Evening star., 1949-02-28

to calling off their search for the
day.
The searchers included Fairfax
County police and 81 members of
Boy Scout Troop 181 of Falls
Church, Va.
Scout Makes Discovery.
Standing in a group about q
feet directly north of the main
building were Boy Scouts William
Wallace, IL, of GIG Gordon street;
Richard Kirch. 13, of 700 Berry
street: Ted Brown, IL, Of TIA
Great Falls street. and Jack Wis
singer, IL, of 208 Buxton road
Falls Church.
Young Wallace. idly patting his
| foot on the earth. said suddenly:
| Look, this ground is soft!"
AS the boys studied the soft
earth, Fairfax County Policeman
Richard Wahl grabbed a hatchet
from one of the Scouts and
scraped the ground to see if the
earth appeared disturbed.
| Sergt. Brown went to nearby
tool shed and found a spade.
Detective Uncovers Bodies.
Sergt. Brown started digging
carefully. He uncovered a por-
ton of Mrs. Holober's body and
then the baby's. A red leather
pocketbook with a nursing bottle
in it was lying over the baby's
face, as if it had been placed there
| to shield the face from dirt. The
bottle had about an inch Of milk
lin ID. A
+ The grave was just wide and
flong enough to hold the two
bodies. which were covered by not
more than six inches Of dirt.
DR.. Nelson Podolnick, Fairfax
County coroner, viewed the bodies
and ordered them removed to Ar
lington Hospital where an autopsy
was to be performed today.
Police Go to Home.
After the bodies we're found,
Washington police went to Holo-
ber's home on Shepherd street.
At 1915 am, Holober came home
and was arrested on the street by
Detective Sergts. Harold c. Huff
man and George w. Cook.
Police said Sergt. Cook told him
he might as we'll start talking be-
cause the bodies had been found.
Holober. according to police, said
he wouldn't talk until he had some
proof. For proof, police said, Sergt,
Cook described the position of
Mrs. Holober's body in the grave.
Then, police said. Holober told
his story at the 10th precinct.
About 2 am. police took him back
to his home to recover the pistol
from a rafter in the attic
At the same time, according to
police, he showed them where he
had hidden in his desk Mrs. Holo-
ber's wedding band. a jeweled ring
and a wrist watch.
Police said he repeated his story
of the double killing IN the pres
ence of his mother, Mrs. Isadore
Holober.
Holober's mother said today it
was hard for her to believe her
son could have done such
thing.
when he came back with the
police and said. Nom, it's true,
it's true I could hardly believe
it," Mrs. Holober sobbed.
II just shrieked, How could
you? How could you?' He said he
shot her when her back was
turned. He said it couldn't be
helped"
Mrs. Holober indicated her son
was unstable. She said that he
worked sometimes with his father,
Seventh street jeweler. but that
he usually came late in the day.
He never could hold a steady job,
she continued, and when he tried
to get into the service during the
last war, he was rejected by both
the Army and the Navy. She said
that the Navy rejected him on
account of his eyes, but that the
Army authorities told him that
he would just go to pieces in case
of trouble
His mother said that he was
a violinist. but had played very
little lately. He played his violin
at the nudiSt colony. she said, in
lieu of paying dues, during the
summer months.
His murdered wife told him,
Mrs. Holober said, that she was
again pregnant, and that this
baby was going to be born in his
home. This, his mother said, was
one of the matters which led 10
the argument.
Slain Woman Born Here.
The slain woman was born in
the District and attended District
elementary schools. According
to her mother, Mrs. Holober
worked as a salesgirl in several
Seventh street stores and was for
a time a counter girl at a White
Tower restaurant. Her last job,
which she gave up about 18
months ago, was with the Bu-
reau of Engraving.
She was described by neigh