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Parent of “Ted” Lewis Says Complaining Girl's Family Set Price.LvihI-IutaA payment of $2,000, an automO-lUo and a? wrist: watch was asked by Mt:a. Mary Toth. * Howard, avemie, ■after the arrest .of tflLllam IS. mTgTT\ Lewis, vaudeville amor, on changes preferred .by . her . daughter, Betty.-Denyam, it Was testified beOOre Judge L, P. Watdo Mur yin and a jury in Criminal'Superior court yesterday afternoon- b,y M're, • Philip Montis, Lewis’ -mother. • / .It was the 1inder.9tand.inK of Mrs*|a Motrtis tbivt the pi irtecuttop of her son would be stayed jf such gifts were irytde. She said ©ixe told..the Kiri's, mother her «oh did not; have $2,000 and Mw. Toth was quoted as •idvising that lie ” borrow from Marie h “friend a.”Mrs, Toth made the explanation that she did ask for $2,000 but onlybecause the Lewi* family wished j That Settlement of the difficulty'- be 1 ; made by miuTlagre and she felt such ' n union would not Last long and Ashe wanted the money for her daughter's avKtetancn. -She said she made no request for an uutomoblft -or a wrist watch.Ik1 xvis Takes Stand.Lewis took the witness stand in his own defend0 yesterday afternoon. JCac.li -of Miss Denyam'a grave'chai?g-e»* against him were emphaticallydenied., tie likewise re ruled statements of -police, that lie begged to bo permitted tio marry the girl to •avoid arrest..Mrs. Toth said that a man, wh\ represented himself 'ag Athc-mcy Jacob Buskin, counsel for Lewis, called -her upon the telephone tfhd. urg--ei.l the advisability of marriage between her daughter ami Lewis. Attorney Ruskin wished to take the stand 'to deny he was” a party to an oh a conversation, but oould not in that counsel in ** case cannot be a witness also. ■ ,presentation -of evidence was completed yesterday after no on and arguments will be made to the jury this morning,.f
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Fri, Feb 19, 1926
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