Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27

lay, in n further effort to disprovc
Treadway's explanation of the blood on
his trouscr leg.
The brown suit recovered in a Wheel
ing pawn shop and identified as one
Trnadway had pawned. has blood
splotch on the knee. Treadway ex-
planned that he had tripped over the
gas hose. landing in the pool of blood
on one knee, and )verturning the stove.
The detective found that the gas stove
was fastened to the wall and could not
have been overturned. He found also
that the pool OF blood was only five feet
away from the stove and hose, so that
If Treadway's story is true. he would
have pitched forward greater distance.
in Heanlcy's opinion. The detective
said that there was mark in the
blood. stained crcx rug which looked as
though it had been made by some ones
knee.
Important evidence has been given by
Mrs. +. d. Ashford. who conducts a
rooming house at 2049 Walnut street !;
her daughter. Miss Crystal Ashford, ana
a roomer whose name has not been
divulged.
Story Contradicted
1t was under the names of Fred and
Marie West that Treadway and the girl
rented the room on Walnut street q
week ago. In their statement concern
ing the happenings of the night of the
murder, they said they had been to a
motion picture show on Saturday night,
arriving home ABOUT IL 80.
That is contradicted by Mrs. Ash :
ford. her daughter, and the man
hnOrnnr who Of hn
IN the front parlor.
About 10 O'Clock a man came to the
door and asked for Mr.. West" said the
roomcr yesterday. He was n square :
faced, heavy.sct fellow. rather tough
looking. He wore a dark coat with q
brown fur collar and had on a tweed
hat or cap"
That description tallies exactly with
that of Smith or Kendrick, a. given by
Trcadway, Marie Phillips and also by
merchants of Wheeling.
Miss Crystal Ashford went up
stairs and raped on Vests door. but
there was no response continued the
roomcr. The man then went away.
He had visited West here before.
About 10 80 West came back alone.
We were sitting in the parlor and heard
n rattle at the front door. Thinking
it might be rowdies, went to the
door, and saw West standing there. He
made some remark about his key not
working and went upstairs. He did not
seem to be excited, but he was in a
hurry.
Outside waS red car, which I
afterwards learned belonged to Pierce.
l could not tell whether there was
any one in it"
Treadway Uses Phone
II the caller was Peirce, rs is prob
able, since his car was there. the room
er's statement fatty contradicts the
story told by Treadway and the girl,
for they insist they never saw Pierce
until after midnight,
About fifteen minutes later" con :
tinued the roomer. West, or Tread
way. came downstairs and used the
telephone in the back hall. He called a
number on the Locust exchange ana
said:
everything Is fixed up. Come right
''iIe said some more, but did not
catch that.
was we heard two persons moving
around in the room above. Mrs. Ash =
ford remarked that It sounded as though
hey were packing up their things. Miss
Crystal went upstairs a few minutes
later. and as she was passing the door
Of their room there was noise out in
the street.
" That must be him. Treadwny said
to the girl.
" no. that's not him. replied the
girl. He said he'd blow his horn when
ne came.
Clue TO Jack"
The last that we heard of them was
about 80, when they were moving
about in their room. No two men
could have come in and created dis
turbanco, as TreHdway and the girl
claim. because we should surrey have
in the Darlor from 10 o'clock on. ="
Miss Ashford said that the middle ot
last week she admitted man to see
West, whose description tallies with
that Of the man Jack" They seemed
to be warm friends, she said. The man
Smith, or KPndriCk, also was a fire.
uucnt visitor at Vests room.
Kendrick was due TO arrive in Phila-
delphia some time after the middle OF
this month. In a letter written in a
New York hotel and mailed November
II, he asks his friend Treadway to be
on the lookout for him,
While the Philadelphia police have
been working on the local end of the
murder mystery. the police at Wheeling
have carried on the search for "Al'
Smith and "Jack," and have made some
important discoveries.
Check Up Movements
A Wheeling boarding house has been
found. conducted by Mrs. Amelia Beck,
where Treadway Marie, and two others
stayed Monday night.
Mrs. Beck told the police two men
called late Monday afternoon and en-
gagged two rooms. They left, but
shortly afterward one OF them re.
turned with the girl. The two were
Joined later by two others, believed
TO have been Treadway and Smith, who
are now said to be the men who tool
Peirce's car to the garage In Wheel
ing and negotiated TO have the storas,
battery recharged.
Early next morning one of the four
Smith IL Is thought-},Snt out ant
bought a newspaper. Sh,rtly after