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police said he told them, because
she was expecting their child but
it wasn't part of the contract that
he should support her or live with
her. When she was slain, she was
expecting a second child.
In Municipal Court today. the
extradition hearing was brief.
Holober said nothing but he
smiled broadly several times at his
counsel. Denver H. Graham.
The hearing involved a fugitive
from justice warrant charging
Holober with numbering his wife,
When Judge Walter j. Casey
was Informed that Holober had
agreed to waive extradition, he
signed the papers.
Led Away in Handouts.
Handcuffed to Detective Sergt.
Cecil E. Brown of Fairfax County,
Holober was led from the court
room.
Spectators rushed from the
courtroom to see the prisoner. He
was hastily led through the cor
ridors and down the elevator to
make the trip to Fairfax County.
From Municipal Court. Holober
went to Fairfax police headquar-
ters. where he was fingerprinted
and Photographed. He appeared
calm and even-tempered and
posed willingly, for newspaper
pho hotographers. E. I
After brief questioning by Fair-
fax police, he was taken to Fairfax
jail, where Sheriff John Taylor
said he would be lodged in a cell
by himself.
Meanwhile, the slain woman's S
father was making the identif1ca-
ton of the victims at Arlington
Hospital.
ITO think we must have walked
over that spot a hundred times
Saturday" he mourned as he left
the hospital. Il had a feeling
she never left that place. She
was my only daughter"
Helped to Search for Pair
Mr.. Garner had been one of the
searchers during the three-day
hunt for the missing woman and
child.
After the search climaxed yes
'terday with the discovery OF the
bodies, police said they obtained
this confession from Holober:
He picked up his wife and
daughter at the home of his wife's
parents. 931 New York avenue
NV, Thursday afternoon.
He had the pistol, shovel and
a pick with him.
They drove into the deserted
Virginia camp, of which he was
a member. The camp, in heav-
lily wooded section, is 5 miles from
Pender, Va.
Tells of Burying Baby.
His wife got out of the car.
Coming up behind her, he shot
her in the back of the head. She
fell forward on her face. Then
she moved and he shot her in the
back,
Leaving the baby on the back
seat of the car. he started to dig
the grave.
Then he went back to get the
baby. He pulled back the
mechanism of the semi-automatic
to slide a shell into the barrel, but
the. mechanism jammed.
He was quoted as telling police
he didn't have the nerve tc beat
the poor baby to death with the
butt of the pistol or the shovel
so he laid the baby alive in the
grave at her mothers feet. Then
he covered the double grave with
dirt
Shows Blisters on Hand.
Holober, police said, showed
them the blisters on his hand and
complained that digging the grave
was the hardest work ever did"
The discovery of the grave
ended the three-day search for Mrs.
Holober and her daughter. They
had been reported missing Friday
morning. At that time, Holober
returned to- Washington and said
the car@he had borrowed to take
his wife riding had got stuck in
the mud and his wife had left with
the baby and started back to
Washington on foot. He said he
had waited all night in the mired
car because he thought she might
come back.
Stood Over Burial Spot.
Holober himself had joined in
the search Saturday. Detective
Jim Hunter of the Washington
police said that on Saturday Holo-
ber stood on the spot where the
bodies were later found.
About pm. yesterday search
ers gathered in the clearing
around the three cottages of the
Green Forest Camp preparatory