Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-07-22 | Page 2 | Charge' Fantastic, ' Declares DeMArigny's Wife

r r Declares DeMarigny's Wife NASSAU Bahamas Jul 22 UP iP Nancy Oakes de Marigny will fight by her husbands husband's side against the charge that he murdered her father the wealthy born American-born British baronet Sir Harry Oakes She made this positive Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- I day when she told reporters she believed the charge against Alfred Alfred Al Al- fred de Marigny 1 handsome former former for for- mer count was fantastic Breaking silence after two visits to De Marigny in the Nassau jail where he is being held the slender young woman declared that she had faith in De Marigny's innocence innocence inno inno- cence from the first but that it had helped to hear the statement from his own lipsI lipsI lips I I do not believe that Jt a t is possible possible possible pos pos- sible he will be convicted she declared but if so this case willbe will willbe willbe be taken to the highest court Mrs de Marigny denied that her fathers father's objections to her marriage marriage marriage mar mar- had caused her to enroll in ina a d. Vermont college under her maiden maid- maid en n name name It is erroneous that my father objected to my marriage I 1 talked to him by phone the next da day and he was very friendly The year old De Marigny was taken into custody on a murder charge accusation shortly after Oakes was found bludgeoned to death in a blazing bed in his spacious spacious spacious spa spa- cious Nassau home Westbourne A preliminary hearing of evidence against him was begun Monday but postponed a week after medical medical medi medi- cal testimony was taken Nancy flew to Nassau Monday from New England My mother thought it a natural natural natural nat nat- ural thing that I 1 come to Nassau to o be with Mr de Marigny she declared I will be in court Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day when the hearing is resumed Poised and self-possessed self except for or an occasional voice tremor the he year old Mrs de Marigny sipped tea as she faced a dozen reporters Describing her meeting with her husband she said I 1 never saw him with a beard before I 1 told him he looked viI vil- under the circumstances She added however that she shedid shedid shedid I. I did not ask him to cut it off