Evening star., 1953-08-19
D. C., County Police
Probe Finding Of
Three Skeletons

District and Prince Georges
County CMd.) police had myster-
les on their hands today after
the finding yesterday of three
skeletons.
One was that Of an unidenti-
fled man whose remains were
surrounded by some SAP sealed
in two bottles. The others were
skeletons of two babies. appar-
emily stuffed into an Army duffle
bag a year apart.
The mans bones we're found
about 2:30 pm. yesterday in a
sWampy, wooded section about
$50 feet of the new Washington
Baltimore ExpresSway between
Greenbelt and Good Luck roads
in Prince Georges County.
Money in Bottles.
Found on the ground nearby
were a glass jar with $S02.58 in
side, a small brown medicine
bottle with $40 and a razor.
Police also found a wallet
which contained a calendar in
dicating the body may have been
there since June of 1852.
Armond E. Starkey, 46. of
4005 Eighth street NE, a con-
tractors representative on the
highway project, made the dis
covery.
DR.. John T. Maloney, county
medical examiner, said he be-
lieved the bones were those of a
white man. He said the man
could have been dead a year or
more, and added there were no
marks of foul play.
The man apparently wore a
blue pin-striped suit, a white
shirt. brown leather shoes and a
green felt hat. DR.. Maloney said.
A belt buckle with the initial IS"
and a gold watch also were
found.
He described the man as being
possibly S feet, z or 8 inches tall.
Missing Person Check.
Detective Sergt. Richard A.
Pearson said files of missing
persons were being checked and
the dead mans clothing would
be sent to the F'BI for analysis.
A check also will be made with
the Waltham Watch Co. to de-
termine ownership of the watch
or dealer who sold it.
Initials were found scratched
inside the cover. apparently by
a watch repair man, Sergt. Pear
son said. The markings included
the date "5-21-49" and the ini-
tials MS, he said. The de-
tective added he did not know
If these were the mans initials
or those of the repair man.
Sources in Baltimore also be-
came interested that the remains
might be those of big Sam"
Zannino, Baltimore fight pro-
moter, who has been sought in
the auto-trunk murder there
last summer of Tony MeSsina.
The latter's bullet-riddled body
was found inside a car trunk
at the Baltimore fish market.
Zannino's car was found later
abandoned in Claymont, Del,
but he has never been located.
He was described as being 5 feet
7 inches and weighing over 200
pounds.
Sergt. Pearson. however, did
not believe the dead man was
Zannino.
Babies Skeletons.
Skeletons of the two babies
were found in a housing devel-
opment in Southeast Washing
ton.
Jerry White, 35, colored, of
1926 Simms drive Sc, made the
gruesome find as he tore down
the ceiling of a house in the
Camp Simms development,
which had been run for colored
tenants by the National Capital
Housing Authority.
Each skeleton was in a brown
paper sack inside the duffie bag.
Deputy Coroner Richard Ro-
senberg said the babies had been
placed in the cache several years
ago. One had been put in about
a year before the other, DR.. Ro-
Senberg said. He was unable to
decide the sex or race of the
babies.
Police Pvts. r. D. Scollick and
j. c. Higgs said the bones were
wrapped in a newspaper dated
1947t The duff1e bag bore the
markings Of the Philadelphia
QuartermaSter Depot and was
dated 1948.
Police are searching for former
tenants of the building.