The Washington times., 1921-07-11
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Slayer Of Home intruder Sticks
to Office Business While
Expecting Arrest.

Calmly sorting his mail and con-
Quoting the routine business Of his
office, WjlHam f. Goetz sat in his
offices in ,ae Kellogg Building to-
day awaiting an officer expected to
serve a warrant charging him with
the murder, Saturday night. Of Al
bert ]. Byrd.
FIRED FOUR SHOTS.
Byrd, who. in a dying confession.
said the shooting was opers0oc,x. wife,
v~ar ~ cs.~x home in MAryia nd
PGk, .c..r tne District Line. Satur-
day night and fired four shots from
his revolver before he was felled by
a shot by Goetz.
A Cadillac sedan took Byrd TO
Maryland Park. Neighbors reported
woman In the car. Goetz said he
believed II was his wife. whom he is
suing for divorce. 1t developed today.
however, there was no woman in the
machine.
A telegram fro mKnoxville. Tenn.
where Mrs. Goetz is staying with
relatives. stated she was in that city.
The driver OF the automobile today
called on Inspector of Detectives
Grant and told his story OF the trag-
edy. He believes that because he
wore a palm beach suit he was mis-
taken for a woman In white.
PROBE INSURANCE ANGLE.
Goetz was reported TO have carried
500 900 insurance on his life and the
police were seeking to determine II
he attack on him by Byrd could be
=, ,onnected with that fact.
u is true that have been carrying
considerable Insurance recently,
Goetz told Thu Times today.
" had been told by an official in
Nashville. Tenn, my home, that Byrd
mad openly threatened he would set
me and collect This threat was
made at the time I filed my suit for
divorce, April 27. in Nashville.
Byrd was warned. am told. TO
keep his threats to himself"
NET HIM FIRST IN APRIL.
Goetz explained he had never seen
Byrd until one night last April when
Goetz was at his home In Maryland
Park.
Looking through an open window.
/ saw a man pass across the front
lawn" he said. MY wife suddenly
left the house throug q rear door.
then walked to the front porch and
engaged In conversation with the man
for half an hour. l later learned the
mtn was Byrd"
After that incident Byrd was q
frequent caller at the Goetz home.
Goetz said he and his children had
retired Saturday night when he was
reused by a call at the front door.
II went to the door" he said. and
could see the face of Byrd, shaded by a
cap pulled down owe his eyes. He
demanded to come in. but refused TO
admit him. He fired four shots
through the glass door. but ! escaped
injury"
Goetz rushed upstairs for his pis.
tol. and from an upper window fired
the shot that went through Byrd's
body. He crumpled on the front
lawn as he was trying to reload his
automatic.
Reports that Goetz feared another
attack might be made on his life
by companions in the car were de.
MED by Goetz today.
They don's usually try II the
second time after somebody Is kill.
cd" Goetz said.
ADMITTED INFATUATION.
Byrd admitted to the police before
he died that he was infatuated with
Mrs. Goetz and had followed her to
Knoxville, Tenn. To Goetz's son.
William f. Goetz. jr., who was with
Byrd at the hospital. Byrd declared
Mrs. Goetz was not to blame for the
trouble. II was all his fault. he said.
Young Goetz said Byrd also told him
Mrs. Goetz was in Knoxville living
with relatives.
Goetz and his children - Gladys,
fifteen years old; Ruth, twelve; Vir.
ginia, nine. and Forrest, five. and his
niece, Miss Mency, arc now staying
with friends IN this city.
was understood States Attorney
Byon, of Price Georges county, would
formally arrest Goetz today, charging
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