Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1936, Page 4

CHICAGO MURDER SUSPECT GIVES UP Colored Gambier, Sought in Trammell Slaying, Sur- renders to Police. By the Assoclated Press. OHICAGO, August 18.—James Gray, 26, colored gambler, sought for ques- tioning in connection with the hotel room slaying of Mrs. Mary Loulse Trammell last Sunday, surrendered today to the police. Gray walked into police headquar- ters and said he had read in the news- papers that he was being sought. He told the police he knew nothing of the slaying, but identified a bundle of laundry held at the station as his perty. Wm laundry was obtained by the police through a laundry check found at the hotel by Willlam Scnumacker eight days ago after he frightened away & colored prowler who attempted to enter his room. Has Police Record. Assistant Prosecutor Morris Meyers said Gray had a police record as & “peeping Tom” and ordered police squads to comb the South Side col- ored quarter for him. A note book and a gaudy greea and white shirt prompted the hunt for Gray for questioning in connec- tion with the death of the 24-year-old bride, who was fatally beaten and choked by an assailant who crept iato her hotel room Saturday night. The note book contained & laundry ticket, notations on horse race and policy game gambling, and a number of names and telephone numbers. One telephone number led detectives to Audrey Tatum, s colored enter- tainer. 'They hurried her to the Jaundry, where the ticket was issued. The bundle of clothing left there by the ticket holder was produced. From it the girl picked out the garish green and white shirt. She said it was worn by Gray when he recently visited the cabaret where she danced. She also dentified a police picture of Gray. Lieut. Otto Erlanson, head of the homicide squad, spurred the search with the assertion that Mrs. Trammell and Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, 24-year-old night club hostess, might have been killed by the same man. In both instances, the attacker stole up hotel fire escapes and crushed the skulls of his victims as they lay in bed. Mrs. Lillian Guild, 50, was bludgeoned to death in a similar manner in the first of three recent erimes of that type, but Thomas Starr, colored, was sentenced to 199 years {mprisonment for her murder. Assistant States Attorney Meyers remarked the similarity of the Tram- mell and Castle homicides. Thomas Trammell, 40, dining car steward who found the body of his young wife Sunday upon his return from a week end run, said he had noti- fled relatives of Mrs. Trammell at her former home in Knoxville, Tenn. PARENTS LEARN OF KILLING. NEW YORK, August 18 (#)—Ar- riving from Europe on the liner Aqui- tania today, Mr. and Mrs. James Link of Knoxville, Tenn., stepfather and mother of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell, said they had learned only this morn- ing she had been found strangled and beaten to death Sunday in Chicago. Maintaining her composure only with visible effort, Mrs. Link said they had just seen a paragraph in the ship’s newspaper telling of her daugh- ter's death, She said the girl, 24, had been visit- ing her in Knoxville at the time Mr. and Mrs. Link left for England July 16. At that time, her daughter ex- pected to rejoin her husband “any day, as soon as he sent the money.” Neither had any theory as tc why their daughter was killed, Drought ‘(Continued From First Page.) down the slopes. The latter method promotes natural ditches that en- courage erosion, while the former causes the water to soak into the soil. There are 27,000 acres in the Dal- hart demonstration project. There the Government has been co-operating with farmers for two years, experi- menting in ways to fight drought. The tract which the committee in- spected yesterday, was on the C. M. Peden farm, where some scenes of the Resettlement Administration’s mo- tion picture, “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” were taken. Then it was & barren, dust-blown fleld. Now it is green with crops. “Thousands of acres in the Pan- handle have been damaged by wind- storms and water erosion, but all can be brought back into production,” Fin- nell said. “If the land can not be used for crops it can be turned back to native grass.” He said contouring has increased production from 34 to 35 per cent where it has been tried, even in dry years. “It’s merely a matter of saving what 25,000 additional farmers in each of the Dakotas will be given jobs within the “next few days.” The total al- ready given work was announced at 25,000 in North Dakota and 18,000 in South Dakota. Some A. A. A. officials said the feed situation was becoming serious in parched sections where there is an unusually large Spring lamb crop. ‘Taking cognizance of crop deterior- ation reports because of drought in the Bouthwest and West corn shot up the market limit of 4 cents a bushel at Chicago yesterday. Almost 10,000,000 bushels were needed there for Septem- ber delivery contracts and only a small portion of it was on hand. Live hogs, “corn on the hoof,” reached & peak unequaled previously but once PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1936. HOAX GIRL READY | MRS. 3.B. FREEMAN “Hoax” Girl Taken to Baltimore With her are Lieut Hold-Up (Continued From First Page.) since then had insisted on keeping his money on his person. ‘The bandits, who were seen by employes of neighboring establish- ments as they fled, are belleved to have Iain in wait for Siratonis to open his shop. Shortly before 7:30 o'clock cries were heard in the cleaning establishment, but persons who heard them believed Siratonis was arguing over some work. Curious, & janitor in & nearby store went outside to look into the shop. He said he saw one of the bandits beating Siratonis over the head with & blackjack while the other rified the victim's pockets. While the janitor ran to call police, passers-by told police they saw Sira- tonis slump to the floor and the ban- dits run from the place. In front of the shop police found a blood-stained blackjack. It was near- ly broken in half by the force of the blows. In an alley in the 1200 block of Har- vard street police found a revolver and a sweater, belleved to have been dis- carded by the bandits. Carried Large Sum of Cash. A man who said he knew Siratonis well told police the cleaning estab- lishment proprietor frequently carried #s much as $3,000 or $4,000 in his pockets. Siratonis slept in the rear of his shop. There are three locks on the front door. Employes of a fllling station next door told police they saw the colored men run down Columbia road. One of them ran all the way to Thirteenth street, but the other leaped into & parked automobile. Failing to start the car, the second bandit also fled on foot. Police checked the owner- ship of the parked car and found it was stolen recently. A description flashed by police soon after the hold-up said one of the bandits was about 25 years old, light- skinned, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, and dressed in a gray suit and hat. The other was described as being about 35 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds and wearing a black jacket and dark trousers. Siratonis is the third person badly beaten by bandits in the last few days. Others Beaten and Robbed. Near the end of last week Cecil Steinecke, 28, night manager of a gas station at First and- Atlantic streets southeast, and Max Bass, 55, pro- prietor of a jewelry store, at 1133 Sev- enth street, were beaten and robbed. Steinecke was slugged with a bottle, while a length of pipe was believed to have been used by the bandits who at- tacked Bass. 1n another hold-up last night, Pietro Fera, 39, of 521 Virginia avenue southeast, was assaulted by three col- ored men, who robbed him of $10 while he was walking through Garfleld Park, Third street and Virginia avenue seutheast. Fera was treated at Provi- dence Hospital for chin and hand lacerations. S0 1JUST KEPT TELLING JOHN - & brisk theoretical battle with the Plane Crash (Continued From First Page.) earlier by a damaging electrical storm that ripped down telephone lines and made communications with the vi- cinity difficult. 24,000 TROOPS AT CUSTER. Concentration for War Games Largest in Michigan Post Since 1917, By the Assoclated Press. CAMP CUSTER, Mich, August 18. —This World War military post pre- pared today for its largest concentra- tion of troops since 1917 as the 32d Division and the 13th Brigade of | Regulars marched southward to join | the 33d Division, which moved in| Monday from the 2nd Army maneu- vers in Allegan County. Motor trucks and horse-drawn ve- hicles were used to bring nearly 24,000 troops to the reservation. ‘While the Illinois National Guards- men of the 33d Division were mov- ing into camp here Monday, Wiscon- | sin and Michigan Guardsmen fought Regulars in Eastern Allegan County. Umpires said the troops accomp- lished their missibn of delaying a hypothetical “Red” division digging in on a line between Gun and Pine Lakes. The Guardsmen drove the | “enemy” back from the heights over- looking Dunningville with machine gun, rifle and artillery fire. The “Red” force, however, also was adjudged to have accomplished its mission in forcing the “Blue” division to deploy over a wide front. Umpires checking back over their records of the 11 days of maneuvering made a few additional observations today. They were: Gas attacks launched from air- planes with simulated mustard gas were more successful than originally believed, having inflicted 50 per cent theoretical casualties. Artillery fire during the operations was 40 per cent diesipated. Lateral liaison between the 32nd and 33rd Divisions was poor. the “Reds” making their most suc- cessful attacks between these units. 7 ® ESTABLISHED 1865 @ 7 GAY CABALLEROS Not So Gey Teday g {GE0.M.BARKER % 7 © COMPANY e There's trouble in old sunny LUMBER and MILLWORK Spain. And there's always Z trouble when folks take a chance on low-grade ma- terials. They think they save money until . . . replace- ment time swiftly arrives. 7 Buy quality! 649-651 N. Y. Ave. N.W. 1523 7th St. N.W. NA. 1348, “The Lumber Number" * T0 FACE CHARGE|SURVIVES CRASH Waives Extradition on Hear- ing and Is Turned Over to Baltimore Detective. Margaret Louise Jean Bell, 33, whose “mutilation” hoax early last moath led to her identification as the girl who robbed & World War veteran of $700 bonus money, waived an extra- dition hearing in Police Court today and was turned over to Baltimore authorities to answer the robbery charge. Held at the Woman's Bureau siace her arrest, the girl was turned over to Detective Lieut. Joseph Itzel of Baltimore to be returned there for trial on & charge of robbing Philip ‘| R. Davis, & Mount Alto Hospital pa- Margaret Louise (Jean) Bell, whose mutilation hoaz here in July gained her wide notoriety as having possible connection with Luciano vice ring in New York, is shown taken to Baltimore to face robbery charges. detective, and Detective Sergt. Richard Cox, Washington. reparatory to being . Joseph Itzel (left), Baltimore ~—Star Staff Photo. Speaking Class Held. Rollin Hunter and Prof. Harold F Harding were principal speakers last night in the third of a series of Young Republican speaking classes at the National Capital Republican Club, Sixteenth street at Scott Circle. tient on June 29. The robbery al- legedly eccurred in s Baltimore hotel, following s drinking party. Miss Bell gained notoriety when she told police New York gangsters sneaked into her apartment, in the 1200 block of New Hampshire avenue, slashed her, carved the initials “C. L.” on her body, turned on the gas and left her to die. They sought ven- geance, she declared, because she had testified before a New York grand jury investigating vice charges against Charles (Lucky) Luciano. Publication of her picture in news- papers led to her tentative identifica- tion by Davis as the girl who robbed him. He later picked her from a police line-up. Police ‘“broke” her hoax story on July 16. She has been arrested here sev- eral times on charges involving im- morality. 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