The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-02-13
MURDERER OF
TAYLOR MAY
REMAIN FREE
United States District Attor
ney Woolwine> Is Now
Pessimistic.

n missing butler-secre.ary, E. F.
Sands, alias Fitz-Sl.r1 hmOre. Who
5 more likely to know what the
wc.[G would Ike to know? In a
sense n1d he net baen the alter ego
Of the murdered man?
A. lhis point the trail opens on
broad vista. Who more likely 10 take
I advantage of what he was in such
1 / close position to learn, either by
I l'lvina into the past or prying into
The resent?
Over the head Of some one. the
discovery Of Sands bangles like the
swora of Damocies.
Tea there is Harv,t Peavy, the
i neglo valet. He doth protest too
MUGS. Also some others are no mean
/ pr3testants.
What About Chauffeur?
/ As an 18th hour witness comes
Howard Fellows, chauffeur, bDOtheT
:, II Assistant Director Harry Fellows
4 Somewhere in the strong box of his
mind is a tiny fact that may help
i the bulls can only ontguess the
glued to the road and ears stopped
see everything and hear much.
! The most glitterng fantasy in this
maze of mystery is that greenish
will o the wisp-jealOusy.
Somewhere along this trail, either
a trivial spoor or gashed indelibly
on a living tree trunk, some sign
+l, l. rI,n RI
: read.
The list OF girls reads like an all
star clst for series of super-fea
: tures-MaIbel Normand, Mary Miles
: Minter, Edna Purviance, Winifred
Kingston, Neva Gerber and many
!: others.
: While we are on the servant ques
!: ton. word about the blackmail
: theory. There is an alleged hand
: kerchief with an initial IS" found
!: on the day the body was discovered
and now gone to join the collection
: of missing articles with the pink
nightie and the blessed baby" let
ters.
The Lingerie Incident
One actress says that in regard to
having sent a servant in making
purchases of lingerie, Taylor said:
81 would hardly have sent ser
. want to buy them, anyhow"
: On the contrary. that is. probably
just what he would have done. You
can take it for what it is worth.
There is only one way to treat a
bIackmailer-kill him." is a remark
credited to Taylor Take that also
for what 1T is worth.
He who shoots and runs away will
live to blackmal another day
Now for the second, the hectic trail
OF happy dust, or hope or whatever
may be.
1t is very praiseworthy and pious
idel to try to make the world bet
ter But net by sumptous laws.
Humanity reacts against restraints
sometimes welcomes Old vices in new
forms more intoxicating than ever
There's something about door and
window and seven devils worse
! than the first.
The rCcert annual report to the
secretary OF the treasury, | believe,
s-oke about a million drug adlicts
in the United States. And one drug
fiend is worse than seven old whis-
key drinkers. Thlt's seven times
seven.
Enter Drug Element
Mr.. Volgtead has pussyfo0ted us
from Harlem to Hollywood into a
wave OF dope crime.
One more word; and very import
amt word for the great American
public.
: Both these trails of red-hot ro-
. nance and hectic happy dust raise a
: big question. What of the ultimate
effect of this. and ait least one other
case on motion pictures?
Oldltimers VIII remember an old
keystone picture FATTY and Mabel
Adrlft" Well. in a sense. they're
bCth adrift all right today
But how about the fifth largest
American industry? Is it adrift, too.
Following the Arbuckle case, the
Hollywood Chamber OF Commerce,
Screen Writers Guild and others
launched a campaign to combat mag
azine and newspaper articles which
carelessly or maliciously attempted
to paint Hollywood as a modern
Babylon with touch OF Sodom and
Gomorrah thrown in. And now-this
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