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ed regarding the fight in the garage,
but denied knowing anything about it.
Sheriff w. Curtis Hopkins of Prince
Georges County, who grilled Selbicky,
said the Marine reasserted his previous
claims of innocence in such convincing
fashion that, unless new evidence is I'M
earthed in the meantime, he probably
Will be released tomorrow.
If Selbicky is freed in so far as the
murder is concerned, however, he still
will be held on liquor charges, based
on the alleged discovery of a quantity
of beer and whisky in his home follow
ing his arrest. He will be held in
$1,000 bond on this charge. Hopkins
said.
Working on the theory the Marine
was slain in Washington and taken to
the place of burial in an automobile,
Chief Deputy Sheriff Thomas Garrison
Of Prince Georges County was in the
Capital this morning running down sew
eral news clues.
Three Other Women Questioned.
After a brief visit to police head
quarters he left with Sergt James Col
Inns of the homicide squad to question
a woman who is said to have been well
acquainted with Thorne
Garrison spent the greater part of
last evening trying to locate the woman
who is said to have had numerous en-
gagementS with the murdered Marine.
She could not be found last night, how
ever, and Garrison decided to renew his
search today. Three other women al
ready have been questioned, but Garri-
son refused to reveal the nature of the
information obtained from them.
The theory that the killing occurred
on the earlier date was advanced by
Garrison, who declared he had obtained
information which not only convinced
him the idea was correct, but also gave
him a definite knowledge as to the
place and circumstances of the Staying.
Blackwell's investigation, however,
has convinced him Thorne was killed
in a drunken braWl" somewhere in
Prince Georges County Although he
refused to say exactly where the fight
occurred, he declared he had visited
the place and picked up several valu-
able clues.
That an effort was being made to
connect the case with the unsolved
murder of Buelah Limerick, 19-year-
old Polls Theater usher, who was shot
10 OeaCn last December 81, was 1ndl-
Gated last night when Richard Reed,
the Sky High Whoopee Club secre-
tary,s sweetheart, and David Limerick,
her brother, called at police headquar-
tiers and held brief conference with
members of the homicide squad. Both
men were held in connection with the
Limerick Staying, as also were Vernon
Limerick, another brother, and Robert
F. Langdon, then a policeman. All
four Of the men were later released,
however.
Beulah, according TO detectives who
investigated her murder, attended a
dance in Greater Capitol Heights, the
same village in which Thorne's body
was found, the night before she was
killed.
The woods in which Thorne's BODY
was found is in the rear Of the home of
Vincent Selbicky, a member of the
Marine Band, who has been held in the
Marlboro Jail since the discovery of the
body.
Plans TO bury Thorne's body in Ar
lington National Cemetery were aban-
doned today, when the corpse was or
dered shipped to Tabler, Ca, by the
dead Marines sister, Miss Bessie
Thorne. The body was expected to be
sent to the Georgia city, which Is near
Thorne's home town. Augusta, at about
3 o'clock.