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Show Student Slays Wife And Her Priest Lover Former L. A. Divinity Student Stu-dent Near Collapse After Killing Two. NEW YORK, Nov. 27 UJ.R) So unstrung that he was unable to stand unaided, Joseph L. Stein-metz, Stein-metz, 22-year-old former Los j Angeles divinity student was ar-; ar-; raigned in homicide court today, ' charged with slaying his 17-year-old wife and a Roman Catholic priest to whose room she had gone. The hearing, on an affidavit which did not stipulate the degree of the crime, was adjourned until Dec. 3rd, presumably to permit action by the grand jury which will fix the nature of the offense. of-fense. Steinmetz entered no plea to the formal homicide charge preferred by Detective Robert Rehman. Details Withheld The affidavit said Steinmetz, who was arraigned under the name of Harry Steinmetz, "discharged several shots" into the bodies of his movie-dancer wife, the former Ruth Tiles Armstrong, and the Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, 40, chaplain chap-lain of the Morris Hall home for the aged at Lawrenceville, N. J. It gave no further details, From Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gonzales it was learned that Mrs. Steinmetz and the priest were in a state of undress when the student entered the cleric's room at the K. of C. hotel yesterday yester-day after a drinking bout, and killed them both. "Steinmetz was the apostate son of a Jewish family. He had studied at a divinity school, seeking seek-ing to become a Presbyterian minister. |