TRIAL OPENS IN SLAYING OF MRS. (Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 19, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON STAR
Approved For Release 1988L0q/97 6IA-RDP7
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CPYRGHT
murdering Mrs. Mary Pinchot
Meyer last October 12 on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
towpath began today.
The defendant, -Ray Crump
Jr., 28, of the 1900 block of
Stanton Terrace S);, is charged
in a first-degree murder indict-
Trial OisIn Slaying
Of hrs. Mary. Meyer
By WILLIAM BASHAM - alone at 1523 34th St. NW. She
Star Staff Writer woe a.niarn of f-ho lath f.iffrr`l
The U.S. District Court trial lubut, tht; aQttrmrSeL v
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tionist.
In the trial' today before!
Judge Howard F. Corcoran,
Assistant U. S. Attorney Alfred
Hantman introduced more than'
20 witnesses to the 60 prospec-
tive jurors, then questioned the,
jurors on their ability to judge
the defendant impartially.l
Crump, a short man with a"
small mustache, was neatly
dressed in a dark suit. He.
closely followed every question',
and answer., ;
When the government prose-
cutor asked if anyone had heard
or read of the case, 23 jurors,
rose, the largest number to'
respond to that particular.
question in the memory of-
several court observers. Two
men said they felt they could.
not fairly judge the evidence
and 'a third, who attended the
church of Defense Attorney.
Mrs. Dovey Roundtree for
several years, said he ' felt he
should not sit on the panel..
Corcoran excused the three,
men:
scream just before two shots In pretrial motions, Mrsq
were fired. One of the 'mbn said Roundtree argued. that Crump',
he ran across Canal Road and did not'get,a proper preliminary
looked down to see :'a.' man hearing' In which. he" was', per
standing over the victim`a,body. mitted to face. an, of his accu v
;,,,Mfrs, Meyerivorcee, livedsors.
ment with shooting the attrac-
tive ' 43-year-old Washington
artist as she walked along the
towpath less than a mile above
Key Bridge in the early, after-
noon.
Crump was arrested less than
an hour after the shooting. A
witness at the time said he saw
a man stand over Mrs. Meyer's
body, then run down an em-
,bankment beside the towpath
.and head in the direction of the
Potomac River. The defendant
was soaking wet when arrested
according to .police, but . he
denied knowledge, of the shoot-
ing and said he 'fell' into the
canal while fishing. . '
Witnesses who worked at a
nearby.. service station ' told
police they heard . a woman
CPYRGHT
Approved For Release 1999.109,107,: CIA-RQP75-00001 R000200320016-4