Evening star., 1935-12-01
Residents Tell Police OF
Scene Involving Man in
Car Last Night.
PROBERS FEAR SLAYER
MAY STILL BE ACTIVE
Redmond Virtually Eliminated
After Grilling-To Recheck
Victims Finances.

rapher, disappeared from Mount
Rainier home THO days later SHE
,pds to hape Ded Richard Tear,
hospital attendant. On Saturday,
November 9, her gdrroted body iods
found in tpoods near home. Police
Investigation has been placed In
charge of Lieut.. Itzel, Baltimore
detective; dozens OF persons haze
been questioned, clues Investigated
but complete mystery still sur
rounds crime.
ey Stan Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Novem-
Der 30.-The theory that sex maniac
may be still at large in Mount Rainier
and have had some connection with
the murder of Miss Corinna Loring
was advanced by police probing that
month-old mystery. 49,
Chief of Police Eugene Plumer OF
that town advanced the theory as he
started an investigation Of a report
that a man known to local residents
had tried to force young woman into
his car at Thirtieth and Ash streets
tonight, a spot only two blocks from
the Loring home at 3110 Beech street
In support of the possibility that
the man may have been involved in
previous attempted street assault cases
in the town, Chief Plumer noted that
four high school girls failed to iden-
tify Victor Harrison Redmond, AZ
year-old Washington restaurant man.
ager, as the man who had made an
effort to force a young girl into his
car three weeks ago.
Redmond Theory Fails.
Police efforts to link Redmond with
the Loring case were all but aban-
doned today. The man is in fail here
on a charge of attempting to attack
. e-year-old Mount Rainier girl last
Sunday.
Lieut.. Joseph Itzel and sergt. Leo
Vogelsang, Baltimore detectives and
chief investigators in the case, ques-
toned Redmond almost two hours to-
day, but made no headway in regard
to connecting him with the garroting
Of the 26-year- public stenographer
whose body was found on Saddleback
Ridge, five blocks from her home,
three weeks ago.
Before they count Redmond COM
pletely "out of the picture" however,
they want to learn whether stains
found on the canvas top and seat COW
ers Of his coupe were made by blood
Lieut.. Robert w. Hicks, Washington
criminologist, who found the stains,
said 1t would take "a hours to deter
mine their nature.
Gloves which Hicks found in the
Redmond car were turned over to
Chief Plumer today. He said they
would not At Miss Loring.
Girl Sought for Story.
Chief Plumer said he would call on
Hicks early next week to examine the
car of another man who has been
regarded as having possible connec-
ton with the case.
Over the week end, Chief Plumer
also Is attempting to locate a girl
who, according to Tip" which the
chief regards as important, saw man
on the Loring porch the night of Mo-
vember 4, the date on which she dis
appeared.
Another phase Of the case which
will receive investigation when the
detectives return here from Balti-
more Monday will be a further probe
of Miss Loring's accounts in Washing
ton banks. Police are inclined to at
tach increasing significance to the
young woman's financial affairs as
they delve deeper into her murder.
Admitting the results of the three
week investigation of the case have
been more negative than positive and
developed nothing definite" States
Attorney Alan Bowie said that plans
for the fourth week would necessarily
follow the procedure used to date
running out all possible clues in the
hope Of getting a break"