The Washington times., 1930-04-21
MYSTERY NAN
BEING SOUGHT
As SLAYER
Two Statesmen Are Cleared
AS Police check-up Shows
They Had No Part In Crime

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unwelcome advances to the pretty
Government worker.
This lead, advanced when the
probe Of the girls murder was
first started, was reiterated yes
terday by the Rev. Thomas Baker.
father Of the dead girl who told
authorities that his daughter had
complained on q number OF &C.
Casions Of the advances Of the
uYawelcone sutton.
The clergyman, could not re-
member the name Of the man In
question but told Times re-
porter he believed him to be an.
engineer employed in the Navy
Department.
Police at first we're not In
cIined to accept this as possible
lead, but with the collapse Of TIN =
case yesterday when witnesses
failed to identify Sisson as the
man seen quarreling with the girl
in her automobile on the day she
died. last night admitted that it
may prove valuable.
wilson Quizzed Again
Fred wilson, Takoma Park
architect, who has been queS-
toned several Zines by police,
yesterday was again cloSeted with
authorities and is believed to have
furnished investigators with in
formation that may be vital"
Charles QuartermouS, 3 pipe fit
ter employed on the Highway
Bridge, yesterday identified Sis
son as the man who sold him a
top coat and watch about $3.50
o'clock the night Of the murder.
Others who were present at the
time Of the sale stated, however,
positively that Sisson is not the
man.
Hugh Wood, who saw a man
Quarrleing with Miss Baker about
$50 O'Clock the afternoon she was
slain, stated at the Arlington
county jail that Sisson Is not the
man.
Alonzo Lloyd, who talked with
the man who sold the coat and
watch to Quertermous for Is min
utes while the latter went for
money, was emphatic in his de-
NAL that SiSSon is the man with
whom he talked the night Of the
murder.
Alibi Checked Up
Both william C. Cloth, Com
nonwealth attorney, and Howard
B. Fields, Sheriff of Arlington
county, yesterday expressed the
belief that Quertermous Is mis-
taken in his Identification. In
commenting upon the alibi of.
9ered, Fields said:
my men not only have Wis
tied the persons that SissOn
claimed to have talked with i'm
Warsaw the afternoon and eve.
ming the Baker girl was muir
dered, but visited at least .
dozen other persons i'm the town.
They all report seeing SissOn
that day and night In Warsaw.
His abb Is perfect"
Cloth was equally emphatic in
; his belief that SisSon is not the
man, and stated that he is merely
detailing him and Gallagher I'm.
til the return of investigators
from Warsaw today. He said:
II don't believe QuertermOus
ever saw SissOc, md from what
I can learn, SissOn was in War
saw that Friday night. At least
20 people are willing to testify
that he was In his home town
that night"
Cloth said that this morning
he win compare the palm prints
OF SiSSon and Gallagher with the
print found on the left door Of
the murder car.
Employers Back SissOn
Attorney James Reese Duncan,
who has been retained by Mrs.
Sisson, said this morning that he
viii not file his application for q
writ Of habeaS corpus until after
he has conferred with officials
OF the Taylor Hardware Com
pany, Of Baltimore. by whom Sis
son is employed.
He said that the company is
Squarely behind the salesman and
will back him to the limit. Dun.
can, who made q trip to Warsaw,
Va, where SisSon resides, said
that he is convinced beyond any
doubt that the man did not leave
the vicinity of Warsaw on the
day the Baker girl was slain.
Duncan said:
"The arrest Of sisson is an
outrage. The man is innocent,
and his family and friends are
being Inundated by his arrest
in connection with this hor-
rible crime.
Driver Clears Sisson
Further support of the Sisson
alibi was given by william Davies,
Washington-A lexandria bus driver,
who picked a man up at the
Virginia end Of the Highway
Bridge on the night of the muir
: der. After looking at Sisson the
driver said that he was not the
man he picked up that night.
Investigators said last night
that they intend to recover the
watch that was sold by the man
TO QuertermouS and through
checking on the case and works
numbers may be able to trace the
owner. The man told Querter.
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