Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-06
CHORUS GIRLS
MURDER PROBE
LEADS TOCITY
Her Husband, William Stock
well, Quizzed by Police After
Staying in Cleveland.
BY DICK HARRINGTON,

CleyeIand's sensational chorus girl
murder mystery yesterday led to In
dianapolis.
William B. Stockwell, %, 1881
Bates street, is the husband of
Frances Altman stockwell, the
lead girl. He married her in Phila-
lelphia May "a, 1919, when he was a
sailor and she was a dancing, rollick-
RAg little miss in the chorus of "The
london Bellies"
But is was an unhappy marriage. Love
fitted after a few weeks.s An estrange-
ment came between them. They parted
and Stockwell claims he hadn't seen her
for many months
Mrs Stockwell's body was found in 4
snow bank in the rear of a rooming
house in Cleveland last Sunday.
She had been struck a blow on the face
The Cleveland coroner claims the blow
did not kill her. But she fell unconscious
in the snow and died in the cold.
sAILOR SOUGHT
IN Staying.
sailor is being sought. The CleVe
land police claim she was last seen in
1 Z
as she left her hotel. That was on Sat
urday night.
Mrs. StockweIl was supposed to catch
midnight train for Detroit, where she
! was to appear with her show at bur
\ lesqne house.
The supposition is her sailor sutton
quarreIed with her before she got to the
depot He struck her. She was rendered
unconscious and believing her dead de-
4 posted her body in the snow bank back
. of the rooming house.
4 Stockwell had nothing to do with the
crime. He has accounted for every min
Z ute during the time his wife was last
4 seen and when her body was found.
q INDIANAPOLIS MAN
#TELLs HIS STORY.
Stockwell works for the Weidley Mo
tors Company. He worked last Saturday
until noon. In the afternoon he helped
his aunt in her boarding house at 1881
8 Bates street, where he has lived for fif
teen years. He helped her out again ON
Saturday night. Sunday he was around
the house the same. as usual.
The young man unfolded a sad love
tale to the detectives. He married Fran
ces, then Frances Alton, after a "wild
AFtght" in Philadelphia, he said. But he
hoved her, he claims.
"She loved me, too, for a short time"
aEtoekwen told tue police, "but soon for
bot our matrimonial bonds. She began
4 10 run around. / left her when Y was
discharged from the Bay Ridge training
amp"
Stockwell gave the detectives some in
Formation which~may prove valuable in
cunning down the slayer. He said that
lille he was still living with his wife
ahe kept company with a sailor named
Hmith from Ray Ridge station
sl MOTHER SAILOR
n THE CASE.
Another sailor whose name be was un-
BILE to recall wrote her asking her to
10 to 523 State street, New York City.
+ nd live with him. This letter, along,
it'll others, he claims found their wayl
nto the hands of the chaplain at Bay
Ridge station. The Cleveland police may
olive the mystery If they get these let
ters, he says.
The man who wrote the letter, Stock
sNell asserts, was warrant machinist In
Ahe navy
Stockwell says that one quarrel he had
18th his wife was after the machinist
bad accused her Of stealing $35 from him.
Louis Sobul, a newsbov. told the Cleve-
land police that he was selling papers in
kront of the Hotel Moreland Saturday
light when he saw the chorus girl and
SauOr IelVe tue Dullolng. he SAID Lhey
ttracted his attention because they were
aurreling.
q Mrs. Blanche Mack. Stockwells aunt,
here be has lived since his mother
ed, sixteen years ago today told how
VILLAIN had been lured away from home
dad boys"
"He was 16 years old when his friends
old him I was too strict with him." she
laid. "He said he was going away and
few days later he told me he had
oined the navy He served four years
Ind was discharged
HE went to work for the Weidley
Dmpany when he came back, and it
as not long before the world war broke
ut. He then went back int tho, navy
was duringg the last naval enlistment
lat he met Miss Alton and married her.
"Ths whole thing is most unfortunate.
nd am sure he regrets It as much
81 y do"