Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
CHANNEL SEARCHED
FOR MURDER CLUE
Reported Discovery of Body
in Water May Aid in Solving
Baker Case.

A possible new clue in the Baker
murder case was seen today in the re-
ported discovery of mans body float
ing In the channel of the Potomac River
of Hams Point.
Discovery of the body was reported to
park police by passerby, but when
the police went to the end of the point
they were unable to sight the body
from shore. The Detective Bureau was
then notified and crew from the har-
Dor precinct set out In q motor boat to
search the river in that vicinity.
Meanwhile one other lead was being
run down by investigators, while an
other possible lead was dissipated.
George A. Kelly, 20 years old, who
was brought back from New York yes
terday on q warrant charging grand
larceny. is being subjected to further
questioning today. Police do not be-
lieve he had any connection with the
crime itself. but hope he will be able
to explain the presence of stolen jewel
~ with the clothing belonging to Miss
Baker, which he found in sewer on
the Arlington Experimental Farm. The
warrant on which he was arrested
charges theft of clothing from a
Twelfth street rooming house two days
after he found the articles in the sewer.
Body Identified.
The other lead on which the police
ynryi vtIHi frdo "
was that which developed last night
when a mans body was found floating
in the river below Key Bridge. Today,
however, the body was identified as that
of Thomas O'Keefe of 1925
street, brother-in-law of Police
Capt. Maurice Collins of No. Z
precinct. Police had thought it highly
unlikely, prior to the Identification, that
the man had had any connection with
the Baker murder, pointing out that If
the man who killed Miss Baker had
jumped in the river near the scene of
the crime the body would have been
carried by the current to Hams Point
by this time.
Il was also learned that the in
veSt1gators are today running down sew
eral other clues, the nature of which
was not revealed. They were described,
however, as mot promising"
Independent of the police inveStiga-
ton, Navy Department officials, 1t was
learned, are engaged in checking up the
movements of every employee of that
department who was absent from work
Friday, April IL. It was believed Navy
officials decided on this move In an
endeavor to establish definitely whether
an employe Of that department was
connected in any way with the crime.
EJrcT1 ho oY-xyp - he lvSxy too
ton the possibility that the slayer, If
he was a friend or lover of the girl,
might have taken his own life after
committing the crime has been in the
minds of operatives. On this theory
they even went so far as to make a
thorough search of the woods in the
vicinity Of the crime scene and In
vestigate carefully every report of the
disappearance Of man or woman
in this city.
The decision to bring Kelly back
from New York was made after one Of
the participants in the search, accord
ing to Inspector William s. Shelby, told
police Kelly got out of the car and
walked alone directly to the manhole
in which the clothes were hidden, OPEN
ed 1t, and then called the others back
The police after talking TO Kelly, said
he admitted going straight to the man
hole in which he found the articles, but
insisted that this was merely a coin
cidence. It was pointed out that there
were several manholes In that imme-
date vicinity and that the men who
accompanied Kelly each picked out one
as their first object Of search.
"The man tells a clean, straightfor-
ward story" Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly.
chief of the homicide squad, announced
today Lieut. Kelly said, however, that
the prisoner would be subjected to an
additional grilling today, presumably
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