Show I TRAGEDY CASE CALLED AILED TO TRIAL WORCESTER Mass Sept 23 UP A p Newell P. P Sherman choir singer and scoutmaster accused of or a crime that has come to fo o be bet known under the type name name of American tragedy tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy was called fo for trial today He is charged with drowning his year old wife the mother of his two ho children so that he might woo year old Esther Magill Sheman Sherman Sherman Sher She man is 26 The manner In which the commonwealth com corn charges the crime was carried out as well as the alleged motive parallels Theodore Dreiser's famous story which was itself based upon a similar case In New York state Miss Magill is described by the authorities as the tho unconscious cause of the tragedy They quoted her as saying Shermans Sherman's attentions were not welcomed The scoutmaster and his wife Alice lice went canoeing on the fog- fog blanketed waters of Lake Singletary the night of last July 20 The canoe upset Mrs Sherman was drowned Sherman reported her death as accidental drowning Police unsatisfied unsatisfied unsatisfied un un- un- un satisfied by his demonstration of the accident arrested him Assistant Assistant Assist Assist- ant District Attorney Alfred Cenedella Cenedella Cene- Cene della said he confessed that he shook off his wife's desperate grasp as she struggled in the water and then swam to the overturned canoe and waited walte-d until he saw bubbles where she sank J. J Fred Humes lawyer farmer-lawyer is defending Sherman More than 80 SO prospective jurors have been sum sum- Judge Thomas J. J Hammond Hammend Hammond Ham Ham- mond mend is the presiding judge Cenedella Cenedella Cene- Cene della will vill assist his chief DistrIct Attorney Attorney- Owen A A. Hoban in the prosecution |