Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-06
BROTHERS
JAILED IN BLAST
Husbands Story Leads to
Two Arrests-UncIe Is
Released.
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De6n sent 10 Ills vile 10 SCHI6 dIlu
that a question of "the family honor"
was linked to the act.
Herman is known to have been
quizzed closely regarding his wife's
condition at the time of their mar
riage and concerning reports that rela-
tives were worried over the affair" OF
the couple.
officials investigating circumstances
attending delivery of the fatal package
have established, it is said. that the
iy-decorated box, addressed to
"Naomi Hall, second house on Car
mody road" was delivered about 430
o'clock on the Sunday morning before
New Year day. Apparently by mistake,
however, it was placed on the front
of the second house on the opposite
side of the street from the Hall house,
and was taken in by Mrs. John Buckley,
who did not know the adressee. Mrs.
Buckley did not learn where Mrs.
Brady lived until New Year morn
ing, when she called to one OF the Hall
boys and forwarded it, unSuspectingly,
on it's mission of death and mutilation.
Movements Are Checked.
A check-up ON the movements Satur-
day night and Sunday of Herman and
Roy Brady has been made by the au-
thorities. The inquiry shows, they as
sert, that the pair went to Southern
Maryland early Sunday morning after
telling friends of the intended trip.
Herman is reported to have told one
| friend to take good care" of his wife
while he was away.
The theory on which the officials are
| working today is that the explosion was
| the result of plot by persons who
xrytC1 IN that &
year-old bride of six week was soon to
become a mother.
Federal Advice Sought.
| Meanwhile, the authorities moved to
seek expert Federal advice as to the
value as evidence of certain fragments
| of a lead tube and other significant
articles found at the scene of the ex-
plosion Saturday by a group or boys and
turned over to Maryland officials by
| The Star.
A cursory description given to DR..
| Charles E. Monroe, chief of the division
of explosives of the United States Bu-
reau of Mines, brought from MIN an
unofficial opinion that the Internal ma
chine was the work Of an experienced
hand. He said the lead fragments APP
peared to be part of a pf!ai watch may
| have contained sulphuric acid, used
often as a decorating agent in bombs
of the instantaneous" type. Such a
detonator was used in a bomb which
exploded in the Capitol during the war,
| Dr. Munroe recalled.
| Construction of a bomb of this type
requires ingenuity of high order. it is
| explained Materials for its building
are not readily obtainable, and 1t
| should not be very difficult to trace the
! source of the tube, the acid and spe-
cial fusee match required in making an
! acid-type detonator
! While the brothers were being ques-
toned yesterday afternoon at the county
seat the mutilated body of 4-year-old
Dorothy Hall, third victim of the atroc-
| ity, was lowered tenderly into the grave
where had been consigned Saturday the
bodies of Mrs. Brady and little Samuel
Hall, 19-month-old baby of the stricken
family.
The funeral service was held at the
Mount Oak Methodist Church. In
Mitchellyille, with DR.. Julius Mcdonald
pastor, officiating. Only small group
Of relatives and friends was present
The grave had been held open to receive
the third casket after the death Friday
of Dorothy at Sibley Hospital.
Relief Work Starts.
Relief measures for the stunned fam
lily were initiated yesterday from sew
eral sources. DR.. Mcdonald had col
lection taken up at his church, as re-
suit of which $120 was raised, and COM
mittees of the Seat Pleasant Methodist
Church and the Seat Pleasant Fire De-
partment also started collection OF funds
to aid the needy family.
Hall Is a grave digger and was at
work in a local cemetery when the
bomb exploded. Mrs. Nora Hall, the
mother, and two older sons, Leslie, 10
and Thomas, 8, are recovering in
Providence Hospital from terrible lac
erations and shock.
A cigar box was nailed to the side
of the wrecked kitchen of the Hall
home yesterday, with the inscription,
Hall Family Relief Fund, Seat Pleas
ant Fire Department" Into a slot in
the box was dropped during the Sab
bath day a total of $46, made up OF
silver and currency contributed by the
thousands of curious persons who milled
about the tragic scene. The Fire De-
partment fund is being supervised by
William Cooper, who requests that
further donations be sent to I. I. Main
treasurer of the department.
At the same time committee OF
women of the Methodist Church made
a canvass of the community and Sc
i cured approximately sos. The women
will continue their efforts. The work
is in charge of Mrs Martha Morrow
and Mrs. Dora Bateman.
Herman Brady Questioned.
Herman Brady, accompanied by an
other brother, Emmett, came voluntarily
to Marlboro yesterday morning and was
subjected at once to questioning led by
Lieut.. Joseph H. ItZel, Baltimore detec-
tice lace" who, with Sergt. Charles
Schalter, another Baltimore detective
has been assigned to the case at the
suggestion of Gov. Richie. Emmett
Herman was closeted for hours with
Itzel, Schalter, States Attorney j
Frank Parran, Headquarters Detective
John H. Fowler of this city, Sheriff
Charles Early and County Oficer Frank
Prince. Afterward two officers were
sent in search Of Leroy, but the latter
showed up OF his own accord al pm,
During the long interview Herman
agreed to sign a written statement, as q
result of which Leroy was placed under
arrest. The statement is said to have
cast on the brother suspicion of such q
nature as to cause him to express dis
belief that Herman had signed it.
To convince Leroy of the authenticity
of the statement, the officers brought
the brothers face to face and Herman
is said to have repeated stolidfy the
statement to his brother and to have
announced that he signed the state
ment without coercion. 1t is under
stood the scene was not so dramatic al
anticipated, Leroy merely repeating hi
denials that he had anything to d.
with the crime.
Leroy then became the center of in
terest Of the investigators, and thu
young man was the target during thu
afternoon and night of Intermittent
barrages of questions Leroy maintained
his composure throughout and con
tiniind his Uirnr0lIs denialS The Giles