Show DEFENSE HITS BLOOD TESTS at United Pren JOSE Cal Sept 9 Attorneys ys for David A. A Lamson Stanford campus campus campus cam pus 1 ed of f murdering his wife Allenc Allene perfected plans pIans during during during dur dur- ing a adjournment of the trial 1 tod today y after their No 1 witness testified that b blood on the alleged murder w weapon apon might have been stain ir from m carrots peas or leav leaves s. s Dr Edward Oscar Heinrich Berkeley Berkeley Berke Berke- ley Icy famed for for solving a half dozen major majot crimes and as s a witness in such noted cases as Ruth Judd trunk murders murden and the Massie Massic trial in Honolulu added added- to the succession of f negative statements statements' offered by the defense ro exp experts led by Dr Dt Frederick Santa Clara county path pathologist Said tests revealed blood on a ten-inch ten Iron pipe and rem remnants nants of cloth found In ashes o of a b bonfire bon boa n nIre fire Ire in Lamson's back yard ard The state contended contend Lamson held his wife by the hair in the bathroom of their Palo Alto cottage k nero her herre repeatedly repeatedly re- re on the back of the head then sought to inthe bon boa fire ACCURACY IMPOSSIBLE The been in irs the flames s for hours Dr H said such heat would destroy all possibility of a blood test being being- absolutely accurate Dr had admitted the heat prevented him from learning I if the blood was human When blood is is' charred completely testified Dr Heinrich no test for absolute verification that it Is Js Continued on TKO I DEFENSE HITS BLOOD TESTS Continued from rue Page One blood The three most delicate tests cannot be used at all Others leave too oo much room for error from other elements which give the same reaction reaction tion as blood and may be in the ashes I We cannot really know that it is blood at all Other substances which give ive a positive reaction to the benzy benzy- dene test the same as blood include carrots peas green reen foliage iron oxides and lead compositions BLOOD TRAIL LOST Dr Henrich Heinrich struck at the states state's trail of blood theory Suppose I go through a house and scrape with the same knife into the theme same me receptacle spots of ot what t seem to o be blood he was asked by Defense Counsel Edwin M. M ReaThe ReaThe Rea flea The value of ot the tests would be destroyed destroyed de de- said Dr Heinrich The de de- de tense ense holds that dried blood from the bathroom where Allene died by an accidental fall was mixed with spots of ot paint from the kitchen and back porch jorch forming the states state's trail of blood from the bathroom to the bon bon- fire tire Dr Heinrich will m elaborate on his direct ct testimony when court reopens Monday and later will vilI be rigidly cross cross- examined The state was defeated in an attempt to o bar testimony of George Weber Palo alo Alto criminologist by avoca avoca- lion ion when it failed to prove his in in- competency Webers Weber's testimony re- re Uc ed by courtroom titters as he described de de- scribed his tour of the Lamson cottage with a microscope in search of clues led ed up to and complemented that ol ot Dr Heinrich TESTIMONY STRENGTHENED Dr R. R Stanley Kneeshaw of or San Jose strengthened his his' testimony that thai contact with a flat fiat surface was more likely to have caused the skull fractures frac frac- tures ures sustained by Mrs Lamson than repeated blows from different angles anglesy by y an iron pipe The injuries are arc typical of or what We ve call an explosion fracture such as results from a flat surface he said Assistant Prosecutor Her Herbert be r t Bridges who plays golf goll and bridge with Dr Kneeshaw had difficulty maintaining his professional attitude in n cross ex cross Q Do you ou say it il is impossible that those wounds could be produced by that hat pipe in the hands of a man weighing weigh weigh- ing ng pounds A. A I would say it would be ex ex- remely unlikely Q Would you let me try it over th he the back of your our head A. A No but Id I'd make a wager with you ou if you wanted to try it on somene someone some some- one ne else Dr Kneeshaw however admitted it was possible that hemorrhagic areas said aid to have been found under Mrs Damsons Damson's scalp could have been caused by y a strong pull on her hair as test test- led fled by Dr A A. V W W. Meyer Stanford anatomist Earlier Dr Kneeshaw said the areas could have resulted from death blows or r blow and that such supposition was vas likely unless the areas were sepa sepa- rate ate from other wounds |