Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-29
GODDARD TO RULE
ON BAKER PISTOL
u. S. Officials to Take Camp
bells Gun Before Expert
for Decision This Week.
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of their vigorous contention that he is
wholly Innocent of the charges against
him.
sons for our absolute certainty OF my
brothers innocence by describing my
own experience during the past week.
"On the night that Herbert was
arrested. / was awak ened about 80
am. from sound sleep by the In
sistent ringing of the telephone. An
swering. found Herbert on the wire.
He said that he was about to be locked
up and charged with the murder OF
Miss Baker. He said he had just told
the authorities that he had lied to
them concerning the gun that he had
turned over to them in his eagerness
to make his theory of the guilt of
Barrere stick"
Concerned Over Wife.
"Herbert went on to ask me to go to
his. house and tell his wife OF his
arrest, and help her as much as pos
sible. He was much more concerned
about her than about himself. did as
he requested; took his wife TO my home,
and as soon as she could compose her
self enough to answer my questions, she
told me that she knew exactly where
Herbert was at the time OF Miss Bakers
death No one who knows my sister
in-law could possibly have doubted her
truth and sincerity, as she spoke there
in the small hours of the morning. She
said that on the Friday that Miss Baker
was killed she received a telephone
message at her place OF employment IN
Washington, from her son Eddie, to the
effect that his Boy Scout troop was to
inc
ming. and that he would have to have
Scout belt. She said she was put out
with him for not asking for the belt
sooner. and when she went to Parker
Brtdget's to get the belt at few min
utes past 5 pm, she complained to the
salesgirl, who knew her very well, about
her son putting the matter on until
the last minute.
Herbert Was Cooking Dinner"
"She took a bus about $40, or pos
sibly $40. arriving home about 6
o'clock. She found Herbert and Eddie
there. Herbert had brought home the
food and was cooking the dinner. He
usually started the dinner If he got
home ahead of her. Eddie was taking
a bath She began to rebuke Eddie for
being so late, telling him that he would
never get to the Scout meeting, at
Fourteenth and Park road, on time,
because he usually went on the street
car Herbert called in to her and said,
Ruth, If you'll let the kid alone and
come on and get the dinner, I'll drive
him up to the meeting and he won't
be late After dinner she tried to help
Eddie get the new belt on. 1t was new
and stiff and was not easy to fasten
and Herbert was out front honking the
horn for Eddie to hurry. They drove
OF, and she heard no more from Her
bert until lstor ~ the evening, when
he phoned her and said that he had
gone back to the Scout meeting to bring
Eddie home, and that there was no one
there. She told him that Eddie had
probably gone to bowl with some of the
boys and to come on home.
She Is Sure Of Night.
'"rhat was all she knew when she
FIRST talked to me: She said she was
sure the night in question was April
IL, the day Miss Baker was killed, but
that she could not sleep until she heard
the Scoutmaster Mr.. King, who lives
on Harvard street, confirm her recol-
lection, and she insisted on going at
once to his house. It was then about
3 am. I suggested that she wait, at
least. until daylight, but she would
we went Immediately to the home of the
Scoutmaster Mr.. King. on Harvard
street. got him out of bed, and had
him look up his records as to the date
Of the divisional inspection.
His written and dated record showed
the inspection to have been on Friday,
April IL, the evening that Miss Baker
was killed. That meeting was an I'M
usual one, because two troops held
Joint meeting. on account of the inSpec-
ton. Mr.. King stated that Herbert
Campbell came into the meeting place
and spoke to him, and shook hands
with him, in the neighborhood of 1880
pm. Mr.. King said that he would
make inquiry among the boys to see
whether any of them remembered
the incident. Since then he has In
formed us that one Of the boys saw and
spoke to my brother and that another,
when asked about the matter, said:
Eyes, he came in black Hudson sedan,
didn't hep
Recites Joke About whereabouts.
''When asked my sister in-law how
she remembered that the date OF the
Boy Scout meeting was the day Miss
Baker was killed, she said that on Sat-
urday evening. April IL, her parents
came to visit her, bringing with them
an evening paper containing the story
of Miss Bakers murder, and that, as
they we're discussing the terrible affair,
she tapped Herbert and said. in a jok-
ing way, well, ] am glad know where
you were last night and that this incl
dent fixed his whereabouts on the eve
ming of April IL firmly in her mind.
THE foregoing are the facts as they
had developed up to the time that Mrs.
Herbert Campbell was interviewed by
the investigators, at my home, several
days ago. Since that time they have
checked every detail of her story, with
the following result The time card. at
her place of employment, shows that
she left at about 5 o'clock, as she said
she had the saleSgtrl at Parker
Bridget remembered the sale of the
belt and the conversation about the
inspection: her son Eddie states that
Herbert was home cooking the dinner
and had been home for quite some time
before his mother got there, AT, O'Clock
miss Baker was seen struggling with
a man in her automobile at Seventeenth
and B streets in Washington at about
6:05 p.m); the scoutmaster and two
of the Boy Scouts have confirmed her
story. and, when questioned, Herbert
said that after he left the Scout meet
ing he went TO visit a Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Smith on Hamilton street. Mr.. Smiths
family corroborates this, stating that
Herbert stayed for at least an hour and
q half, and possibly two hours.
Cake for Friend Plays Part.
within the past "a hours additional
confirmatory facts have developed in
the following way: A local newspaper
published Mrs. Campbell's picture, with
a notice requesting any one who had
seen her on either Friday or Saturday,
April IL and II, to communicate with
them. This caused her to try to re-
member where she was. with the result
that she remembered that Sunday, the
18th, was the birthday of one OF her