Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
Victim of Murderer Shot
Through Neck and Ear and
Head Was .Crushed-Found
Near Arlington Cemetery.
BLOOD-STAINED AUTO
LEADS TO POLICE SEARCH
Co-Workers in Navy Department
Started Inquiry This Morning
When Government Employe
Failed to Reach Office.

The body of Miss Mary Baker,
% years old, PIT Beech street,
Lyon Park, Va, an employe of the
Bureau of Aeronautics of the
Navy Department, was found
shortly after noon today lying at
the mouth of a culvert near the
Sheridan gate of the Arlington
National Cemetery.
The body was lying face down
ward in the water and sand with
the head crushed and bullet
hole through the neck and ear.
Miss Bakers body was diScov-
cred about three-quarterS OF a
mile from the place where her
blood stained automobile was
found this morning. Policeman
Ray Cobean of the Arlington
County force found the body dur
ing a search along the roadway
over which the automobile, judg-
ing from the way it was headed,
had evidently been travelling.
Upon the arrival of B. H. Swain,
coroner of Arlington County, it
was found that in addition to the
bullet hole and crushed head her
neck was bruised, indicating that
there had been a struggle before
the firing of the shot. Her wrist
watch, which was lying in the
water, had stopped at 9:15 o'clock.
Miss Baker is the daughter Of the
Rev. Thomas P. Baker, minister OF an
Episcopalian Church at Oak Grove,
va, so miles from Washington, in
westmoreland County.
Attends Church Service.
Miss Baker left her Office at the usual
time yesterday afternoon with a friend,
Miss IneZ M. Eyre of the Evangeline
Hotel to attend service at the Epiph-
any Church. The service did not start
until S o'clock, so the two friends de-
cided to walk to the church, on G street
near Thirteenth.
Miss Bakers car was parked at Sew
enteenth and B streets, but she told
Miss Eyre she preferred to leave 1t there
because of the difficulty Of parking up
town.
After the services were over the two
women separated.
Looking at her wrist watch, Miss
Baker said: Its only 20 minutes Of 6.
I guess I'll walk down and get my car,
because don't have to meet Mildred
until o'clock"
She was referring to Mildred Sperry,
with whom she shared a bungalow,
whom she was supposed to meet in
front of Kann's department store.
Last Time Seen Alive.
Miss Eyre said she watched her COM
panion for a moment until she turned
the corner at Fourteenth street. That
was the last time she was seen alive
by her friends.
Miss Sperry waited in front of the
store until 8:15, and when Miss Baker
failed to arrive she started home with
another occupant of her home, Miss
Olga Skinner.
According to Miss Eyre, the slain
girl was in excellent spirits when she
last saw her.
"She wasn't the type of girl to run
around" Miss Eyre said, land so far
as I know she had few men friends"
Detectives investigating the case are
puzzled by Miss Bakers failure to arrive
at Kann's to keep her appointment.
they point out that the 35 minutes
from the time she left Miss Eyre until
Miss Sperry left their meeting place
was more than sufficient for her to
have reached her destination unless
something interviewed to delay her.
May Have Been Kidnapped.
They are considering the possibility
that she may have been kidnapped when
she returned for her car, or that she
NAV have met friend who had &C
companied her on ride.
when Miss Baker did not come to
her Office this morning, Miss Eyre be-
came worried, knowing that she had
not planned to stay away from WORK.
with Mrs. Pauline Ford, 1875 Spring
place, she. decided to search for her.
They called their friends home and
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