ACCUSED IN BOX

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 298, 11 August 1932, Page 5

ACCUSED IN BOX

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TgjjRS. MlLLEjt NOT NORMAL 1 ' WHEN BRINKING HEAVILY ■SNIBS ALLEGED THREATS

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MIAMI, Wednesday. -■3 trial of Lancaster for the mur4 Hadyn Clarks was continued 'i -vvitli' the prisoner still on the stand. Lcjster testified that Clarke had ^ed him before he (Lancaster) for th > V/est that he would care |[rs. Miller, "so that I would re(ier his friendship." Witness said •*e made the promise after he ;;autioned Clarke to keep Mrs. from drinking too heavily durjjs absence, When she drank ;jy her conduct was not normal. rcaster said: "I spoke confiden>to Hadyn hefore I left about Ve for Mrs. Mill'er, and urged [otake care of her." In Public Eye vess iold how his adniiration fr3 Miller turned to love during ■fondon-Australia flight in 1927 t«We were in the public eye at of eourse; and after our ar'.;n Australia we had little op:jty to see each other. Since our Australian flight, my love for Miller has increascd during the ,jtreated Hadyn confide .tially []g start of our acquaintance. I rfry fond of him." •aster said he refused propos•sbis Western trip to fly a plane •V purpose. of smuggling alien or narcotics into the country Hexico. Threats Denied ::aster denied that he had threat3 the presence of business assoi to return to Miami from his ® trip to get rid of Clarke. His icontradicted the earlier testiof J. F. Russell. ;:n Russell told of reports that :;5 w'as in love with Hadmi," lancaster, "I told him that I J to hear no more about it. I 3 believe it. I knew Chubbie." aster said that the conversaak place in Los Angeles while 1 was unsuccessfully attemptipersuade him to fly a plane for zi narcotic-smuggling purposEvidence of Character aster related occasions on all three drank whiskey to- •, He said one of the persons rought it to their house was Brown. a Miami girl, who told a expected to marry Hadyn iBon. a retired rubber merchSingapore, who was called as sfor Lancaster, testified that had a good reputation his friends and associates in :i, Australia and the United ,Bon, who is enjoying a vacai Francs came here for the : purpose of aiding Lancaster, Jted his home during his Lonstralia flight. ; aviator friends of Lancaster itliat his character was good. ® Clyde Pangborn, the transiflyer, Irving Boyar and Rex :.n.