Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-25

lportant thing aside from solving
this case"
To me. he said: Those little
girls are in heaven"
| There was one cryptic para
graph in the autopsy report
which apparently relates to the
crime lab report:
I'VE do not deny or affirm
having received information OBJ
tanned by police investigators,
but this information has no role
in establishing the cause of
death. To deny or to affirm
would divulge information that
is confidential ;"
Puzzling Angles
The sheriff's investigators, in
their efforts to square the
Psychologists verdict of death on
December 1929 with other
known facts of the case, keep
running into puzzling problems.
Time continues to be the all
important element of the mys-
terry. The girls ate supper the
might they disappeared, then
saw the movie through, accord
ing to witnesses. before they
were killed. Yet the toxicologist's
report sets four hours as the
time since the food found in
Barbara's system had been eaten.
This means that on the time
table accepted by the coroner
and States attorney, the sisters
would have had to be picked up,
driven to an outlying part of
Cook County. undressed and
killed-all within an hour or so
after leaving the theater.
/ And how killed? This reporter
asked the toxicologist, DR.. Camp,
how the girls could have been
SO quickly rendered powerless
and then brought to death,
without there being any signs
of struggle or beating or use of
drugs. DR.. Camp replied merely
that this is the most puzzling
aspect of the case for the doctors.
THAT is a terrific problem"
he asserted.
DR.. KearnS says the sisters
could have died of fright. That
/ is what Mrs. Grimes says she be-
lieves. But DR.. Hirsch has an
other interesting idea. According
to Mr., McCarron. this is the
Hirsch "supposition" as related
TO him..
The girls were picked up by a
couple of teenage boys who drove
them out to the forest preserves.
Their advances rejected. they un-
dressed the girls and put them
out OF the car--more as a prac-
tical joke than through fiendish
cruelty. The girls walked along
in the wintry wind and as they
did the cold air acted as an anes-
thetic on them. They grew sleepy
and. as no cars came by for them
to hail, they stepped over the
roadside guardrail and lay down
and fell asleep. There they froze
to death.
Time Major Factor
Again. in the analysis OF the
lsheriff'S Office. the time question
offers an ever-mounting problem.
II DR.. Hirsch is correct. the hour
or so after the movie must have
supplied sufficient time not only
for the actions already enumer-
Iated--but time, too, for the girls
to have died from the cold.
1t is admittedly a difficult
timetable to picture. In discuss
ing it with this reporter. States
Attorney Adamowski made a sur
prising statement. Il don't
think" he said. the girls went
to the theater that night"
Mr.. Adamowski is the only
responsible official connected
with the case to have advanced
this suggestion: others have ac-
Icepted the statements of eye
witnesses who claim TO have been
seated with the girls or immedi-
ately behind them.
If the girls did not attend the
movie, of course, the strain on
the officially accepted timetable
would be greatly relieved.
Il don't think anyone has ever
asked Mrs. Grimes whether the
girls might have gone to the
ltheater some other night that
week." Mr.. Adamowski said.
Later. this reporter did put,
that question to Mrs. Grimes.
She told me December % was
the first and only night her
daughters ever went to that par
ViCutdr tneater.
Mr.. Adamowski. himself, never.
asked Mrs. Grimes that question.
/ asked the States Attorney. in
fact, whether he had ever ques-
toned Mrs. Grimes on anything.
in order to eyaluate her testi-
Emony as basis for the doctors
conclusions.
mo-" said Mr.. Adamowski
simply. Il have not"
No Decomposition
/ There is one other factor that
has provoked a certain skepti-
cism in the public's mind on the
December 1929 death date. The
bodies were found to be in a
well-preserved condition, with