Evening star., 1950-01-14

IN the case eX- IA w. 'i'es'
cept the defendant told their
stories.
The testimony at the inquest
yesterday generally duplicated
statements made earlier by the
witnesses to police. There was
nothing brought out to explain
the brutal beating Of Mrs. Camp
bell, whose body was discovered in
an apartment at 1921 Fairmont
street NV. on Thursday. Novem-
ber S.
Husband Is Witness.
Among the first witnesses was
the dead girls husband, Carlton
Campbell, 81, of 1900 o street,
Hillside, Md. who told of a visit
to the apartment on the night
his wife met her death.
Knowing that she had gone
there to obtain an abortion, he
said he knocked on the apartment
door about 3 am. January S and
received no answer. Peering under
the door. he said, he saw "a body
kicking on the floor, making a
laud humping noise"
Because he had earlier seen
Myers in the apartment in what
he described as a drunken condi-
ton, Mr.. Campbell said he thought
it was Myers he saw lying on the
floor. Later that day the body Of
his wife was discovered on the
floor. between the door and the
bed in the apartment.
Mr.. Campbell testified he had
not opposed the abortion, arranged
by his aunt, Mrs. Mabel M. Earn
shaw, because 81 loved my wife
so much that if she wanted to do
I always agreed"
On the witness stand the youth
appeared on the verge of hysteria.
shouting his answers at Defense
Attorney James J. Laughlin.
Mrs. Earnshaw followed Mr.,
Campbell to the stand. She ad-
arranging the abortion
after much persuasion from Mrs.
Campbell. She said she knew
about Myers through a friend"
and made the arrangements with
him by phone on Tuesday, calling
him at the shade shop where he
Nurse Denies knowledge.
Miss Ruth E. Childs, "a, in whose
the body was discov-
cred, denied any knowledge of the
fact that an abortion was to be
performed.
Miss Childs, an instructor of
nurses at Children's Hospital, said
she had been keeping company"
with Myers for some time and had
given him a key to her apartment
last September. The first time she
had seen either Mrs. Campbell or
Mrs. Earnshaw, she said, was
when they came to her apartment
about 7 pm.
She said she left the apartment
with Mrs. Earnshaw, returning
with her about II. At that time,
she said, the door was bolted with
a chain and she could not get in.
She saw no one in the room, but
heard man swearing. Indicat-
ing Myers, she added, "It sounded
like his voice when he had been
drinking"
Phoned Across the Street.
Miss Childs told of leaving the
apartment and going across the
street to telephone Myers. When
he answered, she told him she
wanted to get into my apartment
Immediately and to open the
door," she said.
when got back, the door was
already open and Mrs. Earnshaw
had gone inside. I went in and
saw girl lying on my bed, on her
back, with her right leg flexed,"
Miss Childs testified. --s
After futile attempts to revive
the girl with artificial respiration,
Miss Childs said she left the
apartment and went to Children's
where she spent the re-
mainder of the night.
In his statement to police, Myers
aas claimed that he passed out''
from drinking at the apartment
early in the evening, and had no
recollection of what happened
after that.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
who performed an autop-
sy on the body. said Mrs. Camp
bell died as the result of an em-
oolism, or air bubble, introduced
into the blood stream as the re-
suit of an attempted criminal
abortion. She had been three
months pregnant at