Evening star., 1938-06-21

Thirteenth street northwest, Washing
ton, young employe in Ewald's Drug
Store at North Beach told county
and State officers the man and woman
got into the rear seat of a blue sedan
with District license tags and drove
of with another couple after their
fight attracted attention of passersby
He noticed the affair particularly
because, he said. the fat, nearly-b bald
man stopped to pull up his whits
trousers between each swing of his
fists as he hit the woman several
times on the face and head while they
stood beside the car. The woman. he
added, held her hands down as if to
ward off blows from her abdomen. q
TACT considered possibly significant by
investigators since the autopsy showed
the woman normally would have given
birth to son in four or five months
Taken by States Attorney Dowel,,
Corpl, Charles w. Magaha of the
Maryland State Police and Mr.. Duke
to view the body late last night,
Browning told them it might be the
same woman, but he could not say
definitely.
May Ask d. c. Police Aid.
This development is another cir
tumstance to be considered in our
investigation of the case" Mr.. Dowell
said. indicating Washington police
may be asked to help trace the
fat man.
Corpl. Magaha left early today for
Baltimore to consult with Capt. Ed
ward McKim johnson of the State
police about the case and to take con-
tents Of the woman's stomach to DR..
Howard A. Maldeis, Baltimore City
post-mortem physician, for analysis.
1t was thought he might go to Wash
lngton later in the day to check with
the Missing Persons Bureau there.
The woman's lips and part of her
cheeks had been eaten away, appar-
emily by turtles, while she lay in the
water, but authorities believed she
could be identified easily by relatives
or close friends
AiS why OC11Cl Oll OOOY
were dozen superficial cuts about
her face and head, which were not
sufilcient to have caused death, in the
opinion of DR.. Jett and DR.. Everard
Briscoe, who assisted him in the
autopsy. There was no evidence Of
criminal assault and no bruises on the
body such as would have resulted had
she been struck by an automobile. The
cuts apparently were inflicted by a
piece Of sharp glass such as might
come from broken glass in an au<
tomobile accident, DR.. Jett added, but
he emphasized these cuts could not
have been responsible for death.
Suicide Is Doubted.
Unless analysis of her stomach dis
closes poison, DR.. Jett said he would
believe the woman had been smothered
or possibly strangled to death with a
heavy cloth around her neck that
would leave no marks. He did not
believe it likely she could have COM
mitted suicide and agreed with Mr..
Dowell, Deputy Sheriff Ernest w.
Rawlings and other Investigators that
the indications pointed to murder.
Mr.. Rawlings, acting sheriff in the
protracted illness of Sheriff M. M.
Buckler. said the most plausible the.
ory appeared to be that the woman
was killed and then thrown into the
creek from an automobile headed
toward Washington on the Southern
Maryland boulevard which is Travelled
heavily by Washingtonians going to
and from various beaches.
Her body was found floating be-
side the boulevard bridge over Lyons
Creek by two colored men, Richard
Gray and Vernon Ijams, as thew
walked along the road from a nearby
store yesterday morning.
Apparently the body had been
thrown there Sunday night. Omcers
were told two boys fished at the spot
Sunday afternoon without noticing
anything unusual. The body was 20
wedged among marshy growth In the