Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1930, Page 4

WITNESSES TELL " OF NAN N ALTD Fail to Identify Campbell Positively as Assailant of Miss Baker. (Continued From First Page.) and he saw but one occupant at that time, a man seated at the steering ‘wheel. “At the time I saw no one beside this man, but there seemed to be what I thought was a bundle of some kind, probably a laprobe, or coat, on the right of the front seat. I continued walking past the car without paying, articular attention to it and passed g) within about five feet of the car, until I reached a point opRosite the rear fender. Glanced Back at Car. “I glanced back and as I did so 1 saw a girl rise up in the front seat. I saw the face very distinctly. It seemed to be badly beaten up, although I can’t be sure whether there was any blood on the face. “l stopped a moment and then walked on slowly. The whole face struck me as being extremely cdd. My first tho .ht was that it was a child’s face thed Liad been burned by fire. As I pmceeded T tried to determine in my mind what it all meant. I didn't ex- actly grasp the meaning of what I had seen. As I was a little distance be- yond the car I noticed a man ¢nd lady and two children crossi B street. I was about 10 feet from car at the time and they were about 50 feet from the car. I went to them and talked a moment. Then I turned around and went toward the car. “I had gotten to about 15 feet when the car started away. As it moved off, I heard the faint wailing cry of the girl. All the time she was looking in my direction in a sort of a dazed fash- ion, I thought. I de=® know whether she was looking directly at me or not. “The car dashed aff toward Seven- teenth street. I heard a series of pop- noises as the car started away. un not able to judge exactly, but ression was they were shots from caliber pistol or backfiring of automobile—I don’t know which. '.l'hz car was about 25 feet away from me when I heard the noises. I heard from three to six of these explogions.” Talked With Woods. Rice then told of conferring again with the Woods and of receiving from them the license number of the car, J-5057, and the names and address of Mr. and Mrs. Wood. “I watched the car as it 'went out IS 30 _miles an hour, 1 should say.” Withess said after leaving the ‘Wood's he walked to the first precinct the police station about 6:10 o’clock, ving noted the time by the station Under cross-examination by Charles anry Smlt.h chief of defense counsel, on was that the gray topcoat and l\lit. Vflth& cmfldntbelure fl‘dbol‘:: ERE 253 s Eig‘e‘é}i inl %x i and B m Fred Bandberg, chief of the Police Department Bureau of Identifi- umm mmuned’. aires he :‘d taken e and a rope lollnd in the back seat. was the next witness. He had joined his wife and two children at 5 o'clock on the after- noon of April 11. He said they walked around t.bhn Tidal Ba:xn to looktn the cherry blossoms and were returning home when they arrived at a point on B street nelr Seventeenth. “Was attention attracted by 1" Collins inquired. “Yes, sir,” Wood replied, “What did you see?” N Tell of Struggle, “A car was parked over here,” the witness sald, pointing to a spot on a he had been handed. ‘Wood sald the car was a small sedan of a popular make. “What, if anything, did you see in the car?” the prosecutor asked. “I saw & man and a woman strug- My hnpressmn was that he was unz her.” ““Who else was in the car “Just the man and the lad; ‘Purther questioning developed neither the man nor the woman had on & hat. Saw Car Drive Away. ‘The witness said he approached the machine in which they were sitting from the rear and then crossed the ltr!et just before drawing alongside of ft. He heard no screams or other out- cry. Soon after noucln' the struggle, he started across park rby to .urch for & pouoemm his wife and in the dh cflon rejoin his wife. that when he nwmed, he saw the car drive nu 3 o :«a‘ you observe 1t?” Col- “Until it got to the next corner.” “Did you see any other man in Vicinity at any time?” “Yes, sir.Just as the car drove away, I saw Mr. Rice.” ‘md you observe the number of the “Y‘ It was J-5057." THE EVEN G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930. "THE THIRD DAY OF THE CAMPBELL MURDER TRIAL 'PR[]BE ISS]'AR]'[I] CAMPBELL ‘TRIAL WITNESSES EXAMINES A CHART ©OF ARLINGTON RoaDwAYs HUGH R. wooD PROSECUTOR COLLINS SHOWS CORONER FOR SWAIN AN EXHIBIT IDENTIFICATION. ] DEFENSE ' COUNSEL DEMANDS DETAILS FROM DR, SWAIN DR. WELBURN ON THE STAND LOCATES THE POSITION OF THE CAR FOR PROSECUTOR COLLINS MRS. WOOD FOLLOWS HER HUSBAND ON THE STAND. the query was restated tn the following- ords: “Does he in any le reumh'le the man you saw in the car Another objection was enmed by the defense and promptly overruled by Jus- tice Adkins. Same Type of Man, Wood answered: “He is about the build, size and type His build, features and all match up.” “What were the features of the man » Tmt;zyc dark.’ were dark.” “What color were his clothes?” “Dark.” Smith began cross-examination at this point. He sought at the outset to learn whether the male occupant of thn automobile was wearing either a hat a cap. The witness replied in the nmuve The defense attorney sought to establish the exact color of the hair of the man in the automobile. “I couldn't see his hair well enough to say anything except that it was dark,” Wood answered. ‘The witness was somewhat indefinite as to which windows he had looked throvgh when he peered into the car. He sald they were on the left side of the machine, but he was uncertain whether they were at the front or u:e rear. He was not sure whether car had two or four doors. He said he failed to get a good view of the girl's face. He added her hair was light in color. Didn't See His Hands. “Campbell has dark black hair,” Smith mu “Was the hair of the pan in the car as dark as his?” “I couldn't say exactly,” “Did you see the hands of the man?” “No, sir.” “The man at no time turned around to look and see if he was 'being watched, did he?” “No, sir.” “Did the xm at around to i watched?” “No, sir.” Questioning then developed the wit- ness falled to recall whether it was cold or hot or whether he was wearing an overcoat. He testified B street at this point was unusually rough. “What speed was the car m:nllxt.‘fi any time tum she was being when it was driven away?” the | asked. “It was toln‘ pretty fast.” “There l -~ nothing un';sullh lhout speed of ough, was there?” “No, sir.” ‘Did ~ hear ““The Sar spit Lt “What kind of spitting was MT' ‘Heard Backfiring. “Just like most cars do when they are “mdmhur-nybwcknnnn" ‘es, sir.” mmnuutt.hevm.nan he saw in the 5 JT 8_:2&/»1-( PN FRANCIS RICE GIVES A Sketched by James T. Berryman, Star Staff Artist. developed the witness was not positive about the time, as he failed to look at his watch. Wood said, however, he was quite sure it was around 6 o'clock. Mrs. Wood then took the stand. Her preliminary statements were about the same as those made by Wood. She then was asked to tell what she had seen take place in the car which was unusual, and answered: “A man girl were seated In the rront seat, They seemed to be What was the speed of the machine when it drove away?” Collins inquired. “The car was going very fast.” Campbell Stands Up. As the tors craned their necks, Campbell then stood up, and Mrs. Wood was asked if he was man she had seen in the car. “I couldn’t say positively,” the wit- ness replied. “Does he resemble the man you saw in the automobile?” “Yes, sir.” “Did the man in the car have hair of a similar color?” “His hair was dark and straight. He had on a dark suit and was bare- headed.” Beginning his _cross-examination, Smith asked Mrs. Wood whether she could recognize Campbell’s profile. She replied in the negative. “Did the man in the car have a prominent nose?” Smith asked. "1 couldn’t tell.” “So you couldn't attempt to make lny)?ontl&;e identification of Campbell?” Smith attempted to learn from the woman whether she could say the man in the car was heavy. Explaining she could see only the upper portion of his body, the witness said it was hard to tell. She added she was unable to recall how the girl was dressed. Tells of Finding Keys. David A. Richmond, an employe at the Department of Agriculture’s Experi- mental Farms, told of finding the keys to Miss Baker's car at a point of about a quarter-of-a-mile from where her body was discovered. ‘The last witness before the noon re- cess, Clarence L. Joneston, a blacksmith employed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Co lon, he found several ‘articles of wearing apparel be- longing to Miss Baker and a paif of B. H. Swaln, also took the stand, but did not fully support Dr. Welburn's theory as to the immediate cause of death. The coroner expressed the opinion that the girl was “near death” at the time the bullets were fired into her body and he could not say definitely the exact cause of her demise. Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, deputy coroner of the District of Columbia, who conducted & supplementary au- topsy, was another Government witness, | the who was taken in hand by the defense for the purpose of scoring a point in behalf of the accused real estate man. Dr. tion, said he did not believe that Mary Baker would have been able to raise her hand and pound on the window of her MacDonald, under cross-examina- car to attract attention after she had | Sei been strangled for more than “a few seconds.” The defense attorneys at- tempted to make the most of this tes- timony, in view of the contention of the Government that the Baker girl attempted to summon help, after she was attacked by her assailant at Seven- teenth and B streets. ‘The two grim leaden bullets removed from the Baker girl's body, and de- clared by Government ballistic experts to bear the “finger prints” of Camp- bell's 32-caliber revolver, wére intro- duced in evidence this afternoon, as Government exhibits number one and number two. The small slugs, one of them bent out of shape, were re- moved from a small pill box and shown to Drs. Swain and Welburn by All‘.!b— ant United States Attorney William "H. Collins, in charge of the proucumn Each of these doctors sald the bullets resembled the ones which had been removed from the murdered girl’s body. Describe Bullet Wounds. ‘The three physicians gave & grucsome account of the condition of Miss Baker's body, as disclosed during the autopsies. Each described the course of the bullets, which entered the neck and side of the girl, indicating the exact location of the | body. wounds by pointing with their fingers to his own body. A large cardboard box, about one foot square, was brought into court and placed on the floor beside the prosecu- tor's table, From the box, Collins re- moved three bloodstained articles of clothing “found on Miss Baker’s body and bnnnz tears described by the prosecution as bullet holes. The gar- ments included a long-sleeved black | ter dress, a brassiere and & pink under- arment of silk, described “No, I+can’t say that I ever did,” the witness admitted. Dr. Swain described in detail the po- sition of the body as it lay in the cul- vert outside Arlington Ceme! discovered n-mt‘mu IN STUDENT BEATH Alexandria Police Chief Not Satisfied in Killing of Wil- liam T. Fealy. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 23.—Not satisfied with the findings of Coroner T. Marshall Jones that William Thomas Fealy, 24-year-old George Washington University medical student, who was found dead on a trestle of the Alexan- dria-Washington electric rallway early Monday morning, was killed by a street car, Police Capt. W. W. Campbell of this city this morning started a rein- vestigation of the case. Back From Chiefs Meeting. Capt. Campbell, who returned to the city yesterday after attending the con- vention of the Virginia Police Chiefs Associzzion Convention at Roanoke, last night questioned members of the force and others who had seen the body be- fore it was removed. This morning Capt. Campbell had a conference with Robert L. May, owner of the traction line, concerning the affair. He has also assigned the case to Detective Sergt. Edgler Sims of the local force. city Sunday night for the car barns at . “r'{m';:fim When the train relgg emple ion, on upper King st where the electric tmcn leave Kinl street and turn north, the body of the youth was revealed by the highlights. Police were called and Coroner Jones was summoned. Those who saw the youth’s body sald that one leg was lying across one of the ralls on the northbound - tracks over the small trestle and that a 25- cent piece was lying on the back of his hand. Many contend that his lel would have been severed if he had run over by a street car. A ‘tew {eet away, lying on a tie in the tracks, was a chemistry textbook. The youth hnd more than $40 in cash in his pockets when found. Seen Hour Before., Fealy was reported to have left {riends in Rosemont, whom he had been visiting, around midnight and his crushed body was not found on the rails until about 1 a.m. An examination of street cars at the car barns Monday was said to have revealed no signs of his having been struck by one of them. Death was caused by a broken neck, broken hip and a fractured skull, ac- cording to the findings of Coroner Jones at the inquest held Monday after- noon. 3LOODSTAINS FOUND ON COAT OF CARNELL, BUSH CASE SUSPECT (Continued From Pirst Page.) of the hold-up and shooting that Irmuxm out y the first details of he bus line owner’s efforts to give Mlhcney a new start in life—to put him on his feet, so to speak. It was in January, 1926, when Bush first met Mahoney. Fresh from the District Work House at Occoquan, where he had sérved a six-month tch” for grand larceny, Mahoney, penniless and hungry, his clothing shabby, drifted into %}1 ing line office in search of Asked Bush for Job. “Nobody wants to hire an ex-convict,” he told Bush. “Give me & job and I'll mowgou'.hunlormerhu ird can go straight.” Bush sympathized with the hungry man, and with hh ltncerm' to “go straight” promised to So Mahoney went across the street where the Traffic Bureau was located then, on the south side of Penn- sylvania nvenue. and applied to Sergt. Joseph D. Harrington, hack inspector, for a permu to operate a public vehicle. Harrington turned him down because his character - qualifications did not come up to the standards prescribed in the District license code. The six- month term &t Occoquan, coupled with another sentence Harrington discovered Mahoney had served at the Maryland House of Correction at Jessup, dis- qualified him to drive a public vehicle in Washington. Mahoney went back to Bush and told the story of the turndown that was to rob him of a prospective job. “I think we can fix that up all right,” Bush consoled Mahoney. So Bush went back to the Traffic Bureau with Mahoney and pleaded with Sergt. Har- rington and other Traffic Bureau officials to “give the boy a chance.” Given Conditional Permit. “This boy is sall right,” Bush 'old Harrington. “I think he means to_d what's ht, and I'll help Mln all ! can. But if he shows any sign of weakening, I'll discharge him and notify mu'{?me Bureau to up his Mnhoney was issued & conditional t.mdwentwmk.drivm- u(hmem( bus. He lved up to promise to Bush—to go straight. lu;h trusted him and treated him like a son, and Mahoney admitted this to Detective rgt. Thomas Sweeney shortly after his arrest, But last month, the slack season in the sightseeing business came. mhnney was laid off temporarily, and told to come back in the Spring and he would be given his job when the tourist sea- son opened. Bush and Mahoney parted still the best of friends. ‘Then came the . _Bush was held up and shot by an unknown as- sailant as he put his car in his garage on the night of October 6. Finally in- formation seeped into the Detective Bureau that. Mahoney probably could . A search picked Sunday in Pittsburgh hnded for the en Coast. Vatican Money Plan 0. K’d. ROME, October 23 of Ministers today legalizing the Ttalo-Va ment under which Vi issue its own money. (#).—The Council oved & decree o‘g agree- ‘atican . will ~ ggf marks on the throat, slight the legs and other and the bullet £ lodged in found. lets over to Dr. Welburn and the lat- later testified he in separate envelopes, lwropmuly _Arlington County. MAN FREED IN FIGHT UNDER UNWRITTEN LAW Oscar H. Kee Objected to Another |l Being With His Wife and Struck Him. ‘The district attorney’s office today found merit in the old “unwritten law,” and refused to press charges against a man who took that law into his own hands with painful results to his victim. The office refused to press charges against Oscar H. Kee, 500 block of Buchanan street, who, police declared, struck James V. Cherico, 600 block of Columbia road, over the head with an automobile jack handle. Cherico was taken to the hospital yesterday, where three stitches were taken’in his head. Police said that Kee uu.m Cherico with his wife at Twelfth Monroe streets northeast, where '.h-e fight started, Kee brought six witnesses to Police Court today, who said they heard Kee warn Cherico to stop “going with his wife.” Later Kee and his wife separated and matters were brought to a climax last night. Kee was locked up by twelfth precinct police, but re- leased at The district attorney's office ruled that Kee was entirely justified in tak- ing the action that he did after warn- hu Cherico. The latter declared that he went cut with Mrs. Kee after she had telephoned him. —_— MISSIONARY DIES NEW YORK, October 23 (#).—The Board of Forelgn Missions of the Pres- byterian Church received word yester- day that Mrs. Henry M. Bruen, Presby- terlan missionary in Taiku, Korea, died in Seoul, Korea, on Monday. She went to Korea in 1001. a few da after her marriage to Mr. Bruen. She founded a primary school and a girls’ academy and also taught Bible classes. o anughters, . Anmaof Springaeid wo rs, - Anna ol g arriet, & student in Mount “Hol “Solm and a brother, W. H. Eoots of Drexer Hi. Pa. s FAIRFAX Potomac 2301 pper lett, Edward Callahan, of fll defendant. Uj ht, Eyre, friend of the h'!r left, Coroner Benjamin H. Swain of —Star Staff Photo. ALL-METAL AIRSHIP WILL VISIT CAPITAL ZMC-2 Coming Here From Lake- * hurst as Part of Navy Day Program. ‘The Navy all-metal airship ZMC-2 | Will pay her second visit to the National ?hs‘mm Monday afternoon as a part of program lnee of vav day. The peculiar craft, hailed as the fore- Tunner of a new day in u.hur-unn air aviation, will not land here, but circle over the cit; at about noon. The ZMC-2 is to leave Lakehurst, N. B turn back toward home, being scheduled to arrive at Lake- h“.:'i:"r?ul”m' will be put on at aerial program put on Anacostia Naval Air Station from 230 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, including flying at the new three-plan section headed by Lieut. Matthias B. by six Marine Corps jumping and the la) screen. POLICE ASKED TO LOOK FOR 80-YEAR-OLD MAN North Carolina Relatives 'Believe He Is Wandering About With Large Sum of Money in Pocket. An aged and deaf man, belleved gmden u:roml:d the nte?(l of Wu!i'ln mn with a large sum of money on, was being sought by Dlltrlct pollm today following & re- quest made by worried relatives who ukeduut:mhbemmlormm. The man Abraham Samuels, 80 {elu old, who left his eigh, N. C., several days friends in this city and has heard from since. It has not been determined whether Samuels arrived in Washington, but it is thought that he probably reached this city and was unable to find the friends with whom he was to visit. Samuels is described as be! 5 feet 5 inches in height and weig] 130 pounds, with gray hair and a grayish ‘The man is deaf, according to the of the city after by Lieut. Clement of detectives, made to find Samuels. NP ‘The industries hit hardest by the de- pression in Peru are cotton, wool, hldu and rubber. was_received it chief forts be & wire P. Cox, that EASTERDAY IS HELD ON FUGITVE COUNT Former Arnstein ‘Assdcfllfite, Once Arrested Here, Caught in Oklahoma City. By the Associated Press. acn T OKLAHOMA CITY, October’ 23. W. W. Easterday, one-time associste of the notorious Jules (Nicky) Arn- stein, was held by Federal officers. here last night, charged with being a - uvn from New Yo&k gml&ez‘ he ing bon( ln a mail !uu cmr:e l%““ Easterday was arrested yesters by city pollee as the outgrowth an !nvuunuon of the Oklahoma & Business Bureau of promof . bom- mnlfl offering stock for sale {n Okls- ma City oil field enterprises. Held for $40,000 Bond. He was arraigned later on the fugl- tive charge before a Unitéd States commissioner, pleaded not tullty iM was under $40,000 bond Tor" inary hearing November 7. ‘The New Yorker, who was convlcltd with Arnstein in a $5,000,000 Wall street bond robbery in 1922, had worked with a stock sales company here under the name of Harrington. He muny admitted be was Easterday confronted with pictures and Also Known as Stewart. The mail fraud case in New York g:w out of apenmms of theDeWo|h~ nez | 48y was -ln known as Bhwm Lee Mullenix, city policeman, who, with & brother officer, R. F. Brandon, arrested Easterday, said he was told by Easterday on the way to the police sta~ tion that it “will be worth $1,! 500 to you lof‘! would be permitted to go get & eup coffee.” Released uu Nm NEW YORK, October 23 (#).—W. W. Easterday, arrested in Okla- homa City, was released in $25, ooo ball last November 9 on a charge of mall fraud in commection with operations of the De Wolfe-Stewart Co. y, who also was convicted ‘himsel? in 1922 with robbery. The De Wo!!e-st‘«nl"t,y Co., & broker- age firm, was charged attorney 5§fl'fll office with de!nud!nl up- customers. ‘Was Arrested Here. fought extradition to New Y but was rmmed there November sign a petition for & writ of corpus. 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