Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-24

In view of CampbelIs contention,
supported by declarations of his at
torney, Charles Henry Smith, that some
mistake must have been made when
DR.. Wilmer Souder of the Bureau of
Standards identified his 80 caliber re-
volver as the one which fired the fatal
bullets into Mary Bakers body, the
authorities will have the gun re-ex-
amined by DR.. Souder and also by Mai.
Calvin Goddard, noted ballistics ex-
pert of Chicago.
DR.. Souder is temporarily out of the
city, Inspector William 8. Shelby, chief
OF the Detective Bureau, said today,
but he will be asked to make another
test of the bullets and the gun when
he returns TO his ONCE. After the sec
ond examination by DR.. Souder the
then will be taken to Chicago for "a
double check" by Maj. Goddard.
III the examinations of Campbelfs
revolver show that the fatal bullets
we're fired from the real estate mans
gun, Prosecutor Cloth feels that the
case against Campbell will be mate
rally strengthened. CampbelFs attor-
ney, however, disputes the reliability of
gun experts testimony, and indicates
he will not permit the introduction of
such testimony without q bitter legal
fight. He has inquired into the record,
and asserts that Virginia courts never
have recognized the admissibility of
bsllistics testimony.
Admitted Passing 18th and b.
Cloth and Kelly declared today that
while confederation by Scoutmaster
King of Campbells account of his visit
to the Scout meeting would strengthen
the structure OF Campbells alibi, the
fact that Campbell actually was at the
church at 1880 o'clock on the night Of
April IL cannot be considered as Com
elusive proof" that he was not in the
vicinity of the murder scene prior to
that time. In fact, the prisoner has
admitted that he passed the intersec-
ton of Seventeenth and B streets about
$50 o'clock that evening, although he
insists he did not stop, but continued
across the Highway Bridge to his home
in Virginia Highlands.
Three persons have testified they saw
man in grey cap beating Miss
Baker with his fists in her parked auto
mobile, near Seventeenth and B streets,
about O'Clock on the evening in ques-
ton.
Cloth had the witnesses, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh r. Wood, and Frederick
Rice, look at Campbell the day of his
arrest, and announced afterwards there
was mo positive Identification.
Mrs. Campbell, recovered from the
nervous attack she suffered upon learn
ing OF the murder warrant against her
husband, gave, q detailed accounting
of her own and her husbands move
ments on the night Mary Baker was
shot.
Wife's Version Tallies.
Her version tailed exactly with what
given by her husband when he was
first questioned on July 4, except that
there we're certain discrepancies due,
investigators believe, to the husbands
effort to hide the fact from his wife
that he had been automobile riding
with another woman early in the after
noon.
Campbell, since his arrest, has made
q complete admission of his ride with
this woman, and has admitted that
during the trip he parked with his
companion near the Sheridan gate cul-
vert where Mary Bakers body was
found the next day, and that after TAX
ing the woman to her home in Wash
ington, he drove by Seventeenth and B
streets about the time of the attack
by the man in the gray cap. Cloth
said today Mrs. Campbell denied that
her husband wore gray cap that day
or that he ever was in the habit of
wearing a cap. The woman, who was
Campbells companion on the after
noon jaunt also denies that Campbell
wore gray cap.
The wife and the woman agree that
Campbell wore a dark suit that day.
The man in the gray cap was heavy
set and wore a dark suit, according to
the witnesses.
Following the consultation with Mrs.
Campbell late yesterday at the home
of her husbands brother, Frank @.
Campbell. Commemorative Attorney
Cloth made the following statement to
the press:
Statement by Cloth.
MRS. Campbell said she got off from
work on April IL at O'Clock and had
just arrived home at o'clock and
found her husband already there.
She says she~f1ad q telephone call
from her son for her to buy him Scout
belt; that she went to the Parker
,, Bridget Co, bought the belt, and caught
bus at Twelfth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue at either $40 or $40
O'Clock, she isn't sure which.
Arriving home at O'Clock, she says
she found her husband there. Dinner
was about ready, and the boy, Edwin,
was preparing to go to a Scout meeting
and was taking a shower. Dinner was
served at $50 o'clock The boy dressed
for the meeting and Herbert went OUT
side and sat in his car, honking the
horn for Edwin to hurry.
THE boy said he and his father ar
rived at the church at Fourteenth street
and Park road about 7:30 o'clock and
That his father got out and took him
to the scoutmaster Thomas A. King of
1898 Harvard street, who was in charge
OF the meeting.
TeIephoned at $3.50 O'Clock.
''The wife says she next heard from
her husband at $3.50 o'clock when he
phoned to tell her he had been back
to the church only to find the meeting
over and his son gone She says she
told her husband not to worry, that
Edwin probably had gone to the home
OF some friends, and that Herbert drove
directly home, arriving about 10 o'clock.
Edwin told us that his step-father
arrived home at five minutes after five
O'Clock, and was carrying some gro
,, ceries. He said that Campbell then
prepared for dinner.
Mrs. Campbell says she is willing
to swear her life away that her hus-
band Is not the murderer of Mary
Baker,,
Lieut.. Kelly concluded the interview
with the remark:
"The gun is the big proposition in
this case now and Campbells possession
Of IT. has to be explained Aiibis have
failed before"
Barrere Wants Out.
In the meantime, Hermann H. Bar
rere, yoluble former suspect in the mys-
terry, but now self-styled assistant
prosecutor" made q move today to OBJ
tain his release from the Arlington
County Jail. After sending several i'm
| patiently worded notes to Prosecutor
Cloth, requesting that Cloth ask Ray
mond Neudecker, Washington attor-
| new to come tn the iaiI Rarrara callnd