The Washington times., 1930-04-24
PAIR TRANED
On TRYSTS,
He SAYS
Arlington County investigator
Discounts Views of Police
Robbery Was Motive in Case
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band, saying she was afraid to go
on parties with other men for
fear he would do her bodily
harm.
Can Identify Husband
The pretty Navy Department
employee, however, did keep
numerous dates with other men
when the sergeant was out Of
the city, according to the girl
friend.
The girl states she positively
can identify the supposed Mr..
Baker" who is described as being
o man about 5 feet 2 inches tall,
with dark hair and dark eyes.
He is said to have q violent
temper.
It was when Miss Baker lived
In the 1900 block Of L st. N. W.,
about a year ago, that she first
introduced the Army man as her
mate.
Police now definitely believe
the story told by Frank Smith
and James Violin, both colored,
to the effect that the purse, a
silk scarf, and Q parasol OF the
murdered clerk, found In their
possession were taken from the
abandoned car.
Convict Eliminated
Earl Frank White, ex-convict,
arrested for the washington
police in Richmond has been de-
finitely eliminated as q suspect.
He was in Goldsborough, N. c.,
when the murder was committed,
having been identified by sta
ton detective as the man who
stole a case Of cigarettes there
on the twelfth.
With the money he got from
selling them he bought a ticket
for Baltimore, stopping off in
Washington for few minutes.
He arrived here on the thirteenth
about z in the morning. He
went on to Baltimore and
arrived at his aunt'S around $3.50.
His fingerprintS were checked
with those found on the death
car but they did not match.
The fact that the keys Of The
Car were found near the sewer
where the clothes and other
things were hidden lends support
to the theory that they may have
been put there by the murderer
or someone closely connected with
the case. Because of the fact
that other things thought to have
been stolen and which did not
belong to the dead girl were
wrapped in her coat, police for a
time thought they could not have
been placed there by anyone con.
nected with the crime.
Third Person Suspected
However, if there was a third
person present at the shooting
and if the articles in question
were in the Baker girls car at
the time all of the stuff may
have been placed in the sewer by
Q third person DESTROYS Of cover
ing UP the actions of the killer.
The fact that the automobile
cushion was found by Smith and
Violin some yards from the road
is thought by authorities to be
significant. This would throw
q new light on the reconstruction
Of the tragedy.
From the inception Of the case
Sheriff Fields has been working
on the theory the girl and a male
companion were surprised some.
where on the Department of
Agriculture experimental farm by
q jealous wife or sweetheart, who
became enraged and fired the
three shots which ended the life
Of the pretty government worker.
Cites Shredded ParasoI
In support of his theory Fields
points to the parasol which was
shredded as though used as a
weapo of defense. He said that
this easily could have happened
in an alteration between the
girl and the person who attacked
her
Sheriff Fields said today that
his idea o. what tranSpired on
bIIC CAHCLIClIISIlOd1 4d1L IL VIC IlAkI1G
of April IL, sometime between
$50 and $50 o'clock is as fol
lows:
MARY Baker drove to a sc.
Clu'ed spot with man whom
she knew well, after entering
her car at Seventeenth and B
Streets.
THE girl and her companion,
probably a married man, were
trailed by a jealous woman.
Sometime later the woman
located the couple i'm 4 secluded
spot on the experimental farm
and attacked the girl.
ut Is supposed the man tried
to mOllify the woman but in
her rage she managed to elude
his grasp and after having
scratched and beaten Mary
Baker the woman fired three
shots all Of which struck her.
"The man then placed the
limp form Of the girl in her
own car and started toward a
hospital, but finding the girl
dead, disposed Of her body and
was picked up by the other
woman, and brought to the
city and his home