Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-06-28
Staying Probers Ask
Aid Of Auto Owners
Seek to Narrow
Search for Cor
Used by Killer

Anne Arundel County police
appealed to car owners of three
counties today to assist in the
capture Of the killer of Mrs. Mar
garet v. Harold.
Police Chief Wilbur Wade said
I'VE feel If we can find the mans,
car. we can find the man."
He asked that all residents Of
Anne Arundel, Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties own
ing 1913 green Chryslers to tele-
phone that fact. to police. The
information will be kept conf
Dental.
Color Is Specified
In that way, the search for
such a car can be narrowed, he
said. The killers car was de-
scribed as from light to medium
shade of green. He requested
citizens having such calls to
telephone the Edgewater station
at Colonial 3-2541. :
New and used car dealers whho
have cars of this description, or
have recently sold them, also
we're asked to call.
Half a dozen suspects have
been cleared since the 36-year-
old Baltimore mother Of two
was slain on a lonely dirt road
II miles west of Annapolis We'd
|nesday afternoon.
The killer struck after appar-
emily lurking in the area on
Route $50 waiting for a victim.
Mrs. Harold drove down the road
with a friend. M/Sergt. Roy D.
Hudson, 81. stationed at Fort
Meade where she was employed
as a clerk-typist.
Climbing into the back seat
Of the parked car. the tall, bushy-
proved man pointed a snub-
nosed revolver at the back Of
the woman's head and demanded
money. Before the couple could
respond. he fired once.
But when Sergt. Hudson ran
for help. the slayer fed, leaving
behind Mrs. Harold's purse con-
tanning SOL. Because of this, de-
tectives were inclined to classify
the killer as driven by sexual
motives.
Contributing to this theory
was the discovery of semi-nude
pictures Of women, and maya
zine clippings Of sex crimes found
in a vacant cinder-block house
near the crime scene.
1t was believed the killer had
. spent part of his time there re-
, Gently, using it as hideout until
a victim appeared. Detectives
also found electrical wiring In
the house similar to cord the
slayer was carrying when he
attacked.
The nearly two score police
working on the Anne Arundel
County case had a good descrip-
ton of the fugitive and his car.
but still had not been able to
identify him.
Chief reliance on an identified
ton rested on flngerprints taken
at the car and in the deserted
house, and footprints at the
murder scene. Impressions were
sent to the FBI in Washington
for study.
i Other clues are the piece of
light cord and a cap dropped
near the car. From the autopsy
detectives also learned that q
.S8-caliber gun was used in the
shooting. The slug split in two
after it entered the woman's
head. Both parts were sent to the
FBI laboratories.
Leads Tracked Down
Police sealed of and searched
the wooded area for any possible
evidence, and began tracking
down leads for suspects. Two
detectives were sent to WASH
ington to check man who fitted
the killers description. He was
carrying a .38-caliber pistol and
had a gunshot wound of the left
ring finger he could not explain.
However. he was cleared after
questioning.
Sergt. Hudson, who said he
knew Mrs. Harold since May and
had met her several times, was
with police when they searched
the area. Once, when he saw a
pool of blood behind the front
seat Of his car. he turned away,
sat beside the road and wept.
A Korean war veteran and
father Of two children, Sergt.
Hudson lived with them and his
wife in a trailer at Laurel.
Contrary to early reports by
police, DR.. Russell S. Fisher.
Maryland State Medical Exami-
ner, said today that Mrs. Harold
was not expecting her third
child.
Mrs. Harold lived with her
husband. John H. Harold, IT.,
employed by a Baltimore steel
company. Neighbors described
Mrs. Harold as a devoted
mother" and said both she and
her husband we're very re-
ligious."