Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
MYSTERY SHROUDS CRIME
Admirer, in Her Room at the Time,
Charged With Homicide.
GIRL FRIEND ALSO rs HELD
No Tangible Clue to Planner Of In
sidious Murder in High-Class
New York Apartment.

machine. contained in an oblong fiat
box. which had held 100 cigarettes, was
handed to Mrs. Howard Walker, wife of
travelling electrical salesman. known by
her stage name of Miss Grace Taylor, at
the door of her apartment on the first
floor of 1O3 West nth street this evening
1t exploded while the young woman was
opening the wrappings and she was al
most instantly killed and frightfully
muti!ated.
Charles NJ. Dickinson Of 36 West 61st
street, and secretary to the chief en-
gineer of the United States Motor Com
o3d street, was the only person in the
apartment besides Miss Taylor at the
time of the explosion. He is held by the
police on charge of homicide.
Dickinson claims he did not see the
person who delivered the deadly package
1t was de.ivered by the front door of the
high-clasS apartment house where Miss
Taylor has lived but three weeks, but
none of the other tenants saw the per-
son who first rang the outside bell and
then the bell of Miss Taylor's apartment
and handed in the innocent looking pack
age. 1t was delivered by a uniformed
messenger delivery boy.
Dickinson Her Admirer.
The only account of the receipt of the
bomb by Miss Taylor and it's explosion
is given by Dickinson. He, too, has fur
nished the police with the history of
Miss Taylor, whom, he says, he has
known since she was child in Spokane
Wash, and confesses himself her
admirer and constant visitor for sew
eral months.
Miss Taylor's real name was Grace
Walker. and she was about thirty-two
years old and quite pretty. She came to
New York several years ago seeking en-
ployment on the stage. and took the stage
name of Grace Taylor. She appeared in
several productions, but failed in her
ambitions as an actress and has been out
of employment for some time, but has
always lived well. Several weeks ago
she was arrested on a warrant charging
her with harbOring a minor because a
young girl was an occupant of her fiat In
West Goth street. She was fined $50. and
the fine, according to the police, was paid
dickinson. Miss Taylor. after her ar
floor Of 1Os West 77th street. through me
recommendation of Dickinson, and went
there to live with Ella Lamarre, who de.
scribed herself as a show girl and close
Patch Up Their Quarrel
The two women lived very quietly and
according to Dickinson. his employer
tOiu ulili tNdl thCS "ASuCO " SohO
charge of a branch Of their business in
Dayton, Ohio, and when he told Miss
Taylor that he was to leave the city she
objected to the plan and they had
quarrel. About four days ago the quar-
rel was patched up and this afternoon
dickinson called Miss Taylor by tele-
phone and asked permission to visit her.
She consented and he went to the house
where he chatted with Miss Taylor and
Miss Lamarre until about 3 O'Clock,
n ,l,o
out and do some shopping. After Miss
Lamarre's departure, according to Dick
.nson, the subject of his coming de-
parture was again brought up and he
again found himself in disfavor. but
tried to joke with Miss Taylor and recon-
cile her to the plan.
Shortly before q o'clock the bell at the
door OF the apartment rang. Miss Taylor
went to the door. She returned with a
small and neatly wrapped package in her
hands
nat is tiAt?" Dickinson said he
asked her.
Never mind what it is. don't want
you to see it, she is alleged to have re-
piled.
Get out of the room while l open it,
AMI Dickinson says she pushed him into
an adjoining room, but only half closed
the door.
Doctor Notifies Police.
IIchlNSOn says d IlOHleHt IdleT lie
peeped through the door just as Miss
Taylor. with a look of horr, on her
face, uttered scream. Then there was a
binding explosion and the woman fell
full length on the floor bleeding from
many wounds. A piece of wadded paper
like part of a giant firecracker struck
Dickinson a stinging blow on the ear.
AS soon ne recovered from the shock
Of the explosion Dickinson claims he
went to the side of the PROSTATE woman
and seeing that she was desperately
wounded, rushed out of the house and
next door to the Office of DR.. Charles T..
Perkins. who followed him back onto the
apartment. Smoke was curling out of
the. front windows where the glass had
been shattered. DR.. Perkins notified the
police by telephone that the woman was
dead
chine were driven almost through Miss
| raylor's body and great wound torn in
her breast. Other pieces of steel were
driven into the ceiling and others through
the glass of the front windows and up
against the walls of the buildings on the
opposite side of the street.
Miss Lamarre, when she returned, was
also taken to the station house and ques-
toned. The police declined to state
whether she had given them any tangible
| clue to the identity of the person VINO
| conceived the plan of murder, or who
| might have delivered the Internal ma
chine. A fragment of the machine found
| by the police bore Miss TaylOr's address
| in typewriting
| Miss Taylor is said to have q sister liv-
| ing in the city, and she will also be ques-