Evening star., 1935-12-02
Man With Scratched Face
Reported Seen in
Salem, N. c.
"FAN MAIL CLUES" ARE
INVESTIGATED ALSO
Redmond Further Eliminated
as Suspect in Murder of Girl.
Reward Is Considered.
BACKGROUND

Loring, rs, public stenoorapher,
disappeared from her Mount Rdiner
home. TiDo days later she ,pds to
haze ped Richard Tear, hospital
attendant. On Saturday. November
9. her battered body iDds found In
nearby moods. Dozens of witnesses
hare been questioned, many clues
jollotDed, but not epen q motipe has
been established for the crime. Lat
est suspect, a seromanidc, Uds
cleared of suspicion last saDeek. Case
under direction OF Lieut.. Hzel, Bal
timore detective.
The trail of the murderer of Corinna
Loring may lead to q North Carolina
town, 1t was reported at Upper Marl-
boro today.
Receipt of information that q man
who quit his job at the Washington
Navy Yard, after appearing for work
with a scratched face about the time
Miss Loring disappeared, had been
seen in Salem, N. c., led Prince
Georges authorities to arrange to
send a man there tonight, according
to the report.
This afternoon all the Investigators
in the case left Marlboro, with the
statement they were going to run
down fan mail" This task will take
them to Washington and several
county towns, and will require sew
eral house. States Attorney Alan
Bowie said.
Bowie explained the effort to find
out whether those who have written
the fan letters" offering tips on the
Staying really have any important in
formation Is part of the police plan
to clean up the loose ends of the
case"
Seek Scratched Face"
Police have been looking for sew.
eral weeks for q man with a scratched
face answering the description of the
suspect reported in North Carolina.
Investigators Of the murder had
little tangible in their possession
when they opened the fourth week
Of their probe this morning.
Over the week end there were no
developments, according to States
Attorney Bowie. except the further
elimination of Victor Harrison Red
mond as suspect through an
nouncement that stains found in his
automobile were not caused by blood.
Redmond is in Jail at Marlboro on
a charge of attempting to assault a
9-year-old Mount Rainier girl on the
street last Sunday. The prisoner, a
42-year-old Washington restaurant
manager, has consistently denied all
connection with that case or the
Loring mystery.
Bowie said he spent Sunday study
ing testimony already collected, and
as a result wants to requestion some
Of those already interviewed. Lieut..
Joseph Itzel and Sergt. Leo Vogel-
sang, Baltimore detectives assigned to
the case, studied other parts of the
written transcript in the hope of find
ing a lead"
Reward Considered.
With the police apparently getting
nowhere, the Mayor and Council of
Mount Rainier is scheduled to con-
slider the question of offering a reward
again at its meeting tonight. AS
authorities Of the town in which the
murdered girl lived, they are anxious
TO do everything in their power to
nelp solve the mystery of her death.
In view of the failure to charge
any one with the crime after three
weeks Of the most intensive police
investigation ever carried on in
Prince Georges County, many believe
the case will go down in the annals Of
unsolved mysteries along with that
Of Mary Baker, Virginia Mcpherson
and Beulah Limerick.
Mayor Norman A. Pruitt and most
of the coarncilmen, however, expressed
confidence In the ability Of Lieut..
Itzel and his aides to break" the
case eventually.
Reports of new attempted attacks
on women and girls In the streets of
Mount Rainier were attributed by
town oficials today to "hysteria. I"
One said:
This town is no different from any
other. and only hysteria can account
for reports Of more attempted attacks
IN the last three weeks than in the
previous IS years."