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SECTION 1 THE COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1958 'Get A Lawyer ICAFSUEDE JACKETS Exchangee hi Love With Helper Father of Traffic Defendant Loses as Would-Be Attorney Slain by Her Jealous Husband 1UU1 cllS-lUUIU Suspect Gets 10-Year Term Man Was Accused Of Molesting Girl, 12 August A. Roller, 44, was given a 10-year prison sentence by a Criminal Court jury yesterday after the jury found him guilty ISh D'A Washable, Windproof, orown "Una rt CHy I EDO Optn Sal. 1:30 lo 11:30 Up In SEf THI SMITH-CORONA LICTRIC PORTABLI TYPEWRITERS BEST BUYS IN LOUISVILLE WILLI 69; Smith-Corona All Typewriters Guaranteed 1-Year Service Free of Charge Tho Itrgtit Imllh-Corona rapraiantativ Kanlucky.

PRINCIPALS IN CAMPUS SLAYING John W. Hampton, 31, right, is being held in Berkley, Cal, for killing Wolfgang L. Marx, 26, left, over the German physics student's attentions to his wife, Madeleine, 29. Standard Typewriter Supply Co. JU 5-3013-13! S.

4th G. W. THOMAS Optn Sal. Until Noon viuage court last night on a speeding charge, the elder Young was on hand to act as his attorney, Judge Jones asked If Young were licensed. Young said he wasn't, but he had a knowledge of law.

Knowledge without a license doesn't count, Jones ruled. And when young Young failed to produce witnesses to back up his plea of innocence, Jones, fined him $5. "We want to appeal," said his would-be attorney. "How much time do we have for that?" "I'm not going to teach you law," answered Jones. "Get yourself a lawyer." Young said he would.

One with a license. Temperance Driver Drunk Chicago, Djc 16 Wl Richard Brunt. 37. was convicted of drunken driving Tuesday in Traf- lie court. Brunt lives in Temperance, Mich.

GROWING CHRISTMAS STOSE A' ft 'I 5 Finders of Lost Articles Usually Look Over the "Lost" Ads. Youths Drink Antifreeze; Girl Dies, 3 Boys In Hospital West Newbury, Dec. 16 nothing of the sort. But it turned Fear of being called "chick- into a crash affair," Curry said, en" caused antifreeze to flow Curry does not drink. He said like wine at a teen-age party, nTe in rhe cellar, adding that prowling killing one girl and hospitalising party crashers apparently sought three boys, police revealed Tues- liquor and found the bottle, day.

The teen-agers thought they Carol Curray, 17, the hostess were drinking wine or creme-de- and daughter of a former Town menthe when they downed the police chief, died Monday night. ZrLen flu'. P0'1" sald- An autopsy Tuesday revealed Curry, his wife, and son were the blond high-school girl sue- neighbors during the it takes a license to make a lawyer a lawyer, and that's the truth, the whole truth. Cross-examine R. Lewis Young if there are any doubts.

Or ask Beechwood Village Police Judge Lawrence L. Jones for an opinion. Young, 4523 Fox Run Road, is field representative for an insurance firm. But when his 17-year-old son, Ronald Lewis Young, appeared in Beechwood Fire Destroys School's Gym at Hodgenville Special lo Tht Courier-Journal Hodgenville, Dec. 16 The Hodgenville Elementary School gymnasium was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning less than 2 hours before about 900 pupils were scheduled to gather there for a Christmas program.

The fire also destroyed an adjoining room used by the school band. School authorities estimated the loss at $50,000. I OU Everybody Open Wednesday through Friday Nights 'til 9 Anoclattd PrtM Wirtphotot party, The house was empty when the Currys returned except for Carol, who had gone to bed. Entered Hospital Sunday Carol entered the hospital Sunday night. She died about 24 hours later, Police said one teen-ager ap- parently saved himself bv stoo- ping at a drugstore for a night- cap two milk shakes.

He then vomited, emptying his stomach of the milk shakes and the anti- freeze. Hospitalized in satisfactory condition were Richard Keller, 16. of Merrimac. at first feared losing his sight, and Eugene TKnTtn rpU. Put out of Home Two Years Ago Berkeley, Dec.

16 A love triangle, involving a German exchange student and the couple that took him in, ended in violent death at the Univer-lity of California early Tuesday. For 2 hours a jealous husband stalked his prey in Leconte Hall, making a room-by-room search of the college physics building. On the third floor Wolfgang Ludwig Marx, 26, Hcrrnhut, Germany, a brilliant student, was working alone on an electronics project. Marx must have heard foot steps at 12:50 a.m. lie opened the laboratory door and was confronted by a man with a pistol.

The gun fired five times. Marx fell dead, a bullet through his heart. The killer dropped his weapon as he fled, but returned later for it and was taken into custody. John W. Hampton, 31, readily admitted the killing, Police Sgt.

Robert Ludden said, and, booked on suspicion of murder, told this story: Two years ago Hampton's wife, Madeleine, an attractive blonde, suggested that they take a German exchange student into their home. Marx became a boarder at the Hampton home and a student at the University in 1955. Marx had difficulty with English, but Mrs. Hampton, the former Madeleine Baum of Weisbaden, Germany, spoke fluent German. Hampton said the relationship developed into a love affair.

He ordered Marx out of his home. Marx then went into the United States Army in May, 1957. On his return last September the relationship was resumed, Hampton said. Hampton told police his wife admitted the affair and asked for a divorce. She is the mother of three young boys.

"I loved her and I couldn't stand it," Hampton said. "This thing was driving me crazy." Hampton said he resigned his job as an oil-company chemist Monday, returned to his home, and began drinking. "A (nn. ni. Horllnir llll 1UU1 HI mai 11111.1, he said he loaded his pistol, slipped a bottle of gin into a pocket, and began his search for Marx.

The Hamptons married eight years after a University of California campus romance. Mrs. Hampton collapsed when told Marx was dead. ARE YOU LATE? All cumbed to the effects cf down ing the automobile antifreeze. The three boys were reported out of danger, although it was feared for a time that one would go blind.

Carol's distraught father, Buell Curry, said his daughter had in- vited about 10 friends to the house Saturday night. But about two dozen teen-agers "crashed" tne party and located a liquor bottle filled with the deadly antifreeze in the cellar. iv ii uuniu uinni Curry said the teen-agers dared each other to drink. Those who didn't, earned the scornful Ithnl nf "nViinlsnn Vi n'A ouw vi wiuvAuii, iic aaiu. aiaiiuii aim xuumas ourgerun.

ue lurwameu 10 rresiuein was no drunken brawl, both 17 and of West Newbury. I hower. needs a wallet and we have them Wallets and French Purses in smoolh or rippled cowhide and dipped in fashion colors Soft, Warm, Washable A. CLOVE that, combines complete comfort with trim stliii. Has a soft capeskin palm, and knitled hack is hi-lulk Orion which has a very soft cashmere feel.

A ondpifully soft inside, loo. A handsome glove he's sure lo love I 00 at only of a charge of indecent and immoral practices. Roller, formerly of 324 W. Avery, was charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl in February, 1958. The jury gave him the maximum penalty on the charge.

The girl and a sister testified that Roller molested the 12-year-old girl while he lived with the girls and their mother. Denied The Charge Roller denied the charge. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jack Lowery, who prosecuted Roller, said the mother would be tried on a similar charge February 2. In another case in Knight's court, Roy Stewart, 40, of 1016 Sale, pleaded guilty to two charges of passing a worthless check. Knight gave him two years on each count but ruled that Stewart could serve them at the same time.

Gordo's Journey Protested Anew Geneva, Dec. 16 W) Prof. George C. Messerly, president of the World Anti-Vivisection Fed eration, sent a protest to the United States embassy Tuesday against the space trip of Gordo, the squirrel monkey. Gordo flew 600 miles into space in a U.

S. Army Jupiter rocket Saturday. Instruments in, the rocket showed he survived the heat and the shock of reentry into the atmosphere, but later perished when his tiny cabin was lost somewhere in the South Atlantic. Messerly wrote to U. S.

Am bassador Henry J. Taylor that the experiment created a pain ful impression throughout the world. He asked that his protest 1 1 1 1 from Fashionable accommodations for giving or getting delightful "date bait" designs for the teen-agers, smartly fashioned stitchless models for mothers and grandmothers. Passcases, change purses and other welcome features and they're all designed to look much more than their tiny price. By TEMPO.

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