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enCeenbn ana b streets, Wnere WITNESSES
have said at 8 O'Clock they saw q man
in q gray cap beating the girl In her
parked automobile.
Campbell reluctantly admitted he had
been out that afternoon with married
woman residing near Dupont Circle,
with whom he had been on friendly
terms before his marriage This wom-
an. whose name Is known to the au-
thorities was TO be questioned today. III
is understood detectives had talked WITH
her some time ago and that II was
largely from her statements that the
case against Campbell was worked up.
Campbell told Cloth. Kelly and
Sheriff Fields that he met this woman
by appointment at the Investment
Building about 2 O'Clock on the after
noon of April IL, drove with her around
the Lincoln Memorial and thence across
the Key Bridge to Ballston, Va. where
they turned around and drove back to
Rosslyn and thence to the Sheridan
Gate culvert. where they parked for
about 20 minutes. From there, the
prisoner said, he took his companion
back to the city and left her at her
home some little time after 5 o'clock.
Passed Seventeenth and b Streets.
From there. he continued, he drove
along southwark to Virginia avenue to
Fourteenth and B streets and thence
over the Highway Bridge to his home
in nearby Virginia.
IN going from Virginia avenue TO
Fourteenth and B streets" Kelly in
terjected, you had to pass by Seven
tenth and B streets, did you not?"
Yes, I suppose / did" the real
estate man replied.
And that must have been about $50
O'Clock on the evening of April H. was
1t not?" Kelly persisted.
ut must have been about that time"
Campbell said.
Campbell knew what his inquisitors
were driving at but he did not finch.
At about O'Clock on the fatal eve
ming three witnesses, Mr.. and Mrs
Hugh r. Wood and Francis Rice, de-
clared they saw a heavy-set man in q
gray cap beating young woman in
her automobile, parked near Seven
teenth and B streets. The witnesses
said they glimpsed the woman's face
IS she lifted 1t above the door of the
car and saw blood streaming from her
mouth and look Of horror in her eyes
Car Has Been Identified.
The car has been identified as that
of Mary Baker, but the identity Of
the man in the gray cap has not been
definitely established, due, investigators
believe, to the fact that the three wit
neSses were so engroSsed in the condi-
ton of the woman that they failed to
gain a lasting impression of the facial
characteristics Of her aSsailant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wood and Rice were
brought into the prosecutors Office at
Arlington County Court House yester-
dav afternoon and were instructed to
look carefully at Hermann Barrere and
Campbell, who had been stationed be-
side him. Campbell had been brought
into the room just previously under the
impression that he was to be asked to
identify Barrere.
Miss Olga Skinner and Miss Mildred
Sperry, cotenants with the murdered
girl and Park Policemen Hammond and
Spears also observed the two men.
After the inspection the prosecutor
told newspaper men the witnesses had
been unable to identify Barrere, but
early today he limited there had been
at least a partial identification OF
Campbell.
There was no positive identification
of Campbell" Cloth added.
Convinced Of Innocence.
Mrs. Campbell declared this morning
after a talk with her husband that she
is convinced of his innocence, and that
she expects to prove that he had MOTH
MRS. Campbell said that the accused
mans brother, Frank Campbell, spent
last night checking up on the prisoners
movements and succeeded in establish
ing an alibi for him.
Prom intimate knowledge of my hus-
bands movements at the time of the
killing" Mrs. Campbell said IT know
positively that he is innocent and will
stand by him to the last"
re hot To-
had not yet been retained in his
brothers behalf. He indicated, how
ever, that Charles Henry Smith, promi-
nent Alexandria attorney, will be con-
suited.
Visit Accused Man.
Mrs. Campbell and her brother-in-
law were clo3eted with Campbol for
approximately Is minutes this morning.
1t was believed that they secured from
him additional information which, they
will attempt to weave into the alibi
they are building up for him. Mrs.
Campbell was crying as she emerged
from the Jail to be driven rapidly away
by the brother-in- law.
Commemorative Attorney Cloth said
that further questioning Of the accused
man would be deferred until the ar
rival from Washington this afternoon
tice representatives.
Cloth announced this morning that
George e. Garrett former county sur
veyer, would be questioned concerning
the case this afternoon. Garrett Is un-
derstood to have taken careful meas
urementS of the scene of the crime and
the immediate vicinity at the request
Of Cloth.
Campbell told his questioners today
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truth so as to clear Barrere, had he
thought the latter faced indictment as
a result of his accusation. When the
two men met in Cloths office yesterday,
they greeted each other cordially and
shook hands.
Barrere's connection with the case,
however, Is not at an end, Lieut.. Kelly
made clear this morning. While he no
longer is charged with the murder.
Kelly explained, there are certain angles
Of Barrere's alibi that remain to be
checked before he can be cleared OF any
possible involvement. At any rate, the
State will hold him as an important
prosecution witness against Campbell,
who was his former employer.
Campbell caused Barrere's arrest by
his allegation that the itinerant painter
could have stolen the gun from his
(Campbell's) residence the day before
tLAC huiNCit WINCH Ohic painter NioAVCN
Campbell's house to make an estimate
on an exterior paint contract. Camp
bell had Barrere arrested four days
after the murder Of the Baker girl on
what Barrere claims was q trumped up
charge of stealing some women's cloth
ing, an alarm clock, a nail file and a
bag of jelly beans from Campbell's
chiffOnier. Barrere has insisted that
Campbell planted this stuff in Barrere's
car with view to laying a foundation
for his subsequent charge that Barrere
stole Campbell's gun from the same
chiffonier on the day prior to the