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Show ARE iMPUlSES TO LOVE AND SUY THTsAK? I CREASY TRIAL COUNTERPART TO 'BALLAD OF READING GAOL'l I By ALFTXANDKR HERMAN 1 MINEOLA. N. Y . 8ept. 25 Is Oscar Os-car Wilde's famous "Ballad of Reading Gaol" to find Its counterpart in the traglo life story of young William Creasy, now on trial for the slaving of his fiancee, Miss Edythe E. Lavc, iho pretty 22-year-old school teaoher? Here Is the Nassau county courtroom court-room which once echoed with the testimony tes-timony of tho famous Carmen and Do Baulles trials, sits the man around whom the district attorney Is trying to weave a mesh of testimony, based on this psohoogy which Wilde observed during his prison days: "Yet each man kills the thing he loves. By each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look. Some with a flattering word The coward does It with a kiss. The brave man with a sword." 'He killed because he loved." says the district attorney 'He couldn't kill because he loved " Says the counsel for the defense The Jury will deride and on the decision de-cision hangs the life, of the prlsonm- Creasy met Miss Lavoy while he was In the navy She had Just com" down from Tupper Lake. N. Y, to teach school In Long Island. "Friendship." says Henry A ter-hart. ter-hart. Creasy's lawyer. "ripened Into love. Their ngagement was soom announod. The young sailor went north to meet his brlde'H family. On his discharge, he returned to his home at Covington, Ky and went back to work as a mechanic In a cur' and foundry shop. Miss Lavoy went on teaching in a' Kroeport school They wrote to each other regular!, 1 Her letters were fervent, neatly written writ-ten and choicely worded His let r . r were Just as warm, but the handwnt- I Ing was poor and the grammar bad "Creasy began to realise," hit lawyer law-yer goes on. "that Miss Lnvoy wa.i above him culturally. He was just a mechanic without much schooling, she was a highly educated woman. "So he tried to catch ui He took courses In a business school. But h found thut the going was too hard." Slow thinking, but decided. Creasy finally made up his mind I couldn't make Edythe happy," he told his lawyer ' It was all right while 1 a.s In the navy, but now that I was Just a mechanic. I felt that I was out of her class She liked things that I couldn't give her living In New York, going to big affairs. Yale-Harvard football games and th-Jlke." th-Jlke." ,8o last spring the engagement was broken But their letters continued They still loved each other. "When there were rumjrs of a railway rail-way workers' strike " I'terhart explained. ex-plained. "Creasy decided to give up his Job and go to Canada n the way he stopped In to see Mlsa Lavoy. He wanted to return to her some present.! that she had sent him." They were alone In the girl's room In hr boarding huu when the tragedy trag-edy occurred. A shot from Crcasy's 32 calibre pistol pis-tol and the school teacher wus dej.i Creasy says It was suicide ratte he was napping on a couch, he sayi th girl went to his pocket, took his revolver and shot herself In the right temple. Why' ' Bhe was despondent over her broken affair with Creasy," sa-.s his lawyer 1 "4ho loved him too well " But the district attorney says re war murd r and Miss Eva Lavoy, the dead girl's sister, agrees with him. She has come down from her home in I'tlca, N. Y., to be the star witness against him. . . i Mlhs Ilytbr Ijnvov (above), William I Creasy (below) anei Miss l a Layoy, the dead girl's sister and star witness ' fflBgn jjj |