Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1952 — Page 20

Nervous Wife's Trial Delayed In Gl Slaying

By United Press

MUNICH, Germany, Sept, 26— Blonde Mrs. Martha Joan Wage broke down today. in fear of a realistic courtroom re-enactment of her killing last July of her husband, an American Army Air Force sergeant. Her trial was postponed until Monday. The thin ‘19-year-old mother of two little girls collapsed as work- J men moved the bed and bullet- == scarred mattress on which Sgt. Dan P. Wage died, into the courtroom. The Red Wing, Minn. mother “~had not slept last night. Her defense attorney said the fear she would be asked to sit on the "death bed or handle thre . carbine with which she shot Sgt. ' | Wage kept her awake all night. SLAIN - GI'S WIFE — Mrs, Mrs. Wage was brought out of Martha Joan Wage , .. ‘Noth. the dingy court here supported by ing ever seemed to help. a WAC guard and Mrs. James Dosch, the wife of another Air Force sergeant, who is taking

care of Mrs. Wage's children, i Testified in Defense She said their marriage started | ito go on the rocks when 8gt.| Mrs. Wage took the stand in Wage came to Germany and her own defense yesterday. sfarted going out with other! She was to have been cross-ex- women. | amined by the prosecution today., Born in Oak Grove township, | Judge Leo M. Goodman, of the Pierce County, Wis., she told of| U, 8. High Commission Court, an unhappy childhood as one wo |

uncontrollably, At one point she could not talk for five minutes. |

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announced Mrs. Wage’s trial for eight children of a father who! intentional manslaughter would she said was often unemployed. be postponed until Monday be- She told of enduring Sgt. cause of the woman's breakdown, | Wage's taunts and infidelities a ‘til she reached the breaking poin wr Wage building. office. rq and shot him with a 30 caliber

then taken to the U. 8. Army carbme. .

— vs | 98th General Hospital in Munich. . Yesterday she told the three- Shock Kills pS cn

man court she met her husband at the age of 12 and married him Crabtree, 20, Forbus, Tenn., emfive years later. {ployed by a Muncie treé surgery She gave the complete story of company, was shocked fatally] her life before and after she met Thursday when he touched a Sgt. Wage, 26, of Baldwin, Wis. power line near Collamer, 12 Her hands trembled and she wept| miles southwest of here. |

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