hns urged such a defense as wl as-wl wi be News that is Is that he shot hi sweetheart because she was going t destroy the life lito of ot her child chUd and hi preparations for fOI the trial are n unusual interest both In the attorneys attorney's office and among lawyer ge generally generall n e ra I I y It was learned that a friend of Unit United United ed States Senator New whom hom the con confessed confessed confessed slayer claims to be his father tather and which caUm calim appears to be sub b by tho the Senator himself ha hamade hamade made Inquiries by bj wire as to the ci clr of ot the thc tragedy This has led lcd to tho the conjecture appears to ha have hae e a good deal of color that Senator New will provide for tor th tho prisoners prisoner's defense through the mentality of a second party part and wll til 11 himself not be bo known as the funds rf L 3 r j. a await van me Lisa uc uc- cis cislon Ion of ot Mrs Lithe Lillie Burger mother Her love for the unfortunate Issue of ot her girlhood affair atral with Senator Senator Sen ator New Is said to be boundless and she will go to an any extreme to frehim tree free him Sho has already appealed In Inmany Inmany many importunate messages to the senator and her actual contact wither with her sons son's plight doubtless will give an eVen more passionate note to her ent en en- treaties rca t tics Ic a. a Now is at present represented by Attorney At At- torno torney John Richardson on who brought out at th thu th Inquest a tow few bits of test which he be regards as emphatic In their bearing upon the plea of ot in san sanity It Ho He sou sought ht to learn from Autopsy Surgeon Wagner what his explanation had disclosed as to the tho girls girl's but the tho objections of ot Deputy District DirIc Attorney Asa sa Keyes were consistently upheld held by Coroner Hartwell It wn was only afterward when D D. E. E O. O Sawyer at Richardson's Richardsons request mado made Continued on following pago I i SLAYER OF URL GIRL IS j STUNNED BY PROBE OF DEATH F Falls Back Bata as If Hit ait by b Club When Re Revolver olvet Is IE Exhibited Continued from Crom preceding page that the defense crucial Issue was resolved and the result announced There Them was awaiting New long be- be Toro furo his arrival at It tho scene of ot tho inquest the undertaking establishment II nf Alvarez C Blue at nt Court streeta street a a n great crowd crowll of oC tho the curious and many who were legitimately Interested Against Violence IIo Ito was talc taken en front from rom his cell In the tipper upper part of ot the City Jail building shortly before beCorE 2 o'clock by b Police Officers Off OUI- cers Herman ClIno and anil Joseph Taylor Talor He Ife gathered s up his suit putt of oC underwear tho tha clean socks and tho the few teW pieces of oC fruit thrust them with an nn unsteady hand Into the paper per bag and still und uncle un un- d cler cle r tho spell of oC montal mont vagueness subI sub sub- his wrist to tho encircling I steel band of oC the tho handcuff handcut The Tho other othor bracelet was around T Taylors Taylor's lors wrist On tho way wn ho begged Clino for tor permission permission permissIon per per- mission to sea seo Freda I II I lOr Just want w one look he said Sho She was minI mine and she loved me mc Sho She has forgiven mo me t. t causo o she sho understands Wont Won't you do 10 that mu much h for tor me mo Its It's tho only request rawest I will over make But there thero had h been an n order that he should not nol see her and his fell upon cars ears of oC stony stono New Now leaked ed far Cor from Crom prepossessing when hen he stepped steppe from the car linked to the tho officer who towered In front 1 tho the click click- Of OC him lIe He neither regarded Iff cameras nor the gaping crowd which pre pressed cd from All 11 sides r r The hen heavy flush lush which has been deepening on his face ace b by steady gradations grada grada- gradations since ho became a 0 prisoner was moro more marked than ever Ills His eyes swollen evidently c ho had beer been crying Ills His features were ver distorted Some Somo emotion fear emotion fear re remorse remorse re- re morse mOUe or wretchedness wretchedness has has strangely changed his expression It Is doubtful If It a single thing thInS ho he caw Impressed him even e faintly until Coroner reaching for Cor something some- some thinS thing lying on the table exposed It to general view lew and d Policeman D D. A A. Davidson Davidson to whom New tew surrendered red on n tho morning of July 5 Is this the revolver re Tho words brought News New's eyes from Crom their heavy stare tare out Into nothing And ho he caught for or an nn Instant the tho picture 1 of the thing that made him a l murderer His Ills head fell The Intensified ned lied glaring light In his eyes was accentuated accentuated ac ac- lC- lC as he looked at t tho the floor For a n. moment there was such mch a a. suffusion suffusion sion of blood to his taco faco nce that he looked as s though ho he might havo have apoplexy thou though h he is not of ot the type typo that does docs Thereafter ho did not look up because he the revolver passed from the coroners coroner's hand band to the officers officer's and back again at length was laid on the table directly In front of him Davidsons Davidson's testimony provided th the he heart ut and the crux of oC the case co c o the prisoner Toll Tell tho the Jury the story story just Just wha what occurred occurred- s said ald al tho the coroner after pre pro I was wa on dut duty at tho the desk sale sail the officer when when vh n. n New walked In ant an nd said paid I Ive 1 s' s shot a woman She's ou out there thero In the tho car C He lie had a n revolver er In Its Its' holster Ho He s-avo s this to mo ma and said That Is I what I did It with She to 10 because sho she re rc refused re- re He lG said s I shot her fused Cuse to marry me I went out with him to the tho car and found Cound lying on her left side In the tha back baek scat tho the bod body of Freda Lesser Did Old you ou ask him where ho he got the revolver Yes ho he said laid his uncle J. J r TJ L. Anderson Anderson Ander Ander- about six son had given It to him months ago to use In case of ot a n holdup hold hold- up What was his manner asked Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney Richardson Was as ho excited Ir ir said 8 the witness No o In tho defense defenso theory this will be bo nn 11 important circumstance In that It will witt tend to show show show-it It will bo ho claimed an unnatural state stat of mind Dr A. A F I Wagner gner autopsy surgeon described briefly tho the nature nature of ot the woun wound On examination cross ho he said that th tho revolver re must havo have been held within with with- in six sip Inches of tho the girls girl's Irl's head This answer which again recalled vl vividly to Now tho the midnight scene In tn his mothers mother's car on tho canyon canon canon can can- yon on road gave s him a n blow that might have havo been physical so suddenly did he lie recoil from It He lie Is a n man who thinks matter as puts It Without Imagination lion tion only phy physical facts fact engage his mind hind One Ono could not help thinking as s he sat there that ho could o e easily u lly havo have Explained the girls girl's death either cither as sul- sul clde and Ide-and and there would have havo been none Lo to o successfully refute him him or or as DoS an nn accident For Instance he perhaps with the tho revolver In his hand threatening threat threat- ening ning to kill himself because she he had refused him and she seizing It from Him nine with fatal result to herself herselt But his liis sluggish mind appears to hae worked along on lines of oC fact fact act wil al Ca facts ts Althou Although h New has lost the one Woman roman by his own hand he Is still surrounded by those who love lovo him Two or three women neighbors In Glendal came with Miss 1185 Clancy to the ho Inquest and turned pitying eyes ees on the he ho tragic figure sitting with head town lown own by tho the table But Hut out In the other room were blends of oC the Lessors Lessers and the tho verdict or f f their faces was of oC tho kind a man barged with murder does docs not wel wel- come coma |