Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14

Top: The automobile in which Miss
Mary Baker was killed or transported
after her death to the Arlington COun-
ty culvert.
Center. left to right: AIbin Anderson
and c. d. Thompson, who heard shots
Friday night near the scene.
Below: Robert Howard, who also
heard the shots. Star Staff Photos
her to return to the car, Mrs. Collins
said, she refused. He repeated the
request several times, Mrs Collins said
but she reiterated that she did not wish
to accompany him.
Mrs Collins said the man, whom she
did not see, did not get out of the
machine. She said his language was
terrible"
She said that while this was going
on a man approached from down the
road on foot and as he turned the
corner Of Albemarle street, he shouted
to the man in the automobile. WHY
don't you turn on your lights" She
said the man replied: GO to hell"
The automobile. she said, had been
ment and when the girl failed to return
the man started the motor and drove
few feet down the road. He backed
up and down the road five times, Mrs
Collins said. but the woman remained
on the lawn.
Intended to Call Police.
Mrs. Collins said she called a roomel
in her house, Travin Green, and they
were contemplating calling the police
when the car moved away from the
street.
Across the street, occupants of 1912
avenue, a family by the
name of Reeves, corroborated Mrs. Col
Inns story about the parked machine
and the heated argument, and said
they saw the woman on the lawn next
door to their house. They said the
man was shouting to her to return to
the automobile, saying:
Come on, get in and I'll take you
home"
The girl is said to have replied, mo,
I don't want to-
The man then asked. why won't
you come: are you afratd?"
NO" the girl replied, Il just don't
want to CO."
The man continued to appeal to her,
Mrs Reeves said, saying: Come on,
get in and I'll let you drive" The
still refused and started down
the hill by the side of the road. Mrs.
Reeves said she believed the automobile
eventually left the street to the west
ward of the Albermarle intersection. .
Mrs. c. S. Cunningham, who resides
a block north of the intersection where
the car is said to have been parked,
reported that her husband, returning
home about IL O'Clock Friday night,
told her he saw a car parked without
lights in front of the Collins residence.
She said he shouted to the driver to
turn on his lights.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, perform
ing a second autopsy for Dr. j. Ramsay
hewitt, Washington coroner, because OF
that the crime might tiaVA
been perpetrated here, declared that
the three gunshot wounds bore no pow,
der marks. They all had been inflicted
from practically the same distance, Dr.
said.
In the event Smokeless powder had
been used in the cartridges, 1t would
nave been possible for the weapon to
have been fired in the car, DR.. Mac
Donald declared, but said the aSSallant
would have to have been on one side OF
the machine and the woman on the
other when the bullets were discharged
To meet requirements should future
disclosures reveal that the murder took
place here and thus necessitate an IN
quest by the District, DR.. hewitt yeSter-'
day had a jury of six men view the
body at the funeral chapel in Arlington
County. The men were instructed TO
be in readiness to sit as an tnquiSitorlal
body.
Body Shows Bruises.
DR.. Mcdonald declared that his
autopsy failed to bring to light any
matters of importance not discovered
by DR.. B. H. Swain, Arlington County
coroner, who first examined the body.
The second examination merely certl-
fed DR.. SWANS report that the girl had
been attacked and had been shot three
times. Her body from head to her
feet" DR.. Mcdonald declared, bore
marks of violence.
The bullet which was fired into the
throat, slightly more than an inch be-
low the ear, passing through the neck
and out her right cheek, penetrating
her arm, was found. The bullet which
the left side below the eighth
rib also was found, but the third mis-
sile which entered in the middle Of the
back has not bee nlocated. After en-
tering the body 1t took slightly down.
ward path, DR.. Macdonald advised.
The throat bears more than 20
bruises and abraSionS, believed to have
been inflicted by the murderer's fin
gers. There also arc abrasions on the
thigh.
Four Report Hearing Shots.
Four persons, one a night Waterman
at the N. P. SEVERN Construction Co.'S
Job on the Arlington Memorial Bridge,
whose nightly rounds bring him within
500 yards of the spot where the body
of Miss Baker was found, also revealed
that they heard shots in the vicinity
of the desolate Military road on the
night the murder was committed. The
others are two residents of RosSlyn and
a night Waterman Of an oil company
station on Military road near RoSslyn
Edward Bright of 926 N street re-
ported that while making his round.
shortly after O'Clock Saturday morn
ing he heard a shot. seemingly coming
from a point north of where the
body was later found He said the shot
was quickly followed by two others In
rapid succession, accompanied by a
woman's scream. From where he stood,
he said, he could see nothing, his vision
being blocked by the banksof the rail-
rad tranlRa that mn through the Ayr