The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-13
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LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 13-1n-
vesugation by the district attorneys
office into the William Desmond Tay-
lor murder mystery will proceed to-
day, although it is legal holiday, &C
cording to a statement by Thomas Lee
Woolwine, district attorney.
He said he was uncertain what form
the inquiry would take, but thought II
unlikely he would summon to his Of
fices any motion picture stars OF
others He thought it more probable,
he stated, that the detectives would
investigate any available leads and
that witnesses would be summoned
for questioning by him hereafter only
when the preliminary work of the Of
ficers indicated some discovery OF
more than usual import.
This latter course would place the
detectives of the police department
again on their theory that the finding
of Edward F. Sands, missing former
butler-secretary to Taylor, was essen
tial to the solution of the enigma and
those of the sheriff's office on their
Numerically opposed contention that
Sands had nothing to do with the
Staying.
Shortly before this partial dis
closure of the future procedure OF his
office in the investigation, Mr.. Wool
wine had issued a statement concern
ing faxed and fraudulent interviews"
on the case and declaring there was
grave and serious doubt at the pres
ent time as to whether the murderer
will ever be apprehended."
While the police detectives and the
sheriff's deputies have not acknowl-
edged defeat they admit the case is
one of the most bewildering ever to
come to their attention. Eleven days
have passed since the discovery Of the
directors body and the officers as
signed to the mystery have worked
with less than their ordinary SLEEP
and under unusual pressure in track
ing down what seemed like tangible
clews and Investigating almost in
Vulnerable tips"
Sample Of Tip
sample of some of the tips" sem
the officials is the following from g
letter in what seems woman's
handwriting:
II dreamed last night that Mr. Tay
Tor was killed by fair haired woman
with hooked nose. Find that woman
There is grave and serious doub
at present as to whether the muir
derer of William Desmond Taylor
film director. will ever be apprehend
ed" declared Thomas Lee Woolwine
district attorney, late last night
Mr. Woolwine made this declaration
in a statement he issued deplorins
what he termed faxed and fraudulen
interviews" on the case, and particu
larly one purporting to have come
from him.
Text Of Statement
His statement follows:
I'm the early edition of the Exam
iner for Monday morning there ap
peared on the first page thereof al
interview purporting to come from mi
which was never in effect given.
This interview never took place
and there is not a word of it that
have ever authorized to be printed
nor did | have the slightest intimatiol
directely or indirectly, that it woult
be. There is not a sentence that con
tains my exact language about any
thing. 1t is composed of some thing
that I have uttered in substance
There are some half truths, many at
solute falsehoods. / have made con
plant publicly about the verdict i
the Burch case, but | did not autho
ize any further statement about tina
case.
False Statement
"The following quotation from tn
false interview was never uttered
he:
Now, when my office should
directing all its energies in its pros
cution of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchai
in her trial before Judge Sidney
Reeve, / have this most battling
murder mysteries to solve-the xii
ing of William Desmond Taylor
4 would not make such a stat
ment at this time, when the Obenchai
case is on trial and for the furtht
reason that there are now pending
the office of the district attorne
hundreds of cases that should, and
receive attention, the Obenchain ca:
being only one of that large number
Il did not say the last quoted wore
in substance or effect at any time.
Viciously False
THE following language purpos,
TO have been uttered by me is out
whole cloth and is viciously false:
IF the minds of the jurors who fir
tried Fatty Arbuckle and Arthur
Rnrpb arc tho minds Of tho pI1bli