- \ •" 7 '-!.•'•->..-;. .r ..-': -*• Today ,*•*. HJgh today la «s.T>ir to- Red Bank Area „ f 26,675 ; Copyright--rte Red B*|* Inc. tW. DIAL 741^0010 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S HOME FOR 88 YEARS . 88,, NO. 119 . TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1966 , PAGE ONE;. Medical Examiner Sees Death a Homicide Farber Had No Heart A Hack •:.. -.'3- , By CHARLES A. JOHNSTON spade, when the body was being exhumed from Arlington, Va., Finally, he told Mr. Bailey that if* there had b«;n no such ,. ' FREEHOLD - When William E. Farber died at his National Cemetery, last July for a court-ordered autopsy also pressure there would have been no fracture to discover. : •'' -jUhkUeto^o Township home three yean ago be had a healthy was turned aside by the examiner. ' , , • ' "Unless," fir. Bajiey responded, "It. happened some other- c'Jfcart «nd,jtou}d not. have suffered a coronary thrombosis as "I'm certain of-that," he testified. • way." ( , . , . - .tUted Hi hk death certificate, the Jury was told yesterday. For Mr. Keuper. the witness described bis findings of the Dr. Helpern said that when Farber's body was removed '• But'the retired Army colonel did have a fractured larynx heart and larynx regions. from a zippered carrying bag at his laboratory it was soiled - and could have been murdered'just as his Widow ha* testified He said the heart was normal for a middle-aged man, that, with earth. • • Or. Ctrl A Coppolmo' dW kill him in a Jealous rage aa she a coronary thrombosis was a clotting of blood in the arteries stood silently by of the heart and that these were empty and collapsed. He said 'But, he declared, he had been told by Dr. C. Malcolm B.' Dr, Milton Helpern, chief medical examiner of New York there was a 25 per cent narrowing" of one artery but that this Gilman, Monmouth Cjounty physician, that this occurred while City, with a history of 20,000 autopsies, declared at Coppolino's was not unusual.- ; the body 'was being removed from the coffin and had not re- trial yesterday that he was sure "with a medical certainty" 1 ."There was no evidence that he ever Buffered a cardiac sulted from dirt pouring into the coffin. that the 52-year-old victim 'Could not have succumbed in any disease," said Dr. Helpern. ' , The medical detective said he abo was told mat though other way. ' . - , i • For the Jury's benefit he produced the larynx from a jar sideboards of the casket and of an outer wooden box had col- . The nationally known pathologist; called to,the stand by and explained the location of the double fracture. He showed lapsed from moisture getting to them in the grave, the top and Prosecutor Vincent P> Keueer, returns to testify this morning the jurors how they might feel the breaks but none took ad- • inner protective lining of the casket was intact. before Superior Court Judge. Elvin R.'Slmmill and the jury of vantage of his advice; > • ,Dr. Helpern described the colonel's skin as having been ". It men and 4 womed. Defense Counsel 'F, lee Bailey la .in the Mr. Bailey tried to narrow Dr. Helpern to say what would affected by post mortem changes but said that his military * midst of his cro».eniftinaupn. have resulted if the pillow Coppolino is supposed to have-used dress uniform was easily recognizable: But to Mr. Bailey's contention that the Wea of a murder had covered only the head and face and there had been no NOT DISTURBED was a hoax created by Mrs. Fatter after Coppollno cast her pressure on the throat. He said the collar of the tunic was rotted near the' neck aside. Or. Helpers said homicide was the inescapable conclu- "From my experience," was the reply, "I would know but that celluloid stays in the collar as well as his tie, buttons sion from a. [double fracture of a cricoid'cartilage. there was something missing, that there would have had to be and chest decorations, were in place. That the Injury could have been caused by .a 'digger's pressure on the cricoid cartilage." (See COPPOLINO, Pg. 2,, Col. 1) Hundreds Goldberg Appointed wu Vie For* or Mrs. \ Transportation Chief Fctttert ? | Trial Seats TRENTON <AP) - New Jerin- g , the department Monday time'to study Goldberg's quali- FREEHOLD - Crowds attract- sey has a new state Transporta- and, in a surprise move, sub- fications. They said-they had FREEHOLDr-What fate awaits ed to Dr. Carl A. Copbollno's tion Department today and a newmitted Goldberg's name to the no'personal -reasons for with- Mar jorie Farber'when Dr. Ctrl murder trial, with jta story book man to hhead d itit. Senate for confirmation.. holding support. A. Coppolino's- trial here-for the new cabinet murder of her'husband is'ovetr1 cut of characters and Intriguing The chief of The Democratic . controlled Goldberg, a' lawyer . who lex plot, were bigger than ever agency is David J. Goldberg, 36, Senate promptly approved ' the Monmouth i County. 'Prosecutor Served as legal aide" to two gov-Vincent P.. Keuper declined' -ID yesterday.* Gov., Richard J. Hughes' person- nomination although two Repub- ernors, .spoke in general tqrms . At the whodunnit went through al counsel for two years.' ' licans 'abstained v because they speculate'yesterday hot declared at' a, .news -conference when that she has bead made no pronv its sixth day before Superior Hughes signed the tew joreat- said, they .were givep .insufficient asked about, his plans for the Court Judge Elvia R. StmmlU Uts against prosecution in con- '» .department "~' " " nactten with tne'afieged crime and a,' jury of tea men and four 1 ..,4 »Wt .roads,. _.— r~*r ""I cannot iBscuss that matter VDflusftd minflfBcu VIM iQpr IBE lf»Vei under . one admihsbcative now;" said the prosecutor, "ex- fltnoa vA' corrivoni auBiL.OB'atti roof. ways, And watchMLwith .{nun etpttoteH you-no ptoariserMve He said he regarded contlnu- been made to her or to her Uw- •tares from the chilly outdoors. ation of tb* njate'* highway ^i Lines 'started to form outside building program, improvement Mrs Farber, 52, now of Sara- the «maU third floor court room Volley of commuter rail condition* and got*, pia; tonched off the Inves- when the'building opened at $ a solution to the problem of a MftlSnit TRACT LEVELED Ai^bulldortr-and a front end load.r y.jterday- made By JACQUELINE ALBAN ness district have been unveiled tigations which last July resulted a.ra Aa' bow liter all of the 32 proposed fourth metropolitan in Coppolmo's" indictment here for unreserved spectator seats were xjulefc Ww;k.«rf tha-damoiifrcn of th» former Ebieo building at Wj»tt tnd'OakUnd Sts., ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS-The here. area jetport as priority items. borough's Anti-Urban Renewal • Last month; Councilman James murdering her husband, Wiihan gone. Reporters with reserved lid-B'anlU.Another ifructur* on tha tit«> vyo>i rntd Friday. ,Th» Iract is owned by Tfia £. Farber, in 1963, and in Flan- •eats needed help of court offi- Group, publicly silent since April R.- Snyder asked 'Regular Repub Goldberg said he also hoped /Daily^Re'dii+iit. Tk« Register'^ n»w editorial and business offices will ba added to its when Borough Council promised Heart Councllmen-elect Robert B. he' could rescue the Central da, for killimc his first wife, cers to secure them. Carmela," in 1965. preii building j»ri> adjacent land to the south, and the former Ebsco lot will serve as a a referendum on the renewal Long and David J. DeGroot to Jersey Expressway; • which Is fiven though it was obvious that question, is back In action. snarled in legal, financial and Appearing' yesterday and last those lucky enough to get in were parking area. The main, enhance of'the naw 'Register building will be on Chestnut St. submit their plans for "cleaning The group fired its latest anti- up" First Ave. through private political entanglements.' Friday as 'a' state witness, 'sne not going to give up their chairs, renewal volley by calling on tall told Superior Court Judge Elvin some folks waited on the closest enterprise in time for local vot- Goldberg, who received' $20,- local residents to question why ers' to compare them with urban 000 a year as Hughes' counsel, R. SlmmiU sKid'the jury that she stairway most of the morning. 1 •*> d • • •'_ Ait J1 ,kjkl» . ft ' ' • B majority members of the Plan- renewal plans before the March will be salaried at B$006 in, hisstood' by while Coppollno kiUed On Main Street, during the Clear Tract to Expand, fling Board "approved an urban referendum. - t • • . • ••• hew job. There ,has.been talk^of her husband by placing -a pillow over his face and neck and press- lunch break and. after court had renewal clan they haven't seen." Mr. Long and • Mr. DeGrootraising, the salary but that has adjourned for the day, crowds But Mrs; ~Fannle~ McCallum, put aside tor the moment. ing down hard while. the\vicgm_ gaped wherever they saw one of Planning Board chairman, em- posing urban renewal and adv'o- lay unconscious In his bed. ~ more than a dozen cameramen phasized that the board has noteating Jeyitalliation of the busi- "As. the most. heavily urban- • She also has testified'that mi- - moving along. Here was evi- Consolidate Register approved an urban renewal plait. ness district'through private en- ized state in the nation; New der a hypnotic trance she took ' dence, they were sure, that a What it has done is support terprise. Jersey faces transportation prob-orders from Coppolino and made personality was in tow.