TRIAL OPENS IN SLAYING OF MRS. (Classified)

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320016-4
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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October 14, 1998
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16
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Publication Date: 
July 19, 1965
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NSPR
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WASHINGTON STAR Approved For Release 1988L0q/97 6IA-RDP7 FOIAb3b 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 i 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