Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
Montgomery and D. C. Police
Seek Quartet Who Went
on Party With lett.
CABINS NEAR GLEN ECHO
WILL BE PROBED TODAY
Small Quantity Of Blood Found on
Scene Is Declared Suspicious
Circumstance.

Search for four women with whom
Wilmer Lee Jet, %, Of 1914 North
Capitol street. went on a party" several
hours before his body was found on the
street car tracks at Glen Echo, Md,
Monday night, was launched today by
Montgomery County and Washington
police.
The hunt was begun after detectives,
endeavoring to determine whether Jet
was killed and left on the tracks before
Washington Railway & Electric Co
street car rolled over lis body, learned
last night he had been on a party near
Glen Echo earlier in the evening.
Mrs. Edward E. Jet, mother Of the
dead man, told authorities her son re-
ceived telephone call from a woman
about O'Clock Monday night and that
he Immediately began to dress. explain
ing that he was going on a party up
the river"
William Hurlebaus, proprietor of a
bakery beneath the Jets fiat. said Jet
came into his shop shortly before s
o'clock. told him he was going on
party and a few moments later got into
a large sedan occupied by four women
and drove away.
The man was not heard from again
until Charles c. Jett 1876 Irving street,
an employe at the Hub Furniture Co.,
went to Rockville undertaking estab-
lishment yesterday and identified the
body Of man run over by street car
at Glen Echo as that of his brother
Wilmer
Charles Jett said today he believes
his brother was probably killed in a
fight at the party and was laid on the
tracks to conceal the manner of his
death.
Identification Card Gone.
He said he also believed an effort was
made to cover up his brothers identity,
for a pocketbook in which he carried
his Identification card could not be
found, although Wilmer always carried
it with him.
The elder Jett also declared he in
tended to accompany police on a tour
of cabins along the Potomac River
near Glen Echo today in an effort to
determine whether any of the river
shore cottagers could shed light on the
case.
Funeral services for Jett will be held
at the w. W. Chambers Co. funeral
home, 1400 Chaplin street. tomorrow aft
ernoon at 2 O'Clock and burial will be
in the Bethel Cemetery at Alexandria,
Va. his birthplace.
DR.. George E. Lewis Of Rockville,
acting coroner, issued a removal Ger
tiflcate late yesterday in order that the
family could claim the body and bring
it to Washington for burial, but re-
fused to issue a death certificate set
ting forth the manner in which Jet
died.
DR.. Lewis also suggested to Police
Chief ALIVE A. Monkey of Montgomery
County that coroner's jury be called
into the case.
The Rockville physician said the
body was so crushed that it was i'm
possible to determine at the autopsy
he performed the real cause of death.
Little Blood on Scene.
A suspicious circumstance, Dr. Lewis
declared, was that only a small guam
tity of blood was found on the scene,
and that most of the blood in the body
had CONCEALED. Ordinarily. he said,
person as badly mangled as Jet would
have lost huge quantity OF blood.
1t was also pointed out by the physi-
clan that the pockets of Jets trousers
were turned wrongside out when his
body was removed from beneath the
rear trucks of the street car, establish
ing the probability Of robbery motive.
However, four quarters were found In
his clothing.
Both Washington and Maryland de-
tectives and members Of the family
denied a report that notebook con-
tanning the names Of five married
women had been discovered In Jets
pOcket