Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-01
Cloth, Kelly and Collins Agree
to Remove Suspect From
Virginia for Trial Here in
Baker Death.
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
is ASKED BY COUNSEL
Sheriff Fields Is Ordered to Pro-
duce Defendant in Arlington
County Circuit Tribunal Monday
Morning for Hearing Upon Pc
tition for Freedom.

Herbert M. Campbell, Virgini
Highlands real estate man, held
in the Arlington County Jail on a
charge of the murder of Mary
Baker, will be tried in the Dis
trict Supreme Court, it was an
nounced today following a con-
ference of Commonwealth Attor-
ney William c. Cloth of Arlington
County, Lieut.. Edward ]. Kelly,
chief of the Washington homicide
squad, and Acting United States
Attorney William H. Collins.
Meanwhile, Charles Henry
Smith filed writ of habeas corr
pus in an effort to obtain the re-
lease of Campbell from Jail. The
writ was returnable in the Ar
lington County Court Monday.
Following the conference here,
Mr.. Collins directed Lieut.. Kelly
to obtain a warrant for CO iFasffpbeiff
from United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage. Collins had
been informed that Campbell
would not come voluntarily to the
District, and arrangements were
made to arraign Campbell before
a United States commissioner at
Alexandria on a removal warrant.
Today's developments followed closely
the announcement last night by Col.
Calvin H. Goddard, ballistics expert in
Chicago, that the gun turned over to
the police by Campbell was the one
from which the bullets were fired that
killed Mary Baker.
Witnesses Heard Shots.
Eyewitnesses to the alleged assault
on the young Navy Department clerk
at Seventeenth and 3 streets when
she returned to her automobile, which
she had parked while attending church
services at the Epiphany Church the
night of April II. reported that they
heard pistol shots shortly after the
automobile was driven from the corner.
This evidence would tend to support
the theory that the fatal assault o.
Cured in the District of Columbia.
Presentation of the evidence before
dictment of Campbell may be deferred
for some weeks, until authority can be
secured by the office of United States
Attorney Rover to engage the. services
of Col. Goddard, who would prove an
important witness before the grand
jury.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy signed an
order directing Sheriff Howard 3. Fields
to produce Campbell in Circuit Court
for a hearing on the petition Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.
Col. Goddard's report agreed with
that of DR.. Wilmer Souder. Bureau of
Standards authority of ballistics. and
Lieut.. John Fowler, gun expert of the
Police Department, both of whom pre-
viouSly had reported that the fatal
bullets were fired from the gun turned
over to Mr.. Cloth by Campbell
He still sticks to his original story"
Cloth said after questioning Campbell
for half hour in the Arlington County
Jail again today. The prosecutor, show
ing no signs of the strain he has been
under because of long hours of work on
the case in recent weeks, seemed an
noyed at his inability to draw additional
information from the prisoner.
Brief Examination.
Today's examination of Campbell was
much more brief than the grilling given
the prisoner last night soon after word
of Maj Goddard's report was received
from Chicago. Assisted at that time
by Lieut.. Edward J. Kelly, Carlton
Talley and John Flaherty, headquarters
detectives. Cloth put question after
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