The sun., 1917-09-12
NEW MYSTERIES
TOLD TO D00LING
BY ALTON MEANS
Accusing Phone Call From
This City on Night of
Death Is Puzzle.
SWAMI SEEKING PLOT
Prosecutor Searches Managers
Papers-Mrs. Kings Money
Gone From Bank.
SWAMI SEEKING PLOT

Yesterdays developments In the sew
Mrs. Maude 4. King at Concord. ~ c..
and OF her life, relationships and
iinancia; affairs during the years pre-
ceding her death indicate that all lines
OF inquiry are converging In New York
city, In the Office OF District Attorney
Swami. Locally these developments
were:
From Concord came Afton--known to
his friends as Tony-Means, brother and
assistant OF CASTOR B. Means, Mrs.
Kings business manager and the only
person with her when she was killed.
Alton Means went to 1855 Park avenue.
where Mrs King. her sister. Mrs. Melvin,
and the Means family lived. to get some
papers which his brother had directed
him to obtain and take to Concord.
Before he could hunt them up Assistan:
District Attorney John r. Dooling hap
pened In and invited him to 60 down
to the District Attorneys office. Means
consented. They talked for two hours
in Dooiing's room. then after dinner had
another session In the Meanses' Park
avenue apartment. Means intended to
return to Concord to-day. He may
not do So
Means's Apartment Searched.
Papers in CASTOR Means's apartment
at 1855 Park avenue were examined for
, four hours last night by Assistant Dis
! trict ATTORNEY DOoling and Detective
Jones of his office. Alton Means was
Henry Dietsch. and Mrs. Dietsch. A
man from Philadelphia whose name
Dooling would not reveal Joined them
at IL +. NJ. The search was still on
at midnight. Dooling said at that time
that many papers, some OF which were
puzzling. had been scrutinized; that
Alton Means was answering all Ques-
tions readily and that the results OF
the inquiry were not yet apparent
A lawyer representing a member OF
! the King family. who fears that large
part Of the inherited fortune. Of. Mrs.
, King has disappeared, came to New York
and placed his suspicious and facts upon
which he bases them before the District
Attorney and asked his help in clearing
up set Of curious circumstances. This
! lawyer said he had visited banks in
which Mrs. King formerly had large de-
i,osts ami found her accounts exhausted
, in all except one OF them. He also said
that one OF Kings relatives lost heavily
III stoCh idsk year. ne ~Sdu
that he was already satisfied. from the
/ results OF preliminary inquiry. that most
Of Mrs Kings estate had vanished.
Plot Proof Sought.
( District Attorney Swami wired Hay.
den Clement. Prosecuting Attorney for
Cabarrus county. North Carolina. wherein
/ is Concord. offering TO do everything pos
sible to determine whether or not a con,
! spiracy resulting in the death OF Mrs
/ King originated in this city.
/ At MIR. Swanns request Capt. Jones
the revolver and pistol expert of the Po
/ lice Department. began experiments de
/ signed to show whether or not wo
man could be accidentally shot back d
the left ear in the manner suggested NJ
! fore the Coroner's Jury by Castor
Means The opinion OF Or. Otto Schultze
pathologist OF the District Attorneys Of
fce. was also sought.
! Assistant District Attorney Doolins
obtained from several persons who knew
Mrs. King and the persons who sur
rounded her a batch OF letters and pa
pers regarded by him as highly import
ant. In the bundle Is a telegram sen
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