Show 'StttSfe- I Thursday Morning- — - Church Drops Gorman Name Jury Will Receive Vice Case After Final Pleas Today April 27 4Dead’ Woman Fillers Court Former Deputy To Halt Probate of Estate 'Freed in ORANGE N J April 26 Tt Mp Casse died in Cairo gAN FRANCISCO April 26 (UFmc-portletrn The Rev Otto H ear-olMrs Kloia Egjpt eight jcais ago —Seventy-four- of a Presbjtenan c urv w u “siiue Casse halted probate of her Albert Roi he the family attorney i x rom erman eliminated estate in superior court Wed- - said he was the 'most amazed byythe ’facTuad jnesday just as the court was about son in the world' when Mrs Casse ‘the word 'German' is not very to award final administration papers reappeared Mrs Marion1 ush sad she had been living in popular with the people here who'to her daughter the San brpnris(o bay area under anow so little about Germany" Bowen the names of Morris and Beeler and He Is pastor of the William Street I just heard Tuesday tint 1 was a family dispute was responsible Presbyterian church which TuesMrs Casse small and for the false report of her death day night changed its name from dead-The value of the estate was not the First German Presbyterian dressed - n black said as she hustled When Mrs Casse and her given church into court 'I came here to 1° husband were divorced in Oakland Another factor in the change he said was the fact that the church something about it I m very much in 1931 a property settlement of Casse has j$40000 was involved which once was composed mostly alive" The probate had been based on died since immgranls of German-speakin- g s Panel Scheduled to Cel Case Thursday After noon d Following Final Arguments (Continued From Page One) state was clearly entitled to its mo- - Mr Loofbourow arguing his motion In view of the disctu&ons andtion on behalf of Defendant frimh had understanding reached prior to the denied that the prosecution time the defense rested He added shown any overt acts or knowledge r that he would raise no objection to of overt act on the part of the Mulhner reopening his case mer police chief He added that Mr and calling Mr Pearce to the stand Finch had submitted himself to the without to rebut the testimony dealing with widest the transaction at issue This offer question being raised against was rejected by Mr Mulhner who character Holt” he commented 'admitted argued that his client should not be to disprove something! felonies and crime but the law required such testimony be subalready had been adjudicated quires that corroborated before it in his favor stantially The judge observed that there can be considered n was a conflict in the record as it Mr Mulhner In analyzing the stood and after receiving cl- - timony of various witnesses said collections tations of other cases from both that even if "pay-off- ” sides took the motion under ad- were conceded they would not prove He said he would give a a conspiracy visement of collection the "Certainly ruling Thursday morning monet he said "is just as consistDirected Verdict Move ent In the absence of an agreement The first motion for a directed as with an agreement This type of verdict was made by Defense Coun- testimony therefore cannot be consel Willard Hanson on behalf of sidered evidence of a conspiracy II Mr Thacker He merely stated his there is any evidence from which grounds for making the notion and an agreement can be inferred it did not argue the issue He was shows the agreement was between followed by Burton W Musser Holt and Abie Rosenblum or becounsel for Mr Erwin who argued tween Holt and (Ben) Htrmon his motion for 40 minutes and made “So far as the testimony of Dar a blistering attack on two of the Kempner is concerned I will not digstate's witnesses Frederick C nify it with a statement" Loofbourow then made the same ‘Admissions by Silence motion on behalf of Mr Finch and Another argument stressed by the lastly Mr Mulhner moved for a directed verdict of acquittal for Mr defense attorneys was that much of the testimony dealt with “admis- Pearce Counsel for all four defendants sions by silence " They contended cited substantially the same grounds guilt could not be inferred merely! for their motions They contended because a person failed to deny 1 That no evidence of any con- every rumor circulated about him After all the arguments had been spiracy between tha defendants had been produced heard the court made a blanket de2 That direct evidence of any nial of all the motions with hardly conspiracy was entirely lacking and a pause that circumstantial evidence did not Early in the proceedings Wednesmeet the requirements of the stat- day District Attorney Rawlings ute under which the case was tried moved to withdraw a stipulation 3 That no overt act participated concerning testimony of Horace A In individually or collectively by the Sorensen a character witness for Mr Erwin Mr Sorensen did not defendants had been established 4 That what testimony on al- appear but the prosecution stipulatleged overt acts had been offered ed that he would testify substantialtended to implicate certain wit- ly the same as another character nesses rather than the defend ints witness 5 That the testimony of these Mr Rawlings explained that his "accomplices" was uncorroborated reason for moving for withdrawal and therefore inadmissible under of the stipulation was because Mr the rules of evidence Sorensen was the employer of one of the jurod? He felt the testimony Same Testimony might therefore prove embarrassing Mr Mulhner based his argument to that juror The motion was made on the additional grounds that the in accordance Wiht a previous vn" testimony involving Defendant derstandmg between the prosecuPearce was the same testimony tion the court and defense counsel from the same witnesses directed Mr Musser objected to the moat the same alleged acts which al- tion however on the grounds that ready had been adjudicated in the it might be prejudicial to Mr Erwin He argued that the jury might infer previous trial All the defense attorneys stressed from the withdrawal that Mr Sorenthe argument that circumstantial sen would not testify as it was stipevidence under the conspiracy ulated he would ‘And he will so statute must point directly and U- testify" the attorney added Mr Rawlings remarked that he nerringly to the existence of an understanding and a conspiracy They would not object to Mr Sorensen contended that even if the alleged being called Thursday morning reovert acts were admitted they did iterating that his only reason for not prove the existence of an agree- making the motion was to save the ment or conspiracy between any or juror from possible embarrassment all of the defendants Judge McConkie ruled that he "Defendant Erwin” said Mr would permit withdrawal of the Musser in opening his argument stipulation in the presence of the con"is charged with criminal jury with the understanding that spiracy not with accepting money the defense could call Mr Sorensen and not with neglect or any other character witness in a 'pay-of- f' of duty There is no direct evidence Thursday morning if it so desired at all of any such agreement and the circumstantial evidence certainto ly does not point unerringly for-M- 4 uljc Salt £akc (Tribune- ' HARLAN Ky 1939 Crosby Clan Minimizes Hint Killing Of Child Kidnaping Threat April 26 CD-L- ee HOLLYWOOD April 2fi IO -- The Larrv one of his brother's former Harbusi- - ers Its went clan about declared Bings estate was lan county deputy sheriff now in the taxi business was freed at an nc)l nornully Wednesday except 'only being guuVded as usual Hubbard keep-Crns- have addcd 8 dy ‘hT of kill '° take occasional time out to minikidnap threat Crofb yard las Inure a "rumored" !ai!!lmst the four son of the b‘8 house staff also includes a maid Sheriff Herbert Cawood the only iuime a cook a gardener two numes and witness testified pistols were found Bing the vocalizing breadwinner a ccretary on the bodies of both Carl Siott Wrcs asso ated with Crosby 33 and Joe Allen 40 the slain whose brothers often facetiously said polue in Sail Francisco had men whose presence at Hubbard s refer to him as "the big name" information that two men were home was not explained went on with his movie making as ovei heard to kidnap one or plotting 1 anti-a in the Hubbard defendant though nothing untoward had more of the Crosby children None conspiracy trial of Harlan pencil announcing that of the the Bay City po- coal operators and former deputies agents had requested him not tollke or Ciosbys government agents here last summer at London Ky lsjdiscuha Holl) wood’s latest abdue-jwhwere making an Investigation 'under bond in another slaying would confirm this ng two trial Wednesday in hs front hap-lSb- FBI o tes-the- & guilt” 4 a Mentions Witnesses i i § Mr Musser then mentioned each prosecution witness disposing of most of them with the remark that they offered no testimony bearing on the case at issue When he came to Witnesses Holt and Bonham Hunsaker of Ogden he bitterly assailed them as "unworthy of any belief” He declared that Mr Hunsaker who testified that Mr Erwin had frequently made statements to him concerning participation in police graft started out to collect some money from the former mayor and would do anything to collect it He referred to Mr Holt as a law violator whose testimony should not be considered at all Referring to the testimony of City Attorney Fisher Harris he declared ‘The state hasn’t brought In a single witness to show who collected money or who got it There is no evidence that anyone paid anything to anybody and even if such evidence were produced it woyld not The only 'payprove a conspiracy off collection which has been proved is that which Holt confessed to collecting ” Bandits Loot Reno Hotel RENO well-dress- 7T- - 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