Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 2

i2 WEDNESDAY EVENING afelanO MARCH 20, 1929 'FRlEND'-0Fc-MAiBEIr-MAYER POLICEMAN IDENTIFIES- NKEDEMPLOYEE Gruesome Clues Long Held By Police in Their Ceaseless Hunt for Slayer of Girl Visits Grandma and Police JACQUELINE Sy ERIDAN, agecT'3, who went "to visit her grandma and who wai found by an officer wandering about alone, 'fhe officer took her to the Berkeley police station where her mother found her later on. TRIBUNE phnlo. found her later on. TRIBUNE, tohnto. BARWETT 15 DESCRIBED AS, MURDER OF GIRL DENIED Bf PRISONER 111 II sleeveless dress and a cloche straw a t- a mm i nr Kw EW hat.

These were shredded Into fragments as a result of the girl's desperate batye for her life. Even hardened detectives turned" aside, sickened by the unwonted brutality of the crime. While fingerprint took every available print, the authorities questioned C. M. Wilcos and It.

O. Hall, 9920 Olive street. These two, carpenters, were working on a garage at the rear of the murder house. They had rot finished their work Saturday and returned at' 7 o'clock Sunday morning to complete it. As they walked around the porner of the bouse 1 1, A nnnn a fcfcrVtt causfed them to recoil with horrorlber murder in the papers." the i craw rytrJj the body of th murdered girl thrown Into a heap In a corner of the It wa Wilcox and Hall that notified the police of the murder.

JEALOUSY THEORY. Various theories developed. Tlie one that held police attention the Lttmber Dealer Ordered Awiy From School After Persistence in Gift to Girls, Declares Officer Policeman Powell A. Plercerfor ten years ft member of th Oakland police force, poaltlv that David A. Barnett, 8n Leandro tumbr dealer, now waiting en-'ne In the Buperlor Court for fMld atealing.

tne ran snnooi rhtldran'a "Santa tiaus nu i tar two I'myiUry friend" of 15-year-old Mable Mayer, victim oi a grussom murder. 1 knew lilm a Soon a I new Mm, declared Pierce, who wa from lil home yesterday bf Detective Cheater Flint of the office, to the rourt room where Bamett awaiting re--aoroptlon of hla ce. "The man I have In mind la In ''the eonrtroora there," ald Flint. 'fiee If you rceognl.e aoyone hung around Frlck achool ulklns to girl during the time longest wa that the girl had. M4aCTlOvs ON DATE CAN'T REMEMBER Jron were In charge of trafflu In, that dUlrlct." ti.

waifesii In and doa-n th i.i Innklnr to rlffht and left mm ha went, and when he reached tha front of the room toppd ana Jurnlng to Flint, eald; "There' tho wan lllng there Vn tb front row thafiHho fel-'iow I'dror away from thai achool number ot tlmea, "Ht neod to come there In a klnd of bine-green Bulck tour 4Bg car. WATCHES OFFICER. "Barnett waa talking with three i a 4 I I I 11 I tjk S' I wi Baby Girl Visits randma, Then Berkeley Police Station A blood-spattered green purse, shattered wrlet watch the minute hand crushed Into th dial at 8:53 p. and fingerprint on the boards of a back fences these are the clues that, have lain in polloe Identification vaults for two years, awaiting the hour when they might tighten a noose for the murder of 15-year-old Mabel Mayer. The finding of th glrl'a mutilated body In th back yard of a deaerted house at 1738 Eighty-sixth avenue, on tSundoy morning, July 2, 1927, Just ak early morning devotees were on their way to mask, confronted police authorities with one ot the most gruesome murder mysteries In the history of the Oak "Vmi rAT: ANXIOUS FATHER, BROTHER, Even as coroner's deputies and police Inspectors gathered In a little group tn th backyard at the murder scene, the slain glrl'a "and her brother, Wllllain.

only a fw block distant, were standing on th front porch ot UtelC home; talking; over Mabel' all-nfght absence. She waa an orderly girl and on who had no "wild" habtta. Her absence wa unprecedented. "I gfleea I'd better notify the police," ald her father. Aa made the announcement, a machine atopped In front of the house and a policeman In plain clothes got out.

He regarded the elder Mayer and then earn up the walk. In that moment, Mayer learned that his daughter had been brutally murdered. Then came the difficult taak which confronts the authorities In every murder casethe accurate determination of the backvtrall, the hour that covered the girl' movement prior to her death the checking of her associate. The Inquiry developed that Mabel had gone to Oakland to a dentlet Saturday morning the day- of the murder, to pay a bill and have certain dental work donei Th girl had no premonition of her terrible end, talking cheerfully with the dentist and being 'cheerful and blithe in her usual manner. VISITS MUSIC TEACHER At o'clock ahe visited Mia Doria Olaen, her musle teacher, 458 Lee street, and took a muslo lesson In Miss Olsen's studio In the Paclflo building.

The appointment for the lesson had been previously mad by Mabel's brother, Wllllarm Mabel left there an hour later to meet her uncle, Christian Mayer, and attend the T. and D. Theater, Mabel wa next seen at Ninth and Broadway at 4: SO o'clock by two boy Leo Partington, II. 8921 Arthur atreet, and Early Btaley, 18, 4008.Altamont avenue. Mabel wa talking to an elderly woman.

Mabel recognised the boy and' spoke to tham. Th woman did At o'clock Mabel had dinner with her uncle at hla home, D417' Saoramento atreet, Berkeley, While sh i waa there, her brother tele, phoned to her and asked when ahe waa coming home. "In a few minutes," Mabel responded. Trie girl left her. uncle' house at o'clock.

Christian Mayer drove her to Dwlght way and Ban Pablo avenue, where she took a southbound Sen Pabjp avenue car. -E. CJ. Harrison, conductor of th car, reealla Mabel distinctly. "A pretty girl carrying a green bag," he told the police.

IDENTIFIES BAG. Shown the blood-spattered bag ftund near the body of the murdered girl, he Identified It. "That's the same he said. The Itirl' movements have a break In them at this spat. She may have been plaked up In a ma-chine, or she may have taken a Southern Paclflo train and got off at Auseon station.

The place tfhere she was murdered wits three and a half blocks from her own home. Her shattered wrist watch showed her death to have been at' 9:56 m. The watch was. sayj detectives, when tip her arm to ward off the terrlflo blow that were rained on her. Mrs.

Margaret Pattersoni 825 1 Olive street, passed the murder spot at :40 15 minutes before th watch stopped. A machine was parked in Two men were! there one In the car the other Just climbing Into the car. She said they were talking excitedly together, seemingly in broken English." Another man, a neighbor living at -the rear of the vacant house, thought he. heard a scream about the same time. CLOTHLNU TATTERED.

The girl's clothing was torn to tatters. She wore a blue fur-trimmed coat, a red One-pleca, a i fiEnKELET, Mnrch vliltunld: "Now, you ee, ah'll bo hre m. i I nnii'" District Attorney and" Police Launch Investigation on Six Lines Involving Man and Victim of Murder (Conlirued Ffom Page had previously admttted that he did. Further developmenta In the Mayer Investigation ere: 1 Identification ot Burnett In 1 court bv Policeman Powell A Pierce, as the "mystery man" iu tho Mayer caae, tor whom tho uthorlllea have aearched for two ycara, 2 Renewed examination of fingerprint evidence, and exhibit ot the murdered Mayer girl, in police hands, in the light ot the poaelbllltlea developed by th I'ierce identification. These cluea were obtained at the aoene ot the murder two yeara ago.

3 Discovery that th Wlndfelt home waa five blocks from the deaerted houee where the mur dered body, of the Mayer girl waa found Sunday morning, July 3. 4 Barnett'a own recognition, ac cordlnr to police, of Police man Pierce aa the officer who ejected him from the echoolyard of the Frlck achool on complaint ot the his' attention to little girls. IDENTIFIED BY HALF DOZEN GIRLS. Identification of Harnett by half dozen girl students of the Frlck school aa tnan who had Importuned them to ride with hint In lila car. 6- Close police check of Bornott'a' movement on the Saturday night of the Mayer" girl' murder.

The Identification of Bamett as the "mystery man" In the Mayer case by Policeman PJerce. threw Harnett into th maelstrom ot the previous crime Inquiry with dramatic suddenness, late yesterday. Bamett was sitting In the court ot Superior Judge Fred V. Wood aa hla caae on the kidnaping and child atealing charge was about to go to the jury when Tierce walked yito tne courtroom." mis eyea ien on Bamett. "Who la that man?" he naked a t-onrt attache.

"The defendant Jit thl cese Barnett," aki the attache, Huh," aald pierce. "That'i the man I've been looking for two year. That' the mystery nan In the Mabel Mayer case." INVESTIGATION OPENED BV PHOSECUTOn, The Identification' wa lmmedl; ately communicated to District At. torney Earl Warren and rigid in- vestlgatlnn According to Pleroe, Bamett recognised him also and averted his gaze. Pierce explained in few words what ho meant by the "mystery man.

"The principal of tho school complained to mc of men bothering tho children at the Frlck school when I was ou traffic duty. I had Keen thl nlan with the little Mayer girl. I ordered hint nway from the school grounds. When the lltllo Mnyer girl was murdered, naturally we tried to find this mnn to question htm. We have never seen him since, have looked for hint everywhere until) today when I recognized hlin Instant The Barnett Investigation Is taw-aitlng the return of Captain of Inspectors B.

A. vvallman, who Is in Lo Angelf-s on police business. Chief ot Police DoniS! Marshall has been In conference, with DlHtrlct Attorney Warren In regard to a full Inquiry Into Barnett'a rnnve-menta during the murder period. 1 hla will wait for Watlman's re turn, Wallman havlntr been In di rect charge- of the investigation gt that time. KEEPS SILENT OV ATTORNEY'S ADVICE.

Barnett was grilled in his cell at the county jail last night by Inspector James Goodnight and Harry OrbelJ regarding his ennnec. tlou with the Mayer lie re-hwd to talk, havins; been Instruct. ed by his two attorney, Leo Sulli van and Kdwanl Heafey, to. make no statement. Tho Inspector left after an hour without having made any progress in the Javetigtioii.

Police believe thai Olmatead, employee of Barnett and former sweetheart of the Mayer girl, holds th key to the situation. It was oliiiKtead, they believe, who intro duced Harnett to the little Mayer Kill, although Olmstead denies that Is a fact. Ills denial, the police believe, lei based on a fear that he may ho involved in -a possible It Is thought that ulmstead may know more about the Mayer girr associates than he has -told the authorities and he IS' being questioned today. FOPND fil'ILTY OF CHILI) STEALING. Barnett was found guilty of child atealing" iii Wood's' court lat night ofter the Jury had deliberated four and one-half hours.

Barnett watched the Jury intently when It filed into court. When the foro-man read the, verdict Ot guilty, Harnett's head snapped bnck and his eyes rolled ut as If he hud been struck on the point of the Jaw. He linnieiliiilely resumed his 'oinpoMirc and turned his rather, L. I'liinctl; who was -jdlliilg jllei44y ludUiMt-hlttfc Tim elder Harnett sal wlih Ids lienif bowed and tears ruiiiiing down his cheeks. I'ltKl KH ONVK TKIV MAKES TEltM HO YKAHS.

Sentence Til be pronounced by Judge Wood at 30 o'clorv tomor row morninp. Because or a prior sentence In Ohio, for an offense in 1 VI IMO MYSTERY BARNETT GIRL Lumber TJealcr Talked of Murder as 'Terrible Thing Declares Witness in Child Stealing Case Rv colnelflene Walter Olm stead, employee of David 'A. Bar- niktl. now cleclneed to be much ougbt "myatery man" of the MabeH Maver murder caae, la a former friend of the slain girl. Olmsted waa a.

witness against Barnett In hla trial on charge ot having lured 6-yeajr-old Eflse Wlnfeldt Into hlacar On January 19 Jast. i 401msted dmittejlltodiy that he bad "gone out" with Mabel Mayer at least three tlmo aome months prior to her death. He also declared he had discussed her murder with Bar nett. "I met Mabel through a. boy friend, took her to ahow once and accompanied her on trips to th publlo library 'couple of tlmea," Olmsted aald "That waa six months be tore she was killed.

We drifted apart and I did not gee 'her or hear of her until I read in th papers that he had been murdereq. DISCUSS MURDER. "I wa working for 'Barnett at the time and mentioned the murder to him, saying I had known the girl. He talked a little about the case, earing It ws a terrible thing" and that he "didn't see how anybody could do such a thing." I never mentioned It to hlin again and ho never spoke of It to mc. "He may have known Mabel, but I do not know that he did.

He didn't give any Indication ot know ing her when talked. about the murder." Olmstead was called by th prosecution In the kidnaping "case to prove that Barnett knew he waa "wanted" by the pojice the day before surrendered himself. "Oa the day after the kidnaping," Olmstead testified, "Bar nett did not show up for work. Later ho telephoned from somewhere out ot town and asked me how tho business wa going. I told him all right and also told him I wanted to aee him that night.

He asked me what about and I told hlin I didn't want to talk over the telephone. Finally I asked him If ho had picked up a little girl the day before. Ho asked why I wanted to know, and I told him the police had been looking for him because they had tho number of the kld nnjicr's car and It waa the same aa his. GOES TO HOUSE. "That night I went to Bnrnett's house-and then went and got Mr.

and Wlnfeldt and the little girl and took them there. Barnett talked tto tihem and then I took them home." Olmstead aald ho bad. known Barnett for about three years, through his connection with the Sequoia Manufacturing Company, 1429 105th avenue. Olmstead has been employed, for nearly four years, he said. volvlng a small Child, the minimum that can be given Barnett will be 20 yeais In Kolsom.

Even the state parole board has no power to Cut this time. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wlndfelt, parents of th. little girl abducted by jfjr preaeht In court when the verdrct waa returned, but made no-comment.

The dramatic high spot of the Barnett case occurred when little Elolse toddled across the courtroom and pointed out Barnett as the man who en-tieed her into his machine for a ride. Harnett blushed and turned his head aside when the Identification wa smads. The till I Id whispered the episodes of the ride to the court stenog. rapher. It, was the.

child's positive identification which aided the Jury's conviction, it was understood. COUNSEL BRANDS CLUES AS WEAK. Attorney Leo Sullivan, associate counsel for Barnett, today branded as "weak" the possibility of hie client's association with the Mayer case. -v. ell Pierre, the policeman who iiinde the Identification, asked another officer tho name) of tho murdered girl yesterday before he picked Bamett, according to my Information," Sul-Hian said today.

This Pierce flatly -denied today. Sullivan attributed the conviction of Barnett on the child stealing case to Barnett'a identification as a factor In the 'Mayer caseby Pierce while the child ateallng.case waa before the Jury. Police Captain Rushes Home to Head Inquiry Police Inspector Captain B. A. Wallman is returning hurriedly to Oakland, from Los Angeles to as-some charge of the probe Into David A.

Barnett'a possible knowl edge of the murder of Mabel Mayer. Ho Is expected tomorrow morning. In Mailman's absence. Chief of Police Donald Marshall has as sumed pergonal charge ot the In-vestigatjjBti, and has assigned Police InapeuTura James (inodnfzht and Hnrrr ordell to devote full time to the case. ro.lu.-e.

work with Deputy Slicrlflfs Jack Collier and J. Davis, and will receive the co-oper ation, of the district attorney' office and the county, detective's office, it was learned this morning. Both Gnodnlcht and O'rdell worked with Wnllpian on the caae at--the time, the crime waa com mitted. 'Never Knew. Mabel Mayer Declares 'Two Time Loser as Awaits Verdict in Child Stealing Case (Continued From Page 1.) attorney suKKeated.

"Oh, yes, I remember the ase, but I had nothing to do with it." In answer to further question Ing, Barnett declared that he wa living at 714 Arbor drive. Broad moor Park, San Leandfo. at th time the Mayer girl was killed. "I cannot, after this lapse of time, remember precisely where I was nn the night of July 1937." he aald. "This waiting for the verdict In the kidnaping case la a great strain on me.

When my mind Is at rest about tlin.t-and tbe verdict has beau brought In, I will try to answer any question that aro put to mr. Hut It la too much to expect that I should recall my whereabouts On an evening a year and a half ago. "I never hung around th) Flick school, trying to niak friends with the girl pupil, and wa never ordered off tho premise by I'ierce, To tthe best ot my knowledge I never saw Pierce before today. It was'verj" upsetting to spring thl on nn when I waa already nervous and anxluns, and I am not willing to make any statement or answer any questions except In the pres ence of my attorney." I WIFE DECLARES PART IV MAYER CASE IMPOSSIBLE. Mr.

Barnett today declared that ahe wa so constantly In her husband' company that it would have been physically Impossible for him to spend any time eeeklng ao, qualntance with the girl pupil at Frlck school. faith in my husband 1 absolutely unshaken by all that we have been through and by thia new 1 trouble," she earnestly, "I waa so worried by the connecting! Ot his name with the Mayer ca.s that I did not sleep last night But I know that he had nothing to do 1 with "We have been through trouble like this before, and I 'i suppose it was natural to aaso Ciatc my husband with thl other and inoro terrible But even If It could bo proved that "knew Mabel Mayer that 1 not 'ninrder. Evert if ho had beet, seen driving with her many tlmea 1 'that la not murder. And even I if lie wa eecn with her oa tb I very day of her death etill that is no evidence of Hour i ever, I do not believe for one mo- i nient that he did know her or ever aaw her. la true that we Owned a hlo car in the eummer of 1927.

)t' wan a aort of greenish or blue Buick, 1926 model. But there are blue cars everywhere." It wag "a man in a blue ear" whom Policeman Powell PlefcV eaye he warned away from the vicinity of the Krlck school HUSBAND' CALLED GREAT HOME MAN. "My husband Is a great horn man." -Mrs. Barnett continued. "He has been a wonderful husband to me alwayB.

I could almost say that he wa never out ot my presence at the time when he is suspected of meeting Mabel Mayer. I am aura that there can be no rtat evidence against him. for I am absolutely convinced of his innocence, not only in thl but in all the accusations that have been brought against him. "The verdict last night a relief to me. It is hard for any body of men and women to re-, gard a Caae Involving, a child -dispassionately- without being swayed by sympathy and by anger against the possible cnl- prlt.

Hut since the jury acquitted my husband of the more) serious of the two charges, I feci that I have every reason to bo Natisflcd with the outcome that, is, a satisfied aa I could short of a complete abqulttal.1' Identification Follows Principal's Suspicions Huspicions of C. F. Finger, pri-cipal at. the Prick- Junior hlfHi school, that David A. Burnett might nave hcen responsible for molestation of girl etudents there led to hi identification by Policeman.

Powell ierce as me mystery manT OI tne Mafiel Mayfr murder case. It was reveajed today. "We -have many reports of girl being molested," Finger aald today. "Whfen I learned of Barnett's arreat in connection -with the Wlnfeltcaa I asked Pierce to look at him and see if he could identify him. He already had been identified by several girls as the man who tried to get them Into his automobile.

"Whether Barnett is the man chased from the school ground Just before the Mayer murder, I do not know. I did not see th man. Of- -ficer Pierce reported to me at the time, that he had chased- man away from the school." Finger refused divulge the Identity of the girls ho Identified Barnett as the mnn who had mo, lested them, He declared he would question these girls 'to see Whether any of them knew Mabel Mayer or had seen her talking to Barnett. hue. because it would also Jive naino of com- pletely clear Xhos iiejuL.lM.tnji.

vrv aging suspicion can even when it is unfounded, am nut prejudging Barneit. have no Idea whjtfier he really knew Mabef or not. and I would be. thp lu.t iu Winn him to be brought into the caae If there baa been, some mlatak. woman ana nea a nun jkne whan 1 aaw him.

He looked bi, aaw me, and dropped hla gnzt Jmms.lately, talking again to the Vemtn, but glancing up nervously 1 Vvo or three timea -to aee It 1 waa tlil eyeing him. "He didn't look me In the eye, tut he knew me. all right: Flint Noticed It, tooi he remarked that the maw racognlaea me. 'I knew It waa the wan 1 had chased away from Frlck achool i "tt waa at eaay for mo lo point -'tlrt out a If waa my own brother. I ahould know him -I s-aaw him hanging around there i Of tea enough." And then the big policeman, fclmaalf the father of a little girl, recounted hie experience with 'the man In the blue can" police are now certain waa Barnatt.

"I working out of Baatern jellc itatlon Pierce aald, J'kni It waa my Job to look after kiddies to aee that they didn't -get run over or anything. TROUBLE WITH MEN. ''High achool beya from other '-achool uid to come around after anhool and meet eome of the larger giria, end I told them to keep 'wy. I had no trouble with them Ut every once In-a while a man swould enow up and try to talk to he glrla. I chaaed them away, too, nnd told them to etay away.

Moat t0( them did, but I had to arrest two fellow. j- "There aa more or leaa trouble that kind all the time, but nothing like when "that fellow with the blue ear" atarted coming. "He ai atlcker uned to drive Up In tltO morulng beforo achool. and after lie had atnrk around for a few dnj, umially jj had girl Of two In, the car with him when he drove up. He'd j.eomo back at lunch lime, lo, and all the kid thonitht he bh great giir uecd to buy mh Ice crcnut and koihcI lines whole luiK'liee.

The kids used to walt for him tr drive up, warned him etay away a of "tlmea, but he kept right -coming, and one dB.v 1 hml a alk with i'rinolpul Klnger of i'rlrk about the bluo car. V'lntter iohl me not to allow any nifn or outlde boys to hang, nrrmiHl to them alp 'away Hnil keep Ujtm 'awaj'. But every tlinn I'd (jptnjusv traffic or Komethlng clc, I'd "turn around end find th.it lilu parked along. the cuHi, It on that way for a inoni-h or Otrttre and th" hlgtrer Kli'ls were getting friendlier and friendlier With the maH. "REO'LAIt SANTA "Ha waa alwaya jolly and friend oeaien to aeatn oy a jeaious wo-" man who had trapped lier at the Color waa lent to this theory when experts determined that the only fingerprints at the place were those of a woman, and, far aa they could were not those of the murdered girl.

The viclou nature ot the attack. Indicated a maniacal fury and medical examination showed that the girl had not been criminally assaulted. The police have never quit given up the belief that a woman was in aome way lnvolvedjn the affair. The torture element entered Into the affair, The girl had been atabbed and Jabbed with pointed stick evidently In an effort to destroy her beauty. Thl height ened th police belief that the slayer waa a woman, although there waa nothing-directly to beer -out this theOry.

At that time.it waa not known that Mabel Mayer was acquainted with any married men and the police had no trail In this direction to follow. MYSTERY MAN. One unexplained Clue, however, wa never run down the "mystery man" known to have been with Mabel at different times. Schoolmates had seen talking to a man. walking with htm.

The father and. brother were unable to furnish any; clue there, denying that Mabel knew any tiang men. They Said her time was too carefully accounts ed tor at home. But schoolmate (aid differently, and the police hunt has never ceased for the "mystery man," yesterday identified as David A. Barnett by Policeman Powell A.

Pleroe: The authorities tucked away the evidence had the broken 'the fingerprints, the torn clothing, an- unexplained trunk, foti)raVi ttweod the back yard-Mi; enough to have lield lh hody'of the girl, a trunk whose waa never, explained and the blood-stained purse. These have lain in the property clerk' office for two year awaiting the day when they would form Valuable Jn the chain that sooner or later 1 expected to enmesh Mabel Mayor's murderer In Its relentless colls. Other Charges Hinted By District Attorney "The child atealing la not all!" In these crypttc word. District Attorney Karl Warren today Indicated that further charges, aside from any which may be under contemplation In the Mabel Mayer ra.se, might 'be filed against David Barnett, convicted lumberman, found guilty by a Jury of Wlndfelt. "Xecording to Warren, the.

filing of the additional charge may depend on whether or not Barnett' attorney flies an appeal-irom yesterday's Jury findings. No announcement of a contemplated appeal was made by Attorney Edward Heafey of BarnetUe legal staff, but the district attorney's efflce Intimated that additlonfU charges might be filed if Barneit fought the verdict, Statement from at least five children regarding Barnett'a al leged actions are known to be In Warren'a hands. Four of the children told of annoyances' by Barnett over a period of two weeks when he waited for them in vacant lots, near the Chevrolet, factory. Two other children re ported that Barnett had attempted to lure them Into his machine and one girl told. of Barnett attempting to entice her.

to a ride near tho Frlck school. Two other case are also In the hands ot the authorities, in which charges of improper conduct may he lodged, as a result: of charges by the children Involved, It is said. CLARK. Mabel would be found and put where he could never do the same IMno tn aorriA thA crtrl. "I have never seen Barnett.

aiio I never heard Mabel epekk him but of course I do not know what ahe did nor whom ehe may have met when ehe was at school. I can only hope that even after thl lapse ot time the case will be wived for, In addition to my grief over Mabel's" rumors Implicating- those whom 'khow to be' Innocent," are constant being brought to-me by friends. "Every one who knows the family, all our friends and neigh-bors, kiunv liuw Impossible it is that any one In our Immediate tor ilia oct 1 nijystery Is so completer ttprre-- is always gossip. "At one time we feared for the life of a member of the family, and moved away for six months until the excitement died To clear up tne case of. Mabels murder Mean everything in ih world, to I Anil atrnnfralv nmicrh iia mother waa.

Mrj. Kherldnn nought jacfjiiinne ror Muncneon. r-na went to the grandmother's next door, flnlnn- 1, 1 i. 9 l.x. qulllne waa when ahe was playing in wio nncK yarn, sno caiieu iib police, station.

geant W. A. Gabrlelson aeati'red the nnioui" moiner, una i imrn-n trip to the Chlldren'e Home reaulted In a happy reunion her mother and "Baby Ann." "Did you hear me ton the was the email girl' flret query t6 lirr mother. "I just knew you would!" Patrolmen Oenrge Kohler fAnd the little girl and her doll wandering several block from the Sheridan home, end after trying In vnln to escertaln her nnme and nddreae, took her to the police etntion. Barnelt Ha Been in Trouble Over Children Before Police Claim.

David. A. Hnrnctt has been In trouble over children beforCi police records, show. fn Toiedo, 67ih, hi 92 1 Harnett waannrlcted of mistreating six- yenr-oliT glil njid (riven a 1 to 20 year Indeterminate- sentence In MauahcM refortniitory. HIh efforts to procure a parole slnrted a controversy wlileli lasted Tor four ye re, until he was paroled In Hornet wn prominent fuelor In Toledo church and civic life, and a man prominently.

Identified the (iffnlrs of the city. Ifo was "TVTJf" lumberman and held a lilph plnco In the community. His nr. rest on the Klrl cliuseii a shock to his friends snd associates. Strenuous efforts were mnile by women's clubs, friends and other organiMtloiis In Harnett's behalf at the time of the trial and the.

effort d(d not cease after he was eent to the reformatory. Imrjnc the four years he was serving his "term unceasing efforts were made to obtain his Harnett was finally paroled 'July 1, 1925, by former Governor Vic Donahey. Immediately upon parole, he took his wife and faintly anil moved to California. 'establishing himself in the lumber business at San Leandru. Ills father, an active Toledo business man, still lives west to attend his son at the bitter' triaj and was In com when tho Jury return! a "Ruilty" verdict in the child SteatinK case: King George Not To See Turf Classic VKIU'iii March 20.

UP) 'loi tf ronveh sclnir at Hoar- l.nstkma ff Akitr-e, b'it nAr .1 1 1 lilllV Mill wilt tyn rtFls ttie TiPrTonH ej cltei.neiit of liMeniiij: to 'oceounl of.lt l.V.,11 itiiist over the radio. Tin) er. plans to take the day off. and fth Vrmvdii Othnf iiA i. POLiGE TRACING RECORD OF III to "Orandma'a" had mttny thrllla yeteijliiiy for three-yiar-old Jae-qullliie Sheridan, daughter of Mr.

and Mra. Albert E. Sheridan, 1030 Maate atreet. nrhiia f.fint ltn tnothr thought her aafely at her grand nav, Ann in thm lUhanlrlan rIHnK thU KrVinll mine waa captivating policemen and at-tendanta at the Frank Hooonover Memorial Home at Blxth atreet and ijnif.t,it Avot.iiA tflin hue -win aome amlle and hir devotion to 'her doll, "Baby -Ann." "Oueaa I'll telfphone to my maniA to come end get uV amtled Jacqulllne to Mra. Margaret Sexton, matron at the children' home.

a fnvihwitii ah Hnihefl nn atool arid dlapenaed another win-noine emlle aa ehe calmly an nounced: "Pleaae give me my mama." Clambering oft the atool, ene Her, you, get out ot here end i boa taii hclr. That nado hlin etireend ho nalili Til break yon--rou can't talk that way to Hut I told him ho had It, lut tlm other way around. I told him I waa ino one mat wnum no hip rirciiHliiK If I ccr caught him around tlici ngnln. "Ho he drove away and after that he didn't come up In front of the honl Hnv more. HM'T Altol'M) COTINEH.

"But he didn't atop bothering i Klrle, though. I urd to cfttoh gltmptiea of him ducking that blue RHr.nround tha corner, and ne lined to wait for tho girls down on Uly-fnuvth avenue (lie nra cliooj'a between flxly-aecond and Foothill -boulevard, you know. "Hut. ticforc I drove him away I iiotlccil Hint tnc ot hi favor- lien tins tho Muycr girl. Sho 'would tlrlvp up to achool with lil in mul jiuiiii out mill run In- kl.l.l iii brwiii ii.

Ihf. I'lir Hlllllllf'fl. Then he'd come hiu'k for her and lake her home nrirr aehOol, too. I saw her with him more than nr of the cither. V'After I drove him away from In front of the achool, women who lived in the neighborhood often eomplaln'ed to ine that the blue enr Wiih hAngfng around on eld and that plrli were going to It, Headquarter Rot plenty Of complaints from women phonlne.

in the ennie eort of etory' thone dnyB. too. The ortiers told me nhoiiWIt when I made my reports about tho man. ct IT A1TKR Ml IIDEU. "Hut I uccr-eay- thnt.

fellow or the enr, cllher. after 'Miibol Mayer was murdered. He new-r elioued nmund. there after thiil. At (lie ttmc of the giKlnrii Into the murder I told in.v superior offU'er.

l.lcut. W. F. Wood, nliout a mnn In a blue car haiiitliijr aroiinil the neftool where Mnbel went, hut wasn't On tlie i and didn't henr any more about It." I Aflf-r. Plere had Identified Bnr-I nett In rourt'an "tho man In the blue, rim" he the ifaet to Ileut.

Thornherry iwid l'Oliee I Iiuipertor James IjnoilnlKht, ljnth of, whom were In. the court room lit the time. had no Idea whs Hiirnett whom lint lind 'in mind when he skd him tu point out the man whognve the- Frii-k cliocJ ti- in ,,,7 didn't know, what the fellow wild wns mi irllll for kid-nnpiiig lookeil like, hut I sure did know that fellow silling there on tho front row wit the one that parceled out thoac ets end stuff tn tho glrla out there gt the achool." Victim's Mother Wonders 'Is Barnett Guilty ly with the girl and roit'lnr too never, miad- hvln roiyia jiurt of KoodleK with hini. to 'feed the kids. Iff used lo thu-e when achool waen't In -aeaalon wjih two glrla In the front feat with him and several times I- snw'hlm with arm around them, ,1 "There would he different cii-ls at different tlnies all of tlioin eeemed to like th mnn, "Flnallr ono rtnr It got bird I went over to hint said: Here Is Police Description of 'Mystery Man' tlERE Is a polire demrlprloii' of David Alfred.

Bamett, inn-i'l-fed kidnsper declared' by, Ta-Velman Powell A. Pie'rre lo be 'mytery he frequently aw f'h Mabel Mayer, iri-year-bld hoel girl, prior to her mutiler two vesra fO: Heltht-5 feet. 8' fndie'. Telght 183 pounds. Kye CompIeion niediimr.

Playmalei, hool ronipaniou nt nrinlilinrlinnil fif- Xf.v.r klMM An F.tffhlv-f iftll iu. tutherltie If a man ef thia denerlp- 9nm wi'n -in, By ANNE From the beginning of the trial of David A. Barnett on charges of kidnaping and child stealing, Mrs. Emllle Mayer, mother of Mabel Mayer, has "wondered whether thle might be the same man who killed my daughter." Barnett'a nam Is linked with the Mayer, case by the identification of Policeman Powell -Pierce, who ye, terday pointed out Barnett as the man whom bfe had warned away from the vicinity of the I'rlck school, "When this man was arrested for enticing -little Elolse Wlnfelt into his car, so close to where we live andi where" Mabel was killed. I at once wondered whether It might be theawm man," MayereuuLJxtrclecaiiJd ljfli e.jir.cjji responsible Our home Is at.2008 Elghly-sffth avenue, only a short distance from where he picked up- the Wlnfelt "Of course I ould 'hot want the wronu man to suffer for any crime, but there has not been a dAy In all these months 'when I "have not prayed that the man who killed my of the 3n0 speeiHl trains Avhlch will speed from the capital to Liver pool early Friday morning and return Immediately fier thp race, -e rs,.