Evening star., 1933-04-05
BODY OF SLAIN MAN
FOUND IN MACHINE
Victim Apparently Shot After
Calling on Gfl-Body
Moved From Scene.

The body Of Charles W. Martin, 80
Of Tuxedo, Md, was found today in an
abandoned automobile on Chapel road
Fairmont Heights, Nd, apparently the
victim of murder.
The body was found by two colored
men, Andrew and Joseph Harrison, oi
Fairmont Heights, who notified police
Martin had BEEN Wshot through the
right temple, the bullet emerging
through the left side of his head and
lodging in his hat.
The victim, an employe Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, apparently had been
shot elsewhere and brought to Fairmont
Heights in his automobile. The car
was begged down deep in mud and the
murderer apparently left 1t there after
failing to extricate It,
His face covered with blood, Martin
was slumped on the right front seat
Of his small coach, his hat lying ON
the drivers seat with the bullet In 1t.
Blood was smeared over the right run
ming board and apron Of the car, and
splashed over the seats and floor.
Called Upon Girl.
Martins mother Mrs. Frederick Mar
tin, with whom he has lived since the
death of his wife last September, said
he had left home yesterday evening to
visit friend, Mary Dawson, about 27,
who lives about half up the River
road (Kenilworth avenue extended
She said he had left the girls home
about IL o'clock to return home, but
never reached there
Mary came over this morning after
hearing about Charles and told me he
had been there at the same time as
another man, friend Of Mary's," said
Mrs Martin, "the other man left about
10 minutes before Charles, but Charles
never came home"
Martins mother, worried about his
absence, had stayed home from work
this morning In an effort to find trace
OF him. She became hysterical when
police notified her he had been shot,
Mrs Martin and daughter, Nettie,
work in laundry in Kenilworth, and
Martins father, Frederick, and brother
Robert, are employees of the railroad.
The father Is section foreman and
Charles recently had obtained work.
Police Question Two.
The Dawson girl and a man were
brought to Prince Georges County
police station in Hyattsville, for ques-
tton1ng. They were closeted with police
until after l o'clock. An autopsy was
ordered by Magistrate Thomas B. Grit
nth for o'clock at the Ritchie Under
taking Parlor, Ritchie, Md, DR.. j. I.
Boyd, Forestville, Md, was to perform
the autopsy. An inquest was ordered
for pm. Friday at Upper Marlboro.
Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, chief Of
the metropolitan police homicide squad.
went to Fairmont Heights upon learning
of the murder and assisted Maryland
State Policeman ]. c. Gates, assigned
to Capitol Heights. They learned the
car had been driven to the point where
1t was found, some time after midnight,
Joseph Harrison having reported the car
was not there at IL o'clock.
No gun was found and the keys to
the car we're missing. There was dent,
which police said looked like a bullet
mark, in the rear Of Martins car.
Reconstructing the tragedy, police ex-
pressed the belief that Martin had been
shot while half way out Of the car, de-
claring the quantity of blood could not
have been spilled on the running board
otherwise.
Martin, before the death Of his wife,
lived at Cockeysvilie. Nd, where he was
q fireman on the railroad.