Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-25 | Page 6 | Court Told Seduced Beauty Used Tight Sweater Wiles

Court Told Seduced Beauty Used Tight Sweater Wiles CEDAR RAPIDS Ia la May 25 INS INS INS-A A state witness testified Wednesday day that Mrs Sydney Rutledge Rutledge Rutledge Rut- Rut ledge wore tight white sweaters sweaters' to attract the attention of the man her husband doctor-husband is accused of stabbing to death Ray A. A Strothers of Normandy Normand Mo engineer at Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co where Byron C. C Hattman and the foot 6 beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- Sydney worked characterized character character- her as the office sweater girl Sydney's husband Dr Robert RobertC C C. C Rutledge Jr Is accused of first first- degree murder in the knife slaying slaying slaying slay slay- ing of Hattman last Dec 14 in a Cedar Rapids hotel room after an argument over the St. St Louis engineers engineer's sexual intimacies with Sydney Mrs Rutledge testified that Hattman HaUman forced his attention on her in her apartment after plying her with liquor following a sailing sailing sailing sail sail- ing excursion on the Mississippi river last July 31 Cross Examined Strothers under cross of Defense Attorney R. R S. S Milner said he watched Mrs Rutledge Rutledge Rutledge Rut- Rut ledge at Hattman's desk constantly constant constant- ly and testified when asked why Because of her clothing and that she had no business at Hattman's Hattman's Hattman's Hatt Hatt- mans man's desk and because it appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap strange to me that a married married married mar mar- ried woman was always hanging around a single mans man's desk A girl friend of Mrs Rutledge testified Wednesday that the foot 6 beauty maintained a social relationship with Byron C. C Hattman Hattman Hattman Hatt Hatt- man after he allegedly seduced her an act which led to Hattman's Hattman's Hattman's Hatt Hatt- mans man's death and the charging of i Dr Robert C. C Rutledge Jr with with his murder Mrs Rutledge fighting to save her husband from conviction had testified as had the St. St Louis child specialist that she didn't speak to Hattman and hated him after their sexual intimacy on the night of July 31 The witness called by the state was Juanita Lewis a draftsman at atthe atthe atthe the Emerson Electrical Manufacturing Manufacturing Manufacturing turing Co of St St. Louis Sydney and Hattman also worked at the plant Continued Visits Miss Lewis told the jury of ot nine men and three women in Linn county district court that Sydney kept visiting Hattman HaUman at his desk up to Aug 6 and had been talking to him frequently since a company company company com com- pany party on July 23 The witness attempted to further further fur fur- ther amplify testimony of other Emerson in the murder for love trial of Rutledge that his hisie wife ie was the pursuer in an office romance with the victim 1