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dercr had participated in a robbery some time ago and were friendly.Tells of Meeting.I was standing on the street one day. the informant said, • when this man drove by. He picked me up and after we had talked a bit he told me he took part in the car barn murders. I asked him why they killed the two men and he said they did it because one of them recognized the gunmen.The informant subsequently identified a photograph from police files of the man he said made the confession. Both men have police records.Lieut. John Fowler, who is in charge of the Wilson investigation, said Lieut. Floyd Truscott and Sergt. Earl Hartman went to Richmond in connection with that case. He admitted. however, that they conferred with a prisoner in the District Jail shortly before leaving.Wilson was killed when gangsters mistook him for Mickey McDonald, local gambler. Several suspects are under arrest and police say the case is nearly ready for presentation to the Montgomery County grand jury.Both murders were committed inMaryland.failed to locate him, and it was believed he had become alarmed and left the city.Two Employes Slain.Two Capital Transit Co. employes were killed when gunmen robbed the Chevy Chase Lake car bam of $1,800.It is believed one of the victims.James M. Mitchell. 58. a clerk, was killed after he had recognized one or more of the /unmen. He was shotfour times while sitting in the office.The other victim. Emory Smith. 40-year-old watchman, was shot and thrown into Rock Creek after the bandits had taken him nearly a mile from the car bam in their automobile.The identity of the suspected slayer reached police through a prisoner in the District Jail, who informed another inmate he knew one of the participants in the murders. His confidante relayed the information to the district attorney. The first prisoner was called In and finally gave the name of the man he said had told him he -as in cn the car barn job.He said he and the tutpected mur-GLUE IS REVEALEDWashington* Detectives in Richmond Also Seeking Evidence in Wilson Murder.Two Washington detectives were in Richmond, Va„ today conducting an investigation that may result in solution of the car barn murders of last January 21 and also produce additional evidence in the murder of Allen B. Wilson, newspaper route agent, killed in October. 1934.Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, said the detectives expected to work on both cases when they left for the Virginia capital.It was learned the name of an alleged participant in the car barn casewas given the investigators several aen a search for this man
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1935
Page 11
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