Evening star., 1949-01-13
) Air Force Soldiers
Accused Of Staying
Ex.WAC on Guam
BY the Assoeioisd Press

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and leaving her unconscious ir
the jungle to die.
A lie detector and a recovered
dress broke the month old mystery
The American Governor of Guam
identified the accused as:
Pvt. Calvin Dennis, 26, of Fred.
erick, Md.
Pvt. Herman Dennis. 20, In.
dlanapolis. CA relative of that ad.
dress said Dennis enlisted from
there, but actually lived at Bolton
Tex
SISergt. Robert w. Burns, 80
Spokane, Wash.
Calvin and Herman are brothers
The three are accused of kidnapping
rape and murder. All are Negroes
Dress Found in Vehicle.
Miss Farnsworth, 27, of San Fran
cisco was seized last December II
in jade shop, where she was
working part time so she could buy
a trousseau for her marriage next
April to a Marine. She was knocked
unconscious, carried out to the jungle
and raped. A searching party OF
soldiers and Marines found her there
II hours later. She died December
13 without recovering conscious
ness.
1t. Comdr. James T. Hackett, as
sistant chief of Guam police, said
the brothers confessed their part in
the crime after a lie detector trapped
Herman.
Then, Comdr. Hackett said. Miss
Farnsworths dress was found in a
weapons carrier of which Calvin
Dennis was the driver. The torn
garment was under the seat. Comdr
Hackett, Chicago police lieutenant
on leave with the Navy, said Her
man Dennis later led officers to a
point near the jungle spot where
Miss Farnsworth's sandals previous
ly had been found.
Detectors Used on Men.
There. after crying out not to be
asked to 90 further, Herman re-
enacted the crime, Comdr. Hackett
asserted.
Fifteen men were held for ques-
tioning when AL Riedel, an inspector
of the Berkeley (CalifD police force,
arrived recently with lie detector
Comdr. Hackett said the detector
was used on five men. The fifth,
Herman Dennis, then was subjected
to questioning until he confessed
and implicated his brother, Comdr
Hackett added.
Rear~Admiral Charles A. PoWnall,
Governor of Guam, gave this sum-
mary of the crime:
The best reconstruction possible
at this time indicates that the three
men visited the jade shop on the
evening of December II. Finding
Miss Farnsworth alone, one man
struck her down, and another went
to the generator in the rear of the
shop to extinguish the lights by dis
connecting wire.
Arraigned in Island Court.
THE man who had extinguished
the lights came back into the shop,
picked her up and, accompanied
by the other two men, carried her
outside the shop into the wooded
jungle area in the rear. Miss Farms
worth at this time was in an un-
conscious condition from the blow
she had received.
She was carried along q jungle
trail and through an overgrown
clearing, where she was assaulted.
After aSSaulting Miss Farnsworth,
the men returned individually to
their barracks"
The three men were arraigned
today in an island court. Air Force
authorities waived Jurisdiction and
the trial was expected to be in a
civil court, subject to approval by
the Navy.
Quixzed Once and Freed.
Comdr. Hackett said gift articles
reserved by the trio at the jade
shopt. but no paid for, led to their
original detention in the case. After
questioning, however, they were re-
leased. Comdr. Hackett said Miss
Farnsworth had complained to the
jade shop manager of the attitude
displayed by the Negroes during
visits, and for several weeks. the
manager and assistant manager
took turns staying at the shop with
her. She was alone the night of
the crime.
Miss Farnsworth, a Navy civil
service employe, was engaged to
wed Marine S/Sergt. Sterling Nc
Ginnis of Bell Center, Ohio, a vet
eran Of three Pacific campaigns.
He accompanied her body to San
Francisco last week for burial
Calvin Dennis was attached to
the 606th Engineer Aviation Squad
ron. His brother Herman, and
Burns, Wre attached to the 18th
Air Ammunition Squadron.
In Frederick, Pearl Scott said
Calvin Dennis roomed at her house
after being discharged from the
Army late in 1945 She identified
him as the son of John and Esther
Dennis and said they lived some
where on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Records at the Frederick recruit
ing station showed he re-enlisted
February 4, 1916.