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There will be a dinner dance at Kirkland House on Friday. Dinner will be served from 7.30 to 9 o'clock, and there will be dancing from 9 until 2 o'clock with music by Roy Lamson's "Harvardians." Supper is to be served at midnight...
...trial of David A. Lamson, 31-year-old sales manager of Stanford University Press, for the murder of his wife (TIME, Sept. 11): conviction, by a jury which recommended the death sentence, in San Jose, Calif...
...pipe and pieces of charred clothing found in the fire he was tending that morning. County Pathologist Dr. Frederick Proescher testified that he found blood on the pipe and clothing, but could not say whether it was animal or human blood. To corroborate his evidence, a neighbor of the Lamsons testified that she had noticed heavy smoke coming from the fire, had smelled what she thought was burning flesh. The prosecutor alleged that Lamson had beaten his wife over the head with the pipe, then sought to destroy all evidence in the fire. Witnesses were called to testify that Lamson...
...defense based its case on a single vital point: that Mrs. Lamson's death could have been caused by an accidental fall. Two doctors, one of whom was Blake Wilbur, testified that the wounds on her head might have resulted from a blow against the bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been...
Late last week it was rumored that the defense would call Brother Theodore Hoover as a character witness for Lamson...