Evening star., 1942-03-12
District Youth Held
After Admitting
Murder in Texas
Hitchhiker Also Talks
Of SIoying in Florida;
Sister Aids in Arrest

A mild hammered, bespectacled
youth who tells story of killing
men in Texas and Florida was held
without formal charge in first
precinct cell today after his sister
arranged his surrender, police re-
ported.
Detectives from Dallas, Tex, were
on their way here to question the
prisoner, Raymond Stanley Nc
Pherson. %, who gave an address in
the 1000 block of Thirty-seventh
street NV. They are investigating
the death of Rudolph Canan, a
motorist whose body was found by
the roadside outside Dallas. Yester-
day three other persons, two of them
young women, were arrested for this
crime. Washington police were in
formed.
Talks Of Miami Staying.
Young Mcpherson admits this
killing and talks very vaguely
about another Staying in Miami,
police here asserted. Miami au-
thorities reported they have no
known unsolved murders-but de-
tectives are expected to come north
to investigate.
! Three headquarters detectives
placed the youth under arrest late
Tuesday. it was revealed. and he
has been undergoing questioning by
relays of police officers since.
His arrest was dramatic, accord
ing to the police account.
A phone call came to them from
his 25-year-old sister, Miss Virginia
Mcpherson of 44l6 Forty-second
street NV. She said her brother
had just returned to Washington
and declared that he was carrying
a gun. She feared he was in
trouble"
She arranged for Detective Sergts
Thomas Nally, R. E. Talbot and
]. J. Tolson to go to the lobby of
a Wisconsin avenue theater.
Goes in After Brother.
Her brother, she knew, was inside
She went in and persuaded him
to come out and give his gun to
the detectives. 1t was following this
that he blurted out-police say
the story of two killings
Young Mcpherson answered the
description of a man whom police
were seeking to question about the
holdup of filling station here on
February "a. detectives said.
1t was after this date, they said
that Mcpherson went on a hitch
hiking swing which carried him to
Texas and back through Florida
to Washington
The Miami shooting of which he
tells did not take place on this trip
however, but about a year ago, de-
tectives reported.
1t was about one week ago that
he was picked up in Tulsa. Okla, by
a motorist bound for Dallas, Nc
Pherson was quoted as saying. He
shot the driver as he stepped out OF
the car to stretch, somewhere near
the Oklahoma-TeXas line, according
to the police version Of his story.
Dumped Victim From Car.
He pulled the still living mar
back into the car and took tn,
wheel, police went on. But "gurglins
sounds from the victim proved S,
unpleasant that he dumped him ou
about 40 miles from Dallas, tn,
story continues, and he drove OF
alone.
In Dallas he stopped at comfor
station to change clothes, leavin.
bloody trousers behind him, tn,
police account continued, and late
he abandoned his victims auto anc
started hitch-hiking toward Miami
A check of records showed that
Raymond Mcpherson has served i
months in reformatory at Hunt
ingdon, Pa. police reported. Thi
followed period Of probation on
forgery conviction. The probation
was revoked after a suspended sen
!, tence for auto theft was imposed.