Evening star. [volume], January 16, 1957, Page A-5, Image 5

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PARENTS OF SLAIN GIRL—Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Hentgen, whose 15-year-old daughter Georgette was
slain while sledding, arrive at the Warner E.
Pumphrey Funeral Home in Silver Spring.—Star
Staff Photo.
Police Holding Youth, 15,
In Slaying of Girl
Continued From First Page
Highland View sledding hill to
go to another hill.
Picks Up Dogwood
They went through the woods,
dragging their sleds (whose
tracks also satisfied police tests)
until they reached a point 300
feet from the end of Manchester
road.
■lt was here that Hall said he
struck Georgette with a piece of
dogwood he had picked up shortly
before to use as a walking stick
Police found the stick yesterday
and more importantly, a woman
who said she saw a boy pick it up
and break it with his foot. She
had happened to be looking from
the window of her house.
Later police found the other
end of the stick and said the two
fitted together perfectly. This
was regarded as another impor
tant lmk in the evidence.
In his enactment. Hall told
police Georgette fell instantly
when he struck her over the
right ear. fracturing the skull.
Then he carried the body west
ward about 75 feet off the path
that is Manchester road ex
tended
Denies Choking Girl
Although a coroner's report said
the girl also was choked. Hall
denied this. He also denied ex
posing about a foot of her body
at the waist. He said he had put
the body face down, but it was
upwaid when found.
He kicked some snow on the
body to conceal it partly. Then
he retraced his steps to the
path to get her sled which he
placed near Georgette's body.
While he was carrying her. the
girl's gloves fell off at different,
spots.
Hall said he then went home,
sometime after 1 p.m., a fact
verified by his mother before she
was taken to a hospital for treat
ment of anemia.
The youth ate lunch, watched
television awhile and returned
to the area near Oldham road
and Lamar terrace for more
sledding.
All the while, police were
combing the area. And every- i
where they turned, the answer
seemed to come up: The boy in
the cowboy hat.
Arrested at School
To strengthen the case, police
fitted Hall's four-buckle arctics
into the larger footprints beside
those of the little girl, leading to
the point of the slaying.
The youth was arrested at!
school by Detective Sergts. Ron
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ald J. Loomis, Kenneth Watkins,
and George Athey and taken to
Bethesda station for questioning.
He first gave an oral confession,
re-enacted the crime and was
taken to Silver Spring station
handcuffed to two detectives.
As he dictated a confession
he ate two sandwiches and drank
a bottle of milk and a soft
drink furnished by the police.
1 The boy's father is a proof
reader at the Cornelius Print
ing Co. in Silver Spring. It was
not until after the news of the
arrest was on the radio that he
learned what had happened to
;the boy he adopted at the age
of 3 months.
Graham Questions
Mideast Policy
PORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 16
f^P).—Evangelist Billy Graham
last night questioned United
States policy in the Middle East
in an address before a Baptist
conference.
“With the Eisenhower doctrine
covering with a shield the Mid
dle East,” he said, “the American
people must now ask themselves
this question—‘Do we have the
moral and spiritual qualities toi
protect an Arab nation in the
deserts . . . when we didn't have;
the moral and spiritual quanti
ties to protect the Hungarians?’ “
Mr. Graham asked:
“Are we willing as an American
people ... to start a third world
war to protect a bit of sand and
some nomad tribes . . . when we
were not willing to start it in
order to keep communism from
grabbing all of China?”
“These are the most dangerous
and critical hours in the history
of our race,” he said.
Mr. Graham was keynote
speaker before the Texas Baptist
Evangelistic Conference. •
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Arrest Is Double Blow
To Boy's Foster Father
David Vernon Hall never got around to eating the meal his
father prepared for his last night.
Instead, the 15-year-old boy was being booked at the Silver
Spring police station on a charge of murdering Georgette Anne
Hentgen, 15, a Montgomery Blair High School classmate.
At his home, an attractive
Bradford road, just off Wayne
avenue. Silver Spring. Thomas V.
Hall, the boy’s foster father, went
ahead with dinner preparations,
unaware of the troubles that
confronted the boy he adopted
when he was 3 months old.
Mr. Hall knew David had been
questioned, but he said he had!
no idea it was anything more
serious.
“The first I learned about it,"|
he said later, “was when a friend
called me and said he heard it
on the radio that my son had
been arrested.”
The news came as a double;
blow to Mr. Hall. He had taken:
his wife to Emergency Hospital
earlier in the day for admission
to receive periodic blood trans
fusions for anemia.
“I had to call her there, and
she was quite upset,” Mr. Hall
said. "She wanted to come
home.”
David was born in Washington
and will be 16 years old on Feb
ruary 19. Friends visiting the
house last night described him
as “an average boy from an
average family.”
Mr. Hall said the boy was
"lazy” when asked to do house
hold chores, “but he always
went to church without urging.”.
He said he use to worry that
“David liked to play with
younger children,” but added
that he thought "that was
solved as a result of some
psychiatric treatment.”
The father also said he and
Mrs. Hall “boarded” twins for 1
several years, but “they were,
taken back by their parents”:
some time ago.
“It sort of upset my wife,” he jj
added, "and maybe even the 1
boy.”
Received Low Marks
The father said David had led ]
a “reasonably normal life,” al
though he recently has been .
getting low marks in school.
“He definitely is not a good
■student,” Mr. Hall said. "They
say he has a high IQ. He has 1
high capabilities, but he’s lazy.”
Montgomery Blair is the
; fourth school David has at- !
tended, the father said. He pre
viously attended the ninth grade
at Eastern Suburban Junior
High School, Silver Spring, and ;
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before that spent four years,
from the fifth through eighth
grades, at Fork Union (Va.)
Military Academy. He got his
I initial schooling at Oak View
.Elementary School in Silver
[ i Spring.
David, the father said, never
had been in serious trouble be
ifore.
Took Part in Sports
Mr. Hall said his son took
ipart in some sports but did not
excel in any. He "played at”
; soccer and touch football, among
others, the father added. He
went to several dances, Mr. Hall
said, but “we had to push him
to get him to take dancing les
sons.” Sometimes he was “surly”
and “never, very affectionate.”
His pet is a Siamese cat. He
used to collect stamps.
Mr. Hall said he did not know
the dead girl and had not heard
his son discuss her. She lived
on the next street. The first!
David got drawn into the in
vestigation, he said, was about
! 10:30 p.m. Monday when police:
"came around and got him out*
of bed.”
, “That was the first inkling
we had of anything.” Mr. Hall
said.
Before Mr. Hall took off early
yesterday from work to take his
wife to the hospital, school
authorities at Montgomery Blair
phoned him at work around
lunch time and asked permission
for police to question his son.
He said he granted it, without
knowing his son was suspected.
“I just thought they were
questioning him like they were;
all the other teen-agers," the
father said.
Police said David was arrested:
at the school about 2:10 p.m.
"David has a whale of an ap
petite,” Mr. Hall said. "He
doesn’t miss a meal. When it
got to be five o’clock. I started
getting worried. I thought he
should be home. I was getting
the meal for the two of us.”
Mr. Hall is a proofreader at
the Cornelius Printing Co., in
jSilver Spring.
Thorez Opposes
Khrushchev on
Cominform Plan
PARIS, Jan. 16 (A 1 ). —Soviet
; Communist Boss Nikita S.
Khrushchev is promoting a meet
■ ing in Moscow next month to
( revive the Cominform, informed
sources said today. Indications
t are it will not be all smooth
■sledding.
West European Red leaders
, were reported summoned to at
, tend. All the East European sat
ellites are expected to be repre
sented.
i The Paris France-Soir, a mod
• erate newspaper noted for the
accuracy of its news from Coifi
munfst circles, said French Party
1 Boss Maurice Thorez has already
objected on the ground the time
is not ripe.
The Cominform was the Red
information bureau and clearing
: house founded after World War
t II with the aim of promoting
• world communism.
I It was dissolved only last April.
, The dissolution came after Mr.
I Khrushchev had approved—at
i the 20th Congress of the Soviet
. Communist Party—a policy of
• "many roads to socialism” advo
■ cated by Yugoslavia’s President
. Tito. The plush headquarters in
Bucharest, Romania, were closed.
Mr. Khrushchev, stung by out
bursts of independence in the
[ Red sphere and weakening of the
West European Communist par
ties, is reported to want to re
; establish the Cominform to put
; all Red groups under direct Mos
cow discipline.
Some informants connected
the visit of Red Chinese Premier
Chou En-lai to Moscow, Warsaw
and Budapest with Mr. Khrush
chev’s plans.
: Gunman Gets $45,000 |
In South Bend Bank
SOUTH BEND. Ind„ Jan. 16
(A*). A mustached, tobacco
chewing gunman robbed a
branch bank of an estimated 1
$45,000 yesterday, walking away
after shutting two employes in a '•
closet. 1
| Mrs. Gertrude Smith, teller in !
the Lincolnway branch of Na
tional Bank & Trust Co., said the
man. neatly dressed in a brown
overcoat and brown hat, first
posed as a businessman inquir-j
ing about trust accounts. Frank
Beatty, branch manager, said
the man forced him to open
the wall safe before herding him
: and Mrs. Smith Into a closet.
Speeder Faces
Corps Justice
An AWOL Marine was re
-1 leased to Marine Corps authori
ties yesterday after pleading
i guilty to 34 traffic violations,
which grew out of a chase
through Northwest Washington.
The defendant is Charles A.
Reus, 20, of the 700 block of
Highland avenue. Falls Church,
Va. He pleaded guilty before
Municipal Court Judge Andrew
J. Howard, jr„ to eight speeding
charges, seven charges of driving
on the wrong side of the street,
charges of passing seven stop
signs and also of driving through!
12 red lights.
A charge of taking property
without right in connection with
the automobile Reus was using,
was dropped.
Judge Howard suspended!
sentence on the traffic counts!
Supreme Soviet
Will Meet Feb. 5
MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (A > ).—The
Supreme Boviet the Soviet
Union’s parliament—has been
called into session February 5.
The meeting of the two-house
legislature of more than 1.300
members probably will discuss
and pass the government’s bud
get for 1957. It may discuss also
some questions of economic plan
ning and the ’relations of the
Soviet Union with European sat
ellites.
The Supreme Soviet met last
in July, 1956. Normally this body
indorses policies and proposed
laws of the Soviet government
with unanimous votes.
Under the constitution, such
sessions are supposed to take j
place twice a yesr. Since the
death of Stalin the Supreme So
viet has on several occasions been
the scene of important poli*%
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Soviet government and party
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