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James admitted sexual gratif1ca-
ton" at the time he slashed her
throat.
Described Girl Accurately.
Police put stock In the fact that
James described Carol accurately,
even to the way her hair was
braided and pinned up on her head.
After the attack, James said a
white man and woman walked so
close to him he could have reached
out and touched them.
Later he walked out on the street,
where many cars were parked, and
returned to the freight yards.
Catching another freight, he reach
ed Baltimore about pm, he said.
Commenting the work of all
police. in breaking the case, Maj.
Barrett and Capt. Raspberry called
it "one of the most vicious known
to the city"
James stated that If he had not
been arrested he would have killed
more children" they added
The painstaking search police
made for blood stained clothing and
for several persons seen with blood
on their clothing was recalled when
James told police there was no blood
on him.
Baltimore Crime Re enacted.
Washington police began pumping
James last night, shortly after he
admitted the Baltimore murder and
re-enacted the crime at the scene.
In charge of the Interrogation were
Capt. Robert v. Murray, assistant
detective chief; 1t. Edgar Scott and
Detective Sergt. John L. Sullivan.
These three returned to Baltimore
today with Capt. Raspberry and
Detective Sergt. Walter Vogelsang,
an expert at taking confessions.
James arrest about IL hours after
the Brill girl was stabbed to death
was the product of routine police
work
Baltimore detectives checked their
files for likely suspects. James
record showed he was convicted in
1910 OF an assault on woman and
released from prison last December.
He was the second man picked up
for questioning.
James also was charged with
raping and robbing a 38-year-old
Baltimore housewife June Is.
Police said James took them to
q place where the woman's car
keys were hidden. They we're i'm
pressed by this development be-
cause the woman had not reported
the keys missing.
James, a janitor and gardener In
a Pimlico apartment house, lived
short distance from the sparsely
settled neighborhood where Marsha
Brill was attacked Tuesday.
Impressed by Similarity.
Similarity between the murders
in the neighboring cities caught the
eye of investigators Immediately,
and Washington police strongly be-
lieved the same man committed
both crimes.
Both girls were riding bicycles
when attacked, both were in wooded
sections and both we're slain with a
knife.
The Brill girl was riding her
bicycle with two friends, Barbara
Lee Sapperstein, II, and her BROTH
er, Alan, 8, when a tall colored man
wearing q blue shirt and dungarees
sprang from the woods.
She jumped from her bicycle and
attempted to flee, but was over
taken. Minutes later her compan-
ions saw her emerge from the woods,
bleeding from a wound in her chest.
She died in an ambulance en- route
to a hospital.
Carol Bardwell's body was found
in Rock Creek Park near Seven
teenth street and Colorado avenue
Sunday afternoon, June q, about
Is feet from path where her
bicycle was found.
Carol was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William P. Bardwell and
lived at 1885 Webster street NV,
about six blocks from the murder