Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16

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formation failed to produce anything
helpful in the investigation.
An interview with the physician who
had treated Miss Baker also failed to
produce a lead" for the investigators.
The physician was brought into the
case when receipted bill bearing his
name was picked UP on the expert
mental farms of the Department Of Az.
riculture, together with a key ring con-
tanning the keys to the slain woman's
car and the key to the door Of her
home.
The doctor, whose name was with
had treated Miss Baker for q minor
sinus trouble. She had received several
treatments, but the physician was I'M
able to recall her visits until he had
consulted his files.
A search Of the irrigation reservoir
on the Arlington Experimental Farms,
which was drained during the night,
yielded mans coat, cap such as is
worn by police officers and q red rag
handkerchief. Arlington County ON
Gals had hoped to find at the bottom
Of the reservoir the gun with which
Miss Baker was slain, together with her
missing coat and pocketbook.
The search will be continued, how
ever, for there is possibility that the
weapon may have been buried In the
mud on the bottom Of the pond.
Given to Detectives.
The coat of brown tweed was badly
torn around the pockets. It was found
at one end of the pond and the hat and
the handkerchief at the other. These
articles were turned over to Head
quarters Detective Darnall by q repre-
sentative Of The Star who hshed them
out Of the mud. Indications were that
they had been in the water too long
to have any bearing on the murder
case.
Inspector Shelby, accompanied by
Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly, chief of the
Detective Bureau homicide squad, and
Commonwealth Attorney William G.
Cloth OF Arlington County, last night
made an automobile tour along the
Arlington Cemetery road and the sur
rounding territory in an effort to def
nitely f1x the spot where the crime
was committed. The party also in
Spected the culvert where the body had
been stuffed and the spot on the lonely
side road into the grounds of the ex-
perimental farm where Miss Bakers
keys and the receipted doctors bill
were found.
Body Carried to CuIvert.
The key ring and the doctors bill
were picked up about q quarter of q
mile from the culvert, which leads the
authorities to deduce that Miss Baker
may have been choked into insensibility,
assaulted and shot near this point and
her body carried to the culvert. It is
regarded as extremely unlikely that q
machine could have drawn beside the
2E2-foot board fence at the side of the
cemetery road and the body pushed
over its top to fall into the culvert into
the position in which 1t was discovered,
Irrespective of where the crime was
committed, Inspector Shelby said the
Washington Police will continue their
investigation just as exhaustively as
they would had Miss Baker been muir.
dered in the District. Establishing the
Jurisdiction in which the woman was
killed. he said, Is not as important at
this time, as the capture of the slayer.
After four days of Investigation the
police admit they have not definitely
established the motive for the crime.
They have certain theories, however,
but have been unable to find any ma
ter1al evidence to bear them out.
OF one thing the investigators are
certain-that the slayer was acquainted
with Miss Baker. And for this reason
they have carefully questioned every
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