Evening star., 1935-11-28
WASHINGTON MAN,
HELD ON WARRANT,
FACES LOR|NG QUIZ
Arrested in Baltimore on
Attempted Assault Charge
at Mount Rainier.
MISSING HAT SOUGHT
AS NEW SLAYING CLUE
Prisoner Identified as Victor Il.
Redmond-No Direct Link to
Murder Case Found.
BACKGROUND

crime, pOLtce nate TeDedIeG LlLLte
progress in SolDing mystery OF tpho
killed Corinnd Loring, public ste
roorapher. Expecting to med Rich
ard Tear, hospital attendant, No
pember 6, Miss Loring disappeared
from Mount Rainier home on night
of November 4, pds found dead tn
nearby moods on November 9. Tear
and Aubrey Hampton, former
suitor, held for questioning and
released. Members of family, many
others questioned later.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Novem-
ber 28.-A Washington resident ar
rested in Baltimore early today on
warrant charging attempted assault on
q 12-year-old Mount Rainier girl was
brought to Marlboro today for ques-
tioning in connection with the murder
of Corinna Loring, 26-year-old bride
elect.
The man, seized in Baltimore about
4 am. as he slid down the rain spout
of his fathers home, was identified as
Victor Harrison Redmond, AZ, of the
5000 block of Piney Branch road,
counter man at lunch room in the
1000 block of Georgia avenue.
Lieut.. Joseph Itzel of the Baltimore
police force who is in charge of the
Loring murder investigation here, was
questioning Redmond in an effort to
learn if he knows anything about the
death of Corinna Loring. As far as is
known there is no direct tie between
Redmond and the Loring case.
Convicted Twice.
Redmond was convicted twice in
Washington Police Court in recent
years, once in 1881 for a simple as
sault on a girl and previously in 1927
on a charge of indecent exposure.
A man answering Redmond's gen
eral description was said to have at
tempted four assaults on young Mount
Rainier girls since the flrst instance
reported to police on october Is, a
little more than a week before Corinna
Loring vanished from her home at
3110 Beech street. Mount Rainier.
Investigators said they took police
photograph of Redmond to the Loring
home several days ago, and Corinna's
mother, Mrs. Frances Loring, said 1t
looked like a man who did some paint
ing at the home some time ago. Mrs.
Loring was uncertain that the paint
er's name was Redmond" but ex-
planned she was under that impression.
Immediately after Redmond was
brought here, he was closeted in the
Office of States Attorney Alan Bowie
with Lieut.. Itzel and Sergt. Leo Vogel-
sang of the Baltimore Detective Bu-
reau.
The warrant on which Redmond
was arrested charges assault and bat
tery on the girl in Mount Rainier last
Sunday afternoon.
Redmond probably will be con-
fronted by persons who saw sus-
picious- looking stranger leave Saddle
back Ridge in an automobile shortly
after the Loring girls beaten and gar
Groted body was found there Saturday
afternoon, November 9.
\ Missing Hat Sought.
Investigators said today they were
searching for a missing hat which
Corinna Loring had worn frequently
Just prior to her disappearance on the
night Of November 4. Location of the
hat might give some clue to the girls
movements between the time she van
ished from her home and the time Of
her murder.
The hat, described as dark blue,
almost black, has not been seen since
the girls disappearance. Detectives
said they believe she wore the hat
the night she left home and that it
probably was dropped at the spot
where she was killed.
Prince Georges County authorities
lost no time putting in a bid for
custody of Redmond as soon as word
Of his arrest was received here. Itzel
asked that Redmond be sent here
at once and Sergt. Ralph Brown Of
the Hyattsville police went before a
police magistrate in Baltimore to ar
range for the mans transfer to this
county.
Brown and Chief J. j. Crowley of the
Prince Georges police brought him
here at II am.
Prisoner Silent.
I'VE are very much interested in
talking to this man." ItZel said.
Whether the Loring investigators
would be more successful than Balti-
more police in obtaining information
from Redmond was problematical.
He stolidly refused to answer all ques-
tions put to him after his arrest.
Early today police squad went to
the Redmond home in Baltimore.
They surrounded the house and two
officers raped on the door. A woman
responded, they reported, and denied
that the man sought was there. They
started a search of the house, but were
unable to find him.
The police outside the house, how
ever, heard a noise on the roof, and,
investigating, found Redmond sliding
down a rainspout. He landed in their
arms.
An inspection of the house, police
said, indicated that Redmond, fully
clothed, had been sleeping on a first
floor couch when they arrived.
A native of Baltimore, Redmond has
lived in Washington since he was 6
years old. Redmond had been in
Baltimore since last Sunday. accord
ing to his father, James e. Redmond.
p. A. Maccarone, sign painter, of
1921 New York avenue, Washington,
one of Corinna's most intimate friends,
came here late yesterday at the re-
quest Of Lieut.. Itzel to tell Of the |
search he helped to conduct for Mis- |