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room. She apparently never got there.“Mama loved to dance; Papa liked to play poker. There didn't seem to be any particular trouble about it,” a -police investigator summed up the marital situation.i •Mrs. Trelstad had the reputation of being a good wife, a good homemaker, a good mother. Her house was shining clean; her children were well-behaved.Police picked up the thread, locating her in a bar at 322 E. 1st St. that Mother's Day night. She had something to eat, apparently, and something to drink. She talked with an elderly man and said she wanted to go to the Pike and dance. The chance acquaintance called a taxicab, but when it arrived, she declined to leave.SHE STARTED a conversation with thrc-e young sailors. Asthe evening wore on, the bartender finally refused to serve her any more liquor.Two of the sailors left.About 10 p. m., she left with the third sailor.Police ran down the sailor, Seaman First Class Harry Eugene Packard. 21, who said that when he left the bar with Mrs. Trelstad he took her to the Pacific Electric station, wher he put her on a Huntington Park bus, and that was the last time he saw her.Officers ran down the bus driver, C. H. Dowdy. He said thewoman — and he apparentlyknew her — got off the bus at Long Beach Blvd. and YVardlow Kd. The woman, who had been talking to a man who stayed on the bus until it reached Huntington Park, then crossed on over in front of the bus to catch a bus going back to Hill St. and American Ave., Dowdy said.THE TRAIL EXDED with George Sylva, a taxicab driver. He said he was driving on Long Beach Blvd. 100 feet north of Wardlow Rd, at 11:30 p. m. when he saw a small woman dressed in a dark coat staggering down the streetBelieving he might have a fare, he turned his car around, and as he did so he saw a man in a 1937 or 193S tan-colored V/illys coach stop and pick up the woman, he said- He added that she entered the car promptly, as if she knew* the man.Part of her clothing had been torn from her body; she had been raped. Autopsy surgeons fixed her death between 12:15 and 1:15 a. m.Her black purse, and the white open-toed shoe for her right foot were missing. Near by. in the dust, were fresh tire tracks. Her stockinged foot was clean. Police believe she was killed somewhere else, perhaps in the car. and her body dumped onto the field.Trelstad eventually took thechildren back to relatives s farm in the Midwest.
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Independent Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Sun, Mar 18, 1956
Page 183
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