Evening star., 1941-08-09

Tentatively Identifies
Suspect in Lineup
Picks Mon by His Voice;
Prisoner Accused Of
Post Assault Record
The 15-year-old girl criminally
assaulted Wednesday morning ir
Rock Greek Park today, at a specia
lineup at police headquarters, picked
out 34-year-old colored man, one
Of two new suspects arrested yes.
terday, and said she believed hi
was her attacker, although sht
could not be absolutely certain.
The man she selected. resident oi
the 400 block of r street NV. was
taken into custody yesterday as he
appeared for his pay al a construc.
ton job on the Colesville pike. be-
yond Silver Spring. Md. from which
he had been discharged the after
noon before the assault occurred.
The lineup, comprised of five mer
in addition to the suspect singled
out, was held in the detention room
in the rear of the regular line up
stage at headquarters to give the
girl an opportunity to inspect the
prisoners more closely.
Identified by Voice.
Dressed in a white linen dress and
large white hat, the victim, OBJ.
viously nervous and showing the
effects of minor scratches and poison
ivy blemishes resulting from the
attack, watched the men in the
lineup file by them asked, through
her father, Government official
who had accompanied her. that they
be made to repeat the phrases she
recalled from the attackers speech
When the suspect repeated Hush
up-if you tell on me. your friends
will Scorn you,' she called out, Hes
it,"
She later qualified her identified
ton however. by saying that. al
though the mans features, build and
speech reSembled the attacker more
than did those of any other sus-
pect she had seen. she could not be
absolutely sure of the identification
The girl also was shown samples
of the suspects handwriting police
reported were found in his room and
said they resembled the note bearing
an address which the attacker hao
handed her at the time he ap-
preached her Wednesday morning
asking her to direct him to that
location.
Has Prison Record.
Capt. Ira E. Keck. acting chief oi
detectives, reported the prisoner hao
denied he had a police record. bui
that it was learned he had beer
given a 15-year sentence for crimina.
assault on a 9-year- -old colored CIR
released from prison in 1899 after
serving 10 years of the sentence.
Capt. Keck also reported the
suspect denied he could write, but
when shown notes attributed to
him. admitted he could sign his
name. One of the notes was re-
quest to the paymaster Of the Mary
land construction job asking that
the money due him be sent to his
wife. He claimed. according to the
acting chief of detectives, that this
message had been written by his
wife.
Annie Stewart. Is. colored. of the
1400 block of Rock Creek Ford road
according to police, said the suspect
bore marked resemblance to the
man she saw wearing a sun helmet
and walking along a road near the
wooded area in which the attack
occurred between 6 and 7 pm. Tues
day.
Denies Owning Helmet.
Capt. Keck said the suspect denied
owning a sun helmet of the type
worn by the attacker and that none
could be found in his room, but that
police had located three witnesses
who said the man did have such a
helmet and that he wore it to work
on the construction job. A helmet
was found Wednesday near the
scene of the attack.
Police later learned that the man
picked out by the girl had been
arrested as a suspect by Montgomery
County (Mdo officers in an attack
on a soldier in Takoma Park last
Saturday night and that he was
wearing sun helmet at that time
Detective Sergt. George Cook, who
with Detective Sergts. M. B. Moore
and John Cation, arrested the mar
yesterday on a tip, reported they
had got from him an admission tha
he had gone to an address in thl
5000 block of New Hampshire ave
| nue. with his wife Wednesday after.
noon to investigate a janitor's jot
advertised in the newspapers.
He admitted further, according tt
Sergt. Cook, that the New Hamp.
shire avenue address had been writ.
ten on a piece of paper by his wife
His wife, the detective added, de.
MED she had written the address.
Father Offers Reward.
The assault victim recalled that
the piece of paper her attacker had
shown her had borne either a New
Hampshire or New Jersey avenue
address.
Capt. Keck said detectives would
check on the prisoners further abb