| Show r- r m J 5 f t t Jr lf Jf ROMAN HOLIDAY Curious Cubans Balk Attempt To Reenact Y Yacht ach Shooting Dy By E. E V. V W. W JONES HAVANA April 18 UPA A UP A A jostling jos- jos j Jab Jabbering a b b e r i n g gesticulating crowd of curious Cubans turned the he reenactment nt of ot the fatal faW shootIng shooting shoot- shoot Ing ng of John Lester Mee aboard the yacht acht Satira into a Roman holiday Thursday InquisItive e spectators packed themselves so tightly Into the he cabin where Mee was shot on April 8 that Patricia Schmidt the sloe eyed 21 year old dancer who Is charged charled with homicide In connection with vices vice's death was unable to demonstrate demonstrate dem- dem In the cabin Just what happened on the fatal day Miss Schmidt who Is billed in Caribbean capitals under the name Satira SaUra has informed Cuban officials officials als that she shot the Chicago attorney attorney at- at torney orney during an argument after she he discovered he was married Investigating Judge Santiago MencIa Mencia Menla Men- Men cIa la wanted to know how the Toredo Toredo To- To redo 0 O. girl 5 feet 2 could have sent ent a bullet ranging downward through the neck of the victim who was 6 feet 2 Mee died five days after he was shot When police brought Miss Schmidt aboard the yacht prison cell Thursday she burst Into into tears and was Immediately surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by a curious crowd which piled aboard the vessel and refused Defused efus d to obey ohey authorities trying to clear them away Thirty or moro more spectators were Jammed into the small cabin where the reenactment was to take place When Miss Schmidt saw them she sat down on a Ii bunk and wept some more Judge Mencia ordered the spectators out Some of ot them went Some of them stayed Miss Schmidt was ordered to show how she stood In the passageway passageway passageway pas pas- gun in hand hondo An Investigator investigator enacting the role of ot Mee entered and turned toward her He lunged at me and I fired Miss Schmidt explained The cabin was so Jammed that the investigator couldn't even move let alone lunge Half Hal a dozen heads were hanging through the hatch from the forward deck and there was an Inquisitive face at every porthole Judge Mencia Mench gave up and adjourned adjourned adjourned ad ad- the meeting to the second cond floor of at a near-by near building where the inquiry went on behind locked and guarded doors Charles Jackson 27 of at River Forest Ill m a wartime navy buddy I of ot Mcc Mee and with him atthe of at the yacht v was scheduled to reenact reenact reenact reen- reen act his role next week He Is charged with being an accessory after the fact and Is being held in ball bait Jackson has said that he was at another part of the vessel when the shooting occurred and did not see what took place His attorney said that after affer the reenactment he would ask that the indictment against Jackson be withdrawn and anti that he be freed treed without bond asa asa as asa a material witness r |
