Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-21
Baker Murder Case Defend
ant in Jail at Alexandria.
Counsel to Make Trip.
NORFOLK JUDGE AWAY
UNTIL SEPTEMBER z
Opportunity Given Both Sides to
Bolster Cases-Many Wit
nesses Not Heard.

With Herbert M Campbell back in
the Alexandria jail after brief APP
pearance in court yesterday, attorneys
for the prosecution and defense today
prepared to take all possible advan-
tage of the delay occasioned by the
latest legal skirmiShes in the Mary
Baker murder case.
Both sides will seek to bolster their
cases during the respite which followed
yesterdays ruling by United States
Commissioner j. Barton Phillips in AL
exandria that Campbell must be re-
moved to the District Jail to await
trial under murder indictment. The
defense will protest the ruling to Judge
D. Lawrence Groner of the Federal Dis
trict Court in Norfolk, who exercises
extradition powers in the Alexandria
district. Judge Groner is on vacation
until September 2, so that an indefinite
delay is in prospect.
Charles Henry Smith, chief of de-
tense counsel, announced he would leave
today for an unannounced destination.
1t was rumored he might go to Auburn.
N. Y, to confer with Albert H. Hamil-
ton, director of a Crime Detective
Bureau, who has interested himself in
the Baker mystery.
Exhibits Are Examined.
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Hamilton notified The Star TODAY that
his examination of a prosecutions ex-
h1bits decided which side of a case he
might align himself with He said he
understood that Campbell's ATTORNEY
has been investigating my work in
several hundred homicide cases"
The Auburn criminologist declared
his attention had been directed to the
Baker case by stranger" who had
InI % III
relating to ballistic angles involved in
the investigation. These questions, he
said, together with his reply, must be
held professionally confidential"
Ball1St1c questions in the case al
ready have been passed upon by DR..
wilmer P. Souder of the Bureau of
standards, Col. Calvin H. Goddard of
northwestern University and Lieut..
John Fowler of the local Police De-
partment, all of whom found that a
revolver voluntarily turned over to the
authorities by Campbell was the one
used by the girls slayer.
Merits Not Considered.
The merits of the case were not
allowed to enter the hearing before
Commissioner Phillips, in Alexandra
yesterday, despite vigorous efforts of the
oerense to introduce alibi testimony
from nearly score of witnesses. The
commissioner ruled he could not Judge
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner.
put must conf1ne his opinion to the
tecnnical points of whether Campbell
was the man named in the indictment
ana whether he was in the District of
columbia on the day of the crime.
April H. Campbell himself adnnitted
these facts on the stand
smith declared he would ask Judge
Groner to call a new hearing. either
before another commissioner or in the
Federal Court at Norfolk. and that he
would endeavor then to present the wit
nesses who were prevented from testify
ing yesterday.
Among the witnesses summoned bv
tne defense but not heard were Mrs
GWenoolyn Parsons, with whom Camp-
pen mas said he parked near the Ar
1ngton Cemetery culvert in which Miss
bakers body was found the next morn
ing; Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh r. Wood. who
saw an attack on Miss Baker by a man
near Seventeenth and B streets: Miss
1nez Ayre, friend of the dead girl and
last known person to have seen her
awe; Henry Green, who had a blsi
ness conference with Campbell at the
IaterS nome about 6 or 6:I5 O'clock
on the fatal evening; Thomas A. King
scoutmaster, who talked with Campbell
at Scout meeting near Park road and
Fourteenth street about 1880 O'Clock
that evening; Mrs. Marian Stewart. who
talked with Campbell about 8 O'Clock
at house on Hamilton street, and
Charles FastnoybG, employee of Schneid-
eriS Bakery, who saw Campbell before
10 o'clock that night.