LARRY GAMBLES FOR HIS LIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300010018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 8, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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By A.. M. VOLE GROVE
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
DOWNIEVI,LDE, Calif.,
charmed, thrilled and
conned his I dy fends
with many phony yarns
about his death-cheating
exploits.
Ile desperately 'hoped to
convince a back country rnur
der, trial jury he left Mrs.
Pearl Putney alive and smil-
ing in the desert oasis DI Las,
Vegas, Nev.-not cold and
dead under a fir log in the
lonely mountains near here.
This man with a past so
well camouflaged even the
FBI can't say When or where
he was born, was ready to
amplify what his own attor-
ney told the court yesterday:
s That "it has b ' proved
without a doubt-he had told
many lies."
a That he "has trifled with
the hearts of frustrated wom
en and has been far from
faithful to his wife."
s That he "has masquerad-
ed in many guises" as he
played out his love games for
kicks and money.
0 But in a.ll his knavery
"there has "not been one iota
of violence" because, despite
his blo d chilling fictioned
stories of $e'roism he abhors
rough shift.
s For justice to be served
the jury must.believe he is, at
last, telling the truth when
he says the state is mistaken
in charging him with the cold-
hearted murder of his dear
friend, Mrs. Pearl Putney of
Washington.
By going on the stand,
Motherwell (who says he will
be 42 Thursday), was laying
giimself open to merciless,
ney ini,1 an l oun ter
-i excelledt health.
This apparently was in-
t nded to forestall any claim
rs. Putney might have died
natural causes during or
ortly after a transcontinen-
1 motor romance with Moth-
well in mid-1958.
Before the doctor testified,
petato'rs in the packed Lit-
t eour'troom for the second
me clenched. hands in sym-
t{hy as a distraught unmar-
woman told how she'd
allowed Motherwell's ho-
m and promises of mar-
ge only to find disillusion-
ent and grief.
arie Colley, 32, of Roanoke
e was working in 1957 for
e telephone company in
ashington as was his third
d present wife Josephine.
"Yes, I knew he was mar-
d," she said, "but he said
planned to get a divorce
d marry me."
Eyes averted from the Jury,
e said they went to Miami
gether and gat an apart-
ent. As he told others, Larry
i formed Marie he had a dan-
rous and secret Government
] b and "had to be protected
hours a day" by an un-
trusive bodyguard nick-
med "The Dagger."
searching cross examination
by his prosecutors.
Defense attorneys John T.
Rages of Washington and
Robert Fugazi of Truckee,
Calif., debated several days
whether to put Larry on the
stand. Finally, Motherwell
made his own decision to
testify.
Only one other witness will
be called by the defense-
Castro Dabrohua, brother of
Mrs. Putney. He has already
testified as a prosecution wit-
ness.
One of the ' people's final
witnesses yesterday was Dr:
Roy L. Sexton of Washington.
He testified he examined Mrs.
THREE WEEKS
"Once, he went -away for
pee weeks," ,~Miiss Colley
Lid. "I receiveTI 'telegraixi
at he had -died and his ashes
d been spread over the
ei glades. It was signed
e Da ger.' "
Larry came back, tho, a
w dal7s later and explained
at the message was an
ror. It was his twin brath-
who had been killed.
Eventually the pair . con-
ned what has become
own as. "the Motherwell I
ur." across the southern 1
S. to California. Larry
as :going to get a divorce in
no, Miss Colley said, but
mething prevented it-she
dn't elaborate--and they re-
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