Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
Confidence of Suspect Is Dis
concerting to Probers OF
Staying Mystery.
ALIBI WILL BE OFFERED
AS DEFENSE OF PAINTER
Prisoner Held Incommunicado-
Brother and Wife Refused
Entrance to Jail.

Hermann Henry Barrere, World War
veteran and painter, is back in the Ar
lington County Jail, eager, he asserts,
To face all his accusers and confident
of his ability to convince "all the
world he did not murder Mary Baker.
Brought here from Montreal on State
and Federal warrants charging him
with the Staying of the young Govern
ment clerk and with being q fugitive
from justice, the silver-tongued prison.
ers frankness and aplomb have proved
diSconcerting to investigators.
The air Of assurance which marked
the departure for Canada of the on
GERS who sought him was noticeablS
lacking when they returned with him
late yesterday afternoon.
Barrere literally had talked his Gus
todians into a state of uncertainty -
to his alleged connection with Airing
ton County's most famous murder
mystery.
Presents Alibi Witnesses.
He has an "alibi"-one that Is "iron-
clad" and indisputable, to use his own
words-and yesterday he presented to
Commonwealth Attorney william c.
Cloth and Lieut.. Edward ]. Kelly, who
brought him back, list Of persons who,
he vows, will clear him.
At first reluctant to give details Of
this alibi until he had consulted an
attorney, Barrere'S propensity for talk
ino nUarNa T44a him vaGfarfiav during tina
last lap of the trip from the border
and he made what he termed ian hon.
est effort" to recall Just where he was
and what he did on the night Mary
Baker died.
Counting OF each potential alibi Wit
ness on his fingers, Barrere said he
would rest his defense on the state
ments of about half dozen men and
women with whom he declares he spent
the hours that the Baker girl was being
brutally assaulted on the evening Of
April IL last.
Not Certain Of Names.
The prisoner was not certain of the
names and addresses of all these wit
nesses. as several Of them he met for
the first time that night, according to
his story, but he furnished the of
f1cers with "clues" to their identity.
Heading Barrere's list of witnesses
are Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison w. Smith of
224 East Capitol street.. who employed
him at times as a chauffeur, and Miss
Edith w. Heiner of 2119 o street, friend
of the Smiths. This trio already have
announced they will testify the ac-
cused man was In their company until
at least half an hour after the time
that spectators saw man in a gray
cap beating woman believed to be
Miss Baker in her parked car near
Seventeenth and B streets.
Another witness whom Barrere re-
CARDS as "vitally important" is a man
whom he can identify only as "Kelly."
This mysterious person at first was be-
lieved by the authorities to be George
Kelly, the New York visitor who dis
covered Mary Bakers blood-stained
garments In ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
sewer trap near the supposed scene of
the crime. Barrere's meager descrip-
ton OF the man doe not however, At
the Kelly from Yonkers.
Picked Up Kelly in Car.
This man Kelly" Barrere endeay-
ored to explain, was a fellow / picked
up in my car late that night, and I
brought him and some other guys into
town. I had never seen him before,
Kelly was the only name he gave me.
was with him late that night think
we had few drinks-and it must have
been about 1880 o'clock I've got to
find Kelly. He can help to clear my
Barrere was unable to furnish the
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