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DEATH CASE
Age of Bullets Used Points to
Possibility of Long Grudge
| Being Motive in Case.
BY JOHN X. wINKLER.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-lnVes-
tigation into the early life and
career of William d. Taylor
points to the more than remote
possibility that the secret of the
film directors death may lie in
this city.
Once i'm N. Y. Art Firm.
The investigation by Hearst re-
porters encompassed the examina-
ton of records and personal inter
views with many former friends and
business associates of Taylor or
William Cunningham cPete)
Deane-Tanner as he was known in
the days when he was a member OF
the art corporation of Arthur j.
Crawford Company at 251 Fifth
avenue. The calm, considered judg-
ment of the former associates, most
Of whom now direct business enter
prises of their own, may be sum-
married. as follows:
THE Los Angeles authorities
should bend every effort to find
Dennis Gage Deane-Tanner, younger
brother Of Pete" Tanner. Shortly
natter he deserted his wife in this
city in 1912 Dennis joined his
brother ON the Pacific coast and
they appeared in a Vitagraph film
thriller, Captain Alvarez" released
In the spring of 1914.
2-The auuearance, habits, and in
tellectual equipment of the two
brothers were in such palpable con-
trast that friends of Pete" Tanner
wondered why he got his brother a
position and constantly acceded to
every financial demand of Dennis.
3-At the time "Pete" Tanner de.
serted his wife and six-year- old
daughter in October, 1908. he was
in serious financial straits, owing
thousands of dollars to Wilson Mar
shall, owner of the international cup
winning yacht Atlantis, former COM
modore Of the Larchmont Yacht
Club, and to others.
4-"Pete" Tanners disappearance
was thought by his friends to be
based upon something deeper than
financial troubles, though. The po-
lice, on their own initiative, made
an investigation, although the case
never was reported officially to them.
4 5-The reported age of the bullet
that killed Taylor twelve to fifteen
years and the fact that Edward F.
Islands, the directors missing valet,
apparently knew about Taylor's
career in New York as Pete" Tan.
ner. because of Sands frequent use
of the Deane-Tanner name is deeply
significant to "Pete's" friends Of the
old days.
From Music to Art.
The story, as it has been related to
the Hearst papers by those in a posi-.
ton to know, goes back to the late
eos, when a handsome young Eng.
liahman. Arthur j. TAYLOR, reputed
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KEY TO MOVIE DIRECTORS Staying MAY BE FOUND I'm NEW
San Francisco Man
Calls Himself
Taylor's Son

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb, 49,
William Edward Taylor. twenty
nine years old, who says he Is
a son of William Desmond
Taylor. yesterday declared his
intention of claiming half OF
the slain film directors estate.
According to the young claim:
ants story, William Desmond
Taylor married Olive Randall at
Wallace, Kan. in 1890. Later
they moved to Laramie, Wyo.,
where a son was born. Suisse
quently Taylor deserted his wife
and child. Mrs. Taylor died IN
Cheyenne, Wyo.. in 1902.
Young William Edward Tay-
lor, so he says, was taken by
his grandfather. John Randall,
to a farm near Lindsborg, Kan.
In 1905 he came to California
and worked for Lucky" Bald
win, breaking colts. near Los
Angeles. He came to San Fran
cisco in 1906. He said today:
81 am going to Los Angeles
on Tuesday and l am confident
I can establish my claim"
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'DRUNKARD DADDY SAYS
HIS EXAMPLE EFFECTIVE

ATTLEBORO, Mass, Feb. 13.-
When asked by Judge Haggerty, in
the district court, what kind of an
Example he thought he was to his
family OF four children. Francis
Mccarthy, of North AtVboro, an
swering charge of drunkenness
for the sixteenth time, replied that
he considered himself good
'Xample.'
He claimed that. inasmuCh as he
had a long record and that not one
# his sons was a drunkard, he
bought he provided an example of
he curse OF drink" Mccarthy de-
Jared that his sons had grown up
% be total abstainers.
Judge Haggerty placed Mccarthy
on probation.
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relative of the Earl of Cadogan, ap-
peared in Newport. He had soldiered
in India, tired of this and gone on
the professional stage as a singer.
Taylor became a protege OF Creigh-
ton Webb and gave private musicales
for Mrs. William Aston at Beech
wood, and for Mrs. Orme Wilson and
others high in the social ranks. His
stage name was Arthur or Archie"
Crawford.
About 1900, under the Webb and
other patronage, he opened the Lit
tie Shop" at 251 Fifth avenue. un-
der the trade name of "A. J. Craw-
ford Company" He now conducts
the English Antique Shop" at SIS
Madison avenue.
Shortly after he opened the Little
Shop" Taylor, or Crawford, as he
was generally known, took in w. c.
d. Tanner as director and general
manager.
Brother Dennis" Came.
The business expanded. New
directors, mostly young Englishmen
were taken into the fold. Finally
probably about 1905, Pete" Tanner
was visited by a young man whom
he introduced as my brother Den.
MIS-"
Dennis, or ID. Tanner" as he
soon became known. was about zen
years younger than Pete" and just
over from the other side. Through
Pete's influence he got a nominal
position in the Little Shop" He
received $40 a week.
ID" Tanner made himself per
fectly at home. Whenever he need.
ed money, and this was often, he
called upon Pete" The latter's in.
come was $4,000 a year, but his
habits were extravagant. and he was
married and the father OF baby
girl.
Despite this, Pete" never turned
I'D" down.
Dennis was living then in a board
ing house at 247 West One Hundred
and Fourth street. This was con-
Quoted by a Mrs. c. X. Brennan,
There was a daughter, Ada c. Bren'
nan. She and Dennis fell in love,
and one afternoon in 1907 Dennis
walked into the little shop and told
his brother he was married.
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is en- route for Berlin on a business
mission.
1--WE are badly in need Of fuel
for our railway locomotives and
food for the railway workers" he
said. I'VE are able to, carry Amer
lean relief administration grain into
most Of the famine districts, but
the railway lines are in very bad
condition in the south and south
east, owing to the damage done in
the fight with Denikin's army and
other anti Bolsheyist armies.
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erday was released on Saturday and
returned to Washington. The case
involving his issuance of q check in
the name of the candy company is
set for trial next week.
yesterday, 1t is claimed, made
good the sum involved. and at next
weeks trial, will ask for a dismissal
of the charge.
The bond theft case appeal is now
pending in the Court of Appeals. On
that charge yesterday Is at liberty
in S11 500 bonds.
All of the principals in the bond
theft case are now at liberty under
bond. They are Wilen w. yesterday,
David w. Sullivan, "Nicky" Arm.
stein, Nick Cohn and Norman s.
Bowles.
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MINERS IN CONVENTION
TO DEMAND MORE PAY

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 49,
Bent on holding what they havr
got" in their present wage contrac
and determined to demand a sub
stantial pay increase at the expira
ton of the agreements six week:
hence, the 1900 delegates TO the II
ternational convention of the Unit,
Mine Workers began arriving toda
for the session which opens tome
row
The wage question will cor
sharply to the front early in Il
convention when it will be placed u
fore the representatives Of the 40
900 miners of the bituminous CO.
fields for their approval.
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Policemen and others who walk
or stand good deal are very subject
TO flatCfeet.
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OUT
Of Tolls AGAIN
ON $4,000 BOND
Returns From New York Where
He Spent Brief Period
in Tombs.

Wilen w. yesterday is out Of jail
again. 1t has been a game Of in
again and out again with Easter.
day since his conviction last sum-
mer in connection with the theft of
Sc, OOO, 900 worth Of securities from
Wall street, New York.
Upon his release from the Dis
trict Jail on bond two weeks ago Il
warrant was served on yesterday
from New York. He was taken to
that city and placed in the Tombs
in connection with an old charge
dating back to the life of candy
company which yesterday formerly
headed there.
After making bond of $4,000, East.
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women clerks are more con-
scientious than their male col.
leagues" is the verdict Of the head
of a large New York firm.
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81 NARROWLY MISS DEATH
IN MICH. CENTRAL WRECK

KALAMAZOO. Mich, Feb. 10
Thirty.two persons narrowly escaped
injury today when two sleepers of
passenger train No. 10. Michigan
Central railway, westbound, were
coach was partly derailed.
A broken rail caused the wreck,
the tracks being ripped up for a
distance of 500 feet. A relief train
picked up the passengers and
brought them here. No one was
injured.
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soy EFT RUSSIA BUYS
1,O25 NEW LOCOMOTIVES

RIGA, Feb. 10. - Soviet Russia.
which has just received 200 new
railway locomotives from Germany
and Sweden. will receive S25 more
before June. according to a declara-
ton made here today by NJ. Lo-
monosoff. commissar for railways
in the Moscow Soviet. The official
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Bows Out al NIuht

10 tho Editor Of ths Evertro Public Lsdoer:
Slr--"B," boy Of fifteen, writes
asking readers advice as to how late
he should be allowed to stay out at
night. Regarding OBS" request, l
would say that l, as a twenty three
year-old reader, would advise him to
get indoors shortly after sundown.
However, one can stay on ones stoop
In warm weather until 9:30, which l
claim is late enough for lad fifteen
to remain up.
Should he visit a chum's homo he
should leave at 10 o'clock at the latest,
providing there is no party going on, in
which case 12 o'clock would DO my
limit, thus insuring sufficient sleep for
tic next days undertakings.
But hanging around corners or in
doorways after sundown does not do
any one good. especially boy Of fifteen
years. However, II he goes in good
company, should say short walk, not
a loaf. would be all right up to 0
o'clock. A moving picture show one
evening in the week, or visit to other
places Of local interest, Is also excusable
for staying out until 0 80 o'clock, but
not later, unaccompanied by parents.
Philadelphia, January z, 1922.
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Is Our, Really "Cisy Of Brotherly Loye"2
PhllsdeiphIa socIabIIity

TO the Editor Of tire Erentnp Public LEDGER;
SirlThe correspondence on the topic
OF Philadelphia's sociability Is some
times amusing and sometimes the re-
verse. IL is hardly good form to bid the
Stranger 90 hence who complains of his
ioneiiness, but again no stranger Is JUS
ined In uttering slander and general
charges nsainst our city. Does he ex-
gratis? - =
l am a fhiddle-aged man Of no
specially prepossessing appearance who
has lived In San Francisco. Chicago,
New York, London, Glasgow, Belfast,
Paris, Berlin and Budapest and must
frankly say that have nothing what
ever against this city. I have fore
gathered with men in business, in res
taurants on the trains and on the
trans and In our parks, and have gen.
orally found them courteous and
Several have asked me to their
homes, and introduced me to their
wives and families. Without wishing to
be critical, i would suggest that some
Of the folks who haze complained of
want Of hospitality were themselves to
blame. In 80 far as they might have
expressed views against religion or In
some other way have led people to
believe that they were In this world
for pleasure only, and scorned high
ideals, virtue and honor.
Such people are not invited to homes.
Some people regard me as ''old- fash.
ioned" because object to questionable
anecdotes, disrespectful remarks about
parents and levity on sacred topics. /
have travelled much and have seen fast
life In the great capitals Of the world,
but thank God, my ideals remain un-
sullied.
God gave me such mother as Is sell
dom given to men and perhaps this
has always kept me from straying too
far In the paths which lead to destruc-
tion. / am fond Of music, athletics and
the opera. ] enjoy a good dinner, and
before prohibition came In l OCCASION
ally INDUCED in a glass Of light wine,
so may say am not a spoil-sport
or insensible Of the decent pleasures
Of life.
It Is a curious paradox that fire.
quently a loose living man shrinks from
commencing friendship with his kind.
Finally, the maudlin sentimentality
which releases human beasts from jail
on parole or after trifling sentences in
culcates caution in the average Phila-'
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dclphian In making new friends too
speedily. TRAVELLER.
Philadelphia, January 18, 1922.
Traveller Likes Philadelphia

TO the Editor Of the EperfrS Public Ledger:
Sir-.Why all this discussion abou,
t'hiladelphia by strangers? 1 hav,
lived In Philly for nearly a year and
tho people and city suit me all right.
am thirty six years old and sixteen OF
my years have been spent roaming the
u. 3. A., Canada and Mexico. ] have
lived In cities / have liked better, and
many 1 did not like as well, and II
! thought the people of Philly did not
IKE me i would move to one of the
other forty seven States. Personally
do not care what they think of me, and
cannot see why these world d-nice
strangers should, care. In my travels
i have met many PEOPLE and cannot say
they ale any more friendly to me than
the people OF I'hilly. / have met peo.
pie lere who think are the incest on
earth and others think are the oppo-
site, but don't you meet the same In
every city? These strangers who are
70 lonesome here must remember no city
In the world treats you like the old
homo town; so please take q tip from
me. II the city you are in does not suit
pack the old trunk and move to an
other. Don't knock And another tip.
Possibly II you stop handing a slam to
the city every time you talk to a resi-
dent. you will find you make more
friends.
Thanking you for the space in your
valuable column.
HARRY KENNEDY.
Philadelphia. January 10. 1922.
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Shifting OF Policemen

To the Editor OF tho Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-I read your paper every eve
ming and enjoy 1t very much. ] have
been watching your column TO see some
one start this discussion. but having
failed. would like to hear from others
who are In the same boat as ] am.
My husband is a police sergeant and
we live quite distance from where
he was shifted, although Mayor Moore
promised to bring the policemen nearer
as New Years, Fourth Of July or any
other extra holiday that may be caused
by parade or a guest In the city, II
means extra work for the police force
Instead Of their making holiday of the
time.
The letter carrier gets extra pay for
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Is Uncle Bin, Snped?
DIsausted With UncIe BIm

TO ths Editor Of tho Eo,nt,0 Public Ledger:
Sir-I am completely disgusted with
Uncle BIN. The old Australian kan
garoo is showing himself to be nothing
but boob I took sides with him
against the insinuations of Min, but am
beginning to feel that she was not far
from right in the way she sized him up.
Bins in his dotage. no doubt, and he
has disappointed his host of friends who
are readers Of the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER by allowing the widow to put
1t over on him, and with such remark
able ease that the old man is showing
senility by rushing into the most gush-
ing Of love poetry, and gazing, like q
lovesick maiden Of susceptible years,
into the face Of the widow vamp's pic
ture, which he keeps constantly before
him. Let me cry to Mr.. Smith-"Help
Help!" DELLA WARE.
Wilmington, Del. January 81, 1922.
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overtime, and why should not the police
force? There was a great joke several
weeks ago among the people because
several policemen were found asleep In
the station house. Why shouldn't they
be all in? For instance, they 60 to
work ut II 80 P. NJ. and come home
about 8 80 A. M. There is to be
parade Of some kind at II "A. NJ,
and they come home about 3 p. NJ. by
the time they shave, get q mead, etc.,
there Is no time left for sleep. only
short nap, and in that way they don't
see much Of their children. would
like to hear. from others on this sub
ject, or how their opinions differ.
MRS. A. 3.
Philadelphia, January 20, 1922.
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p,. s.r..on and Senator Pepper

r. "A, Editor o, the Evening Public Ledoer;
sir-I have read with interest and
Sue attention your editorial Of Janu-
sry Ia. called forth by my remarks
about Senator Peppers attitude on the
Sabbath question, You miss my View
noint entirely IL you think that i do
not apprecite Senator Peppers fine
qualities of mind and heart. have
long had high regard for him as a
citizen and Christian.
The very fact, however, that he Is
10 conspicuous for his good qualities
makes his attitude on the Sabbath ques-
tion ali the more harmful. 1t Is easy
for those Of us who are seeking to safe
guard the old fashioned American Sab
bath to battle against its foes on their
own ground, but when voices are raised
In behalf Of a loose observance OF the
is difficult to reply, and such counsels,
therefore, do infinite harm. 4.
The Church Of Christ has been in the
past the creator Of the great Ideals
which have made possible those simple
vet fundamentally important virtues
which lie ut the foundation Of our CIV
ilization. The Church has created and
conserved the ideals of female chas-
tity, masculine honor, the sanctity OF
the marriage vow, the integrity Of home
life and the right rearing ,of, childhood.
These are very simple things, and yet
they are vital to the health and the
prosperity Of our modern life. Yes,
Il Is true that these essential virtues
have been generated and preserved by
the Christian Church. Paganism did
not know them. Now. the Church,
In turn, is made possible only BY
a right observance of the Sabbath
Day. It is a self evident truth that
n men do not stop to worship and to
learn OF God, there cannot be church,
and IL there Is no church, then these
fundamental simplicities will speedily
be lost to the race and the whole splen-
did structure Of our modern life will 20
toppling down In the spiritual and
moral ruin which overlook other great
civilizations Of the past which forgot
God.
Now, the encroachment Of popular
amusements upon the Lords Day Ia
very insidious and subtle. These things
open the door for more ruinous abuses,
which finally completely destroy the
day, as We have seen in the case Of
modern Europe.
Sabbath observance Is social sanity,
and we cannot infringe upon the sane
tity Of the day at one point without
leading to Its Anal destruction at all
points. I repeat, therefore, that the
high character of Senator Pepper
makes his condoning of these abuses
the more harmful In it's effects, and I
sincerely trust, as one who admires him
for his fine qualities Of mind and heart.
that he may, through prayer and deeper
meditation. come to a change Of views
at this particular point.
JOHN ROACH STRATON. !
New York, January 20, 1922,
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Where's Andy7

To tho Editor Of the Evcnsno Public Ledger:
Sir-What Is wrong with your Mr..
Smith, cartoonist? Has he forgotten
that he IL drawing a pictorial drama
Of the Gumps? For several days he has
avoided printing their pictures in his
story Where's Andy? We all hope
that he is not sitting idly by and doing
nothing to circumvent the Widow Fan
der. Andy's diplomacy in his last CON
yersation with pnclc BIN was anything
but Of the kind to circumvent the widow,
but rather to encourage the susceptible
the Zander woman, and the latter was
no doubt cognizant Of this. and "got
w. L. Il.
Philadelphia, January q, 1922.
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KareIlans Drive Back HoIshevIk,

Copenhagen. Jan. 24.-(By A. P.)-
Karelian troops IN their fight against
the Soviet armies have reconquered the
town Of Kimasjervi. says a dispatch
from Helsingfors today to the Ber-
!ingske Tidende. snd are now advance
ing on the south front. The Soviet
troops also havo been driven back on
the north front, near Kokosalmi, says
the dispatch.
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Muscle Shoala

To the EDITOR Of the Evenino Public Le6osri
Sir-The public has read great deal
Of late about Muscle Shoals without
being made any wiser as to what 1t con-
slsts Of, the nature and availability Of
the property, why the Government
boug.t 1t, and what It intended to do
with It. 1t seems tc have beer another
OF the numberless foolish purchases the
Wilson Government so recklessly made.
]. II. Fl.
Fern Rock, Phila., January IA. 1922.
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Wants an Old Poem

To ths Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-Last week wrote to you asking ~
you would please publish for me in you,
Peoples Forum the poem entitled ''Th,
Land OF Beginn:nE Again" II IN not long
ana I would Ike very much TO havo Il.
oUT-oF-TowN SUBSCRIBER,
Philsdeiphia. January ~. 1922.
Your letter was unsigned, and we An M,
answer anonymous communications Thi,
poem was printed on August 20. 1921, and
az you give no address we cannot mail yo,
a COPY.
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johnson Paintings Not Restored

SoHnsoH Fdihtihos NOT HestoFeu
TO the Editor Of the Evenino Public Ledger:
Sir-May ask you to be so very kind
as to correct misstatement in this
evenings issue of your paper, which.
while it seems trifling, is, in reality, of
considerable Importance to the point at
tssue. I did not say, as quoted in the
EVENING PUEBLO LEDGER of today,
that "The White Girl" by Whistler,
had never been restored, because know
nothing Of the condition Of any one Of
the three pictures to which Whistler
gave that name.
No one Of them, 80 far as can
ascertain, was ever In the John G.
Johnson collection. Most positively not
one of them now Is, or has been since
the collection came into the possession
Of the city of Philadelphia. What I did
say. and repeat with emphasis. is that
neither Of the two paintings by Whis-
tier, "The Lady Of the Lange Leizen"
and "Nocturne, in the John G.. John
son collection, has been touched by a
reetorer since the great collectors death.
HAMILTON BELL.
Curator of the John G. Johnson Col
lection.
Philadelphia. January 81, 1922.
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Questions answered
lynchIngs Last Year

70 the Editor Of tho EvsnkposPvblto Lsdoer,
sir-Would II b possible for you 70 tail
me how many iynchings occurred in ths
United States last yesrf w. g. C.
Philadelphia. January 10. 1929.
According to the records Of tho Tusksrss
Institute. sixty-three iynchinss took placs
in 1921. or those. nfty-nine were Negroes.
two being Eesro women. There were sew
enty-two cases In which officials Of ths Ia W
prevented lyuchings.
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Knocks the Knockers

TO ths Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-@Just linet to the knockers. II
they are so disgusted with our "City OF
Brotherly Love- why stay here? It is
a very foolish person who will put up
with all the knockers say they are com.
PEELED to do. II they are not more sue
cessfnl In our beautiful city than In
the towns they hail from, IL Is a most
ignorant and contemplate person TO be.
little the place in which they are maK.
ing good living. My advice to them IS
to beat It, and no ono here will know
they have gone, and n they never com,
back It Is soon enough.
QUAKER CITY MAID. -
Philadelphia, January %, 1922.