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Show SALOME DANCER $S SISTtM Np Maud Allan Makes Admission Admis-sion During Trial of Libel Case in London. LONDON, May 29. During the trial today of Noel Pemberton-Billing, member mem-ber of parliament for ISast Hertfordshire and publisher of tho newspaper Vigilant, who is charged with libelling Maud Allan, Al-lan, a dancer, and J. P. Greln, manager of the Independent theater, in connection with a proposed production of "Salome," Miss Allan testified on cross-examination that she was a sister of Theodore Purant. who was hanged in California in January, 1SES, for murder. Maud Allan is an American dancer, who first won renown in London In 19US with a "Salome" dance In the music halls of the English capital. The man who sho admitted in the trial in London was her brother was convicted and sentenced to death in one of tho most sensational mm-der trials ever held in California. He was convicted of killing kill-ing Blanche Lamont in April, 1!0lj, and burying her body beneath the flooring in Immanuel church. Previous to his arrest ar-rest for this murder, Durant had been taken into custody on suspicion of connection con-nection with the death of Minnie Williams, Wil-liams, anothor young girl, whose body was found in the tower of Immanuel church. |