The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-08-13

Annapolis. Md. Aug. 12.-tour
days have passed since Valentine \.
Brandon, Navy Department clerk,
walked into his modest home, on
Second street, and found lying on the
bed his pretty young wife, dead from
a blow that crushed her skull, the
victim of a fiend in human suise.
Tonight Baltimore city detectives
-KratZ and Pohler-and Anne
Arundel county authorities. are as
far from placing their hands on The
murderer as ever. Who slew the
woman. soon to become d mother, Is
as much a mystery as ever.
Outstanding in the Developments
of today was the fact that Marshal OF
Police Robert d. Carter, with Detec-
tive Joseph Dougherty, of Baltimore
headquarters, mOtOred here to make
a personal investigation of the case.
The Marshal and Dougherty, With
Kratz and Pohler, visited the house.
Later Dougherty disappeared and
nothing has been heard from him
since. He probably is in Washing
ton working on the case. kratz re-
turned to Baltimore with Marshal
Carter Pohler and Sheriff Sullivan
the State of Maryland to handle the
case, while a dozen private detec-
tives are running about striving to
pick up a thread in the tangled skeln
that will develop something tangible
to work on and bring to them the big
reward thar has been offered.
While the theory that the crime
was the work of a woman IS growing
oil
there is one outstanding fact that
will not down-the brutal murder
bears all the marks of the act of a
negro. While detectives will say
nothing of this phase, it is known
that they have not abandoned the
quest for a negro huckster. If the
crime was the act of a negro, and
there is little reason to doubt it, it
will not be long before he is under
arrest, for, strange as it may seem,
it is a rare instance wherein a negro
criminal has not slipped up some
where and let fall a remark that
eventually led to his apprehension.
Snvariably negro murderer OF ra
pist returns to the scene of his crime.
Despite this. however, there looms
the theory of a jealous and Tilted
who, unable to endure his happiness
with the woman who won him, deter
mined to be avenged. 1t is known
fact that POhler yesterday devoted
several hours to clue which had d
direct bearing on this theory, and
while it is not known how fruitful
were the results of his Investigations,
he has not thrown this into the dis
card. Detectives will not talk when
approached on the possibilities of the
murderer being woman, but say
Watch and wait
1t is accepted generally by the de-
tectives here that neighbors who
have been volunteering information
know much more about the case than
they are willing to admit. There is
d great possibility that within the
next "a hours many of those who
have been offering information will
be taken to the Court House and Sc
yerely questioned in an effort to force
them to tell all they know. 1t is said
that Mrs. King, the next-door neigh
Dor of the murdered woman,is about
to experience thorough 'third-de-
gree" quizzing. She has been ques-
toned several times, but the detec-
tives are not yet satisfied with what
she has told them. 1t is believed that
the first definite information that
Will lead to the arrest Of the nun
derer will eventually come from her.
1t is open talk here, on the street
corners and in public gatherings, that
Mrs. King, who gave the detectives