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EVIDENCE GATHERED at the scene was sent for analysis and inspection to the F.B.I. laboratory and agents from that organization testified to the presence of blood and human hair, perhaps an eyebrow, on the wrecking bar.
Irva Poe, owner of the restaurant, described the scene as she found it on the fatal morning and attested to the fact that money was taken from the safe and register, as well as a large piggy bank. The disarray and mutilated coin box was mute testimony of the events which had taken place.
Albert 0. Morgan, a cellmate in Arlington and
Fj^rfax county jails, testified that Campbell told him after the investigator served the four warrants on him in the jail, “we did this over a year and a half ago and they are just now coming up with it.”
Morgan had run of the cell blocks and carried notes from Campbell on one floor to Ernest Moffett Smith on another floor. Smith faces the same four charges but is presently in the prison hospital in Richmond.
Campbell also told Morgan, according to his testimony that “if they” don’t catch Charlie Stringfellow, we’ll do all right, and we were doing all right until Smith ran his mouth to Linckus (Smith’s cellmate).”
THE CASE WAS TIED together with testimony of Athey Nicholson, step-grandfather of Campbell, who identified the wrecking bar as his and by Reid Burke, another relative who said in conversation concerning the murder “I don’t have to wonder, I know, I did it myself.
“Smith and I spent the day in Alexandria with Campbell and we all came to Warrenton in the evening. I got my car parked there and we came to Amissville,” said Charlie Stringfellow when he took the stand. “I went home and the next evening they told me what they had done.”
Stringfellow said when he asked if they weren’t worried about fingerprints they said: “No indeedy. We wore gloves. We took a gun but threw it away.”
Mr. Greco presented his defense Friday morning and asked for a motion to declare Stringfellow an adverse witness. He questioned Mrs. Stringfellow and Henry Corder as to the credibility of Stringfellow. Motions were also made to strike testimony of other witnesses including Nicholson but in spite of the intense effort of the defense counsel a guilty verdict was rendered. — Sarah Latham □
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