Evening star., 1922-07-20
Police Hold Archie Walters,
Baltimore, and Seek Hand
some Brunette:
MT. RAINIER WOMAN
ITO HAVE BEEN SLAIN"
Mrs. Brooke. However, Declares
She Attacked Self and
Sent Letters.

blooded murder plots in police an
| mails of Prince Georges county, Md,
involving the intended killing last
night or the night before of Mrs.
Louise Brooke. attractive young wife
of Mace Brooke, of Mount Rainier.
and the placing of her body in an
abandoned burial vault not far from
her home, is expected to develop to-
day, following the arrest last night
in Baltimore of Archie Walters,
charged with attempted murder. and
the impending arrest of tail bru
rette. young married woman" whose
name and address are known.
Walters. thirty-year- machin
list. employed by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. Is being held for the
Prince Georges county authorities.
Constable Thomas II. Garrison of Hy-
sttsvjlie. went to Baltimore today
to get Walters and to take into Gus
tody the woman implicated. They
will be brought back to Mount Rain
ier to face Mrs Brooke. WHO il blind
ed by acid alleged to have, been
thrown on her by the woman. burn
ing her shoulder horribly. and who
bears on her wrists what are be-
lieyed to be rope marks-eyidences
her.
Walters told Baltimore detectives
! that the charge was false and onered
to show that he was in Baltimore
when the attacks were made on Mrs.
Brooke. He said he did not know
Mrs. Brooke. but admitted knowing
Bradley Cavey. who swore to the
| warrant against him.
Jealous Wife Blamed.
The cruelty to which the twenty
| fve-year-old woman has been sub
| jected during the past months is said
| by those investigating the case to be
the vented wrath of a jealous wife
| Complexities of the family discord
and alleged Quadrangle" prefacing
] the murder attempts the police hope
to straighten out when the prelim-
mary hearing is held before Magis-
trate Robert z. Joyce of Mount Ra-
! nier in the near future. r .-.:.-s
Sitting last night In the parlor OF
| the Brooke home, on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad tracks. between the
District line and Brentwood, her eyes
heavily bsndased snasS wifh anf cloth eer Mrs.
Rrooke steadfastly denied that more
than one attack had been made on
her and as firmly refused 10 assist
the authorities IN their attempts 10
bring the guilty ones TO the par oi
justice. ,s
altogether unsatisfactory to Con-
stables Garrison and White. VINO ois
count her repeated assertion that the
hole burned through to her shoulaer
blade and the torn flesh on her Wrisls
we're accidentally inflicted.
..This is the only statement I VIII
make" she reiterated quietly at the
conclusion Of an hours questioning
last night by the officers: wrote
all the letters which you have IN
your possession addressed to me. L
burned myself on the shoulder with
hot greas. and burned my wrists
while frying an egg. That is all l
will say.
Threatened In Letters.
The letters to which Mrs. Brooke
referred are six in number and all
contain vile threats against the
woman's life and accusations against
her character. They are unsigned.
The documents were turned over to
Constable Garrison by Cavey. Baln-
more and Ohio fireman. whose plea
for police protection for Mrs. BROOKE
led to the issuance of the warrant
for the arrest of Walters on a charge
of assault with intent to kill.
The letters. Cavey said. were
thrown at various times from trains
passing in front of the Brooke home.
They were picked up by Mrs. BROOKE
and neighbor and were sent by
Mrs Brooke to Cavey in baltimore.
One of them is special delivery mes
sage, mailed in " Washington not long
ago. The assertion of Mrs. Brooke
that she was the author of the let
ters fell through. the police say, when
Constable Garrison had her write
sentence and compared her penman
ship with that of the letters. There
was absolutely no similarity between
Before concluding with her final
statement" last night. Mrs. Brooke
said that about year ago a paper
Carey. care OF Baltimore and Ohio
Y. M. c. A. was thrown from a
train passing the house. Picking up
the paper, she showed II to her. hue-
with me lately, daddy. so I'm going
to write to this man." Her husband.
still obdurate over a domestic "spat
of no consequence, told her to go
ahead.
"Csr.y." Baltimore and Ohio fire
man, she said, and he replied the next
day. This subsequent exchange OF
letters went on until half a dozen
letters had been sent. Mrs. Brooke
admitted. She continued to eorre-
snond with Carey purely as joke.
n was about this time that threaten
ing. unprintable letters began to be
tossed almost daily from passing
trains, she said.
.Reason fer Plot"
It is thought that some OF the let
ters, written 10 Carey by Mrs. Brooke
Yn a spirit Of fun" fell into the
hands of woman in Baltimore
whose jealous attachment to the fre-
ma jumped beyond bounds and led to
the plotting. for the life Of Mrs. Brooke.
Mrs. Brooke claimed that this wom-
an. a tail brunette, about twenty or
! twenty-two years old. approached
her Saturday. July /, as she was walk.
ing along the railroad tracks toward
brentwood, and dashed burning
Iiouid into her face from paper cup,
which she carried in her hand. ex,
claiming, "Tll fix you now for good
Mrs Brooke declared she was oiind-
ed by the liquid, and that. sne
stumbled and crawled to her home
several hundred feet away, where
she washed her eyes and face: She
was, able to see. she said, aithougn
her eyes burned frightfully. Later
she went to Johns Hopkins Hospital
for treatment. her eyes losing tne1f