THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. September 12, 1940. En — CENTRE COUNTY HOSPITAL IN THE WEEK'S NEWS — SA Accused Slayer Tokes Stand to Deny Evid'nce | (Continued from page one) Other Defense Witnesses Highlights of the testimony other defense witnesses heard yes- Page Four an, Bellefonte; a son to Mr. and Mrs Carl R. Barnes, State College Expired: Mrs. Myrtle B. Chambers, Clarence; Mrs. A. B, Deltrich, Stale College. Wednesday of Last Week Admitted: Miss Pearl E Bellefonte R. D. 1 Discharged: John W. Lee, Belle- fonte R. D. 1; Mrs. Fred Meckley, Bellefonte R. D. 2; Master Lewis Wagner, Milroy R. D. 1. Admitted Wednesday, discharged Saturday, Miss Pauline J. McMullen, Bellefonte Birth: A daughter to Mf. and Mrs Wilbert E. Moore, State College Thursday of Last Week. Admitted: Mrs. Margaret J. Sun- | day, Pa. Furnace; James B. Craig, Jr., Bellefonte; Mrs. Paul N. Wright, Howard R. D. 1 Girl Fractures Arm Janet Noll, aged 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Noll, of Pleas ant Gap, suffered a fracture of the left arm bétween the wrist and el- bow about 6:30 last Tuesday night when she fell over a log while gath- ering apples. The little gir] was brought to the hospital where the fracture was re- duced. Janet had returned to school the morning “of the accident, and her injury is doubly inconvenient because she is left-handed. ness, Millinder, left the stand, are reviewed below. There was no night session last night and when Court convenes this morning 7 other de- fense witnesses together with a number of character witnesses are scheduled to be heard before rebut. tal begins Alter Milunder stepped: down from Breon, ers, niece of called She sald that she was home in bed the morning of May 5 when Richard came home and awakened her by knocking on the door and calling. She sald emphatically that | she noticed it was 12:45 when she | got up to open the door. The wit- ness added that she fixed him a | lunch and both went to bed, Dick going to sleep almost immediately 8he sald he looked normal when he | arrived home and wore the same | clothing the next day of | Mrs. Millinder denied husband confessed to her at June 17, Nancy Leathers, was Breaks Arm in Fall Mts. Curtin Taylor, North Thomas street, Bellefonte, is a patient in the Centre County Hospital suffering from injuries received when she fell Saturday night at her home. Discharged; Mrs. Iva J Brown, Mrs. Taylor suffered a when she | "1d infant son, Port Matilda R. D lef arm above the elbow when she|,. ar Robert P. Lower, State Col- is believed to have tripped and fall- | ege RD. 1: Mrs. Robert Holt and en down the front steps. She Was|i,rant daughter, Bellefonte taken immediately to the hospital) Aqmitted Thursday, discharged where the fracture was set, | Priday Mrs. Molle Hall Bolich, Howard Admitted Thursday, Davidson, Milesburg Friday. Admitted that her the jall that he had committed the crime and contended that Sherif! Miller was in error in saying that Al- | he heard Millinder make such a | confession Defense attorney Lewis Harvey, the next witness | didn’t recall of Millinder did It" or anything that could be construed as such at the jall on {June 17. He sald he couldn't recall everything, since Millinder was sob- bing and Mrs. Millinder was hys- terical. He was apprehensive lest Millinder make some damaging statement since Sheriff Miller was close by, Harvey sald Milford Mrs. James 8 Undergoes Operation | James Cralg, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Craig, 8Sr., of West Curtin street, underwent an emer-| gency appendectomy last Thursday night at the hospital, The young man returned that afternoon from New York City and complained of being ill and when his condition be- came worse he was taken to the hospital. Kicked by Horse Donald Orr, 10, son of Mr Mrs. Leo Orr, of Ferguson town- ship Is a patient in the Centre County Hospital suffering from in- juries received late Monday after-| noon when he was kicked on the head by a horse Miss Betty Ann bright, Fayetteville, N. C.; Carol Ann Brown, State College R. D. 1; Mrs Stells V. Snyder, State College R. D.; Mrs. Charles E. Martin, Bellefonte Discharged: Mrs. Grace Brachbill, Bellefonte Admitted Friday, discharged Sat- urday, Elwood A. Way, Port Matil- da, R. D Births Mrs HT Orvis sald he saying “he A daughter to Dr. and Dale, State College: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mey- ers, Spring Mills; a daughter to Mr and Mrs. Paul I. Miller, Bellefonte Saturday. Admitted: Roy H ment; Mrs. Curtin C fonte Discharged: Mrs. Edward Heaton Bellefonte R. D. 3; Mrs. Homer R Boone and Infant daughter, Rebers- burg; Mrs. Albert G. Wertz and in- fant daughter, Milesburg Births: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs John D. Martin, Bellefonte; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Hatch, Pine Grove Mills: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Grace, State College RD Sunday. Admitted: Miss Emma Long. of Bellefonte; Miss Annabelle Young, Howard, R. D. 1 Discharged: Thomas A camp, Julian R. D.; Mrs Pearson and Infant College: Mrs. George R. Snyder and infant daughter, Wingate: Mrs {Charles L. Breon and infant daugh- ter, State College Birth: A son to Mr. and R. Robinson, State College There were 52 patients in the hos- pital at the beginning of the week and Lucas, who lives along the detour, and with whom Millin- der talked the evening of May 4 while on his way to the Leathers home, desornived Millinder's cloth. ing and sald he wore the same clothing the next day Joe Leathers, with whom Millin- der played cards until he left to go home early on the morning of May 5, substantiated Lucas’ testi- mony about the clothnig Millinder wore that night and the next day He added that the [following day he visited the scene of the crime and saw what he thought were Mil- linder's footprints down the road east of the murder scene. He sald they appeared regular as though Millinder had been walking normal. Miller, Monu- CC Taylor, Belle- Notes of Patients Monday of Last Week. Discharged: Mrs. Richard M. Col- | born and infant daughter, of Belle- fonte: Miss Shirley Arlene McClin- cy, Bellefonte R. D. 3 Admitted Monday, discharged on Friday, John G. Miller, of Pine Grove Mills; Admitted Monday, discharg- ed Tuesday, Edgar G. Kustanbauter, of Bellefonte Tuesday of Last Week. Admitted: Theodore W Bellefonte R. D. 2 Discharged: Mrs. Sheldon A. Hoff- man and infant son, State College; Mrs. Harry Gill and Infant daugh- ter, State College; Mrs. Eleanor Mc- Dowell, Bellefonte; Mrs. William D Schlegal and infant son, Bellefonte Admitted Tuesday, discharged on Wednesday, Miss Elma Rhoads, of Bellefonite R. D. 1 Births: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs George H. Fleming, State College; a Uaughiter to Mr apd Mrs Mac Bry- Ishler, of Hogen- Paul W daughter, State vy Leathers was as to the clothi wore the night of May ing of May 5. Her testimony was in accord with the previous witnesses in this matter Ruth Robinson and Maude Rager, the girls who accompanied Faye to Mt. Eagle the night of the crime, again told about the car which fol- lowed the Gates car from near Cur- tin to the barrier, and said the ma- chine followed Faye's car over the detour after they got out. They sald they saw the lights of the two cars moving along the detour past the Leathers home when a dip in the road hid them from further view. They then heard a horn sound in that direction they said The jury of 8 men and 3 women, drawn late Monday afternoon, is housed at the Brockerhoff Hotel The 12 jurors and 2 alternates re- tire for meals and at night Large crowds jam the Court House entrance at the beginning of each session in the hope of getting a seat. State Police close and guard the doors when all seats have been taken, and order within the Court room Is strictly maintained A review of the Commonwealth's case follows Trial Begins Monday The trial of Richard Millinder, 22, of ML. Eagle, for the slaying of his neighbor, Faye Gates, last May 5. got under way here Monday imoming >:=i=re 8 near capacity crowd in the Centre County Court Room Spectators began assembling in front of the Court House at 7:30 a m. in order to be sure of getting seats. As the doors opened atl 9 a m. the ziowu filed into the Court i Room, but about 30 seats in front | remained vacant during the morn- ing session | Court convened at 10 a. m. when {Judge Ivan Walker called for pre- |iminary business, Including reading =f i= Sheriff's, called to tes- ing Millinder 4. and morn. Mrs. R & a a 2A NE We FLASH WE HAVE JUST ADDED “SUN POWER LIGHT” lo our garage equipment that enables us to give vou a precision perfect job of timing an automobile motor. Will put new life into your car by timing it to the precise degree. Eliminates the cause of lost power, sluggish pick-up and gas ping due to im- proper timing. Come In and watch our Service Manager test your car. 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Beside the de- | fendant was his wife, first cousin! {of the slain Faye Gates, who greet- ed him warmly and who sat beside him throughout the trial After the court reporter had been sworn in, Millinder was directed to | stand while Prothonotary Bond C.| | White read the indictment of the! {Grand Jury charging him with “feloniously, willfully and with mal- lee aforethought killing and murder- ing Faye Cates” When asked how ” ON MOST ITEMS --- ONLY A SMALL DEPOSIT ON OTHERS =A YEAR OR LONGER TO PAY) PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR INCOME! W. E. CROSSLEY Phone 3-W Brockerhoff Bldg. , BELLEFONTE, PA. Je pleaded to the iy Millinder sald In a firm volee, “not guilty.” Meahwhile the prosecution, head: [ed by District Attorney Musser W | Gettig, was getting in readiness {with Sheriff Miller and State Mo- | tor Police Detective William A, Mil- ler seated at the counsel table The long process of selecting a jury got under way immediately and after 11 men and 3 women had suc- cessfully passed close questioning by the attorneys for both sides, the Jurors were polled and the trial of the case got under way at 4 p. m Monday In his opening jury, | address to the pected to prove, briefly, that as Faye Gates was driving alone along the Spook Hollow detour shortly af- ter midnight, she saw Millinder walking toward his home from the Nancy Leathers home where he had been playing cards Faye, the District Attorney con- tinued, stopped and asked Millin. der if he wanted to ride home, and he accepted. Upon getting into the car, the vouth made improper ad- vances to the 24-year-old girl, who resisted him. She halted the car less than 900 feet from the Leath- ers home, he sald, and a struggle ensued Gettig continued that the Com- monwealth would prove that the youth pulled the girl from the car, struck her repeatedly over the head with a rock and left the scene after turing the car around on the nare row road The county prosecutor added that he would show that Millinder was at the scene of the crime: that he re-enacted the crime for police on June 14 and 15; and that he made damaging statements to police In conclusion he asked the to return a verdict of first murder, and asked that in at a verdict, the jury mend the extreme penalty by law--death The first witness Miss Rager, of Mt. Eagle, took the stand at 4.05 and completed her tLlesti- mony in 15 minutes Miss Rager. at the time of the murder a Howard High schol student, said she and a friend, Miss Ruth Robinson also of ML. Eagle and a Howard High tudent, had evening of May 4 In Bellefonte, and that shortly before midnight they met Faye Gates at the PeRo Dalry Store, West High who agreed take them home The three girls left 12:10 a. m.. she sald, adding that when about one-half mile this side road barrier. at the detour entrance, they noticed a car follow. ing them. Passing barrier, the Cates car continued tance to the home ¢ where both Miss Robins Miss Rager got out Warning “not to let the bogev-man get you” Faye Gates tumed her Car drove back to the barrier, an ed north on the sald Ruth Robinson was the next per- son called to the stand She sald that earlier in the evening they had made arrangements fo go home with Phil Buddinger, who lives the Nancy Leathers home, but got the ride with Miss Gales becande! the windows of Phil's truck were broken and it was a8 ©00l damp night. Miss Robinson mentioned the car that followed them for a dis- tance before they reached the bar. rier and reaffirmed her belief that it was a Plymouth with a buggy- whip aerial on the left side. They left Bellefonte at 12:10 o'clock and the trip to the delour took about 20 minutes, she sald The final witness at Monday's session was Richard Wallace of Milesburg, who related that while on his way home about from the Gates home where he had spent the evening with Faye's younger sister, Lois, he saw Faye's ear parked on the detour about a mile from the Gales home As passed, he sald he saw what looked | like a body lying at the rear Wallace said he drove to the Leathers home, stopped and blew his horn, and when Do one answer- ed. he sped on to Milesburg to not- ify Sheriff Edward R. Miller. He accompanied the Sheriff and his deputy James H Hugg back to the scene and identified the body on the ground by the clothing Wallace said that while he and Lois Gates were parked beside the latter's home, one car came down the detour from the direction of the Leathers home; two cars went {up toward Milesburg, and two came through the underpass at Mt Eagle and turned in a road leading past the Gates home Court adjourned at 5:10 p. m..| until 9 a. m. Tuesday when Sherift Miller was called to the stand The Sheriff said he received ime OOS jury degree AITIVIRE recom- provided should Maude also spent the street fo Bellefonte at of the the f : gira around, urn - witness A! the detour, ithe scene where everything was) {Sans to preserve all evidence while | | Deputy Hugg felt the girl's pulse 10 | {determine whether she was alive The same care wag observed while | | covering the body with a blanket | several hours wait | State Motor Police crime ex- | | perts from Harrisburg arrived on | and during the | until { the scene The Sheriff sald the closed to traffic and that only one truck, which could not turn on the narrow muddy road, was permitted to go through. Under cross exam- AAAAASAAAASASRARSASMARARARARARARARLSS RuMFORD RIDDLES » Why hos Mabel Morris thrown out her adding machine # NY aS BECAUSE in anv good recipe she son vee RUS FORD Boking Pewder in the amount the dives Vione give. Nay wore Rguring ov? 1peciel oven Ben for sential trees of baking powder... . Wike Sor oor TREE recipe book. , . , Addretts Sumiend Seling Powder, Box 8, Remlud, Envow lninwd, HEYEIR YY FOYER EY CTE SO TTY FETE ONS | went {home In land continued their examination of District Attorney Gettig “de- | clared that the Commonwealth ex- {case and at’ 2:15 a m.! he, road was | ination Bheriff Miller sald or 6 feet east of the body he saw a stone, about the size of Other testimony given by witnesses In regard to the evidence at the scene tiated by the Sherifl Willard Nefl, of Howard, funeral director and embalmer, sald that in response to orders from Coroner Charles Bheckler, of Milesburg, he to the scene shortly after 9 and took the remains to his Police arrived at the 10 minutes, he said, physical #.m funeral home bh or the body and clothing P. FPF. Schuster, of photographer for the Btate Motor Police, testified that he arrived at the scene about 7:30 a. m. and identified Commonwealth exhibits 1 to 4, as photos of the scene, and exhibits 5 to 7 as photos of the vic. tim's body. He sald the 8 by 10 photos at the scene were contact prints, while the photos of the body, also 8 by 10 In size, were enlarged from 4 by 5 negatives Lt. Donald Wagner, of Hershey, communications officer for the Slate Motor Police, followed Schuster to the stand Lt. Wagner produced a had made from measurements at the scene of the crime and related in detal]l the distances belween vari- ous objects in evidence namely, the car, the body, the Leathers home the location of the stone, tire mark; in the road, footprints and o© items. He identified Commonwealth exhibit 8 as the sketeh he had made and exhibit 9, a tone he per- sonally picked ug which Is believed death weapon Wagner body had been removed to the Funeral home from under each gernails, and took px girl's clothing, includ with fur shoes items ¢ the materia ing and the : were submitied Anderson Stale, for exan Of his examing lor of the sald the Jef? down holstery in there was the back found {1 pink hat. p Harrisburg, sketch he ther Lhe cene and been the comtinued after the Neff SCraning f lar 3 » 4 COURT, Diue Gre 8) the a handkerchi {tered around In Wagner recit been had I making around in tl road patiern: were clearly The stone is 1 nf the body roup of exhib. ia, numbered from 10 to 20, was in- Exhitei troduced morning afternoon the center troduced aay to later in day when mony tied the evidence in the complete ) the Commonwealth's stand became apparent. During the day there was | much testimony regarding the hand. iling of the evidence by police and inboratory experts from time it was obtained until i 1 duced in the Co { room The next witness called was D David A. Johnston. ofl Harrisburg part-time surgeon for the State Mo. tor Police. He said that ag Dr. W J. Schwartz and Dr. J A. Parrish of Bellefonte performed the aulopsy at the Neff Puneral home, Howard the afternoon of May 5, he took notes as they were given him bs the two physicians Dr. Schwartz was next review the findings of the at He described in det ail the mulliple crush fractures of Faye's head; and noted that the lacerations over the fractures had ragged edges as hough made by a blunt instrument He added that there were scralch- es about the victim's and about the lower part of her body Dr. Bchwartz was followed to the stand by Willlam Gates, of Mt Eagle, father of Faye. who went to the crime scene the moming of May 5 to identify the body. 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LYONS PHONE $43.3 BELLEFONTE, PA. that 5 two fists. | previous | was substan- | Whe frst witness {into but recognized the clothing Faye's Millinder First Mentioned Joseph Leathers, of ML, Eagle, was to bring Millinder the picture, According to his testimony, Dick Millinder went to the home of Joe Leathers’ mother, Mrs. Nancy Leathers about 7:30 a m. May 4 to help Joe bulcher a calf After the butchering Millinder help- ed Joe load the carcass on Phil Buddinger's truck to bring the meat to Bellefonte, In addition Joe and Millinder, George Robison and Phil Buddinger made the trip to Bellefonte, he sald They spent the day here linder, Leathers and Robison went Home with Lalrd Corman, arriving there about 7:30 p. m. Robison went to his home about half an hour lat- er, and Leathers, his wife and Mil- linder played cards in the Leathers kitchen until about 11 Mri Leathers went to bed Millinder ing card to and Mil- 30 when and Joe continued play- until about 12:15 a m when Millinder went home, borrow- Ing a pair of Phil B oshes for the trip over the soaked detour Leathers sald that before der left, both CCC truck: the uddinger's gal- mud- Millin. had gone down detour toward the camp near Mt Eagle continued that while he after he was a little heard headed toward Mt nile rv cami momenta before driven machine two irucks. he said Stoners teflimony from the reodhrd on Leyes on ed in he he was stricken a defense objec. Gales Clock Was Fast Lt. Normaig Mol y¥ ™ lice witness of the Stale isburg, testified thal short » Arrived in ¢ Spook Hc vise the investigat nson and Maude Rager to report their rice Faye Gates a short time before sh was murdered. Lt. Annich said checked the clock In Faye Gales car and found ii was nine minutes fast The Gates clock read B 30 and nich sald his watch read 8:21. He a ecked the accuracy of his watch with those of several] other officers Pvi. Joseph Jordan, of the Blate Motor Police aL Rockview sub-s tion. one of the officers with whom Lt. Annich checked his watch, testi- fied to that effect after Annich left the stand Jordan sald had set his waich the night before, and was convinesd of ils accuracy Get Suspect’s Clothing Pvt. 8 R Richardson, of Rockview barracks, the next ness, related that he and Pw George A. Panrock, also of Rock. view, were sent to the Millinder home May 15, by Stale Police De- tective William A. Miller, to get a pair of brown trousers, hunting cap, shirt, handkerchiefs and sweat- er Millinder wore the night of May (Continued on page six) next Ae he the wit- A PICTURE OF EYE CONTENTMENT wr CORRECT GLASSES Dr. Howard F. Bauer (Optometrist) CROSSLEY'S JEWELRY STORE Brockerhoff Bldg. 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