The sun., 1919-08-17
ARMY FINGER PRINT
OF LANDON SOUGHT
washington Asked to End I'm
certainty Over Hotel Vic
tim's'Identity.
SCAR rs CONFIRMATORY
Two Men Insist Body Is Detec-
tive Dents, but Father
Denies.
SCAR rs CONFIRMATORY

Ths service record of sergt. Cecil
e. Landon of the Quartermaster Corps,
Brest. France. was procured yesterday
by Capt Arthur Carey of the police
homicide squad from Camp Mills. L. l.,
In an effort to make certain the Identity
OF the man slain in room of the Hotel
McAlpin last Thursday.
Capt. Carey was prompted to this
move by the statement Of Alfred vos.
t47 West 15sth street, who on Friday
visited the morgue and declared the body
was that OF Sergt. Landon of 1924
Eighty ninth street, Portland. Ore, who
had come over on the transport North
ern Pacific with him and three other
soldiers as casuals from Brest
Vos said that the slain man resembled
Landon, who was a sophomore at the
university of Oregon previous to becom-
ing soldier. He assured the police,
however. that he was not positive of the
identification and in the belief that the
service record might prove OF some
value Capt. Carey and his men went to
tho morgue with II yesterday.
They found that the army doctors who
admitted Landon to the service at the
1917, had made note OF the fact In the
record that the soldier had a scar on the
right finger Of the right hand. This
description tailed with a scar on the
right hand Of the murdered man.
The police and District Attorneys
office feel uncertain about the identity
and last night asked the office of the
Adjutant-General in Washington to for
ward copy OF the finger print record
OF Sergeant Landon, who was dis
charged from the service at Camp Mills
Tuesday. two days before the crime was
committed in this city. The record is
expected here by Monday evening. AL
though both the police and John F..
Joyce. Assistant District Attorney in
charge of the homicide bureau, stated
positively they did not believe the body
was that of Detective Darby Dent, who
has not been seen since last Thursday
morning, the mystery of where the DO
liceman may be was yet to be cleared
up when Mr.. Joyce left his Office In the
Criminal Courts Building late in the
afternoon.
Two men who claimed that they knew
Detective Dent for the last twelve years
continued to reiterate their early con-
clusion despite the police denials that
the victim at the Morgue was the po-
liceman. The men are Edward Lacey,
1916 First avenue, and Hugh Mccarthy.
1143 First avenue. Capt. Carey and
Sergeant MCGEE, when first called in to
look at the body in the Morgue, were
Inclined to believe that there was a
striking resemblance between the slain
man and the missing detective. But
when Thomas Dent. father of the police
man, said It was not his son. the two
officials felt that he above any one else
would be sure.
Detective Dent, according to Mr.
Joyce. had been assigned to his office
from the East 104th street station to
do plain clothes work for the homicide
bureau. He had been working on a
special mission the past week and up
to last night had not been seen by
the stan OF the bureau or at his home.
166 East Eightieth street. where he lives
with his brother, John, a policeman.
and his father.
Mr.. Joyce said that one of his men
had received telephone message from
man who described himself as Dent
at the office on Friday and at that
time the sleuth said he would be at
the office early yesterday morning.
Another statement made at Mr.. Joyce
office was that Detective Dent had
been in communication with his wife on
Friday evening" The members of his
family denied that he was married and
the statement was later tabooed by Mr..
Joyce.