Evening star., 1948-02-29
By Chalmers .Ma Roberts

f1deDeTle, SlAlu Navy training llltI
expert, may have been the victim
Of a casual friend who intended to
rob, but not to kill him.
This appeared to be the most
likely angle tonight to the riddle Of
who trussed up the Falls Church
(va.) resident in his Manhattan
Hotel room late Tuesday night and
caused him to smother.
Police, after searching for man
seen entering Mr.. Haeberle's room
Tuesday night more than IA hours
before his body was found, were
considering the unintentional mur.
der theory. Intensive search Of the
city's bars. taverns and roominf
houses, especially those in mid-Man.
haitian, has failed to turn up the
man who Is believed to have known
Mr.. Haeberle before he went to his
room.
Police feel reasonably certain thai
more than one man was in Haeb.
erle's room when he was tied up ir
Chinese torture knot fashion-his
feet bound, his hands tied behind
his back and the two bonds tiec
together with a strip of torn bed
sheet with a loop passed around hi
neck.
May Have Died While Being Trusset
But Mr.. Haeberle may have dice
while one killer forced his face Into
/ the bed, cutting of the air supply
while his confederate was still busy
tying up the victim, police theorize
One of the so detectives assigned
to the case was back in New Yori
tonight after trip to Washington
to check into Mr.. Haeberle's past ir
search for clues. He is Detective
Thomas Herman and he would say
only that friends and acquaintance!
in the Capital had all spoken vel
of the former Navy lieutenant.
Still missing are Mr.. Haeberle's
gold wrist watch, engraved with ar
inscription from firm for which he
once worked, his wallet with $50 anc
fountain pen with the initials
"A. K. NJ"
HaeberIe's Movements Outlined.
Putting together the various stories
told by those who saw Mr.. Haeberle
In New York before he died, the fol-
lowing hour-to-hour schedule is ar
ranged:
Tuesday:
Noon-Mr. Haeberle arrived al
Pennsylvania Station from Wash.
ington, intending to stay in New
York until late Friday.
p.m.-He arrived at the ofiice OF
Edward B. Lamm, head OF the
Pathescope Co., one of the four fllm
concerns he expected to do business
with for the Navy on his trip to New
York Zone of the four Is located In
Princeton, N. j., and probably was to
have been visited in day trip out
of New York;
l to 5:30-Mr. Haeberle and Mr..
Lamm conferred in the latter,s Of
flee, $50 Fifth avenue.
6 pm.-Mr. Haeberle checked In
at the Henry Hudson Hotel at 35a
West Fifty-seventh street, on the
western extremity of the stylish
Fifty-seventh street shopping and
apartment section. The area to the
west and south includes tenements
and third-rate bars.
NJ 1ff. Haeberle's, bag was carried te
1sfiH room by bellhop Joseph Stingt
who turned on the lights and opened
the window in what was to become
the death room-number SAL.
Dimes With Businessman.
$50 p.m.-Haeberle arrived at the
Office of John S. Martin, head of the
General Film Production Co., at 1901
Broadway. They had arranged tt
talk business at dinner and Mr.
Haeberle was to have returned tt
Mr.. Martins office Friday to picl
up Aim to take back to the Navy
film laboratory at Anacostia where
he worked.
7-9:45 p.m.-Mr. Haeberle and Mr.
Martin dined at Lindy's. They dis.
cussed business and their families
each had visited in the others home
They talked about the recruiting
Aim Mr.. Martin is making to stimu'
late Navy enlistments. Each hae
two drinks. Mr.. Martin picked ul
the check.
Mr.. Haeberle and Mr.. Martir
parted on the corner of Broadway
and Fiftieth street. Mr.. Mart1r
knew the time well for he had K
catch a cohimuter train to his SUI
burban home at Massapequa OF
Long Island. As Mr.. Martin turnee
to 90 down q subway entrance. he
noticed that Mr.. Haeberle turned
south on Broadway although his
hotel was in the opposite direction
Action Called Odd.
"It struck me odd at the time,
Mr.. Martin recalled, but ! wouldn't
have given it a second thought II
this hadn't happened"
10 pm Mr.. Haeberle arrived al
his hotel, 10 blocks from Lindy's
about 10 minutes If you walk. less
by taxi Before his return, how
ever, IlG CCulO lldVC ihCo oAA o1S
acquaintance, perhaps from the
Navy, on the street.
II pm.-The hotel detective, Ar
thur Baer, was told by the bell cap
tain that a suspicious looking man
had gone up to the fifth floor. He
was suspicious because he was
wearing a red and black striped
woolen mackinaw jacket, blue
denim trousers, black shoes, a bat
tered gray fedora hat. Mr.. Baer went
up with the bell captain and found
the man in the corridor near Mr.
Haeberle's room. The bell captain
fell behind as Mr.. Baer walked to-
ward the man. Mr.. Baer heard
some one say:
"Hello-long time no see"
Words May Have Been Haeberleis.
He thinks the words came from
inside the room (Mrs. Haeberle
later told police her husband might
well use such an expression. The
words may have been spoken by
the stranger, however.
The door was slightly ajar, the
stranger entered, the door closed
THE hotel doors have spring locks