Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
FINGER PRINT IN BLOOD
FOUND ON NEWSPAPER
But 1t Fails to Show Suspect Was
In Wagon With Bennett.
NOT KITTY HOLMES. POLICE SAY
Baltimore Officials Had Thoughts
Prisoner Here Was Man Accused
of Murder There-Davis
Woman Closely Guarded.

The man who murdered VIII
liam H. Mickle between 6 and ,
O'Clock in the evening, one week
ago today, is still at large, and all
attempts of the police to fix the
crime have failed. The biggest
point scored by the police today
was the admission by James
Smith, held in connection with
the Bennett assault of Monday,
that he was at 9th street and New
York avenue with frankie"
Davis at 8 o'clock on the night
Mickle was killed.
Bloody finger prints on a copy
OF morning newspaper found in
Morris Benefits wagon failed to-
day as evidence to show that
Smith was in the wagon with
Bennett.
The police have coat belong
ing to Smith which will be shown
to Percy Willis, the man who says
he saw Smith in 9TH street car
the night Mickle was killed, and
that he wore a peculiar looking
coat.
Davis Woman Closely Guarded.
frankie" Davis, the woman on
whom the police rely to connect
Smith with the Mickle murder,
mas been kept close prisoner all
morning in the house of deten-
ton, written orders having been
given to allow no one to see
her. She was taken to the CITY
Hall this afternoon for interro-
cation by officials of the United
States attorneys Office.
w. w. Stout, arrested in New
port News yesterday, arrived here
this morning, and was taken be-
fore the United States attorney
this afternoon to make a state
ment.
Baltimore police declared TODAY
that James Smith is not Kitty
Holmes, brother of Henry L.
Schrifogle, alias "Duckv" Holmes.
Kitty Holmes is accused by the
Baltimore police of numbering
Policeman c. ]. Gesswein in 1906.
Confronted with the positive statements
of frankie Davis, the woman whom the
police have arrested because they believe
she can connect James Smith with the un-
solved Mickle mystery, Smith for the very
first time today admitted that last Thurs.
day evening he was in the close vicinity
of the Senate cigar store. 1904 7th street
northwest where William Mick.e met his
death Defiant until almost the last min.
ute, Smith positively declared he was i'm
Prince Georges county Thursday and than
the only time last week he saw Frankis
Davis was Friday night:
Sure | saw her, and l saw her at 9th
street and lew York avenue, but thas
was riday night"
He was told that frankie Davis had
said that she was sure it was Thursday
the two met near the cigar store and thar
she could prove by her mother that she
was not out of the house Friday night
Well, said Smith, wearlly what OF
it? 1 guess. was in the city Thursday
night, IL she says so. / met her at gtil
and New York avenue at O'Clock and
then L took her home to her house at 1tA
and l. streets southwest
Finger Prints Not Smiths.
The bloody finger prints OH news
paper found in the wagon in which Benz
nett was assaulted were compared this
afternoon with the finger prints of Jim
Smith taken by the police, and were de-
clared by the experts at headquarters
not to be identical. The paper was found
In the wagon yesterday afternoon, after
Fred Sansberg, the police photographer.
had searched the wagon.
Inspector Boardman announced the re,
suit and said:
Had Bennett died without identifyine
Smith as his assallant, said Inspector
Boardman, and this paper with the fin
ger prints been found and the prints were
not identical with those of Smith, the
case would have been tangled But under
the circumstances, the finger prints on
ne - N.Y. De d4s- Z drdeo. "
The police made careful search of the
Mickle store for bloody finger prints. bur
lave not been successful in finding any
such traces. There were some bloody
inger prints on the wrist of Mr.. Mickle
after his death. but the physician, Dr.
Charles K. koones, who attended Mckle
lfter the assault, declared that they were
lis CDR. Koones) own finger prints made
n moving the body.
The finger prints taken yesterday were
,elieved to bear a close resemblance to
hose of a United States soldier who was
wanted for crime in the west also A
earch by Star reporter at the War
nd Navy Departments developed the
act that no man with finger print like
mith's has ever enlisted in either array
r navy. At the same time, Star reporters
earned today that the police of Chicago
ent finger prints to this city several
geeks ago, asking for Identification by
he army and navy, and an examination