Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-16
NEGATIVES SOUGHT
/ BY DEFENSE TO AID
|. CAMPBELL AT TRIAL
May Differ From Govern
ment'S Baker Case Pictures,
Dr.. Hamilton Says.
LEAVES FOR OAK GROVE
TO SEE GIRLS AUTO
Asks Analysis of Stains on Para
sol-All Plans to Exhume
Body Are Abandoned.

Plans to demand that the Govern
Herbert M. Campbell the negatives of
photographs to be used by the prosecu-
ton in attempting to prove the defend
ant killed Mary Baker were announced
today by defense counsel.
Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria,
clared he would write a letter tomorrow
or the next day to William Fl. Collins,
an assistant United States attorney. re-
questing that all the negatives used in
the perfection Of the trial photographs
and actual copies of the photographs
themselves be made available for exaTni-
nation by defense experts when the trial
opens Tuesday in District Supreme
Court
Meanwhile. interest in the case shifted
to the Virginia village where Miss
Baker was buried last April. DR.. Albert
H. Hamilton and his son, Robert A.
Hamilton, microchemistS of Auburn,
N. Y, left for Oak Grove to inspect
Miss Bakers automobile after complet-
ing tests of the alleged death weapon
and bullets shortly before noon today.
Wants to Analyze Stains.
DR.. Hamilton requested Mr.. Collins
to permit him to remove small pieces
of the framework and cloth covering
of a paraSol in Miss Bakers possession
at the time of her death, in order that
he might make an analysis of stains he
said appeared to have been made by
human blood.
Mr.. Collins told DR.. Hamilton ne
would prefer to have a conference with
Mr.. Smith before agreeing to suggest
procedure. He said his agreement might
result in failure of the Government
to have its exhibits intact when the
trial began. He added he would make
no definite decision until he had been
approached by Mr.. Smith.
Dr. Hamilton reported the blood an
alysis, If made, might prove quite in
teresting." He declined to discuss the
matter further.
Seeks Understanding.
The elder micro-chemist said he had
recommended to Smith that he seek by
every legal means necessary to have the
negatives of the Government photo
graphs made available for inspection by
his son at the trial. He said there was
a possibility that some Of the negatives
would fail to correspond with the I'M
ished pictures.
"If we went ahead with the trial with
out reaching an understanding about
the negatives" DR. Hamilton declared,
"the prosecution might contend at that
time that the negatives were in Chi
cago and could not be brought here In
time for examination during the trial.
My son Is q Photographic expert and
should be entitled to inspect the mega
tiveS"
The pictures involved have been made
by Col Calvin Goddard, chief of the
Crime Detection Laboratories of North
western University, Chicago, and DR..
Wilmer Souder, noted ballistics author
ity of the Bureau OF Standards. Pre-
liminary reports have disclosed that the
photographs show that marks on the
death bullets correspond in every detail
with situations left on test bullets fired
from the revolver submitted to investt-
gators by Campbell.
Shooting in Car Quectioned.
On the other hand, Dr. Hamilton re-
iterated today, after three days spent
primarily in testing the weapon and
death Slugs that marks left on the bull
lets which killed Miss Baker failed TO
match up ''in any sense" with scratches
left on test bullets he had fired from
the pistol.
Dr. Hamilton also said the absence of
powder burns ON the garments of Miss
Baker indicated she had been shot from
q ulSLallCe VI aPPAOAA4Io0SiJ 20 41aN.'eH
This revelation, he said, convinced him
the girl was not in her automobile when
shot down.
All plans for possible elimination of
Miss Bakers body were abandoned
today.
DR.. Hamilton had recommended that
a third bullet, known to have been
contributing cause to her death, be re-
moved from her back, where it still
remains, in order that it might be sub
iscted to tests