Evening star., 1922-08-17
Coroner Now Convinced Oil
Man Was Killed Near Where
Body Was Found.
WOMAN SAW AUTO LEAVE;
THREE MEN ARE SOUGHT
Lovers Lane" Believed to Have
Protected Assassins From Closer
Scrutiny on Night.

Two important facts have been un-
covered in the lats twenty -four hours
by investigators who are attempting
to solve the mystery surrounding the
staying of Barney A. Mcbride. whose
knife hacked body was found along a
road near Meadows. Nd. just one
week ago today.
They are:
1. At o'clock last Thursday
morning-the day Mcbride was
supposed to have been murdered-a
woman saw two white men and an
Indian driving away in an automo-
bile from the road along which
the dead man was dropped, ac-
cording to Thomas Garrison.
Maryland constable. assigned to
the investigation.
2. Mcbride could not possibly
have been murdered in the District
and his body carried to such dis
still remain in his veins suffi-
cient blood to saturate the ground
around his corpse for a distance
of several feet, in the opinion OF
Coroner J. E. Stansbury and an
eminent Washington physician.
Discovery IL Important.
In view of the previously advanced
theory that Mcbride was murdered
| by an old-time enemy or at the in
stance of clandestine political or
ganizations which are mixed up in
the war between the Indians and oil
interests in Oklahoma, discovery of
the fact that an Indian was in the
vicinity of Meadows the morning of
the murder is regarded as of first
Importance.
Constable Garrison was seen at
Hyattsville last night and refused to
give the name Of the woman who
| saw the trio, declaring that she had
| withheld the information until yes
| terday morning for fear of her name
| being mixed up in the case. She
| lives on the Bright Seat road, onto
which the highway where the body
was found leads.
! Seen Early In Morning.
Two white men sat in the front
seat and the Indian in the rear" Gar
rison said the woman told him. They
were on the road leading from Tango
to Bright Seat. which is really the
| back road to Bladensburg. The time
was between $50 and O'clock last
| Thursday morning and the men were
| headed toward Bladensburg. That
| would mean they had come directly
| over the road near Meadows. The
| woman said she had time to get
good view of the men. as they seemed
tired and were not driving very
fast"
The police have been working on
the theory that Mcbride was murder
ed near the District line somewhere
and his body carried to the spot
! where it was found. This would be
impossible, according to one of
Washington's best known physicians.
| who asked that his name be kept out
oh
Rarely do persons bleed after death
occurs, he said. though sometimes
blood might come from large artery
! that had been severed. This would
soon be drained. however. and the
| low Of blood would cease altogether.
May Have Been Attacked Here.
It is just as highly improbable, con-
| tinued this expert. that the man was
rendered unconscious in the District.
| carried to the Meadows road and
| there permitted to die. The nearest
point from the District line to the
| Meadows road. by automobile or
wagon, is seven miles.
With seventeen knife wounds. seven
| of which penetrated the skull, in a
| vital place. this physician thinks it
| is virtually impossible that Mcbride
| would not have bled to death before
he even reached his improyised tomb.
| Bearing in mind tn. previous state
ment that the flow Of blood stops
| almost Immediately after death oc-
| ours this fact does not square with
! the fact that blood stains were found
all around the body and that several
of the wounds were still bleeding
slightly when the body was found.
Coroner Agrees With View.
"It is more likely" the physician
| continued. that Mr.. Mcbride was at
| tackled near where the blood stains on
the road started. That could prob
ably not have happened more than a
few hours before the body was found.
and II Is also highly probable that
death did not occur for several hours
after the attack. as you say several
of the wounds were still bleeding
slightly In other words. I should say
Mcbride died a very short time before
the boy who found him happened
along
with this view Coroner Stansburv
of Prince Georges county. the first
physician to view the body. agrees.
DR.. Stansbury arrived at the Meadows
road a short time after the body was
found. He thoroughly agreed with
the Washington physician in declar-
ing Mcbride was undoubtedly mur-
dered in Maryland and not very far
from where the body lay.
/ Lovers Lane Shield.
The fate that guided McBride's as
sassins to the Meadows road must
have been an ironical one. That place
Ia known as Lovers Lane" and any
night, according to old residents.
automobiles by the score come out
from washington and park all around
the very culvert behind which the oil
operator was partly buried.
THAT'S why we would not have
noticed anything strange about
machine stopping at the cuivert, said
Wesley Harrison. colored. who oc-
cupies the farmhouse nearest the
spot. "All night long were used to
seeing the tail lights Of lot OF ma
chimes, and hearing the doors OPEN
ing and shutting. l saw a machine
| right at the culvert about IL o'clock
last Thursday night, but, Of course.
paid no attention to it,
Sure No Wagon Paused.
j "I am sure. however. that no wagon
nassed up or down this road before
| Midnight We seldom see wagons
here even In the day time and ont
would have been sure to attract at
J tention."
McBride's estate, which is valued 2,
NOT less than s500,000, will go to his
brother who is in a St Louis nos
: pital suffering from nervous col
lapse, according to information OBJ
. taine,I bv The Star from Muskogee
, The oil man left no will and there
, fore Miss Ellen Deer. twenty-five
. the fepdaughter Of whom he WIS
so fond. will not share in the estate
She. however, IL wealthy in her ews