EVIDENCE ENDED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 5

EVIDENCE ENDED

For the Prosecution AGAINST LANCASTER ON THE MURDER C HARGE AIRS M l Lf.F.R WEEPS DISILLUSIONED WOMAN By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. dnd N.Z. Cable.) (Received August 9, 9.40 a.m.) .Miami. August 8. Ales Keith Miller testified in tlie trial of Captain Lancaster for the murder of Haden Clarke that sh‘ had become completely disillusioned. She ii v longer loved Lancaster nor the memory of Clarke. Slie was still very fond of Lancaster- but had not loved him for two years. DID NOT UNDERSTAND “Weren’t you a traitor to him, if you haven’t laved him for two years, nhon you wrote him constantly of our love while he was on the western trip to get all the money ho eoiuld for yen?’’ Air Hawthorne asked. “You don’t understand our situation,” she answered. . EONDNF.iSS v. LOVE. All's Hiller wept as she attempted to show: Mr Hawthorn how she could, bo vein- fond of Lancaster and still nob be in love with him. She had told him and Haden many times before they became engaged that 'lie never expected to marry anyone again. Hut she always I c 11- that when Hill Lancaster should be free from his wife in England she would marry him. HE WAS A LTAR ATr s Hiller again wept as she told of losing her love for the memory of Clarke, after finding e"t smc e M» death that he lied to her about many things; A DRAMATIC CLOSE After a. dramatic so^sioxi, featured hv a verbal ela-di between Mrs Milled and. Atr Hawthorn, the State hh's. afternoon rested its case on «« evidence thus concluded.