Show LAMSON LAMON 1 DEFENSE DEFENE EXPERT UNDER ATTACK L STORY STORYBOOK BOOK CRIME HOUND TAKES STAND Sherlock Hores' Hores Allowed to Give Testimony Despite Qualification Attack STATE SCORES HEAVILY Accidental Death Theory Exhibits Exhibits Exhibits Ex Ex- Ex- Ex hibits Barred by Judge B Bf By United Prell rui SAN JOSE Cal CaI A A defense expert was charged with being a correspondence e school chemist I when he tried to testify today at the trial of David DavidA A. A Lamson Stanford university intellectual charged with wife murder Co Continuing its fight against attempts of the defense to present expert state attacked the lions ions of ot George A. A Weber amateur criminologist of ot Palo Alto I Previously the thc state successfully blocked several other so so called experts ex ex- ex by showing their fx examinations ot of f conditions at the Lamson campus home lome were made at too remote a aime a time ime after Allene Allenc Thorpe Lamson's death lealh Memorial day This mornings morning's session ess on of at the three three- week old trial was delayed until SuperIor Superior Superior Su Su- Su- Su Judge Robert R. R Syer disposed I of a pending calendar of criminal ases cases STATE BLASTS EVIDENCE The de defense nse op opened ne with testimony of M. M Easton Eston San Jose path path- M He testified his tests showed no traces of ot bl blood od in spots and stains found in the kitchen of the Lamson residence The state showed he was VIas not certain the stains staw were there the day the former campus Y Y W. W C. C A A. worker was killed Weber came next He Hc was one of he the the most widely advertised of ot the coterie of at scientists and doctors called to the side of the thc young oung Stanford executive ex cx- charged with shattering the deal campus marriage by beating his wife to death The state claimed the motive was anger over frustrated love ove Deputy Prosecutor Herbert Bridges immediately challenged Webers Weber's right qualify o as an nn expert HALF CHANCES GONE The defense made a determined effort efort ef- ef ort fort to to- t have ha Weber accepted When a previous expert was W rul ruled d out Attorney At At- torney orney Edwin M M. Rca Rea chief chief of at defense de- de tense ense said the dismissal meant hall half halff of f my ray ch chance nce to prove the accident theory Bridges charged the witness with laving having participated in ln only one previous previus otis ous us trial and also with negotiating with a correspondence school chemistry chemis chemis- try ry c course urse Weber recited the authorities au au- he had studied reading from froma rom roma a a k k The witness has shown considerable consider consider- able ble study but negligible practice The IThe court is not satisfied Judge Syer rifled I have made at least 1500 blood Continued on Pate Page Two STORY BOOK i CRIME HOUND TAKES STAND Continued from P Pate Pass ae One tests Weber retorted Syer relented d and ad permitted him hm to testify The first thing I did die when I entered the Lamson Lamon home was vms to go to t the bathroom get out my ray microscope and se see what I could find he said SHERLOCK HOLMES Solemnly deliberative Weber told of ot snooping about the house peerIng peering peer peer- per ing at doors walls wals windows spots spot tracks fingerprints and the like that thal 1 I was looking for evidence someone climbed over the patio pato walls wals and broke through the doors h he ex cx- Webers Weber's manner was wa 50 so FO much like Ike that of ot the popular conception of at the scientific detective that even the worried worried wor wor- ried ned young defendant broke into it a smile smie Weber bro brought Into int court cout the re remains remains re mains of the bonfire in which v the state mins claimed it i found the alleged murder weapon a piece of iron pipe He had the ashes of ot the fire In a aI i I package e and a collection of ot things ranging from a piece of hose to hairpins hair hair- pins The witness winess rolled up his hi sleeves and reached in As he withdrew each article artcle he held it up for all aU to see SPILLS JUNK JUNKIn In turn he showed a small smal spade a apiece apiece apiece piece of ot curtain rod tin tn cans cas a jar jarld lid a plate from an electric fixture ld nieces nipe of metal snail shells the piece of o-h o t hose se a brok broken cup corn corn corn- corncobs cobs Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nc nese e coins a mass mas r of ot copper wire cig cig- cg aret stubs and many other things Each Ech he placed on the table In front tont of him The pile spilled over the over the edges of or the table I The state showed sifted he-sifted led he-led the ashes and obtained the variegated articles artices many days after the tragedy On the south edge of at the fire firc Weber said sid he found a charred h section of cloth coth which looked like a painters painter's patters patter's He gave it to E. 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O Hemrich Heinrich Hein- Hein rich the defense star str expert eber was present when the Berkeley Berke Berke- Berke ley Icy scientist examined the cloth What tests test did he apply Attorney Rea flea asked CLOTH SAME He took a piece of ot the and a piece of ot the cloth Dr had hd brought from the fire fre and ad we each ech tested both pieces of ot cloth coth and found their warp and woof woot identical Weber replied Dr Frederick state pathologist pathologist pathologist path path- expert testified the cloth may have been pieces of rag used to wipe up blood Weber said he was wa-s called caled to the charred chirred canvas from which he ct claimed med the piece of burned cloth coth originated He said sid he made a microscopic examination examination exam of oC the fragments and found them identical Bridges sought to blast the witness witness' observations Brides on blood spots Next h he attacked the fire fre establishing that tha Weber would not vouch for any ay changes in the residue from May 30 the day of ot Mrs Irs Lamson's death to tc June 24 4 Bridges said sId he was called caled to the Lamson death scene by Lamson's sis sis sis- ter Dr Margaret Lamson Both state and defense attorneys next questioned him closely cosely as to tc whether blood spots had been removed either by scraping or washing t from the Interior of the cottage SAN JOSE Cal Cal Sept 8 8 Defense Defense tactics in the murder trial of oC DavId A. A Lamson Lamon handsome Stanford university uni uni- intellectual were rearranged hastily hasty today after an effort efort to prove Mrs Allene Alene Lamson died from an accidental accidental ac ac- ac fall fal was blocked by Judge R R. R. R Syer R Earlier In I the d day Y defense tactics tactic were rearranged hastily after an effort effort ef ef- ef fort lort to prove Mrs Lamson died froman from an accidental fall tl was blocked by bj Judge Syer Prosecutor Allan Ala P P. Lindsay dealt deall deal swift blows at the defense defene as Lamson Lamson Lam Lam- Lm son and lost his habitual composure in in i cross examination cros-examination objection ob oh- Judge Syer upheld the states state's and prevented Dr Charles Charle M M. Richards San Jose ray X-ray expert f from r on- on testifying that he believed Allene Alene died from a fall in the bathroom ol ot the Lamson cottage He refused to permit George A A. Weber Palo Alto Alo criminologist U to tol demonstrate with wih a wash basin said to be identical with th that t in the Lainson Lamson Lam Lain Lm son cottage how Allene Alene might have fainted tainted in her tub struck her head headon heid headon on and received the several fractures of her skull revealed by an autopsy STATE CO CONTENTIONS The Tlc state contends contend that tat blows fro froia a pipe could have caused the many manywounds manywounds may wounds wound that a single sigle fall fal could not have caused them The defense holds the reverse everse view The state stale presented witnesses in proof of at its contention Denied similar opportunity Defense Counsel Edwin M. M Rea Rca shouted We are not trying necessarily to prove accident but that tat Dave Lamson is i not guilty The state stat must prove it was wa not an accident that that it was murder murder murder mur mur- der and that Dave did it i 1 Lamson tense after rigid cross cross- cro examination was outwardly shaken shaen Dr R. R Stanley Stnley Kneeshaw Keeshaw San Jose physician helped the defense defene however however however how how- ever without being permitted to mention mention men men- tion ton the washstand theory Using a agol golf gol club to demonstrate Dr Kee Kneeshaw Kneeshaw Knee Knee- sh shaw w sought to show that wounds on Mrs Lamson's head could have been ben caused by one blow from tram a flat nat sur sur- face Dr Kneeshaw flaty flatly contradicted the important state testimony of oC Dr A. A W. W Meyer Stanford university anatomist who held that hemorrhagic areas area he found under the victims victim's scalp could have been caused only by bya a strong pull pul on her hair Dr Kneeshaw Knee Knee- Ke- Ke shaw said the areas could easily have been caused by a single sin le blow through diffusion of blood blod before the te heart stop stops beating STATE CHARGES Lamson held his wife wie by her long braided hair and beat her d on the back backof of the head the state charged Dr Ke Kneeshaw haw will wi be examined cross to day Lamson himself failed to add to the accidental fall fal theory when he described de do de scribed the position in i which he found hi his wife's body Pleading that tat his mind was wa hazy from grief gref and frequently answering I dont don't remember Lamson said Allene's Al- Al Allene's A- A lenes lene's bod body was wa lying across the edge of the bathtub face downward against the floor All Al expert witnesses c had testified that the first blow whether from rom n n. flat surface or pipe had caused instant in I. I stant unconsciousness His HLo wife's nude torso lay outside the tub face on the thc floor while the lower part kart art ace of ot the body remained In Inthe inthe inthe the bath Lamson said said He admitted there were no marks mark of ot violence on her face a fact tact proved by autopsy The state stale contended that If t she had struck her head on the washstand she would have fallen falen backward to the floor or that if i her body turned completely completely com corn In falling fabling her face would have been bruised as it i struck the floor foor STRESS STESS LA CR CRY The state stressed Lamons Lamon's Lamson's cry to Mrs L. L M. M Place n a caller caler My God Go my wife wile L has been murdered Lamson Lamson Lam Lam- Lm son testified he had no thought at the te time that Allene Alene might have b been killed by a fall faU He grew confused when asked aked how he knew his wife wie was dead He then said he felt tel for her ler heartbeat It was his instant conviction that Allene Alene had been murdered that caused him hi to shout to Mrs Place to telephone po po- po lice he testified I He gave no reason renson for not lifting lilting his pound wife wie from the tub and said he did not think to telephone for doctors to t see if it i a spark of at life He re remained remained re- re re In her body |