Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21
CAMPBELL SHAKES
BARRERE'S HAND AS
SHOWDOWN OPENS


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sentiment over the fact that Barrere
| had the case transferred from Judge
Bittenbender'S court TO the Arlington
| County Circuit Court? / got the COM
| mission / was sueing for without the
necessity of pressing the case, and
that ended the matter"
Aubrey Wyatt, the man who was
painting the interior of Campbell's
house at the time Barrere was charged
with stealing some womens clothing,
an alarm clock and bag of gum drops
| from the home of his employer, was
| the first person questioned today by
/ the county prosecutor and the Wash
ington detectives.
Wyatt was questioned concerning
Barrere'S statement that the two
painters an da couple of women, "who
| casually dropped by" staged an inn
promptu drinking party at Campbell'S
house on April IA, three days after
the murder when the robbery is al
| legged to have occurred. Wyatt denied
! that there had been a party in the
house, but admitted he and Barrere
! the women arrived at the house. He
/ said the women did not drink and left
/ after q briet stay.
Want Doubt Cleared Up.
Barrere, in denying that he took the
goods from Campbell's house, pointed
out that the theft might have been
committed by the others who were in
| the party. The authorities are DESTROYS
| of clearing up the. doubt surrounding
| this incident as 1t would materially
strengthen the case against Barrere If
| 1t could be proved he entered Camp
bells house and committed a robbery
at that time.
While the theft of gun from Camp
BELLS house naturally must have oc-
CURED prior to the murder, the investi-
gators point out that If Barrere had
means of entering the house after the
, murder he could have employed the
same means before.
Barrere admits he went to Campbell's
house on the day prior to the killing
] intending to make an estimate on
painting the exterior of Campbells resi-
dence Campbell has implied that
Barrere could have entered his house
and stolen the gun from its place In q
| chiffonier on that occasion.
The chiffonier is the same one from
(which the articles allegedly were stolen
after the murder. The opportunity to
have Campbell and Barrere brought
face to, face is one which the author
tiles long have waited for. There
are number of discrepancies in the
stories told by the two men, and it is
believed that they can be cleared up
| by this dramatic method.
Disagree on Hour.
One point that is considered most
important is determining the exact
hour that Barrere visited Campbell at
Oakcrest on the afternoon of the fatal
day and signed contract to paint
Campbell's house.
| The real estate man has said that
Barrere signed the contract about $50
| o'clock that day while Barrere, APP
| parently uncertain about the time, has
said variously that he signed 1t in the
| morning, and, under later questioning,
| about 1880 or 8 O'Clock in the afternoon
| The officials consider it vitality i'm
portant that Barrere's movements
| throughout that afternoon and evening
! be definitely established. In order to
check on the priconer's ''alibi," Cloth
| has summoned number of Barrere's
| acquaintance, in whose presence he
| claims he moved on the fatal evening
After Wyatt had been questioned
alone, Barrere was brought across the
court house lawn to the prosecutors
Office and closeted with Cloth, Kelly
! Sheriff Fields and Wyatt. Among the
| points upon which Wyatt and Barrert
were questioned was the disappearance
! of the tent which Wyatt loaned Barrers
and which the latter erected in the
| yard of Clifford Herold on rlingtor
Ridge. Police are anxious to locate Thu
tent, under the theory that Barrere
might have left some bit of evidence
in it.
Barrere claims that he gave the tent
to a man whom he knew only as
Dan" and who is employed in the
quartermaster's stables at Fort Myer
Dan" according to Barrere, was to
have returned the tent to Wyatt, but
4 Wyatt said today he did not get II
and has no idea where 1t is. An in
vesJigation will be made in an effort to
locate the mysterious Dan"
Campbell reiterated today that he
never knew Mary Baker and had never
heard of her until the murder.
Doesn't Remember Girls.
Asked If it were not possible that the
Baker girl and her two companions
Miss Skinner and Miss Sperry, might
have visited his Office in Oakcrest whilf
searching for houses in Arlington
County, Campbell said that while thi;
was a possibility he has no recollection
OF any one answering their description
having applied to him for house. II
is understood that Miss Skinner anc
Miss Sperry have said they never
visited Oakcrest while hunting for 9
place to live in nearby Virginia.
Campbell said that Barrere's descrip'
ton of IAN old man with gray hail
and a facial blemiSh' whom Barrert
elected from his tent some time after
the murder Tailed somewhat with thai
of the man with the wart on his nose,
whose inquiries concerning Barrere ane
concerning Campbell'S gun first aroused
the real estate mans suspicious and lee
to the latter's discovery that the gun
had changed its location from his resi-
dence TO his office In some unexplain
able manner,
The man with a wart on his nose,
Campbell explained, did have grayish
white hair and was we'll advanced IN
age. Whether Barrere really saw sucf
q man and whether the two were TIT
same person is just matter of con
lecture. Regardless of how fantaSti
1t may sound, / know saw and talked
with such q man."
Barrere said that the old man with I
facial Disagreement had been lynn
around drunk IN the vicinity OF Cliff
Herolds place for several days" ant
that when he found him in the ten
| he "chucked him out and told hin
never to come back" The man with [
, wart on his nose remained q cOmplet
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