The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-06

Los Angeles, Feb. 6.-The little
green eyed monster, jealousy, police
and private detectives said today, has
directed search for a prominent young
New York man fortY1e engaged to
! one of the beautiful stars of filmdom
in connection with mystery killing last
Wednesday night of William Desmond
Taylor. noted motion picture director.
Efforts of the police department and
the sheriff's office to solve the motion
picture puzzle of the Staying of Will
liam Desmond Taylor, director, brought
the officers early today to a cut
back" to the egiLning-re-check
of obtaining better clew than any
yet evolved.
Hunt Thru Victims Papers.
The early hours today found deputy
sheriffs, municipal detectives and Of
ficials of the picture. company by
which Taylor was employed, gathered
in the dead directors apartment, again
sorting over his letters and documents.
seeking an elusive something over
/ looked before that might set them
straight upon the trail of his slayer.
This comparative setback followed
day and night of unusual activities
| in search for a solution to the enigma
which now has entered upon its fifth
day.
Sunday night the word went forth
that an unnamed motion picture actor
had been taken to the county Jail for
questioning as a suspect" and that
his connection with the case was con-
sidered so important that he had been
hustled from the motion picture ''lot"
where he was at work with such speed
that he had not time to remove the
makeup from his face.
Three Taken to Jail.
At the same time, two other mo-
| ton picture employees, one a camera
| man, also were taken to Jail as possible
material witnesses. These actions re-
suited from a report that the actor 8
and painted machine, had been seen
near the Taylor apartments the day
of the murder.
The actor was questioned for two
| hours and then, stiA unable. it was
stated, to tell definitely where he was
hurried to the dead mans apartment
| for a re-enactment of the crime as
the officers had reconstructed it.
| But residents of the same bungalow
/ court, who previously had given state
ments that they had seen a man
skulking about the Taylor home the
night he was killed, were unable to
identify the actor as the man.
! He was released, but with instruc-
| tions to keep in touch with the Of
! Ulcers. The men taken as possible ma
terial witnesses also were given their
freedom again. Yet. the officers
said, the actor had admitted
ownership of the automobile in ques-
| ton.
| Hunt Pink Nightie.
While these matters were develop
4 ing, tales came to the police of the
alleged possession by Taylor of wo-
mems silken lingerie. one piece of
which, a pink night robe, was reported
missing from his apartment since his
| body was discovered.
One witness was said to have stated.
but not to the police that this par
! ticular robe bore the embroidered
| initials of a motion picture actress.
Close upon the heels of these de-
clarations came the report that the
police were searching for a drug ped
! dIer who, it was hinted. had sought
! thru Taylor to make deliveries of
drugs to an actress who found 1t diff
cult to make her purchases direct
The initials of the actress connected
! with this phase of the case were said
to be the same as those on the night
robe reported missing from the Tay-
/