Arizona republican., 1922-02-24
Los Angeles Film
Murder Plotted In
Venice Hop Joint
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stated. the Chinese sprang out of it,
saying wait minute, wait a min
ute"
Wong Lee then ran about 80 feet
UP a nearby court and hid his re-
volver under something" according
to Fields.
Spent Night at Hop Joint
The remainder of the night was
passed at the Venice hop joint" as
Fields described it, and the following
day Wong Lee and Fields departed
for the east by way of Seattle.
Fields said he did not know what
became of Jennie Moore and Johnny
Clark
Fields was subsequently arrested in
Buffalo, n. Y, and then sent TO De-
troit to meet another charge.
Upon receipt of Fields statement
group of officers was sent to the
vicinity of the Taylor apartments to
search for the revolver Wong Lee
was said to have thrown under
something" there and another group
went to Chinatown, hunting lnior-
nation about the Chinese.
At the same time the police or
Venice were conducting search for
the "hop joint" mentioned in Fields
confession"
Search for the revolver with which
weeks ago was abandoned tooay
without results after deputy sherltts
had spent about Is hours in a PAINS
taking search of the place where
Harry N. Fields had said they would
find II.
Fields, held in Detroit on a forgery
charge, made what purported TO De a
full statement of his connection with
the Taylor murder, telling the Of
ficers at Detroit that he was the
chauffeur of the car in which the
SLAYER of Taylor rode to the dlrec-
tors home.
Fail to Find Revolver
AS a circumstance of his state
ment. Fields described with some de-
tail the place where, he SAID, the re-
yolyer used was afterward thrown
away. Deputy sheriff's worked there,
in a block of ground near the Taylor
residence. until almost daylight to-
day. They resumed the search again
earlv in the forenoon and tlnaily
abandoned 1t several hours later. /.
The deputies reported however tnat
there were so many hedges, thlckets
and other possible places of conceal
nent for a revolver, that their fall
ure was not proof conclusive that the
Fields statement was untrue, but
were inclined to take their failure as
an Indication that the doubt OF
Fields story expressed by the Detrolt
officers probably were well 1ouhueu'
While. according to the officlais,
Fields. in Detroit, amended his orlglo :
nal story Of the changing oil SI'VVo
bin so that he might receive $500 1or
taking the party to the Taylor bun
galow, making it 800 bill and ialls
ing to state how much he received
in the transaction, officials said to-
night a $1,000 bill had figured IN q
peculiar incident here about three
weeks ago.
T. D. Seat. a teller in night ana
day" bank told of a man haVlns
entered his institution sometime IN
the morning, and it may have beer
Feb q" with a $1,000 bill. seats
said the mans action struck him as
suspicious and he reported 'he m
cident to the bank officials.
They in turn gave all the infor-
nation they possessed to the district
attorney.
Tending to support Fields declara-
ton that Taylor was killed because
he was interfering with the drug
business" officials state. was the
statement by Thomas Green. deputy
United States district attorney here
that about a year ago man believed
to be Taylor had solicited his aid
in driving drug peddlers out of busi-
ness.