Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-02-10
NORMAND LET TIERS
TO TAYLOR TURNED
OVER TO WOOLWINE
Los ANGELES PROSECUTOR BE.
GINS CALLING IN MOVIE STARE
AND PROMOTERS IN QUEST
FOR DATA ON TAYLoR'S sLAV.
ING,

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb, 10.--After a
beginning pronounced satisfactory
the district attorneys Investigation OF
the murder Of William Desmond TaE.
lor was expected to be continued t.
day, with the possibility that nuln
Der OF persons prominent in the mo.
ton picture world would be summon
ed as witnesses.
Twelve persons, both men and
women, believed to have information
OF value TO the investigators have a.
ready been questioned by Thomas Ice
Woolwne. district attorney, or 10y
William c. Doran. his chief deputy.
Those who have appeared at the
district attorneys Office SO far in con
nection with the INVESTIGATION centw
lied there include Charles Eytan. So
eral manager Of the Famous Players.
Lasy studies, where Taylor was und
a twO-year contract.
Others were Douglas MacLean u.M
actor. neighbor Of Taylor, and his
wife and their maid; Henry Peavey.
Taylor's negro servant; Howard Fol
lows, TaylOrs chauffeur; Harry Eel.
lows. the latters brother and formerly
Taylor's chauffeur and more recently
his assistant director Verne Dumas
and Neil Harrington, oil operators ana
neighbors of Taylor; Charles Matgre,
a film director; Arthur Hoyt, an actor
and a close friend Of Taylor ana
Captain r. A. Robertson, who a. ~
army officer in the army had an ever.
seas acquaintance with Taylor in the
British army Rumor has it that Mar
Miles Minter, for whom Taylor Tor
merly was a director. was c'osettd
with the district attorney for two
hours last Tuesday.
There has been no intimatlOn rs 20
who would be summoned before the
district attorney today, but previous
inquiries by the police into the case
indicate that among the witnesses to
he summoned eventually before the
district attorney will be included Miss
Minter, Mabel Normand. whose let.
tiers to the dead director are now in
the possession OF the district attorney
Neva Gerber said to have been on
gagged to marry Taylor at one time; (
Claire Windsor. who had recently
dined and motOred with him. Edna
Purviance. formerly leading woman
for Charles Chaplin and neighbor o.
Taylor, who was said to have telc-
phoned the news Of the directors mnr
der to Miss Normand and a number
of others more or less prominent Il
the motion picture colony.
Meanwhile the search for Edward
Sands, formerly butler-secretary I)r
Taylor, continues, while the sheriff
deputies maintain their position tina.
Sands had nothing to do with the
crime.
Only One Not "Snob.'
Chicago, Feb. 10.-Tha fact that
William Desmond Taylor, also known
as william Deane-Tanner, never had
brother and that he belonged to the
oldest and wealthie5t aristocracy Of
Ireland was revealed here today, ac-
cording to a statement by Mrs. W. 0.
Farnum, an old friend from ireland,
who knew him we'll when he was a
boy.
His fathers name was Major vii
liam Tanner" she said. He was the
only one OF his family who was not
5OiitNlllIS VI q HlOb anu liz NetlN1N "
the common people. The other little
girls and used 20 wait at the edg7
of the keane estate near the Tanner
estate in the hawthorne bushes for
him so he would give us a ride to
town"
At the same time Mrs Farnum was
recalling Taylors early life, another
Chicagoan, Mrs. John H. Borden,
close friend Of Mabel Normand, was
rising to the latter's defense She ie-
turned here a month ago after a five
months visit with Miss NOrmand
Mabel was not in love and never
was in love with Mr.. Taylor" sh3
said.