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Daily News from New York, New York • 267

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on If oik ILajMa MMeJjmm By FLORABEL MUIR Hollywood, April 7 (Special). Lana Turner's 14 -year -old. daughter, Cheryl Crane, must remain a prisoner in Juvenile Hall until a hearing April 24 to decide whether she will be tried as an adult for stabbing her mother's mobster lover to death, a judge ruled today. Superior Judge Donald Odell turned down a bid to release Cheryl in custody of her grandmother, Mrs. Mildred Turner, at a pre-detention hearing1 this s- i I A i ill A The schoolgirl is being held Juvenile Hall on suspicion of murdering Johnny Stompanato, 32, Friday night in Lana's boudoir She has said that Stompanato threatened to slash her mother and herself.

IK Leaving courthouse in limousine, (Associated Pram Wirefoto) Lana bends her head and cries. eats Woman in Wig Jilted leauty By William Federici and David Quirk A shapely blonde was locked up last night as the costumed, black-wigged. woman who beat a young expectant mother with a hammer and a statuette for marrying the man she had hoped to marry herself. far from outside influences and pressures. The April 24 hearing before Superior Judge Allan T.

Lynch- in Santa Monica will determine primarily whether Cheryl must an--swer as an adult for the slaying. If her case is kept in juvenile jurisdiction, Lynch will decide whether she should be made a ward of the juvenile court, freed, committed to the California Youth Authority (which could keep her in further detention or free her), or be put in a foster home. Shows No Emotion Because of her age, she will in no case face a possible death penalty. Cheryl took OdelFs decision today without any show of emotion. After she was' dismissed 'she threw her arm around her father's shoulders and walked with him out a side exit toward adjoining Juvenile HalL Lana followed in tears.

Miss Turner, who arrived in a chauffeured limousine, had appeared composed before the hearing. Hatless and wearing a tan polo coat, gold earrings and white gloves, she had shied at having her picture taken. Lana Thanks Newsmen But before the public was ordered from the court for the closed juvenile session. Miss Turner thanked newsmen "for being so kind to me." Crane, "who was Lana's second husband, held a press, conference later in Crowley's office. He said he nad no intention of seeking Cheryl's custody by having Lana declared an unfit mother.

"Despite all this," he said, "I believe she is a loving, good mother." Knew Nothing of Affair Asked whether he knew that Miss Turner was carrying on a marathon rendezvous with Stompanato, he said "No." Crane, who is co-owner of the Luau restaurant, said their lawyers would petition Judge Lynch (Contlautd en paf 6, col. 1) At today's session, Lana. 38, her eyes hidden behind dark glasses, fought to control her tears. Also present was Cheryl's father, restaurant operator Stephen Crane. The petition for the girl's release to her grandmother's custody was presented by attorneys Jerry Giesler and Arthur Crowley.

Judge Odell said that in view of the tremendous notoriety of the case, it would be better for Cheryl if she stayed in custody, CBS television was hit by a strike yesterday that knocked several, snows, including "Studio One." oft the airStory on page 47. mers were found and turned over to the police laboratory for tests. Neil said that he came east last year. Police disclosed that the Buxton woman has been several months. She is employed as an organizer of slenderizing salons for the Glemby Corp, 120 E.

16th St. Find Clerk's Body In Elevator Shaft The mystery of Charles Con-dry's absence since Saturday from his. clerk's job and room at the Hotel Butledge, 161 Lexington was explained yesterday. His body was found at the bottom of an elevator shaft there. Con-dry, about 55, apparently fell from the first floor, detectives said, 'i Iras; Cheryl Crane Awaita decision on trial That Johnny a Phonv By the Book Hollywood, April 7 (Special) Johnny Stompanato, who introduced himself to Lana Turner over, the telephone, had a penchant for the phone numbers of Hollywood's great and near-great, two officers discovered today.

Herman Herzbrun and Philip Atkins, aids, in the public administrator's office, searched tha one-room apartment of Lana's slain lover. In it, they found a little brown book filled with tha names and numbers of such actresses as: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Anita' Ekberg, June Allyson, Mari Blanchard, Beverly Tyler, Pat Westmore, June Blair, Arleen Whelan and June Easton. Peggy Connolly, a singer, also was listed. George Raft in Book Movie tough guy George Raft, screenwriter Sy Bartlett and bistro operator Mae Krim wer among the men tn the book. Authorities said there was no evidence linking any of the persons in Stompanato's book witU the dead man.

For all the gaudy front put up by Stompanato, his possessions were meager. Lots of Dirty Shirts Herzbrun and Atkins' principal discoveries included a stack of dirty shirts, (bought in London), a rent "receipt for $86.97, for March 19 through April 1 and a gold cigaret lighter mono-grammed "MC" (obviously tha property of his old boss, ex-racketeer Mickey Cohen). The public administrator, wha handles the affairs persons who die without leaving 'a will, turned the telephone book over to Beverly Hills police for Was aion Mrs. Neil over the head with it. Mrs.

Neil fell screaming to the floor, and her attacker fled. Detective Edward Brady of the W. 54th St. police station questioned Mrs. Neil's husband at his office and learned that two days before the Neils, were married, last Sept.

4, the bridegroom-to-be had received this wire from the West Coast from the Buxton girl: "I love you. Don't get married. Let's talk it over." "Sort of Engaged" Neil said that he had "gone around" with Dolores on the West Coast for four years and that they were "sort of engaged." He added: "She must have been out of her mind to send that wire. I love my wife and have ever since I met her." A search of Dolores' apartment failed to turn up the attackers' white costume and suspected wig. But Brady said that two ham- 5 LA:" Lana Turner chats with her ex sits The Suspect, Dolores Buxton, 26, a beauty salon executive, of 231 76th St, was charged with felonious assault.

She denied that she was the woman who attacked redheaded Mrs. Isabella Neil, 26, in the latter's apartment at 345 W. 58th near Columbus Circle, at 9:45 A. M. yesterday.

Identified in Hospital The curvy blonde was taken to Roosevelt Hospital to be confronted by Mrs. Neil, whose husband, David, 30, is assistant production manager of Good Housekeeping magazine. Mrs. Neil had a deep cut in her scalo. Two other women had been brought in and viewed by Mrs.

Neil earlier, but she failed to identify them. When she saw Dolores, she shrank back on the hospital bed and screamed: 'That's her!" Mrs. Neil's Story Mrs. Neil told police that she answered the apartment doorbell shortly after her husband had left for work. A brunette, wearing: a white dress, white stockings and whit shoes similar to a nurse's or beautician's uniform and carrying a dark topcoat over her arm; stood in the corridor.

A greenish scarf covered most of her head, but some black hair showed. Police are convinced now that it was a wig. Asks to Use Phone The caller asked to use the phone because her own phone was out of order. She said that she lived in the same building. Mrs.

Neil let her in. The stranger in white then asked to use the bathroom and a few minutes later came out. Then, according to Mrs. Neil, she pulled a cloth-wrapped hammer lout of her purse and began pelting blows at the slender redhead. Uses Statuette The hammer slipped out of her hand and she picked up a heavy Mexican statuetta and struck (AtitociBtHl Ptms Wirefoto) husband, Stephen Crane, while Lana's mother, Mrs.

Mildren Turner, with them in Juvenile Court "yesterday..

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