Evening star., 1941-06-23
Police Probe
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cover the following five specific
points:
81. Whether the force is made
ouate.
2. Whether it is efficient.
"3. Methods used by the Detective
Bureau and particularly its homi-
eide squad in criminal investiga-
tions.
a. Whether the Detective Bureau
Is properly equipped with modern
scientific devices used in criminal
Investigations.
3. Whether men appointed to the
force are properly trained before
being placed on the streets"
Several of the veteran members
OF the committee, it was reported
recalled some of the disturbing re-
suits OF the two last investigations
conducted by special subcommittee
OF the District Committee.
One, about eight years ago. in
volved the Police Department. The
other, two years ago, was supposed
10 nave concerned the milk situa-
tlon here, but ran into other chan
nels as a result of the use of dicta-
phones to trap" a clerk of the in
vestlgating subcommittee suspected
OF revealing advance information
10 outsiders concerned with the in
quiry.
Investigation Pressed.
Meanwhile, the super-suuad of Is
detectives assigned to the Strieff
case doubled back on their investi-
cation in the hope of finding some
clue they had overlooked in their
Initial work during the first few
hours after the 23-year-old War
Department workers nude BODY was
discovered in a garage in the 17OO
block OF @ street NV. Capt. Ira E.
Keck, acting chief of detectives
frankly admitted to reporters that
enorts to trace the murderer were
at a standstill.
The investigation was extended
today to the activities of a 25-year-
old colored man who police were
holding for an assault on a 42-year-
OLD white woman in the 1900 block
OF 1 street NV. about 5 am. today.
The woman was treated at Casualty
Hospital for bruises to her face.
Two Possible New Leads.
Two possible new leads in the
Strlen case appeared yesterday.
One was the arrest of 24-year -old
colored man after on attack, ac-
cording to police, on a 35-year- -old
colored woman in an alley in the
rear of the 400 block of N street
NV.
Police said the man had been
unable to establish his whereabouts
the afternoon Miss Strieff vanished.
He claimed, they said, that he was
at home that day, but no one had
been found who would substantiate
the alibi.
The second lead was a blood
stained sheet discovered in an alley
IN the rear of the 1900 block of P
street NV, near the garage where
MISS Strleff's body was left. 1t was
wrapped tightly in soiled paper, and
pedestrian said he saw a man drop
the package and then hurry away.
Efforts will be made to check laundry
marks on the sheet.
Traced to Delicatessen.
The week-long investigation has
ralled Miss Strieff as far as a deli
catessen in the 1900 block of Florida
avenue NV, where she is believed
to have purchased stick of butter.
One witness has related that she
saw some one who answered the
girls description enter a double
parked automobile in front of the
store and that the car drove avav
toward Eighteenth street, but there
the trail ends.
Police are undecided whether Miss
Strieff was pulled into a hallway and
attacked or whether she accepted
q ride in an automobile driven by
her murderer. Residents in the
neighborhood of the delicatessen
have been found who said they saw
her walking toward the store, while
others reported they saw her gel
out of car.