Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

cultural Farms and by foliage. He
paid little more than passing attention
to the incident at the time, he declared,
believing it might be a bunch of
DRINKS down the road"
He was positive about the time, as
serting that he had punched his time
clock for the 2-oclock round and had
paused for a moment to rest.
Returning to his sentry house, he
deposited his clock on a table and
again went outside. He declared that
while sitting few feet away from his
hut, at about 2:l5 or 2:20 O'Clock, he
heard an automobile running in Sec
ond gear, as though ascending an in
cline, and then speed away in high
gear in a Southeasterly direction. Ques-
toned as to whether he heard door
slam shut, or starter revolving q
motor. Bright said he did not, but ad-
mitted it might be possible that the
car might have stopped in the hollow
in which is located the culvert where
the body was found. The sound of
the shots, the woman'S scream and
the racing automobile, Bright said
were audible in the clear, still night.
Heard Argument in Car.
C. D. Thompson and Albin Anderson
who reside together on Greenlees ave-
nue.. about $50 yards east of Harlow
avenue, declared that at about 10 or
1920 O'Clock they heard the loud voices
of a man and woman in an automobile
parked by the roadside in front of
their house The voices were raised
in anger, Thompson said
Thompson said he was unable to dis
tinguish the words spoken and could
not tell what the couple was talking
about. Neither man paid much at
tention to the machine, parking parties
being commonplace in that section,
they said.
Thompson, whose bed room is in the
front part of the house, was about to
retire a few minutes after the voices
were first noticed, he said. when the
automobile was started, proceeding to-
ward the cemetery.
ut had gone only a few feet when
heard the loud report of a shot," he
said. "As the automobile gathered
speed, a second shot followed. 1 only
heard two shots and the sound OF
speeding car died out as 1t progressed
out of earshot" Anderson corrobo-
rated this, declaring that he, too, heard
only two shots.
Questioned as to how long the ma
chine might have been parked there,
they said that they did not become
aware of its presence until the voices
were heard and did not hear 1t drive
up. They did not see the car.
Thorough scrutiny of the ground In
the vicinity of the spot where the two
men said the machine was parked dis
closed little evidence A chewing gum
wrapper was found in the gutter beside
the road where the automobile is said
to have stopped. In the right side
pocket of Miss Bakers car two sticks OF
chewing gum of the same brand pre-
viouSly had been found.
Waterman Tells of Shots.
Robert Howard of 1924 Twenty-ninth
street, a night Waterman at an oil COM
pany station on Military road, Just
Thompson and Anderson live, declared
that shortly after 10 O'Clock. just after
he had completed his hourly round, he
was sitting on a bench in front Of the
yards when he heard shot fired. He
said 1t came from point diagonally
across from where he sat, which would
place it on Greenless avenue.
Howard said the shot was followed by
second report as an automobile came
racing around the corner and sped
away down Military road. He failed to
| see what kind of an automobile 1t was
| or who was in 1t. The license tag was
| hidden from his view by the cloud OF
| dust raised as the machine raced along
the dirt road. He also heard only two
shots.
Three colored families located be-
| tween the point where Thompson and
Anderson live and where Howard was
sitting, when questioned as to whether
| they had noted anything unusual Fri
| day night about the time the shots
were reported, declared that they heard
nothing.
Leo Dorman of Cherrydale, Va. q
night Waterman at the yards of the
Gulf Refining Co, which adjoins those
of the Penn Oil Co., where Howard Il
employed, corroborated the statements
Of Thompson, Anderson and Howard
reporting he heard the reports Of two