MIAMI TRIAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 303, 17 August 1932, Page 5

MIAMI TRIAL

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ATTORNEY ATTACKS MRS. MILLER'S CHARACTER IN ADDRESS

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MIAMI, Tuesday. Evidence was completed to-day in the Lancaster trial. The arguments opened with no stipulated time limit for attorneys' addresses. Mr. Henry Jones, Assistant-State Attorney opened the prosecution's summation with criticism of the charaeters of Lancaster and Mrs. Miller and an attack on the credibility of their testimony. "From this woman, weak physically and weaker morally," he said, "camo testimony tending to show that this awful tragedy was suicide. Ono of her lovers is dead and she is doing what you would expect — she is protecting the lover who is still alive."

Lancaster's diary and personal letters between him and Clarke and Mrs. Miller were brought into the case as the State sought to show Lancaster's predetermination to kill Clarke. Mr. Carson, counsel for the defence, praised Captain Lancaster for his unselfish act when deserted by some but not all his friends, his stability of character stood forth with the brilliance of a gem against the filth which fonned a solid. background. to the case. He declared that the State had only presented circumstantial evidence against the British aviator.