Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 32

B—12 #» PUCH T0 NSPET MATTENS HONE State’s Attorney Will Go Over Ground With Brother of Slain Farmer. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 17.— State's Attorney James H. Pugh planned to make a special visit this afternoon to the farm home near Four Corners of Elwood Matthews, 6i wealthy landowner, who was mur- | dered the night of November 21. Pugh, who was o be accompanied by Montgomery County police, would attach no special significance to his visit. He planned to go over the ground where the murder occurred Matthews’ lower jaw checked with one found in the Manor Club wall. Admits Part in Hold-up. Kirby has been in Jail at Charles- ton since December 6. Fillinger and Vollten announced Monday night that Kirby admitted participating in_the fatal Mtthews hold-up, naming Reed ag the one who shot Matthews while the aged farmer screamed for help in the waters of Northeast Branch near Burnt Mills, where he had been thrown after he had been robbed. West Virginia troopers. according to the Associated Press, said their inquiry also made them believe more strongly | the trio was connected with the death of Dollman, 32-year-cld Charleston salesman. The dispatch from Charles- ton said police are still seeking the THE EVENING STAR, | other robberies in this county and in West Virginia. The jailers of Kirby disclosed they sre guarding him with additional care since receipt of a letter from Wash- ington, the Associated Press said. | Jailer Chilton Stephenson at | Charleston said the letter to the youth | read: | | “Dear Brother Jackie (he was first | booked as Jack Miller): Mother is worried about you. Under the cir- cumstances take things easy. We will gel some of your friends to help you | out of trouble. JOHN.” Fillinger said last night State troop- | ers and Virginia officers had failed to link Kirby and his two fugitive | companions with the attempted rob- | bery of the Bank of Boonmill at Boon- | weapon which killed Matthews, believ- | mill, Va. ing it was thrown away somewhere in | An Assoclated Press dispatch quoted | Mason or Putnam Counties, W. Va. Kirby was wounded while resisting | the day making ballistics tests in the | arrest near Montgomery, W. Va., after | State Police Bureau of Criminal Iden- | being sought for the Kidnaping and robbery of P. P. Wilson, Charleston | no definite connection between the trio banker. He also confessed aiding in |and the attempted bank hold-up. and to talk with Charles Matthews, 71, brother of Elwood, he said. 4 Meanwhile, law enforcement agen- eies of Monigomery County and the State of West Virginia Were combined with facilities of the Federal Bureau | of Investigation in-efforts to solve two | brutal murders. | The crimes are the slaying of El- | wood Matthews, 68, wealthy Mont- | gomery County farmer, on the night of November 21 near his home at Four Corners, and tbe fatal beating of W. Barl Dollman, 32, Charleston, W. Va., salesman, left to die in his flammg! automobile Thanksgiving day. ‘ Montgomery County officers sought | at the F. B. I. in Washington finger- | prints of Lawrence Gingell, 20, who | with William Reed, 25, ex-Maryland | eonvict, are sought in connection with | both crimes. Gingell has no criminal record. | . Meanwhile, combined police forces had established by ballistics tests that | bullets found in Matthews’ head and | tn the walls of the Manor Club in Montgomery County and & rooming | house at Charleston, W. Va, came | &om Reed’s revolver. F. B. L Facilities Available. The F. B. 1 at Washington an-| ounced its facilities were available to authorities working on the Matthews ease. Sergt. Guy Jones of Montgom- | ory County police at Silver Spring said Gingell's fingerprints were the chief object of his visit to the F. B. I yesterday. , According to an Associated Press dispatch from Charleston, W. Va, a bullet fired into a wall during & room- fng house brawl there gave State yoopers & clue which connected Reed with the Matthews slaying Lieut. J. H. Fillinger, at Charleston, said War Joseph Kirby, 20, toid him #he bullet was fired during a fight in & house there on the night of Decem- ber 3 and that the gun was used by | Reed | Fillinger and two Montgomery County officers, Sergts. 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