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Show TnneStil Fjrcsocirtiosi Gpor-i5 Case i Ajjainci f.'idn Acc"iced of Murder of Hi Fiancee. Mother of Girl Victim Be-comes Be-comes Hysterical in Court; Spectators Are Affected. I I I.OS AN''.'l::i.KS, Cal.. TV,:. 1 S. Two.vp I men, aJl but t wo pa-t t he mcr'altan of I life, were sworn late today to try Harry i S. Vw on the charge that be murib r - d I Frrda ls.cr, bis sweetheart, la.j: Jt:ly. I Nrdtla-r state nor defense permltiel women wom-en to pass tine pt-renipiory :hali' im .-s, although al-though sevcr.al were pa.-ji-d for oaus Formal ir.M.f of the alb'-yed crime wa? .IntroIuccd and tliin, ,wli.h s-jc fac ami j niottonks tni.Jy, .New lisP-ned whiio Freda) 1 l'fsvr's mother, M rs. Alice lesser, told ' betwt un. . intervals of hysteria of h- r j daughter's luVe for N . and nis for her. ;' Mrs. Lesser was taken to the court-' court-' nxtrn from htT home In an automobile i by county detectives and as slie was led toward the front room dor :-he f 11 In a faint. WW-a sho was revived btr plrc-ins:, plrc-ins:, hysterical screams pencd:aud tiirouhvut tho hall of Justice, in which the courtroom Is sit uat'-d. a a 1 sv k cral women In tlie courtroom bfcomim; hysterical hyster-ical Superior Jud;-:e Gavin W. Cra or-I or-I df,rd a snort rocess until quhd bad been r-s'.ore-.t Were Fellow-Employees, ! Mrs. 1-ss.ir t.-stlti- J that b-r daucbter j I w ,s ia b- r t.;nii.ih e.Lr at time of: ! h r d'.'.uh, jind ia:it she :'ad b-.- n couri.l j for som- m-.nti'S Sy New. To-y h td ! b '.n fellow eiiiplu c.'s ia a Ias Anci-s . husin.ss nousr. j Two d;is h fore the alb-u'-d murder, ( i-Mus. -ss.-r said. Nev io'd her he wish-di I to marry her dauu'.'K. r on the day h'.h, i'rovtri the last of h.-r li;"e. She uri;-! 'him to wait, sho fr:dd. but he insist, d ( j t.'iat he d'-sircd to m.L,;y as- Ciub-kly a.- I l-.s.-lble. On the ay afi--r this ivnvers.i: Ion, no-Icordinr no-Icordinr to ihe witness, sh br daughter.. I a ii'-iulibor sr-rnan and New went on an I auroTnobile r!d. r turning to tiie Lt-ser i nono: :n t.:e a:u:rr.on. Ni;w an .Niiss I L-.-sscr then b:ft a'iln. and that was the i last Mrs, lesser siw ot hr daughter, ; ah- .tild. "i lo sre:r..-d to love h-r and I know 6he loved him," said Mrs. I.i-sscr. - "He j said be womd Lriiu her taek to jne. but he :n-ver did." Fader cross-examination by I,, compte . Travis, u ho witn At'orn.-s Jud It. liuh I ;cnd John liicnardson, is dem'!.:n' ! N..T, Mrs. lesser said Now ;iad always in'tii kind to hf-r ilau-ater arwl also had been very considerate o the witness. Had Confidence in New. "I never saw a nicer youniz1 man," she-gai'L she-gai'L "I had r-vvry coniid-.-iic in him." Mrs. Ix-ss- r was p.eceded on the stand by '.. A. Iai )son, u oMce d.accitve. The ! wltaos.s said h-- uas on duty. a:lin as j desk erjreant at the central ;-"lice suttam j hi re, about :t o'clo- k on the momim,' ot J ui v I. v. hen tne d-ff-ndant eric-red and j handed him a revolver. No M'fort was mads :o Intro.bicj at tills ;d:u eonfen-sfons eonfen-sfons New is alleged to hav,. made to Davidson and others, hut the- prosecution I aiinouiu ed it would try to placo tb ec before the Jury later. Davidson said he and another yH.lico of- ficer an! two newspaper iu:n went outside out-side tb s'.a.t:ofi and 5-aw wuiii'i a clo.- d aulomobib- In widen New had driven to tne station tho !-dy ( a younij wom-ia he aftt-rwivrd b-arn-d was Freda L.esscr. It Is t'ae theory of the pros" cut ion that i New killed bis swe.-t;ieart in Topanvo j caTU'on. a few mIKs from hre. In a b.;rs; of anjuv-r Mrjui. of her refusal to marry I him, and th.-n drove with tne body - -side hi.n to the police siaiion to surrender. sur-render. Surgeon Is Witness. The first prosecution witness wa. Dr. A. . W aimer, county autopsy surKCon. He testified n n exanunatton had shown Miss Jyssr was to become a mother, j And also described the bullet wound which caus'-.d hf-r d'-ath. I'r. W.u'nT f-ald the bullet had passed throuirh the h.-ad at a downward an!e. Under cros.s-' lamination, the witness adndttd he could not tell from whnt distance dis-tance the bullet hid hv-n fired, and also that the downward arvu'le of the ndsslle was a s'i;;ht one. The Jury was Impanrb'd before tt was M-;ct-'tl slei-tlon would be completed, and wlieu boih sldC3 stlil tuiA poreraptory Cballeng-cs left. NewB demeanor during the aay was iunchangd for the roost part. He main talned hla air of indifference, and looked neither at the witnesses nor jury except on one occasion. This was -when the bullet with whlr?h he is alleged to have killed Miss Lesser was introduced in evidence and passed from one Juror to another for examination. examina-tion. He glanced quickly at the Jurors as they bent over the bit of lead and seemed somewhat affected. Tho attendance today was larger than on previous days. |