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rkeyLongun-nfairuinissec-: thecom-icog-nionem-150Cox) the Cions r re-abor 1 to Coxe, of of a »singlendia-*,000 ) the ison, L, a dice.| Center, iul unve Avenue. • \Mllill mm I'M 111! III! UK .......................................................................................................Caf email’s Widow Held as Murder AccessoryMrs. Dorothy O. Morgan was held to answer today on counts of giving false testimony and being an accessory after the fact to the crime of murder in the death of her • son-in-law, James G. Frutchey.After a 40-minute preliminary hearing, Torrance Municipal Judge George R. Perkovich Jr. set her arraignment for 9 a.m. July 1 in Torrance Superior Court, Dept. J.Mrs. Morgan was a key witness in the murder trial of her husband, Long Beach restaurateur Arthur V. Morgan, who was acquitted last Jan. 1 of shooting Frutchey, 40, in the back yard of his Rolling Hills home July 2, 1967. MorganJater died of undetermined causes.Long Beach Attorney Joseph A. Ball, representing Mrs. Morgan, argued today that her confession to the shooting of Frutchey was true, and said the reason Mir district attorney’s office did not file against her for murder woe that is was a case of “perfect self-defense.”Dep. Dist. Atty. Robert Burnett argued that Mrs. Morgan did not kill Frutchey, citing testimony of Frutchey’s wife, Charlene, and their young daughter, Linda, that Mrs. Morgan was inside the house when the shooting occurred in the back yard.during the weekend.Crowds estimated to be larger than the throngs which greeted the Queen Mary on her arrival poured into the harbor Sunday, creating what one police officer described as the greatest traffic jam of all-“It was three times as heavy as it was Saturday/* Patrol Lt Forrest Smith said, describing Sunday’s parade of sightseers heading for the battleship tied up at Pier E.Smith speculated Sunday’s traffic jam could have been the biggest the city has seen.Ens. Scott Chcyne, public affairs officer said 45,591 visitors were counted during the two-day open house.More than 20,000 went aboard Sunday —' about half again as many as the previous day.The huge Sunday crowd climaxed the New Jersey’s brief first visjt to the ship’ssch*sevtTheJersBeauntiA peo are.' at t giat Qult;BSjcontheshaLorpits can a ci peoreai
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Long Beach, California, US
Mon, Jun 17, 1968
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