The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-24
SEEK $1,000 BILL
and Gun TO SOLVE
. TAYLOR MURDER
Police Fail to Find Pistol
Fields Describes i'm
Confession"

Los ANGELES. Cal. Feb. 23.-On
the finding Of $1,000 bill and an
old-fashioned pearl handled re-
volver may depend the solution of
the murder of William Desmond
Taylor.
II the weapon and the note are
found the deputy sheriffs will be
convinced. they say, that Harry NJ.
Fields. under arrest in Detroit. has
told the true story of the Staying
that the murder was committed by
the dope ring" that their motive
was revenge. and that a Chinese
named Wong Lee. a woman known
as Jennie Moore. and a white man
Called Johnny Clarke are involved
in the staying.
So far the gun has not been
found. but this is due, deputies say.
TO the fact that a hazy description
of the place of concealment was
sent from Detroit
IavesttEate His story.
Fields says that after the mur-
der he drove the slayers to a down
town bank, one that keers open
day and night, and that the
Chinese changed a $1,000 bill.
Deputy Sheriffs william Bright
and Frank Dewar learned that
bill of this denomination was
changed at the Day and Night
Bank. not on Wednesday night
after the murder, hut on Thursday
morning.
Wong Lee has disappeared
81 am not yet sure" said Under
sheriff Biscailuz. that Fields isn't
telling a lot of things simply to get
free transportation to the Coast
but we are going ahead trying to
prove or disprove what he says.
Fields Tells of Trip.
we have not found the gun. We
have not found the bill that was
changed on "Wednesday night. Feb
ruary /. We have not been able to
verify the story that he was in the
Internal Revenue service in San
Diego. but VIC have uncovered
things that seem to ft into Fields
statement"
Fields story is substantially as
follows:
The murder was planned in a
hop joint in Venice.
Wong Lee had asked me il I
colld drive a Ford. We went out
about o'clock in the afternoon and
stopped in Hollywood. When IL be-
came dark we drove TO the Taylor
home.
Hears One shot.
Wong Lee lad an automatic. but
he was afraid IL would jam so he
gave il to Jennie Moore. He also
/ had an old-fashioned pearl handled
revolver.
The two men got out OF the car
ard went toward the house and
after a while / heard a shot. The
man came running back and Wong
Lee told me to speed up.
Did you croak somebody
asked.
"'You haven't seen anything or
| heard anything said Wong Lee,
and you don't know anything
See?'
Wong Lee told me to stop the
| car a little way down the street
and he went back into a court about
thirty feet and hid the gun.
Then We went to the Day and
Night Bank and Wong changed a
$1,000 bill and gave me $500.
I'VE were at the hop joint all
nlRnt ana lue llTSl lnlnE IN lnS
NOR ming Wong and l took a train
for Seattle. We separated there
Wong going to Chicago.
ct understand this man Taylor had
got in wrong with the gang on ac-
count of an actress" He named her
but the sherlff's office refuses to d.
| vulge the name.
The sheritrs Office has learned
that Taylor months ago appealed tI
the local government officers TO hell
him fight the drug peddlers. II IL
believed he did il for the sake OF the
actress who was being harsssed by
the drag sellers who had been get
Ting $1,000 a month from her.
They declare the Federal agents
gave Taylor all the aid he required
went around the studios disguised
a., laborers on extra men and cor
| rcborated all he said about the
smueglers. They are said to have
planned a number of raids at the
1 time Taylor WAS killed.