Evening star., 1944-09-30
Murder
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property. He has been questioned
since that time.
Mrs. Fitzwater left her residence
a rooming house in the 300 block
OF H street NV. where she was en-
ployed as housekeeper, shortly after
2 pm. Saturday. She called on
Miss Martha Phipps, 1899 B street
Sc, who is engaged to marry Mrs.
Fitzwater's son, Chester, "a. now
serving with the Army in England.
After learning that Miss Phipps
recently had received a letter from
Pvt. Fitzwater. the 63-year-old
widow left, saying she was going to
meet friend in downtown Wash
ington, Miss Phipps said.
Mrs. Fitzwater later was reported
seen in a waterfront sea food res
taurant with marine many years
her junior. She also was served cof-
fee-still with a youthful marine
in the Hot Shoppe restaurant at the
Virginia end of the Fourteenth
Street Highway Bridge. not far from
the spot where her body was found.
Her clothes were found scattered
over a wide area along the bank of
the Pentagon Lagoon. A small felt
hat which she was known to have
been wearing was found several days
later by Navy personnel unsuccess-
fully dragging the lake for the
murder weapon
FBI investigators meticulously
searching the area for clues, DIS
covered blood stains on one of the
planks Of the crude raft on which
Holmes mounted his shanty. Holmes
never satisfactorily explained the
presence Of the blood-literally on
his doorstep. Scrapings of the dried
blood were taken by FBI agents for
chemical analysis, but the results
Iof these tests have not been an
nounced and spokesman for the
FBI has parried all questions re-
garding it with mo comment
Accused Held Without Bond.
After his arraignment today
Holmes was remanded to the Gus.
tody OF United States marshals and
taken to the District Jail, where he
is held without bond. The case was
continued by Mr.. Turnage to Oc-
tober II, at the request of FB]
agents.
Holmes was brought into Mr.
Turnage's Office by two FBI agents
He was not handcuffed at that time
and carried in his arms a bundle
containing pair of hip boots and
a raincoat. He sat quietly in an
anteroom, smoking cigarette, while
arraignment papers were made out
by the commissioner.
When the Commissioner asked
him if his name was Gardner Tyler
Holmes, the man replied that it was
but that he had been known as
Pop" for so long that everybody
had forgotten his Christian names
He joked with the deputy marshal
to whom he was handcuffed after
his arraignment.
Talked Very Little.
Holmes was known to his CO.
workers at the Tom Thumb Res
taurant as an tive
person. He talked little about his
past. The consensus among other
employees of the eating place was
that "he was kindly old man" The
customers liked him, it was said.
Occasionally, however, Holmes was
given to surly moods" During these
periods, employees said, he would in
sist on finishing whatever he was
doing and refuse to wait on custom
ers in the restaurant until the Job at
hand was completed.
He had worked at the restaurant
about six weeks, according to the
waitress whom he relieved at 5
o'clock every afternoon. He also had
worked at the place once before
when the restaurant was under diff
ferent management. No one seemed
to know what he had been doing in
the interim.