Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

more careful about calling you because
you thought your wires were tapped.
The woman you told to tell any de-
tectives who might question her that
you were showing her real estate That
afternoon
my God. man. he said, why have
I lied to you. I lied to you about all
of that. I met her that afternoon at
the Investment Building-no, 1t was at
Sixteenth and H streets. Then drove
her over the Highway Bridge as far as
Ballston and then went back and
parked near the culvert. / took her
home about o'clock and then went to
my home
Campbell then admitted the gun had
been at his home all the time. He said
the reason he had lied about it was
that he thought Barrere would be
caught and he would get lot of fame
out of it. He said he didn't see how
the experts could say it was his gun
because it never had been out of his
possession. He said: There must be
My gun wasn't used in the killing. No
one in my family or any one know
had anything to do with it,"
Thought He Was key Man."
Kelly said he asked Campbell what
his object had been in putting the de-
tectiyes to great deal of unnecessary
work and putting the county and Wash
ington to the expense of checking all
the information he had turned over to
the authorities.
"He said he was just a plain damn
fool" Kelly testified. HE said several
newspaper men had come over to his
golf course every night and played, and
~ I. L. ~, I1a
situation. He said: And so, since
wanted fame, told you all those lies.
When I sat around with you, Inspector
Shelby and Mr.. Cloth and talked about
this case my heart beat fast, and I
thought here I was working on this
case with all the big Washington de-
tectives.'"
Kelly said he asked Campbell repeat
eddy If he knew Mary Baker or had
ever had any real estate dealings with
her. The witness said the defendant
answered in the negative each time.
AFTER the gun was returned by Col.
Goddard" Kelly testified, Campbell
said. I don't see how this gun could
be the gun that killed the girl because
it's been in my house all the time. Still,
you have enough to try me, convict me
and hang me-"
Cross-examination Of Kelly by Lucien
Vandoren of defense counsel was brief.
He asked little except whether the
gloves had been traced, and by whom.
Kelly explained he had checked Camp
BELLS statement that the gloves stolen
from him had been purchased from a
store on Fourteenth street and were of
a different make from those with Miss
Bakers clothes.
Most Important Answer.
Perhaps the most important answer
made by Col. Goddard during the few
minutes he was on the witness stand
before the luncheon recess was when he
was asked what he had found in his
examination of Campbell's pistol and
the death bullets.
He replied:
IT came to the conclusion that the
bullets had been fired from the pistol 1
examined"
The witness explained bullet is
marked when fred from piston He
declared the marks are left by grooves
within the pistol barrel. He said the
scratches embedded In the slugs by
each groove were different.
There are ridges" he said, within
the grooves, which constitute a char
acteristic mark easily detected on the
determine marks left by a particular
gun Of a particular make you have to
examine the finer markings"
The witness then stepped down IN
'front.' OF the jury and explained In de-
tail the technical aspects Of revolver,
section OF which had been cut away,
exposing the type of material used III
the manufacture of such weapons and
the intricate mechanism. He idenuneo