Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-20
Police to Seek Indictment of
Man Admitting Killing
If Proof Warrants.
PLEA FOR EXTRACTION
OF TUCKER TO FOLLOW
Los Angeles Officials Will Be Ask
ed to Send Prisoner Here
for Trial.

An identification expected to verify
the confession OF George Pierce Tucker
to the murder of Miss Emma Kirk here
five years ago was speeding by airmatl
across the continent from Los Angeles
today as police moved to take the case
before the grand jury and demand
fuckers extradition from California.
It has been established to the salts
faction of authorities that George
Pierce Tucker arrested in Colorado on
suspicion during November of 1925 was
the same who left thumb-print on the
eyeglasses of the 68-year-old spinster
when she was strangled in her UNI
brella shop at 819 r street January
%, 1926.
This man answers the general de-
scription of the suspect under arrest in
Los Angeles. Ffngerprint classi1cat1ons
telegraphed yesterday by California po-
lice also were found to check with the
two sets of impression on record here.
Evidence Due Tomorrow.
fuckers Identification record is ex-
pected to reach police headquarters here
not later than tomorrow morning, and
a comparison with existing impressions
will determine If the case Is to be taken
before the grand jury.
The 32-year-old suspect said ne killed
the woman, whom he never had seen
before, during a mental lapse which
followed protracted drinking. He eX-
planned that he was q racing driver
and physicians had informed him after
a crash in Oregon that injuries he re-
ceived about the head probably would
upset his reason.
In his cell In the Los Angeles jail
Tucker said he had been cigar sales
man in Washington and lived at the
Arlington Hotel. He was wandering the
streets, the prisoner said, at late hour
when he noticed a light in window
and knocked on the door.
Body Found Bound.
The body was found with shawl
looped about the nose and mouth and
with the hands and feet trussed with
Irvine. Police said robbery was not the
motive as something over SIS was
found in the death room.
George Pierce Tucker, believed to
be the same man under arrest in Los
Angeles, was picked up, on the streets
here July 81, 1926, by police of No.
l precinct on charge of intoxication.
He was fined $40 on this charge.
Police explained that f1ngerprint rec
ords are not kept Of lesser offenders.
When Tucker again was arrested In
Denver during November of the same
year, cards with his f1ngerprint rec
ord were mailed out to the principal
cities.
Card Filed Away Here.
Seeking to learn how the card got
into local files without a comparison
with impressions of men wanted here,
1t was brought out that the depart
ment's Identification expert, Sergt.
Fred Sandberg, was attending the Hall
Mills murder trial to testify as finger
print expert.
The card, it was learned, was fled
during Sandberg's absence, and no oc-
caSlon arose to refer to it afterward.
For weeks after the murder Sandbere
compared the print taken from the
spectacles with thousands of others in
the records at headquarters It was so
impressed on his mind, he said, that he
would recognize a fingerprint of similar
character on sight.
Inspector Shelby said that If fuckers
confession can be corroborated, he will
request the United States district attor-
ney in Los Angeles to detail a deputy
marshal for the prisoners return to the
District
Should Tucker fight extradition. the
district attorney will be asked to rep
resent the Washington Police Depart
ment.
Tucker told Los Angeles police he had
wandered from place to place since he
left Washington. About two years ago,
ne said, he married on the West coast.
He explained that his wife and q year.
old baby were living in San Francisco.