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and annoying women by offering to
carry their coats while they played.
Details to Be Checked.
While the investigators are strongly
inclined to believe that Brewster fabri-
Gated the story Of the staying, there are
certain details to be checked before he
is released asa suspect.
The points which stand out to show
that the soldier had no connection with
the crime, in the opinion Of the author
tiles, are these:
He is left handed and handles a
weapon exceedingly clumsily in his
right. The position of the two bullets
removed from Miss Bakers body showed
conclusively that she was shot by a
right-handed man if she was seated on
the right of the driver.
Three times Brewster took the investi-
gators over the route he said he fol-
lowed when he drove Miss Bakers car
into Arlington County the night she
was murdered, and each time he went
different way. The first time he di-
rected them across the P Street Bridge,
the second time across the @ Street
Bridge, and again last night he led
them across the M Street Bridge. The
M Street Bridge was not open to trafic
on the night of April IL.
Fumbles With Switch.
Given the keys to a sedan of the
type which Miss Baker owned, Brewster
was unable to start 1t for IS minutes,
In the meantime fumbling with the ig-
milton switch and turning on and of
the headlights, indicating that he was
unfamiliar with the starting and oper-
alton of the car.
When told to park the car in the posi-
ton he found it when he met Miss Ba-
ker, the soldier, the investigators said,
parked 1t on the north side of B street
near seventeenth street, but had it fac
ing the east instead of the west. A
machine parked in this position would
be in violation of the traffic, regulations.
Moreover, the three witnesses who saw
Miss Baker struggling with a man in
the machine said it was properly parked.
Although the soldier said he assaulted
Miss Baker on the cemetery road Just
before dusk at a point not far from the
culvert where her body was found, the
investigators do not believe it could
have happened there at that time,
since it is known that a number of
machines passed over the road before
dark. The assault took place in the
car, the soldier declared.
Brewster, it was said, is a type Of
man who likes to attract attention, and
the Investigators think he concocted
the story of the crime as a medium of
seeking notoriety. He repeatedly dem
onstrated this characteristic, 1t was
said, during his interrogation.
Previous investigation of Brewster's
story had brought out number of dis
hot actual
rences and those to which he had con-
feSsed. One of these was a statement
by the soldier to the effect that he had
purchased at q store In Georgetown q
32-caliber revolver with which he slew
Miss Baker, but when this clue was
run down it was discovered that the
store did not sell pistols. Brewster was,
however, off duty on the night of the
murder, according to the records at the
Potomac Park, at which he Is stationed,
but the time Of his return to quarters
could not be ascertained.
Brewster's Original Story.
According to the first story told the
authorities Brewster said he had ap-
preached Miss Baker after she had
gotten in her automobile at Sixteenth
and B streets, and when he smiled at
her she lowered the window and re-
marked, There must be some mistake:
don't know you," to which Brewster
claims he replied, "Oh. that's all right"
and then struck the young woman in
the mouth.
Following this, according to the au-
thorities, Brewster said he got in the
machine, placed the then unconscious
girl on the right-hand front seat and
drove through Georgetown. across Key
TlviI AnA hn oil 20 RI frN
q point 200 feet north CT the Airing
ton Cema&Fry wall where he attacked
and shot Yer. If this were true. the
murder would have occurred in Airing