Evening star., 1935-11-10
Richard Tear in Custody
Without Charge at Mount
Rainier-GIove and Hair
Clues Investigated.
MISS LORING STRANGLED
BY SQUARE-KNOT CORDS
Victim Brutally Beaten About
Temples-Lifeless Form Found
Short Distance From Home.
Dragged From Murder Scene
Near Road Into Brush.
BY w. III. SHIPPEN, JR.

Discovery of the brutally garroted
body of Miss Corinna Loring, 26-year-
old ide-to-be, in lonely clump of
pines near her home, in Mount
Rainier Md. yesterday afternoon was
followed up late last night by the ar
rest of the murdered girls fiance,
Richard Tear. %. an attendant at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital.
Police Chief Eugene Plumer of
Mount Rainier locked up Tear after
taking him into custody at the home
of the murdered girl, 3ll0 Beech street.
where Tear had gone to help console
the bereaved parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George A. Loring.
No charges have been filed against
Tear, who once served in the Marine
Corps.
Police early this morning searched
his apartment. but reported they found
nothing suspicious"
Tear and Miss Loring were to have
married in Washington Wednesday
They had met four months ago and
had been engaged for at least half
that time.
The body was discovered shortly
after pm. about 100 yards from the
intersection of TWenty-eighth aid
Cedar streets, Mount Rainier.
Discovered Disappearance.
The murder, from the condition of
the body was believed to have occurred
shortly after the girl disappeared Mon
dow ,,johf u,hiIa ouojtjpo oan from,
Tear.
The bridegroom-elect said he went
to the home and found it empty. Tear
lives at 201 Charming street northeast
The fiance was arrested following an
autopsy completed shortly before mid
night at Hyattsville. The autopsy dis
closed that Miss Loring had been brut-
ally beaten about the temples with
some blunt instrument before she was
strangled, after terrific struggle, with
q cord and the tie strings of her coat.
A minute examination of the girls
clothing revealed dozens of long,
brownish-black human hairs under
her right coat sleeve. These will be
turned over to the Department of
Justice, which has developed a
method Of identifying hairs as def
nitely as fingerprints,
Temples Gashed Open.
The autopsy disclosed five or six
deep indentations on the girls left
arm, as if she had been bitten during
the death struggle. There were deep,
open wounds over Miss Loring'S tenn
piles.
Physicians said evidence showed
death was due to strangulation after
the beating. The autopsy required
more than two hours.
Police regarded as valuable clue
o mans glove found near the spot
where the body was discovered, along
with the murdered girls personal
Jewelry.
An inquest will be held early this
week after the investigation has i,ro-
gressed sufficiently to warrant hear
ing before the coroner's jury.
Body Near Road.
The body was found face up in a
clump of pines about a quarter of a
mile from the Loring cottage The
spot is only stones throw off
dirt road frequented at night by lovers
and in the daytime by rowing boys
and at this season, a few hunters.
The gruesome find was made by
Ed Fletcher. 5000 Cedar street, Mount
Rainier, who glanced at the upturned
face, saw the girl was beyond need
OF immediate aid and hastened to re-
port to Police Chief Plumer of the
Mount Rainier force.
Chief Plumer said his assistant,
George w. Giddings, responded. A
closer examination revealed that a.
cord and the tie strings of the girls
light blue coat had been knotted
tightly about her throat.
Tied in Square Knot.
The cord was of an ordinary wrap
ping type, made of twisted, heavy
paper, about an eighth of an inch
thick. 1t had been wound once
about the throat, drawn into a tight
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