Evening star. [volume], April 08, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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FROM AIR WRECK
Sleds Used to Bring Eight
Victims of Airline From
Arizona Mountain.
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BACKGROUND
BUM for sale to the Royal Dutch
Airlines of Holland, the luxurious
Douglas airliner found wrecked in
Arizona yesterday was being ferried
from Los Angeles to New York for
shipment to Holland when it dis
appeared late Saturday. The eight
occupants included pilots and some
of their relatives.
By the Associated Press.
, McNARY, Ariz., April 8.—Biers of
aspen limbs were fashioned today for
eight charred bodies by shivering men
■■ who stood guard all night on the
mountainside where a luxurious 21
passenger skyliner crashed into the
snow and burned.
Undertakers began the task of load
ing the victims, two women and six
*men, on sleds and bringing them
out—a tortuous 7-mile journey over
steep hills, down snow-clogged ravines
and across roaring streams which
caused half of a searching party of
40 to drop exhausted.
o. c. Cole, an official of the Douglas
Aircraft Corp., which built the plane,
said the removal could not be com
pleted before nightfall and may
require two days.
The sight of twisted metal and
death which greeted the searchers
and the ordeals they underwent on
the way were described by Jack Lefler,
a member of the party.
"Sparkling remnants of that luxuri
ous airliner drew us up the mountain
side to the summit of the White
Mountains," he said.
Scattered Steel Fragments.
"There we stumbled upon fragments
of steel scattered over a 50-yard
area. The battered nose and burned
cabin of the plane were buried 6 feet
deep in the snow—a grave eaten into
the frozen mass by fire.
"In the cabin, unburned portions of
the pilot’s and co-pilot’s bodies re
mained strapped in seats. The six
others, charred beyond recognition,
were buried beneath the hull.
"A heap of almost unharmed bag
gage sprawled across the drifts of
snow. It was the only thing there that
was not debris.
"One of the 40-foot wings lay crum
pled and torn from the hull. A few
yards up the hill the other lay twisted
like a broken tin horn.
"A section of the tail, slashed into
» nearby tree, hung precariously over
head. From the limbs other shattered
pieces of the plane were suspended.
“ ‘Only an explosion could cause
this,’ exclaimed several searchers,
pointing to the scattered wreckage.
“Veteran mountain men, peace of
fleers, newspaper men and photogra
phers, and curious followers alike, we
found ourselves almost unable to cope
with 4-foot snow drifts, roaring icy
streams, steep hills and bitter cold on
the long journey.
Twenty Abandon Party.
“There were 20 who failed to stand
the hazards of the search. We left
them shivering last night at the half
way point of the return trip. Unable
to proceed, they halted, appealed for
help and sought the few patches of
ground bare of snow. Quickly we who
made our way back sent out food,
water, a few blankets and some
matches to beleaguered comrades.
“Earlier in the day many of the
searchers couldn’t stand the almost
perpendicular 1,000-foot climb up the
mountainside on which the wreckage
lay. Even the most hardy slumped
into the drifts.
“After inspecting the wreckage, we
wearily turned back—except for those
who must remain.
“Among the members of our party
were three girls—one wearing slippers
—with their escorts; they soon
dropped behind.”
The plane left Burbank, Calif.,
Saturday morning on a “ferrying"
trip to New York, where it was to
be shipped to Holland. Aboard were:
Pilot Glen Moser, 30; Co-pilot Joe
Wolf oik, 32; Moser’s father, E. R.
Moser, 55; Merle Estey, 29. Douglas
engineer, and his wife Lucille; Roland
Kent, Douglas employe; Mrs. B. B.
Bruderlin, mother of a company
employe and Bernard Trop, jr„ 33.
Bad weather forced it off its course
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Chloroform
(Continued Prom First Page.)
ingness to assume the risk of an ille
gal operation infers that he was the
father of the schoolgirl’s unborn child.
The commonwealth attorney said
Dr. Miller had previous experience
with anaesthetics and should have
known the “immense danger of ad
ministering chloroform in such con
centrated form.”
Fife reminded the judge that blisters
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on the girl's face Indicated the anes
thetic was strong and the administer
ing cone very large.
“I don’t think he Intended to ldll
this girl," Fife said, "but I know he
showed a calloused and wanton dis
regard for her life.”
Reads Wife’s Letter.
The defense yesterday read a letter
to the judge from Mrs. Mozelle Miller,
wife of the dentist, in which she de
scribed her husband as generous, in
capable of saying "no” and a "target
for emotional women.”
J. Tinsley Coleman, who represents
the Sprouse family, opened the argu
ments at 8 o’clock this morning.
Coieman denounced Dr. Miller for
taking advantage of ‘an innocent girl,
who, as his patient under treatment
in his office, was entitled to his pro
tection.”
uoieman said the alleged illegal
operation on the young expectant
mother was undertaken in the crudest
manner, and that when Cleo died Dr.
Miller placed the body near the Uni
versity of Virginia “to cast suspicion
01 the students.”
Coleman said that Dr. Miller planned
to have the girl branded a suicide
in event university students were not
suspected of violence upon her.
The attorney described Cleo’s long
association with Dr. Miller and said
the dentist first met her when she was
merely a child.
Coleman declared he was convinced
Dr. Miller was “responsible for the
condition” of tha schoolgirl.
.ays Death Accidental.
Attorney Leith S. Bremner of Rich
mond replied to Coleman in behalf of
the defense and also attacked critics
of the compromise method of hearing
the case and asserted that a trial
would "drag dirty linen through this
court and turn it into a theater."
Bremner declared the State knew it
could not prove that the girl died
otherwise than under anesthetic as
claimed by Dr. Miller.
The defense counsel stated that
Cleo’s death was accidental and Dr.
Miller had pleaded guilty to second
degree murder only because the acci
dental death was the result of a
felonious attempt at abortion.
Bremner denied that Dr. Miller
was the father of Cleo’s unborn child
and declared that if he was he “ought
to be on trial for first-degree murder.”
He closed his remarks with a plea
to the judge to be lenient in view of
Dr. Miller’s confession and willingness
to co-operate with enforcement of
ficers.
“OPEN HOUSE DAY”
Parents and Friends of Pupils to
Visit Thomson School.
Parents and friends of children In
the Thomson School, Twelfth and
L streets, will have a chance to
become better acquainted with the
school program in action at an "open
house day” at the school, April 13,
Robert W. Eaves announced today.
There will be special exhibits in
children’s work in a"rt, science and
other subjects.
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Detective Williams Shot by
Fellow Officer—Mystery
Probed.
Police inspectors were attempting
today to penetrate the mystery sur
rounding the shooting of Precinct De
tective Richard E. Williams, second
precinct, by Detective Sergt. Michael
Mahaney on the Defense Highway
near Lanham, Md., Tuesday after
noon.
Shot through the jaw. Williams Is
in George Washington University Hos
pital, where he has steadfastly main
tained the shooting was accidental.
Mahaney was suspended from duty
yesterday by Chief of Detetclves Ber
nard W. Thompson after he had been
questioned for more than two hours.
Inspector Thompson said Mahaney
refused to reveal what mission took
the two officers into Maryland.
Both Mahaney and Williams told
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards Williams
was driving toward Lanham while
Mahaney sat beside him examining
his gun. Suddenly Williams swerved
to avoid an object in the road and
Mahaney was thrown forward against
the dashboard. His gun exploded.
Williams told Inspector Edwards
that Mahaney, believing the bullet had
inflicted a critical wound, left the car
to search for a telephone to call for
aid. While Mahaney was gone, Wil
liams said, he recovered from the
shock and drove his car alone to
George Washington Hospital.
How Mahaney returned to the city
police have not been able to learn.
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