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% THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, NOVEMBER 10, 1935—PART ON. * A-—3 SEARCH FOR GIRL 10D BY FIANGE Tear Denies He Had Quar- reled With Slain Bride- to-Be. Five hours before his arrest in con- nection with the murder of his fiancee, Miss Corinna Loring, Richard Tear, intently serious, but with his emotions under control, yesterddy said in an interview: “I don’t know what happened, don't know how it could have happened.” The 29-year-old St. Elizabeth Hos- pital attendant told a reporter at his home, 201 Channing street northeast, at 6:30 p.m.: “We chased down every clue we could think of during the week,” Tear said hopelessly. “They were all dead ones.” “I took her home from work last Monday afternoon. She was all right then. It was just after 6. We made @ date for 8:30, and she was looking forward to seeing me.” Denies Quarrel. “Had you quarreled?” “No, never. Some hinted she had got mad and changed her mind about | marrying me. I knew she hadn't. ‘This proves it. I knew the girl. She wouldn't have changed her mind.” “But was there any reason at all for her being angry with you then?” | “Not even a little bit.” “How long had you known her?” | “About four months. We had been | planning to get married about two | months.” “Was she going out with others dur- | ing that time?” “No. She didn't have time. She had been out with some other boys before.” “Did you know them?" “I met a couple of teliows, both be- fore and after we were engaged. But | there wasn’t anything the matter with them. They wouldn’t have done any= thing like this. oNt the one I knew.” Sitting in his shirt sleeves and slip= pers before a gas fireplace in the un- pretentious little home ot his father and mother, he recounted his story of going to the girl's home at 3110 Beech street. Mount Rainier, about 8:40 p.m. last Monday, finding nobody at home, waiting outside until 9:15, then stick- | ing a note in the front coor and leav- | ing to be at work at the hospital at 10. | “What did the note say?” “That I would see her the following | afternoon. work.” That I had to go to Arranged for Trip. “Were you planning a wedding trip?” “Yes. We were going away a few days. I arranged to get four days off. ‘We had taken a flat in Woodridge, bu. we didn't have any furniture moved in” “When did you hear about her being found?” “About 3:30 Plummer (chief of Mount Rainier police) came to get me.” For the first time his emotions | seemed to be breaking through his re- | serve. “I didn't look much at her. pretty sick. Terrible.” He puffed a cigarette nervously for & second. “Can you say anything about the police?” he continued. “None of I felt them, Prince Georges, Mount Rainier | or Washington, would put a man on this case. I reported her missing last ‘Tuesday. They talked to me, but they wouldn’t assign a man to investigate. Just a missing person. “I don't know what happened. I've been up against a blank wall. It's awful.” e 40 CLERGYMEN TO JOIN NAVY CHAPLAIN MEETING | Admiral Joseph M. Reeves Will | Sponsor Conference to Be Held November 25 and 26. About 40 clergymen will participate in the annual conference of Navy chaplains to be held November 25 and 26 at Rancho Santa Fe, Calif, the Nevy Department announced yester- day. The conference will be under auspices of Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commander in chief of the United tSates Fleet, who will attend one of the sessions. Admiral Harris Laning, commander of the battle force of the fleet, will also participate. Taking & leading part in the con- ference will be Capt. Edward A. Duff, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, senio: clergyman in the service, who has drawn up the program. 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The body lay as if it had been placed and abandoned in great haste. Shortly before the body was dis- covered, 8 man’s brown kid motorist’s glove for the right hand was found by Ernest Peters, 3600 block of Twenty-eighth street, Mount Rainier, fe: | as he was walking through the woods. Peters took the glove home and later returned with his wife to search fur- ther, police said. The glove was picked up near the ’e NEGRO ACH!EVEMENT| point where the bloodstains were found. On his return, Peters dis- covered & 21-jewel ladies’ wrist- watch partially tramped into the earth, along with two inexpensive earrings, one of which lacked a set- ting. The watch, which had stopped at 9:05, presumably when the crys- tal was broken, and the earrings were identified by the family as having belonged to Miss Loring. A coroner's jury was summoned and sworn in over the body for an inquest at Mt. Rainier within the next few days. Justice of the Peace Gilbert Hughes and Dr. Oscar Lavine, acting coroner, will conduct the in- quest. State’s Attorney Alan Bowie of Prince Georges County suggested that the inquest be postponed until the investigation has progressed further. Autopsy Completed. The body was removed to Gasch’s funeral parlors in Hyattsville, where an aytopsy was completed shortly be- fore midnight by Dr. Lavine. Police are convinced Miss Loring was murdered soon after she disap- peared from her home between 8 and 9 o'clock Monday night. Tear had driven his flance home from her work as a public stenog- rapher in a Washington office build- ing Monday afternoon and made an engagement to see her again that night. Tear works from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. at St. Elizabeth’s and studies mathe- | ing’s father, an employe of the Mary- Figures in Investigation of Loring Girl’s Murder Crowd of curious about the spot where the body of Corinna Loring was found yesterday. that her daughter was missing. The | girl had changed her clothes after her | mother left. She had taken off a| house dress and thrown it across the bed in her room and then put on a Dlue street dress, over which she drew the blue coat. The mother passed an anxious night | and the next morning reported her | daughter’s disappearance to Sergt. Ralph Brown of the Prince Georges | County force. Meanwhile, Miss Lor- | land Highway Department. who has been stationed at Cambrildge, Md., came home to aid in the search. b Tear pressed police to assign a man to the disappearance, he said, and on Wednesday, which was to have been his wedding day, decided to bring photographs to the Wash- ington newspapers and ask them to | publish descriptions of Miss Loring. Searched Woods. Tear had Friday night off, and yesterday morning he went with Miss | Loring’s brother-in-law, Leo Lojeo- cona of Congress Heights, a fellow attendant at St. Elizabeth’s, to searcl. the woods surrounding the Loring residence. Lojeocona said last night they must have passed very near the spot where the body of his sister-in-law lay as they beat through the :hick- ets and woodlots of the vicinity. The body was found only a few hundred yards beyond the District line. ‘Tear and Lojeocona were in a grocery at Mount Rainier yesterday afternoon when informed by police Miss Loring’s body had been found. | The two hurried tothe scene. Tear was unnerved when he arrived in the little clump of pines where the body lay, friends said, and “ran around in circles,” apparently almost wild wlt.h grief, until restrained by his companions. Tear later went home to tell his mother of the tragedy, returning last night to the Loring residence with his sister, Mabel Tear. He had been at the house several hours when arrested by Chief Plumer and Sergt. Brown. Previously two officers had ' been stationed outside the cottage to watch Tear’s automobile, police said. Immediately after the autopsy, Plumer and Brown went to the Loring residence and found Tear on the front porch talking to reporters. The officers accompanied Tear in- side for a few minutes, then came matics at night school in McKinley High. Last Monday night the bridegroom- to-be, according to his mother, Mrs. Henry Tear, wife of a retired brick- layer, had supper at home and left about 6:30 to go to night school, say- ing he would stop by Miss Loring’s home before reporting for work at 10 o’clock. ‘Tear went to night school and left there about 8:30 o'clock. He drove to the Loring residence, he said, and obtained no response to his knocks. After waiting for about half an hour, t bridegroom said. he mwled a note on a bit of paper and fastened it over the door knob, since the door was locked. The note read: “Sweet, it’s now 9:15 and I cannot walt any longer. Will see you tomor- row—DICK.” Investigators learned that Tear, after leaving the Loring residence, went on to the hospital, where he reported in time to begin work at 10 o'clock. The girl's mother, Mrs. Frances Loring, had left her at home alone when she went to the Mount Rainier M. E. Church at 8 o'clock. Miss Lor- ing was expecting her fiance and wore a house dress when her mother last saw her, Mrs. Loring returned about 9:30 o'clock, found Tear’s note, and learned I out with the prisoner and took him to the Mount Rainier police station, where they talked to him briefly and locked him up. No specific charge was placed against him. A 10-year-old boy who reported seeing a “‘suspicious” man flee through the woods when glimpsed near where Furnace Parts b/ Before Sellmg Investigate the Prices We Pay for OLD GOLD AND SILVER ription, bridge- '&h‘-unr:"?o m?mr how old o by us. LIt (Licensed by U. 8. Govt) SHAH & SHAH 921 F S NV. Phone NA. 5543—We Will Call. Miss Loring’s body was found failed last night to identify Tear after view- ing the prisoner at the Mount Ranier police station. The boy, Robert Doldy. son of Bird H. Doldy, former corporation counsel of Mount Ranier, said he attempted to follow the man when the stranger fled at the sound of a snapping twig. Meanwhile, police said, they wished to talk to a former suitor of Miss Loring’s, described as an “Army man.” Apartment Chosen. The pair had planned to marry in | Washington Wednesday and to oc- cupy an apartment which they were said to have taken on Newion street northeast. Tear already had bought the wedding ring. Miss Loring was known as a “quiet home girl,” who never gave her par- ents the least anxiety. She was a member of the Methodist Church in | Mount Rainier and regularly attended Sunday school, where she sometimes taught. Her friends said Miss Loring never smoked or drank and was of a frank disposition, having a few “boy friends” in past years, but never two at a time. Miss Loring’s brother-in-law intro- duced her to Tear about four months ago, and the romance which developed between them was her first of a serious nature, friends said. Worked for Several Years. Miss Loring, a graduate of Hyatts- ville High School and a business college in Washington, had been working as a public stenographer for several years. Tear, a native of Washington, had known members of Miss Loring's family for the two years he has been working as an attendant at the hos- pital here. Neighbors were interrogated by police, but could not recall seeing any automobiles leaving the Loring resi- dence at the time she disappeared. No one could be located who had seen the missing girl after her mother left home at 8 o'clock. Butter Consumption. People of England consumed an average of 25 pounds of butter each in the last year. LEE D. BUTLER, INC. |VETERANS OF SANTIAGO Meet for Dinner Wednesday Night. The First D. C. 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