Evening star., 1941-06-22
Police Will Attempt
To Find Overlooked
Strieff Case Clue
Keck Says Investigators,
Bottled , Must Now
Retroee Their Steps
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Stymied by collapSing clues and
unable to discover a single lead from
almost a weeks investigation, police
disclosed last night they would start
all over again on the trail OF the
murderer of Jessie Elizabeth Strieh.
Going over the ground second
time, police hope to find something
they might have overlooked in their
search.
Capt. Ira E. Keck, acting chief OF
detectives, told reporters last night
police have checked everything that
might be expected to furnish a clue
to the murder. His supersquad of
Investigators. he said, had checked
almost every basement and trash
can between the slain girls apart
ment at 2110 Nineteenth street NV.
and the garage behind TIT @ street,
where her body was found. In addi-
ton. every one ia the neighborhood
has been questioned.
We'll just have to go back over
the whole thing again on the chance
We missed something" he declared.
Questioned and Released.
Latest in the long line of suspects
to be questioned and released was q
young Government employe who
came to police headquarters volun-
tarily last night. His only connec-
ton with the case was that he lives
in the same block in which the girls
body was found and he owned a
number of photographs described by
police as "arty."
His landlady had said he was
away from his room all last Sunday,
the day Miss Strieff met her death.
Questioning at headquarters es-
tablished the fact that the young
man and a friend had driven to
Mount Vernon before the rain Sum-
day and from there had gone to
Glen Echo, returning home at about
8 pm.
A possible clue disclosed by police
last night brought an unknown man
into the case. Capt. Keck told
reporters he had been told that
man had taken Miss Strieff on a
date three months ago. This man,
according to the story told Capt
Keck, had driven the 23-year-old
War Department employe to a vac
ant house where his attentions
annoyed her.
Never Went Out Again.
Miss Strieff. Capt. Keck said he
hod hanY, fa1I L.,
demanded to be taken home and
the man complied. She never went
out with the man again, Capt. Keck
said.
The detective chief explained that
the information had come to him
from friend of Miss Strieff, to
whom the girl had told the story.
She had not told the friend the
name of the man.
This is the first man to be mem
toned in connection with Miss
Strieff besides her fiance. with
whom she had spent almost every
evening for some months, accord
ing to friends.
Capt. Keck, however, is inclined
TO discount the theory that Miss
Strieff was criminally attacked and
murdered by any one she knew.
In his opinion, she was either pulled
into a hallway or cellar on her way
to or from the store where she
had gone to buy butter, or she
stepped into a car or taxicab to
escape the downpour which must
have caught her somewhere along
the way.
Il think the murderer was just a
flend and the storm played a big
part in it. He was just lucky that
nobody saw him." Capt Keck de-
clared. He certainly didn't plan
this. He just took chance and he's
gotten away with it up to now"
He also Il convinced on two other
(See MURDER, Page A-30