Evening star., 1943-06-02
CALLS PARLEY IN COAL STRIKE
Murder Case
Break Seen by
Tomorrow Night
Two Early Suspects
To Be Released,
Officials Indicate

A break by tomorrow night in
the slaylngs yesterday of A.
Morris Love, prominent Loudoun
County farmer and churchman;
his wife, son, tenant farmer and
the tenants wife, was seen as
possible today by Capt. Edward
McDermott, in charge of the Vir-
ginia State police investigating
the Slayings at the farm near
Purcellville.
While admitting that as vet he
had no definite line to go on, the
police captain said that I'VE get a
lot of false clues to run down. but
We also are getting something out
of it"
The captains prediction was the
first indication that investigators
Rave drawn anything but a complete
blank in their search for the person
or persons who yesterday morning
invaded the Love farm and killed
all five persons there:
Mr.. Love. So; his wife, Ruth Grubb
Love. So; their son. James, %;
Walter Russell 38. tenant on Mr..
Loves farm, and MI Russell's 28-
year-old wife, Catherine Russell.
Two to Be Released.
Meanwhile Commonwealth Attor-
hey Charles F. Harrison told re-
porters late in the afternoon that
the two colored men taken into Gus
tody Yesterday would be released
probably without further question:
ing. These were Johnny Parker
laborer, who had been discharged
by Mr.. Love only last week and a
man whose name authorities gave
as Raymond Lucas
A white man described only as
"midole-a aged man who had had pre-
Vlous dealings with Mr.. Love" ap-
parently was still being held by
authorities this afternoon.
Investigators are optimistic about
what they will learn from laborator
tests now being conducted in Wash
mgton, Mr.. Harrison indicated.
Ballistics and bloodstain. and pos
sloly f1ngerprint tests, are being
made on croquet mallet that was
used to bludgeon the victims. a hat
full of fired and unflred bullets COL
lected from the death scene, and
.22-caliber rife found near the body
of the tenant farmer.
Laboratory facilities of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation have
been turned over to Virginia author
tiles to assist them in solving the
Staying though FBI agents are not
going to work on the case.
DR.. Richard Rosenberg District
deputy coroner, was to conduct eX-
tenSive blood tests in an effort to
match blood samples taken from the
five victims.
Tests also were to made on
single strand of hair taken from
under the fingernails of one of the
suspects and on weapons collected at
the death scene.
Giving heretofore undisclosed de-
tails of the Staying Mr.. Harrison this
had apparently been attacked as he
entered the gate leading from the
barn lane to the yard of the house.
Mr.. Harrison said there we're blood
stains near the gate and blood stains
were also found on a lcafv weed
halfway between the steps leading to
the side porch and the yard gate.
Blood stains. described by Mr.. Har-
rison as big as nickel" were also
distributed over the steps. The last
splattering of blood was at the door
from the porch into the dining room.
Between the dining room door to
the younger Loves body, 10 feet
within the room, there were no blood
stains.
Mr.. Harrison said it was believed
that the youth had been bludgeoned
as he entered the gate and had been
shot in the dining room.
Footprints led the police to
another conclusion not previously
made public. Mr.. Harrison told re-
porters that in The confield behind
the barn was one row of corn along
which James had apparently gone
in thinning the corn. On either side
of it were Mr.. Russell's footprints.
The Russell footprints continued for
several more rows. but James foot
prints were followed by police from
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