Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-27
WOMAN WITNESS LOCATED
Police Believe Miss Paddlefeet"
Can Tell About Smiths Past Life,
WRENCH AGAIN FIGURES
Detectives Tracing Weapon Used 70
Slay Mickle From Lumber
Yard to Tobacconist's Shop.

dered IN the backroom of his cigar
store, 1904 9TH street northwest,
between 6 and 7 o'clock Novem-
Der 10.
Eleven days have elapsed. and
no one has been charged with the
crime.
James Smith, now under S2o.-
600 bail, is being held in Jail, and
charge of murderously assault
ing Morris Bennett one week ago
today will be made against him.
The monkeywrench with which
Mickle was killed figures again to-
day in search for the murderer.
Miss Paddlefeet," an aspirant
for vaudeville honors when Smith
was on the stage for one night,
has been located. so the police
claim, and may be able to throw
some light on Smiths past life.
The search for the Bennett
money which Smith is said to
have hidden in some bushes near
the Walker home ended unsuc-
cessfully this morning.
The warm trail which led supposed
ly to the money which Morris Ben.
nett, grocer. lost when he was beaten
on the head with the hammer end of
a hatchet a week ago today turned
quite cold when large party Of de-
tectives and policemen investigated
the statements of Mrs Amy Hender-
son. cclored. who said she had seen
James Smith, held on 4 charge Of as
saulting Bennett, hiding something i'm
the bushes on tte morning Bennett
WAS assaulted. Capt Daley Of the
ninth precinct. Sergt. Trumbo. sergt
Policeman Harbin and De-
tective Smith visited the place where
Mrs. Henderson saw Smith In the
woods near the Bennett store, but Il
turned out that she saw him there
before Bennett was assaulted
Il was on my way to Washington
L
going for the 7:1O car ] saw a man jump
out of some little bushes. and thought
he wanted to snatch my pocketbook, so
ran. / looked back and saw Ii was Jim
Smith. knew him because ne helped
build the house 1 live in. and only q day
or two before he had come over to bor.
row an arithmetic book from one Of my
children
Smith Attended Business College.
Smiths borrowing an arithmetic led to
a little side investigation this morning
which resulted in the knowledge that
Smith attended a business college in
at one time. but stayed a
scholar there only one ween He said
when he left that he believed he knew
more about school than any Of the teach
ers, and resented being kept at first
grade work
A man I'm Linwood Heights, whose name
was withheld by his own request. told
the police today he had seen Smith and
Bennett in the grocery wagon the morn
ing Bennett was assaulted. The police
say they can produce him II needed as a
witness. Another witness was found to-
day who refuted Smiths statement about
never having been In Chicago. This wit
had been in a reform school in Illinois.
Further. the Bennett assault charge
against Smith remains where II was Sat
urday, with a warrant made out, Smith
under $4,000 bail. and the police and As
sistant United States Attorney Ralph
Given waiting to see the result of BEN
nett's injuries.
s.Miss Paddlefeet" Located.
Miss Paddlefeet." the woman with
whom James Smith travelled in a
vaudeville troupe which broke up after
one trial on the stage. has been
located, according to the police. and
will be able, it is supposed. to shed
some light on the past few years Of
Smiths life. Smith is supposed to
have been intimate enough with Miss
to have divulged at odd
times some Of the travelling that he
has done during the years which he
has been keeping secret from his in
quisitive captors. This is the most
important development of the day in
the Mickle murder mystery. although
the question OF who Killed William
Mickle?" is still unsolved. Miss
is not known to be a wit
ness OF the Mickle murder. She is :
simply a woman who is believed to
know a great deal about James Smith.
Tracing the Wrench.
The police are diligently seeking further
.vidence in the Mickle murder mystery.
Three detectives went sleuthing through
outhwest Washington this morning. one
4 them carrying with him the wrench
With which Mickle was killed, The ef-
orts of the detectives are now supposed
o be bent on tracing that wrench from
he time Il left the Anderson woodward
october 10 until II was found in Mickle's
tore q month later.
James Smith. in Jail under warrant In
he Bennett assault case, has said once
r twice that the police ought to md out
aore about the wrench, denying that
e had anything to do with II. II is
Understood that the detectives are work
az along this line and are trying to fnd
ut positively just who has handled that
,rench since IDA 0oldstein. secondhand
ealer OF 917 ~ street. sold Il 70 Ander-
on.
Evidence and condolences which impli-
ated James Smith rushed swiftly TO .
limax Saturday-and then stopped.
ames Smith, comfortable Ia jail. - COM
ared to his uncomfortable police station
uarters, II as much Of q mystery -
yer, although claims by detectives would
ave It that within few hours bis entire