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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 17, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes March 19501 Yvette tries to halt doctors testimony continued from Page 1 to the packed courtroom shut but Madsen broke into violent sobs and cried out they know All do they have to go Over All that Kleist earlier bad testified that charged with shooting Ajr Force 1st it Andrew Madsen could have been so Poi soned by nicotine and alcohol that she was in an epileptic fog at the time of the two hours Kleist was the last defense wit Ness in the in More than six hours of weighty testimony that at times elicited agonized cries and moans from the slender Kleist said Madsen could have men tally blacked out at the time she allegedly fired the army pistol Bullet through her husbands sobbing and Madsen dont let them say that about i loved i loved they didst Tell me they were going to do this to she writhed away in her chair from her father As he assisted a was Matron to Calm 71yearold director of the City nerve clinic and the clinic of the University of Testi fied he observed and questioned Madsen on five occasions in the last two and was acquainted with her background from depositions taken from wit Nesses in anger he said Madsen had Many characteristics of an including a thyroid and was particularly susceptible to such poisons As nicotine and and to such mental stimulants As fear and the Cigar ets she combined with the alcohol she drank at a party preceding the plus the fact she was insulted at the party and left it in the fact her husband did not accompany her the fact she could not find her sleeping pills when she did get All added Kleist to a loss of the Only thing that penetrated her mind at that Kleist was an insane delusion of persecution that her husband was threatening her and her Kleist if accepted by the panel of three might give Madsen an escape Hatch from the under German of Deli berate which the Maxi mum penalty is life made her perspire co caused her eyes to and might reclassify the slaying As involuntary the maximum penalty permitted by the German criminal code is Only t in 71yearold who wars a hearing was accepted by the court As an expert and an authority on psychiatry and he sketched an ing picture of Madsen As a intelligent child who matured prematurely into an erotic teenager whose extraordinary irritability and propensity toward anger gravely influenced by her misuse of tobacco and alcohol these Kleist aggravated her thyroid kept her thin and accelerated her heart and pulse to 120 beats a and protrude she has no tolerance for he end relatively Small amounts were enough to make her angry and Madsen was very easily excited the psychiatrist when she was 16 or 17 she lived with a much older Man and posed As his she travelled to Florida and lived with Madsen without being married to there was a Lack of restraint about she had Good Kleist she was very a Good self con a and full of love for her husband and Kleist indicated he had come to the conclusion that because of her physical and psychical could under certain maximum conditions involving anger and Lack of a lose conscious Ness and perform an unknowing act under a delusion of fear of her Kleist described Madsen As having various during my question i was surprised to find her Kleist at a disagreeable she would become and her facial expressions Are extraordinarily an a she has an abnormal gift for she tells a great Many after she reads a novel or sees a movie or a she imagines herself to be the and plays that thus has a certain rela Tion to she is neither right handed nor but is equally skillful with More details Kleist hinted that during his own questioning of he found she remembered Many More details of the hours just prior to the shooting than she was Able to remember when she took the witness stand in her own defense he said Madsen told him she would have taken some sleeping pills after she came Home from the party if she had been find them it was during her search for the sleeping Madsen has that she found the pistol in a bedroom night the prosecution has charged she loaded the went Down to the living wrote a note calling on the move for exercise Shamrock a Convoy of vehicles from the 33d a 1st inf Rolls Down the autobahn toward Mannheim to assume positions for the Start of exercise photo by Curvan experts to study investments in Trieste March 16 ican financial experts will come Here soon to investigate the possibility of using private capital investment to improve the economic situation in the Trieste the Ega Mission Here announced the announcement said the experts would be representatives of Rockefeller financial interests and of the Chase National i husband names and saying she intended to shoot him to save herself from an anticipated and shot him when he came Home from the protective custody urged Kleist specifically recommended that Madsen be placed in protective custody in a Hospital or mental institution As a psychopathic personality who should not be permitted at under Cross examination by the the witness described Madsen As Between mental health and mental and subject to transitory mental he said the motivating cause of the shooting was fright and anger influenced by her abnormal delusion that she must defend herself from her Hus band by shooting him disappeared very quickly after the Kleist when asked whether Madsen knew the difference Between right and wrong just before the Kleist said she can distinguish general con but she is not in a Posi Tion to apply these conceptions to her own in her d e 1 u s to n and dream husband As men of 1st div has shift to base in French zone continued from Page 1 he co will be joined by the 16th inf regt Headquarters Rhino the 2d and 3d 7th a 1st engr c in a 48th a and the 3d 6th Aarud Cav Al attached the 16th also coming into the Speyer area will be the 26th inf regt he with the 33d a g 1st engr c c 48th aaa a in and the 1st inf recon most interesting feature of the movement into position was the air ground traffic system worked of by maj Fred division Provost and maj Alexander co of the divisions Light aviation using l5 and l17 in con Junction with my jeeps marked with numbered air a detailed running picture of traffic conditions was made available to control of air traffic cops an my traffic control noncommissioned officer Rode in each plane carrying maps and traffic plans showing the locations of All co Nitro talking on fee same radio frequencies As the my patrol vehicle the base stations and the ground control station tied into the division command the observers directed immediate attention to congested areas and often anticipated traffic snarls which were prevented by prompt ground the Aerial panels or the my jeeps were removable so vehicles could return to Home stations without disrupting the control a 1st div spokesman tonight stated the combination of Well marked my Road Good Convoy discipline and air ground control brought the division through to its Shamrock Field Headquarters with a minimum of she saw her an enemy of her children and whereas in her periods of she knew her husband loved her and the Kleist said he believed that when Madsen wrote in her note the words the the the Low she May subconsciously have been referring not to her but to the Host at the by whom she claimed to the psychiatrist was still being Cross examined by the prosecution at the close of today and he will resume the witness chair tomorrow the prosecution also May Call several rebuttal including three army and air Force doctors who found Madsen sane in with the Case nearly at its panel of judges must determine when it will hear prosecution and defense arguments before the weekend or if arguments Are heard tomorrow or the three judges Are expected to take the verdict under advisement Over the and to announce it at another court ses Sion monday or 4 sentenced in assault Case March 16 special two military policemen were convicted Here today of involuntary manslaughter and two were fount guilty of assault in an attack Ken two germans in Mannheim last 21 a count martial acquitted the All of the 511th my so of of the  murder of Kurt who died in a Mannheim Hospital four Days after the All were convicted of Emil Martin another was injured the Cpl Charles Peterson and pfc Robert found guilty of in voluntary w e r Given dishonourable discharges and ordered confined at hard labor for tworan Dahal total forfeiture of All pay and allowances also was pfc Clarence Burton and pvt Charles convicted of As were ordered confined at hard labor for three months and fined a month for that the attack on the germans occurred after the accompanied by Hilde a left the 511th pm trial judge advocate was maj Carl he was assisted by capt Robert defense counsel was maj Baxter assisted by 1st it Robert Jackson and Phillip us to hold  March 16 a three nation atomic Energy con Ference will be held on March 22 and 23 at Chalk the atomic Energy commission announced Here the commission said that representatives from the 10 atomic Energy centers in the will hold a closed session with British and Canadian representatives to discuss problems connected with measuring atomic dec Road conditions March 16 7he Neucom Provost marshal today reported roads wet in spots at All other roads throughout he zone Are  in Kidnap trial by Bernard Liebes staff correspondent March 16 the prosecution late this afternoon introduced an alleged 10page confession of Cpl Paul one of the two Ufa gis on trial for the alleged kidnapping of Oswald a viennese defense maj Rodham Rutledge immediately called Abel to testify in an Effort to bar introduction of the sitting almost at the slim Corporal told the court army agents told him he would be committing perjury if he did not supplement his original approached army agents testimony by prosecution witnesses disclosed How Abel and sgt John the other each on his own Ini approached army agents without telling the to reveal their roles in the alleged kid chief prosecution witnesses Testi fied that the 29yearold while at the Moulin a Vienna night approached an army agent at 1 am he had something big to reveal according to the testimony an unidentified army phoned Bun the agent quoted Abel As i kidnapped a come and get the Call was allegedly made from the apart ment of an austrian Abel and Frankey Are reported to have signed pretrial statements saying they were paid Schil Lings about after delivering Eder to soviet agents in the rus Sian another prosecution Cpl Victor a Cook in the 796th my related How Abel approached him to help him pull off the Griffin testified that on the night of Abel told we got the Man and got the defense of Rhine started by units n continued from Page 1 lad been observed marching from the but no ground Contact been made As unified operations is the keynote of the defense Brig Gen Thomas commander of 2d air has established joint Headquarters with and the 4 to commanders Are holding joints daily Darcy established his head quarters with White Speed a ions on requests from troops in he Field for air the re quests will be forwarded to Whites and if passed into an adjoining tent action by Darcy the close Fairground Liaison was Urther demonstrated by Brig Gen Charles chief of opera joint task born visited he Field this afternoon to observe he 26th inf regt moving to take p Mccarthy to Bare red9list continued from Page 1 voluntarily to the committees re West for the Mccarthy has his evidence under lock by for Mccarthy said it will be up to he committee to decide whether to make Public his list of 81 he will not do so on his own he John Diplomat denounced by Mccarthy s was ordered ome from India to testify in a new review of his loyalty the state department announced that service was recalled on the j recommendation of the civil serv ice loyalty review the which previously had cleared that his recall did not mean serves ice was under any new but that it was considered desirable to let him speak for services recall from India was hailed by Mccarthy As clearly proving the Wisdom of his method of presenting his cases one by  
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