Evening star., 1935-11-13
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often in the company of Tear and
Miss Loring. Lojacono said yesterday
he is anxious to give police every
possible assistance.
Tear also is standing by to CO.
operate with the investigation. Itze
eliminated Tear and Hampton as sus
poets in the case after establishing
the fact that their alibis were in gooc
order
A coincidence in the murder mys-
terry Is the fact that Miss Loring's
funeral is set at the same hour as
that of her uncle, Jacob Van Allen
SO, a retired Army enlisted man. who
died from heart attack and shock Sat-
urday night after learning that his
niece had been brutally slain. Van
Allen lived at 1854 Oates street north
east.
Van Allen Autopsy Denied.
1t was denied emphatically, both
by authorities in Washington and
those in charge of the investigation
here. that an move had been made
for an autopsy in Van Aliens death.
Typical of the wild rumors which
have swept Mount Rainier since tie
murder was report relayed to police
this morning that Corinna Loring S
body had been removed from its caskat
and a substitution made
Policeman George Giddens of the
Mount Rainier force went to the
Hyattsville undertaking parlor and
verified the fact that the body was still
there The story was no more fantastic
than scores of others which police have
tracked down.
Investigation Complicated.
Itzel, who broke" the Brady bomb
murders at Seat Pleasant in 1880, was
called in on the case Monday after
noon. The earlier Investigations were
carried on by Prince Georges County
police from Hyattsville and the Mount
Rainier Offices. The division of au
thority added new complication TO
the riddle now in the hands of Itzel.
The clues found on the body and at
the scene of the murder already had
been submitted for examination when
Itzel took charge of the case. The
Baltimore detective had difficulty es-
tablishing just what had been found,
when the discoveries we're made and
who made them.
This task was involved further by
the fact that hundreds of curiosity
seekers and amateur sleuths had been
over the ground prior to Itzel's ar
rival. They had tramped through the
thickets, searched the leaves and
underground, collected souvenirs and
various articles which they felt might
have bearing on the case.
Itzel Views Murder Scene.
When Itzel went to the scene yester-
day, he found only hard-packed earth
and trampled bushes at the spot where
the body was discovered He was &C
companied to the scene by Ed Fletcher,
O resident of the vicinity, who made
the gruesome find while exercising his
rabbit dogs.
ItZel was unable to say whether
Miss Loring had been murdered on
the spot or her body brought there
after death. Bloodstains found on
the ground Saturday and the presence
of the girls trampled wristwatch and
earrings indicated she died on the
spot following struggle.
Deep incisions at opposite points
on her forehead convinced police the
body had been dragged some distance
with a metal instrument, such as a
pair of ice tongs.
Cord Is Scrutinzed.
Rabbit hunters who had run their
dogs through the thickets almost
daily were convinced the body could
not possibly have been In place more
than "A hours.
The cord about the girls throat is
being compared with another section
of twine found in the basement of
the Loring home.