The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-06


\ r,ose on the heels of these decla-
-s,cns came the report that the
lice were searching for a drug
p.SdIer. who, it was limited, had
rsght through Taylor to make de-
,vsSv OF drugs to an actress who
..and it difficult to make her pur-
sssses direct The initials of the
..1ress connected with this phase
: the case were said to be the
.,me as those on the nightro5e re-
.crted missing from the Taylor
garments.
Mrs. Douglas MacLean, wife of
AZ film actor, gave the first de-
| .sIJed statement of what she. saw
N the impressions she received
he night Taylor, firm director, was
lain. In a statement made public
l,st night, Mrs. MacLean also told
hoV the screams of Henry Peavey,
.sgro servant, awakened other resi-
ANTS of the bungalow court to a
knowledge of the murder the next
morning
Mrs. MacLean Talks.
Mrs. MacLean said she simply
eould not describe" the man she
had seen lurking about Taylor's
auartment last Wednesday night.
IL should say he was five feet,
nine inches tall, perhaps" she said.
1T seems to me he had promin-
ent nose, but | may have received
that impression from shadows cast
BY the arc light
81 hardly think it was the miss
Ing butler, Edward F. Sands. 1t
seems to me he was not so heavy
as Sands.
81 can only be sure of the gray
ulaid cap, and that his neck was
munled with something-perhaps it
was his coat collar. | can't even
tell whether he wore an overcoat
We had just finished dinner. 1t was
between and Sis o'clock. Chris
tiana, the maid, was busy in the
dining room. I had walked into
the living room. and was sitting. on
the davenport, knitting. Mr.. Mac
Lean had gone upstairs to get a
little electric stove we sometimes
use.
Then came the shattering re-
port. 1t was muffled, but still it
seemed to penetrate every corner
of the room.
Hears Shot.
"Christiana paused in her work.
Oh she cried, Wasn't that shot?
Il didn't know. There are many
automobiles passing the court all
the time. It might have been back
fire from one of them.
II walked to the door and opened
Il l pressed against the screen,
looking out into the night. Then l
saw the man. He was standing
with his back almost entirely to-
wards me, on a corner of Mr.. Tay-
lor's porch. The door of the Tay-
lor home was open and light was
shining from inside.
Almost at the instant l saw the
man he turned and faced me. He
seemed neither surprised nor
startled; certainly not alarmed. 1t
all seemed to be done casually. He
smiled at me. l could see the cor
ntIS VI HIS 1ul tlAC
ow of his face. l could not see his
face distinctly enough to distin-
guish his features.
Il thought Mr.. Taylor must have
called to him from inside the house.
The man turned away, walked to
the door and almost disappeared in
side 1t seemed as if he were bid
ding his host adieu. He closed the
door. Fl eidndltoaiicmt,fh -shrdhr
door. He did not slam it, nor yet
did he close it with unusual soft
ness.
Then he walked across the
porch and turned toward me.
81 drew back within the house.
And as 1 was closing the door,
saw the man turn into a walk be-
tween the houses and disappear 1t
was very dark there. That walk
leads to another street, where per-
sons on that side of the court US
ually park their cars.
And so I thought nothing of the
whole thing. / did not even men
ton it to Mr.. MacLean until the
next morning when the terrible
screams of Mr.. Taylor's servant
awakened US.
Then l remembered the man"