The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-14
Brothers Demand Probe of Mrs. Ruth s
Death, Hint She Was Murdered
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who will give me opium tablets
Chief of Police John Millmore, Of
watertown, admitted that he was
waiting for DR.. Kinder to come
forward for questioning about sew
eral features of this affair.
The chief denied emphatically he
was investigating a report that
Mrs. Ruth had been drugged and
dubbed. He pointed to the report
of Medical Examiner DIR. George
l.. West that there were no evil
dences of bruises on the body or
signs of poison or drugs that death
resulted from suffocation.
Kinder In SecIusiOn
William r. Kinder, the father Of
DIR. Kinder, said his son was in
seClusiOn with his attorney mot
far from BOstOn--simpIy taking n
rest" The father and his other
son. william F. Kinder, jr., assert
that DIR. Kinder and Mrs. Ruth
were married year ago.
The elder Kinder branded foul
play LHGOEI6S d pawn Va 1iSS'
He faialed to explain his state
ment:
"If Babe Ruth or anyone else
mixes my boy into any scandal
I'll tell story that will blow the
top Of Ruth's head right Off"
State Detective Edward P. O'Neil
said:
There was no evidence that
crime had been committed. Unless
further information comes to our
attention the matter is closed, as
far as we are concerned"
O'Neil is in charge OF the inves'
tigation for District Attorney Rob
ert T. Bushnell, Of Middlesex
county. Commenting on the state
ment, the district attorney said:
THE statement was issued with
my approval. We are not inter-
ested in digging up scandal about
or inquiring into the life OF a
dead woman who cannot speak for
herself
The autopsy finding by DR..
George L. West, medical examiner,
was that death was due to "suffo-
cation and incineration."
4NU VA AVANASS
"There was nothing about the
body that is inconsistent with death
in a burning building" he declared,
adding that there were no marks
Of violence on the body and moth.
ing to indicate that death was
caused by anything but the causes
he enumerated.
In view of the medical exam.
iner's report, Chief Of Police Mill,
more of WATERFOWL, said that no
further police action would be
taken until DR.. Kinder is again
interviewed. He was last seen in
WATERFOWL on Saturday morning,
the morning after the fatal fire.
II feel sure DR.. Kinder will come
here voluntarily. If he doesn't we
shall have to look him up" said
Chief Millmore.
Babe Ruth, one of the outstand
ing figures of baseball, who has
tened to Boston from New York
when he learned of the tragedy,
was .heartbroken at the home Of a
friend in Weston. The giant slug.
ger, his body trembling with sobs
and the hands that have batted
out hundreds of home runs shak.
ing, had only a few words for re.
porters.
Arrangements for the funeral Of
Mrs. Ruth were being made by
Ruth and the victims two sisters.
Miss Nora and Catherine Woodford.
The body was prepared for removal
from Newton funeral parlor,
where is was identified by the sis.
ters, to the home of Mrs. Ruth'S
mother in South Boston. The
mother was in state Of collapse.
The funeral win be held from the
South Boston home on Wednesday.
mterment will be in New Calvary
Cemetery. e.,
News Kept from Child
my sisters death was a tragic
accident. We are satisfied as tc
that. She was visiting DR.. Kinder
home, as a friend of the family,
when 1t occurred"
That was the statement of Miss
Nora Woodford. However, Water.
town neighbors declared that for
more than year the woman who
lost her life in the fire that swept
the Kinder house was known "a
them as Mrs. Kinder"
A 9.ycar-old girl, either the child