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-; - . Salem, Oregon, Monday, March" 18, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAU Section 2 Page 5 Old Bailey Packed as Dr. Adams Goes on Trial as Widow Killer By JAMES F. KING LONDON - Dr. John Bod- Mrs. Morrell left an estate of i When formally charged. Adams lYinrA than At i:-J !t. . . t ;n AHam ,-m,H r bin: ' " ". irpneo in a clear, ioua voice: I' eo rich oalientt m,i r I SiT Aaams lnnemM a chest. "I am not guilty, my lord." j I Patients out of greed, of Georgian antique silver and Dr. Adams practiced for more TlTw Li Li j . ID-V ". dead woman's son out of Victorian seaside resort of Hast r.In . Rihl. l L y d,?c'oriPPrecialion for the care he had bourne, a haven for wealthy re read a Bible in his prison cell he-1 given his mother. tired folk fore being taken to historic Old Th nu n.it j.jI u .... j , , .. Rnilev court for th. M.I ..i.; 1 . . .... "."" repuiauon lor ms . .' ' j .V ... ia tiiu inai goi unacr way Deiore cnarny to Eikins Comes Couple Flees Home. Business in Home, Silently 1A. Tr . , irk 1 jftj.-.'sz t;lrdertoKeepAdoptedDaiighter the Senate subcommittee invest!-1 MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W A setts authorities hold kidnap war- The Ellises" lawyer, Ben Cohen gating Portland racketeering and mild-mannered couple, who fled ; rants for the Kllises. of Miami Beach, said he would vice charges, came home with no home and business to keep their j Thev vanished with Hildy from personally appeal to Gov. Leroy The Old Bailey was crowded trial tint nnH ....... t.Arn. ..I.-.:... . IL. t has intrigued the nation. the red-robed iustice. Sir Patrick frimH nrt .H,.kr V. 2 ' P'"-. Raymond Clark, who was Arirame e tUvrinA Hi 11.. . ' ' . . ' "- ""u , s-nri,)nJ .,,11, J in tnnbinn in iiuu.ii. 4 vnni Eiu auL'L' nrn V Ann If llm-iln Wnnaral hnnHrx with murdoring Mrs. Edith Alice persons had lined up for hours bc- lore tne doors were thrown open. Mirrcll, elderly eccentric widow The prosecution claimed at a pre liminary court hearing she was onlv one of his victims. The doctor was accused of turn ing the M-ycar-old widow into a drug addict while slowly poisoning her in 1050. . The cause of her death was of ficially recorded as a stroke. The body was cremated in accordance with her will and the ashes were scattered over the English Channel. Jeweler Kills 3 Daughters, ' Mother, Self ' WEST FRANKFORT, 111. Ufi -Wielding a claw hammer and n pistol, a 44-year-old jewelry store i hearing. titled among his patients. A spate of rumors in the south coast town a year ago led to a Scotland Yard innuiry into the death of some of the elderly peo. pie. Dr. Adams was arrested late last year. At a preliminary court hearing in January, the prosecution blamed Adams for killing two oth er rich patients Arthur J. Hoi- lett, 71-year-old retired insurance broker, in 1956 and Hullett's wife Gertrude, 50, four months later. The prosecutor declared at that We say greed for money was the motive and that Dr. Adams's greed was too great to permit him to wait. That is why ho killed . . . when he did." Hullett's death was officially at tributed to a cerebral hemorrhage and his wife s to suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills. The prosecution claimed Dr. Adams drove her to suicide. Red Slaps at Hoover Attack As Censorship NEW YORK m A spokesman for the American Communist par ty says FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has set himself up as a "political censor." Simon W. Gerson replied yester day to Hoover's attack on the 1957 convention of. the party. Hoover said in a letter to the Senate Internal Security subcom mittee March 12 that U. S. Com munists "in fact have not broken with the Soviet Union" despite an "alleged declaration of independ ence." , Gerson. newly appointed exec- rV , lih , Mlthe might of the Victoria Falls. that Hoover's "real nhiee.inn , inot live 'without me and I could The "oodwaters. now covering an 10 ine political direction of the "ul iIve wunuui inein. convention. "The 1957 Communist parly con vention, said Gerson, dealt a operator killed his three young daughters, his mother and him self yesterday the day he was to marry his bookkeeper. Coroner Barney Browning said Herman Bchn hit his sleeping vic tims in the head with the hammer and shot them with a .38 pistol. Bchn himself died of a bullet in the right temple. Investigators said thev could find no motive. An inquest was 171 111 . ordered for today. rlOOtl ADOllt The victims were Mrs. Minnie Behn, 70; Kay, 10; Shirley', 12; and Linda, 14. Mrs. Maldetta Minton, a 38-year-old divorcee who was to have been Behn's bride in a ccremonv at the First Christian Church, was 1 UNGSTONE, Northern Rhode reported in deep shock. jsia lB Engineers tonight made Coroner Browning said Behn's Pans to surrender in their losing brother William got a call fromb.ntlle aRalnst a record flood on him early yesterday morning. Wil- the Zanlbpsl Rlver' liam quoted Herman: They decided to abandon the "Bill, I've killed mother and Pwer .s auon, harnessing some of To Wipe Out Power Plant heavy and effective blow to the inspired myth that the Communist area of 500 square miles, have 1 1 j - t ..in j Browning said Mrs. Minton told ' lIL a ..."." B him she last saw Bchn at 11:30 Saturday night. She. quoted him ' drowned many Africans. For five days, as the rushing "r : k. .'j t - -.j ' floodwalers rose lo pound the nishi's leen n fit fi trnnH I walls of the station, the 40 engi- party is some foreign-controlled ! the wedding." j ncers worked around the clock to conspiracy. ... Arthur Marks, assistant chief of keeP 'he turbines operating and this true picture, of course, nolice. said Mrs. Minton told him smashes the hoary Hoover myth j she and Behn planned to move and makes him rage against Com-: into her farm home and take his munisls, radicals and what he , mother and the children to live calls 'Pseudo-liberals.' who stand for the bill of rights. "But perhaps the most sinister point about the Hoover letter is that Mr. Hoover is setting him self up as a political censor, to determine what political ideas or associations are legal and what are not." with them after a two-week honey money in Hot springs, Ark. Behn had been a jeweler here for 18 years and was active in civic affairs. He was divorced about four years ago and granted custody of the children. His first wife, June, is believed lo be living in Chicago. pumps going to drain out the riv er waters seeping in. The river, which has risen over 30 feet since March 8. is 10 feet above the previous record hcisht and 5 feet, above the sandbagged windows of the station. Tonight resident engineer P. J. Elliot and his staff decided nine men would keep the pumps work ing while the rest of the crew moved out. then the nine would make a dash for safety. more words. t Massachusetts courts, open their. their Brookline, Mass., home in He told reporters on his arrival j "ht ,ln. a hearing today against 1955 a(l(.r tnc Massachusetts Su- Saturday night he was too tired i extradition. preme Court ordered them to turn to talk I Melvin B. Ellis, 45, said he and; the blonde, blue-eyed child over With Eikins, self-admitted gam- his wj'e f.fa"cesv M- would "make I to Mrs. Mar joric McCoy Doherty bier and racketeer was his em- our stand here lo Prevcnt lsln the natural mother, who allowed lliu lllliu lu uc iiaicu iui auvp- lon when 10 days old. tape recordings which figures in lne bespectacled clothing sales the subcommittee probe. . m?n l?W interviewers. "The main thing is the girl s happiness. "We're not running any more." United States entrants, with a The hearing before Peace Jus- total of 56 finners, have won thcitice Malvin Englander was called largest number of Nobel Prues. 1 on fugitive charges. Massaclui. The Kllises are Jewish and Hil- dy's mother is Roman Catholic. Mrs. Doherty demanded return of her child under Massachusetts law that provides children "when Collins not to permit extradition of his clients. Cohen said extra dition "would be like making a refugee from Hungary return." The family was discovered liv ing in Miami Beach through a routine check of Ellis' automobile registration when he negotiated for a new car Friday. Ellis said he gave up his dry cleaning business and left his Brookline home after "we had tried everything" in the courts to practicable" be placed for adop- be permitted to retain the child, lion with parents of their faith. I He said the mother rejected their offer to rear the child in the Cath olic faith. "None of the many court deci sions regarding the custody of Hildy has considered her wel fare," he said. "The child has had our love and affection and she has learned to love us." Ellis told of taking his family to Portland, Maine; Lcvittown, Pa.: Thompsonville, Conn.; and Tuckahoe, White Plains, Scars dale and New York City, N.Y., in frequent moves that led to their settlement last may in Mi ami Beach. "This is our home now," Ellis said. "Miami is to be our home and our child's home." Ellis said Hildy's mother has indicated she docs not want the child back but "wants Hildy turned over to a Catholic agency so she can be adopted by a Cath olic family." Mrs. Doherty, who lives at BPA Names Low Bidder On Valley Power Lino PORTLAND Wl-The BonnevUl Power Administration Saturday said the Pettijohn Engineer Co. here has submitted a low bid of $234,975 for constructing a 25-mil Willamette Valley power line. The line between Oregon City and Chemawa is the final link in the transmission system with Bif Eddy, which will bring McNary and The Dalles Dam power to tht BPA grid serving the valley. Driving Ban Ends THE HAGUE UR Economici Minister Jellc Zljlstra Monday ended the Netherlands' ban on Sunday driving Imposed as a re sult of the Suez oil crisis. Hingham, Mass., could not be reached for comment. JUIleiL New Swedish Way to Get Slim REDUCE WITHOUT BEING HUNGRY! LARSON'S SWEDISH Milk diet WHAT IT IS; entry ilh tht h..lth, wo, .( Il.ing. 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