The Washington times., 1917-11-11
CHAMBERLAIN WAS
SLAIN At HOME Of
BROTHER, THEORY
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and, piece by piece. hidden beneath
posts of q barbed wire fence.
Some hold to the opinion that the
doctor killed the Judge and used q
support of some kind to hold the
body rigid beside him as he drove
along the country road on the night
OF the murder. To have seen the two
brothers riding together would have
been no uncommon sight, and would
have attracted no attention. they
say.
Wrote Letter To Woman.
It has just been made known that
five days after his arrest and be-
fore being informed of the finding
or his brothers body, DR.. Chamber
lain wrote q letter to a woman in
Minneapolis, MINI, in which he said
that ALBERT Is dead" He offered no
explanation.
On the very day that he wrote the
letter he was asserting that Judge
Chamberlain had gone to Wyoming;
that he had shaken hands with him
and bade him good-by on October o.
The authorities have a reply from the
woman in question in which she re-
quested DR.. Chamberlain to write At
once and tell her how. when, and
where Judge Chamberlain died.
The Commonwealth withholds tha
name OF the woman and says that this
correspondence will prove an important
link in the chain OF circumstantiaI evI-
dence they are welding about the aged
physician
Harry NJ. Smith, 1r.. of Richmond,
counsel for DR.. Chamberlain, refuses
to give any hint OF what defense will
be offered.
DR.. Chamberlain has become nnorose
and sullen. He eats little food, and
jail attaches today declare that the
prisoner appears on the verge Of q
breakdown.
Photographs Taken.
Photographs have been made Of the
decapitated head and dIssected arms,
legs and torso to be used as evidence
in the trial Of the physician. The ex-
humed body will be held here until the
Commonwealth grants permission to
move It to Des Moines. Iowa. where 1t
will be reinterred
Albert Lee Chamberlain, son OF the
murdered judge. who came to Virginia
to look after his fathers remains and
assist the Commonwealth In running
down the murderer, today asserted:
II have already found out where
part OF fathers money went. No one
knows except me. and 1 will not tell
until the trial Of my uncle, for the
reason that It may handicap the Of
fcials in their Investigations
II IL known that young Chamber.
lain does not believe the crime was
committed by only one person. What
others are suspected, he has not made
public.
That a special grand jury to inves-
tigate the case will be summoned
within the next few days Is expected
here. Judge Rutherford Is retIcent
on the subject. although it is known
that requests for a special term for
the consideration OF the Chamberlain
case has been made from many
sources.
Knife Thrown Into Fire.
1t became known today that the Com
may contend that an ordI-
nary pruning knife, and not the surgi-
cal instruments known to have been in
the doctors home. was used to dissect
the body of the Judge.
The knife. recovered from an old-fash-
ioned fireplace at Sunnyside farm, Is
now In the possession OF Goochland Of
ncials. The handle. which IL OF a sub
stance that will not burn. shows that Il
was thrown into the fire apparently |
with q view to destroying It An i'm
print on the handle shows that while |
the composition was yet warm and soft. |
some coarse cloth, corresponding to that |
Of the overalls worn by the Judge on the |
night of the murder, was imprinted on |
i. Pieces Of the handle win be Rnalyzed |
by chemists to determine whether or not |
here was blood upon II,
No blood has been found on the surgf-
al Instruments, II 10 said. They are
,so held by Goochland county officials
indications were today that no further
,rrests will be made until after the
rrand jury investigation. Even then
here may be no others charged with
,empieitI n ~ sE4nA Il