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A-18 ** •THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH *3. lOSS NO 51 OF A SERIES OF FACTS ABOUT THE NATION'S CAPITAL THE BALLAST HOMES constructed from stone brought I in on ballast. The stones , i, ggapHwW 1 jr ** LIBERTY A BUILDING ASSOCIATION /jsMfpj 1407 G ST., N.W. • ST. 3-2200 See “Bryson Rash and the News" every Tues., Wed and Tliurs. at 11:00 l’.M. on WMAL-TV—Channel 7 | HERE’S HOT WATER NEWS | GLASS-LINED FOR LONGEST LIFE- I budget priced - low-cost operation r GUARANTEED FOR TO FULL YEARS! John Wood GLASSLINER A AUTOMATIC W ‘ GAS Water Heater I > Complete Safety 1 j IT COSTS MUCH LESS to buy—install—operate Automatic Feature fa No down payment FULLY GUARANTEED J "ts WOODLEY 6-7122 THOS. E. CLARK, INC 4434 Connecticut Avenue N.W. 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The new trial, before an all male Jury, has been marked by j a reiteration of testimony given at Watson's first trial by prose . cution witnesses. The first trial ; resulted in a hung Jury last I January 28. Oral Confession Reported Late yesterday. Detective Sergt. Patrick A. Deenihan of the Homicide Squad, testified, as he did at the first trial, that Watson had made an oral con fession of the crime to him a day after being arrested.. Sergt. Deenihan quoted Wat son as saying he entered Miss Taggart’s room and placed his hand over her mouth. Watson then said he told Miss Taggart he would kill her if she made an outcry, Sergt. Deenihan testified. Sergt. Deenihan testified Wat son told him Miss Taggart made | an outcry and that he "struck ! her four or five times” with a duckpin in the room. Watson : also told of having sexual rela tions with Miss Taggart after striking her, Sergt. Deenihan said. Earlier yesterday, Miss Mar garet E. Gies, former manager i of Scott’s Hotel, testified to see ing Watson explain to detectives while at the hotel how he com mitted the crime. Three Murder Counts. Watson is being tried on three first-degree murder counts. One : count charges premeditated mur der. A second count charges he killed Miss Taggart while trying to rape her and the third count I charges he killed her while com- ; mittlng the crime of housebreak ing. A fourth count in the in dictment charges housebreaking only. Defense Attorney Foster Wood i cross-examined prosecution wit ! nesses extensively yesterday. Watson is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Frederick G. Smithson. Judge :; Charles F. McLaughlin is presid ing at the trial. Watson already is under sen tence of from 13 to 40 years for breaking into an apartment of an airline hostess and raping her. Lava Flows From Volcano On San Benedicto Island By the Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Calif., Mar. 23. ' I The volcano on San Benedicto i Island, off the coast of Mexico j » 1,000 miles south of here, yester- < day was reported erupting for ’ I the first time in two years. * I Two Coast Guard officers. Capt. William Snyder, Long Beach, and Lt. Comdr. Glenn Thomp son, said. ( they saw lava pouring | from the Volcano while on a sea | plane flight Friday. a Adrian Richards, geologist at 1 the University of California’s ; Scripps institution of • ocean i ography, said the volcano was I last noted in eruption in Febru ary, 1953. It was in violent eruption for several months in ; 1952 after being long dormant. Mrs. Reltig on Stand At Murder Trial, Denies Stabbing Mrs. Kathryn Rettig, 40. took the stand today to testify in her own defense in her first-degree murder trial. She promptly denied she had stabbed her husband, Robert L. Rettig, 32. Mrs. Rettig, a waitress, is ac cused of fatally stabbing Mr. Rettig last October 24 In an apartment where the couple lived in the 600 block of Sixth street N.E. Denies Using Knife Defense attorney Myer Koonin held the slaying weapon in his hand and asked: “Did you ever take this knife and plunge it into your hus band?” "I did not,” Mrs. Rettig re plied. She also testified that she was awakened by her husband as he Jumped out of bed after be ing stabbed. She testified she saw a man in the room wearing a trench coat. Doesn’t Recall Confessing. Mrs. Rettig also testified she did not remember saying any thing to Detective Sergt. Pat rick A. Deenihan at the Wom en’s Bureau early on the morn ing of October 25. Earlier in the trial, Sergt. Deenihan testified she had made an oral confession of the slaying to him when questioned at the Womens Bureau. Detective Sergt. A. D. Clarke also has tes tified that he overheard her make the confession. Kronheim Elected Jewish Society Trustee Milton S. Kronheim, sr., has been elected a national > trustee of the Jewish Consumptives Re lief Society, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Kronheim is chairman of the Washington advisory board of the society which conducts the Denver Hospital and Sana torium. Other Washingtonians who are national trustees of the so ciety are S. A. Freas, Mrs. Jo seph Bernstein and Mrs. Louis DJnowitz. Arizona State Society The Arizona State Society will honor its Cherry Blossom prin cess, Miss Matilda at a reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday in the family dining room of the Senate Wing of the Capitol. 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