Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
NEW. BAKER STORY
PROMISES CLIMAX
SOON, SAYS CLOTH
Volunteer Informant's State
ment, Shielded in Secrecy,
Encourages Prosecutor.
WRGINIAN WILL TAKE
GUN TO MAI. GODDARD
Campbell's Alibi Continues to Be
Doubted by Prober, Who
Charges Discrepancies.

A volunteer informant, whose identity
is withheld, has opened to Investigators
new line of inquiry so important that
Commemorative Attorney william G.
Cloth of Arlington County last night
predicted an early climax to the Mary
Baker murder mystery.
New information, the prosecutor in.
timated. concerns Herbert M. Camps
bell, Arlington County real estate ops
orator, whose ownership of a revolver
identified by two experts as the one
used by the girls slayer, has landed
him in the county jail on a charge OF
murder.
This new information is good ir-
formation" Cloth declared to news
paper men following the return Of
officers who had been Immediately dis
patched to investigate the tip
Discrepancies Are Charged.
In the same breath he added:
Herbert Campbell is far from free
dom. The alibi he has given us is Of
no value There are discrepancies in
the accounts given by Mrs. Campbell
! and her husband.
$50 far. we have not found a single
person outside the Campbell family
who can say what Herbert was doing
between the hours of O'Clock and 1880
o'clock on the evening of April IL, date
of the murder. What kind of an alibi
do you call that?
10 u,aY fO rt xryINa
| Campbsll was and what he was doing
| in that two hours and half. Unless
| he can give us indisputable proof, his
| alibi doesn't mean thing to me-"
The prosecutor let it be known, also,
that Herman Henry Barrere, self-con-
| fessed Lothario and predecessor of
Campbell as principal suspect In the
baffilng case, hasn't chance in the
world" of getting out of Jail at present.
I Barrere Is being neId as nonresident
witness. /" following withdrawal Of MUIR
der charge.
Cloth revealed that the World war
veteran and painter has not been
eliminated beyond doubt" as sus-
| pect, and will remain in custody until it
Is certain he had no connection with
| the case. The fact that Barrere knew
Campbell and had access to the latter's
house and Office at the time the realty
mans gun reposed in one of those places
| is SUFFICIENT to warrant holding HIM, it
! was explained.
Gun Remains in Main Role.
The gun remains the most important
! piece OF evidence in the case. Springing
psychological COUP late yesterday,
the prosecutor confronted Campbell
with the hitherto undisclosed fact that
| two experts on ballistics, working sep-
arately, have concurred in the opinion
1 hot
| fred the bullets found in the Navy
clerks body.
On top of that, the prisoner was adj
vised that a microscopic examination of
! a pair of buckskin gloves found with
Mary Bakers clothing near the murder
| scene has revealed marks Campbell
| had said would be found, If the gloves
| were his.
Campbell, some weeks prior to his
arrest, partially identified the gloves
as a pair missing from his house, but
later he asserted he was sure they
did not belong to him.
He said his gloves had been used
in twisting nut on his car" Cloth
stated last night, land yesterday we
showed him that the gloves in queS-
ton had marks of that kind. He said
he could not be sure they were his
gloves
The man whose test of the gun and
TIE 1atal DuilcCS CallleQ WIN tflaC OF
Di Wilmer Souder, Bureau of Stand
ards authority on ballistics, is Lieut..
John Fowler, gun expert of the police
department. Lieut.. Fowler was brought
face to face with Campbell in Cloths
Office yesterday afternoon for "a show
down" regarding Campbell's insistence
that DR.. Souder must have been mis-
taken.
Herbert" Cloth told the prisoner.
DR. Souder is not the only expert who
says your gun was the one used to shoes
Mary Baker Lieut.. Fowler here made
three tests before DR.. Souder did, and
he is positive the bullets came from
your revolver
Photo Of Bullets Sho~,>.
Fowler then took Campbell close 70
a window and showed him enlarged
photographs OF the fatal bullets and
test bullets fired from the realty opera. /.
tors revolver, and explained in deL&l
just how the rifling marks on the sluKS
under comparison corresrnuded ex-
actly
Campbell listened intently and scrub
nized the pictures closely. When the
impronaptu lecture was completed, the
prisoner shook mis- head and announced
he was not convinced.
In spite of what you say" Campbell
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