Evening star., 1935-11-14
Husband Also Questioned by
ItzeI, PIumer and Bowie.
Reports of. Mysterious
Phone Call Tracked Down.
SEVERAL ARE ELIMINATED
AS PRINCIPAL SUSPECTS
Baltimore Ace Denies Two New
Arrests Are Imminent-Hair
Discovered on Coat Found to Be
That of Victim Herself-Cord
Link Not Yet Established.

The mother of the murdered Corinna
Loring, who was the last known per-
son to see the 26-year.old bride-elect
alive. was being questioned by police
this afternoon for the first time since
the body of her daughter was found
Saturday in a clump of pines about
a quarter of mile from the Loring
home at 3l10 Beech street, Mount
Rainier, Md.
The mother. Mrs. Frances Lorlng,
was questioned in the little white cot
tage from which Corinna disappeared
SO mysteriously shortly after o'clock
on the night of November 4.
Lieut.. Joseph Itzel of the Baltimore
homicide squad, who has broken"
Numerous murder mysteries through
out Maryland in recent years, entered
the Loring home shortly after
o'clock, accompanied by States At
torney Alan Bowie of Prince Georges
County, Police Chief Eugene Plumer
of Mount Rainier and two other Of
ficers.
Husband to Be Quizzed.
Itzel expected to question Mrs.
Loring and her husband, George A.
Loring. who had been stationed at
Cambridge, Md. for the past several
years, where he has been employed in
the State Highway Department.
With Mr.. and Mrs. Loring at the
time were their daughter, Mrs. Flor
ence Lo Jacono; their son, Frank Lor-
ing, an Army enlisted man, and
Richard Tear. 90. an attendant at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital and Corlnna S
fance.
Police, meanwhile, tracked down re-
ports Of a mysterious" telephone call
received by a member OF Corinna's
family in Massachusetts,, where the
murdered girl had visited. The calls
came two days after Corinna had dis
appeared and were at first thought
to have been from an anonymous
source. A woman had Historically
asked the relatives in Massachusetts,
If Corinna had arrived, saying the
girl was on the way.
1t was learned this afternoon, how
ever. that members of the Loring
family made the calls while they were
convinced that Corinna was a victim
of amnesia and had wandered away
from her home.
Before leaving his headquarters at
Upper Marlboro for Mount Rainier,
Lieut.. Itzel had stated that several
persons who heretofore have been the
chief suspects have been eliminated
u: tho innIIiT-u
had reached the end of blind alley
as far as these unnamed pereons were
concerned.
Police had deferred questioning Mrs.
Ioring until after her daughters fu-
neral yesterday afternoon because OF
the mothers extremely nervous con-
dition. The Loring cottage probably
will be given routine examination In
hope of turning up some clue which
the family has overlooked.
Persistent and apparently we'll
founded rumors that at least two new
arrests are imminent was fatty de-
MED today by Lieut.. 1tzel.
Another possible clue was eliminated
last night when Lieut.. Itzel revealed
that a microscopic examination iden-
titled hair found on the coat of the
dead girl as her own. The eXamina-
ton was made by Robert w. Hicks. an
employe of the District government,
who has spent the last 10 years study
ing the science of criminal detection.
Hicks came to the headquarters of
the crime investigation in the Marl-
boro Court House last night to report
his findings to Lieut.. Itzel and Bowie,
who had turned over the clues to
Hicks.
Cord Link Not Yet Made.
Police said they had not yet learned
whether length of cord found in the
Loring home was identical with the
twine found wrapped about the throat
of the strangled girl when her body
was discovered Saturday afternoon in
a clump of pines about a quarter of
mile from the Loring residence.
Lieut.. Itzel was particularly anxious
to learn if the cord had been broken
or merely cut with knife.
Tear, who was to have married Miss
Loring in Washington last Wednesday,
came to the court house here after
the funeral yesterday to be questioned,
along with members of his fiance's
family. These latter included Mrs.
Lo Jacono, her husband, Leo, fellow
attendant Of Tears at st. Elizabeth's;
the murdered girls brother, Frank,
and one Of Tears brothers.
Lieut.. Itzel and Bowie we're closeted
with members of the family for more
than four hours last night. When
the interviews were concluded, Itzel
frankly confessed they had furnished
him with no definite leads to work
on. 1t seemed that none of those
interrogated knew of any one who
might have a grudge against Corinna
Loring.
Had No Other Man Friends.
Members of the Loring family con-
firmed Tears previous statement that
Corinna mad no other man friends
and that Tear was free of entangle-
ments and had no girl friends who