Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
HOLDS MARY BAKER
KILLED OUT OF CAR
Campbell Counsel Contends
Prosecution Theory of
Murder Blasted.

Counsel for Herbert NJ Campbell,
who goes on trial in the District su-
preme Court Tuesday on q charge of
numbering Mary Baker, win contend
that Miss Baker was slain In . hand
to-hand fight after she left her auto
mobile It was disclosed last night when
plans for the defense we're outlined.
Charles Henry Smith, chief Of de-
Tense counsel, also announced he would
attach significance to bloodstairls de-
tected on q parasol in the possession
Of the 28-year-old Navy Department
clerk when she met death. He revealed
the defense theory was that the girl
was forced from her car by an un-
identified assailant, knocked uncon-
scious with her own umbrella and then
shot,
The defense attorney declared the
tattered parasol undoubtedly had been
used by the girls slayer. Asserting no
witnesses had been located who had
seen any one strike the girl with the
umbrella while she was In her machine,
the lawyer reasoned she had been at
tackled outside Of the automobile.
Holds Theory Blasted.
"This evidence" Smith asserted,
blasts the contention of the prosecu-
ton that the girl was murdered within
the car. The entire Government case
is built around statements of witnesses
that they saw q man struggling with
Miss Baker in her machine while 1t was
parked at Seventeenth and B streets.
The prosecutions theory Is that she
was killed there. We propose to show
that claim Is false"
Importance first was attached to the
parasol when the bloodstains were no
ticed by DR.. Albert H. Hamilton and his
son, Robert A. Hamilton, micro
chemists Of Auburn, N. Y, retained by
the defense. The blood was spattered
over the torn silk covering of the UNI
brella. The parasol was bent as
though it had been subjected to
numerous heavy blows.
DR.. Hamilton and his son also will
testify that marks found on bullets
extracted from the body of Miss Baker
failed to correspond in any detail with
into a cotton-packed wooden chamber
from a pistol submitted to authorities
by Campbell.
The micro-chemists contended 20
scratches were found on the mortal
slugs in altogether different locations
then the marks embedded in the test
bullets. They said half of the scratches
were so distinct they could be seen
with the naked eye, while the others
were easily visible through . micro
scope.
Will Offer No Photographs.
Smith announced the death and test
bullets would be passed among the
members of the jury in order that they
might examine them with the aid of
q microscope to be produced while DR..
Hamilton Is on the witness stand. He
stressed the fact that the defense would
offer no photographs in evidence.
william H. Collins, an assistant
United States attorney, disclosed pho
tographs of death and test bullets
would be shown to the jury while
Calvin Goddard, chief of the crime
detection laboratories of Northwestern
University, and Lieut.. John Fowler of
the Washington police force were on
the stand.
Col Goddard and Lieut.. Fowler, both
authorities on ballistics, reported after
minute examination of the Campbell
revolver and the mortal bullets that
the defendants pistol had been used
in the Staying. They said scratches
on the death and test bullets matched
perfectly. They will testify that the
death bullets could not possibly have
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