Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-25
Police Believe Connection of
JeWeEry With Clothes
Might Prove Lead.
VETERAN, IN HOSPITAL,
QUESTIONED IN PROBE
Clairvoyant Is Reported to Have
Told Girl She Was Doomed to
Be Killed by Married Man.

Thieves who stole the costume jewelry,
coral necklace and the novel, 1.-THE
Golden Dancer" found with the coat,
hat and pocketbook of Miss Mary Baker
in the manhole sewer on the Arlington
Experimental Farm of the Department
of Agriculture, will be given immunity
from arrest and punishment if they ex-
plain how the articles got in the sewer,
it was announced today by the authori-
ties investigating the murder of the
Navy Department clerk.
The officials believe that confess
sion by the thieves definitely will clear
up the mystery over the connection be-
Bakers clothing, and perhaps give them
valuable lead on which to work in
solving the crime.
In the meantime, an investigation was
started of report that World War
veteran, now under mental observation
at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, might
be able to throw some light on the case.
The name of the veteran, who is said to
have been acquainted with the murdered
woman, was turned over to headquar-
tiers detectives by Policeman Edward W.
Daniels of the fourth precinct.
Fowler Goes to Question Him.
Daniels reported that the information
given him was to the effect that the
veteran was a patient at Walter Reed
Hospital. A check-up there, however,
revealed that the man had been
transferred to Gallinger. Inspector Will
liam S. Shelby, chief of detectives, sent
Detective Sergt. John Fowler to the
hospital to question him.
The report on the veteran was one Of
several new tips" on which the in
vestigators have had to work in the last
IL hours. The other was to the effect
that a clairvoyant in Southeast Wash
ington had given Miss Baker reading
several weeks before her death and
warned her that she was to be killed
by a married man.
Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly, chief of the
homicide squad, and Commonwealth At
torney William G. Cloth of Arlington
County interviewed the soothsayer about
2 o'clock this morning, but she denied
having known any person as Miss Baker
or having warned any woman that she
was to be murdered.
Announcement of the immunity to
be granted the automobile thieves fol-
lowed a conference between Common
wealth Attorney Cloth and Leo Rover,
United States attorney for the District.
Rover promised his cooperation in aid
ing the police and Arlington County
officials to solve the crime.
Two Deny knowledge.
The investigators are confident that
the jewelry and the novel, which, it has
been definitely established, were pilfered
from parked automobiles, were placed in
the manhole sewer by the same thieves
or their friends, who ransacked Miss
Bakers abandoned car and went away
with her hat, coat and pocketbook.
Frank Smith and James Vollin, the COL
ored men held in the Arlington County
Jail, who confessed taking a scarf, a
small coin purse and cushion from
the murder car have steadfastily denied
any knowledge Of the coat, hat and
pocketbook.
Smith and Vollin told detectives it
was later than $50 o'clock on the
morning of April IL when they looked
into Miss Bakers car after it had been
abandoned by the murderer on the
lonely cemetery road. The investigators
are now inclined to believe that some
one else may have ranSacked the car
before them, overlooking the small coin
purse and scarf and that these persons
can clear up the mysterious clothes
angle of the case If they come forward
and confess under the promise of i'm
munity. Until this angle is solved, how
ever, the authorities feel they probably
will be forced to grope around for new
clues to put them on the trail of the
slayer.
Others to Be Questioned.
Although Lieut.. Kelly and Cloth were
unable to get any information from the
clairvoyant interviewed at o'clock this
morning, it developed later that there