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Sunday Brings No Develop
ments in Solving Movie
Directors Death

Los ANGELES. Cal. Feb. 5.-Search
police said they were getting warm
cr' and women's silken night dress
said by Henry Pcazey. colored house,
man. to he missing from the apart
mcnts of William Desmond Taylor.
slain film director, were the outstand-
ing developments here tonight of the
search for his slayer.
After the Announcement of tho search
for the drug peddler deputy shcriffs
left for an unnamed destination on
what they termed the most definite
clcw thus far discovered In the Taylor
murder mystery. They said they wero
going to Interview certain party"
and possibly mako an arrest
This was first active participation OF
the shcriff's forces in the case.
The police were rcticcnt as to the
details concerning their search for tho
man. n peddlar who was believed to
have sought patrons for his contraband
drugs among tho employees OF the mo-
ton picture studio, but intimatcd their
belief ho had attempted to make a de-
livery thru Taylor to an actress who
found IL. difficult to make her pur-
chascs in person.
The exact Importance of the missing
nightdrcss which was pink In color was
not made plain. Peazcy. however. was
firm in his declaration that 1t had "A
regular place in Taylor's apartments
and equally firm in his assertions
that since his employer was slain he
had been unable to find it.
Los ANGELES. Cal. Feb. 5.-Thc
search for Edward +. Sands, missing
butler Of William u. Taylor. motion
picture director who was mysteriously
slain last Wednesday night continued
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their investigation of Taylor's death,
police said today. Checking of the
various angles OF the case among
members of tho motion picture colony
and other friends and acquaintances
OF Taylor. almost invariably resulted
in some development In which Sands
was mentioned. according to detcc-
tiycs. Explanations of this situation
are regarded as vital to the cast in
its present stage, Tho police said they
had had several clcws TO Sands where
abouts. but thus far these had result
cd in disappointmcnts. Henry Pcazcy
valet OF Taylor who found his en-
ployer's body came TO police head
quarters again today and was qucs-
toned by detectives for a half hour.
1t is understood he was asked for more
detailed informa ton concerning tho
arrangements of Taylor's furniture
and other belongings in tho apart
mcnts where he was shot Detectives
would not state whether Poazcy's cN-
animation had thrown any light ON the
case.
Two other mon whose names were
not diyulred also were questioned at
police headquarters but under what cir
Cumstances was not disclosed. ono of
these ben departed with detectives who
said they were going to check up on
an angle of the case that previously
had been under Investigation. but they
declined to be moro specific. The
whereabouts OF letters which Miss Mabel
Normand motion picture actress. said
she had written Taylor and which she
said wero missing from his apartments
continued to be IA matter of specu-
latton today.
IL Is believed these letters and other
papers could have been removed after
Taylors body was found last Thurs
day morning some time during the
period where the house was unguardcd
while 1t was believed he had died of
natural causes.
Miss Normand first called attention
TO the absence OF the letters which
she said she had seen in the apart
mcnts n few days before the murder.
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