South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-06

~maIu issue so far, ore i1vesfiFnfo
said. was the whereabouts or me
rnisslnE valet. sands FOR q few DAYS
before the shooting
Normand Letters Missing.
Miss Mabel No~uaud "a uoaon
picture actress. who was with Wiz
Ham Desmond Taylor sGoE-LF before
DE was shot and KILLED i1 his home
Wednesday night tonisht said that
Ia narkare ~ letters written by her
10 TAYLOR az different times was miss
ue from hls home. Mise Normand
eG the letters were there Few
- ago.
Ihs letters she said were friendly
iu zone and there was nothing ~
them 90 boz ashamed of She was
unable TO account for thei- disap-
rearanca Police detectives placed
much weight on this development
saving r. wes the Arst indication
pointing Tor a possible motive TOT
the shooting
aIss Normand told The officers
that she was sure the letters were
the-e not 60 long ago because AFTER
Tavlcrs home was robbed Tow
months since he showed her over
the place and told her how drawers
had been emnred and various rec
.ceu-acIez looted and in showing her
this pulled out a drawer and dis
PLAYED q packet ~ letters and te-e-
grams she had sent 20 him from
New York
This turned attention Of the OIL
GERS 20 The Fact that very few per
sonal letters or naperE have yet
been found save those in Nr. TaT-
1or'- safe deposit Box which chief
Is related 10 investments IT, re-
suited iu their sending ont men 10
End a former business associate ~
Mr Tay'ors Who has been active
81 THE investigation. Boo the hope
that This man could throw some
U-ht ON Miss Eormaus correspor-
dence and other private papers.
s te1- of how Die had known
william Desmond Taylov slain hlm
director under the name ~ William
Cunningham Ueane-Tanner was
told here sunday by Harry Foster.
proprietor ~ am antique shop
Poster formerly was in the same
business In New York where he
said. hs meat Deane-Tsn once or
twice week for years and knew
hls habits and his family.
Tanner then was . partner in
an antique shop a. 9ist ST. and
Fifth ave- said Foster. His two
business associates were A. j..
Crawford aul e man named Bar
ker
That was about rs years ago.
and for several years. until the an
tique shop went bankrupt. I called
on Tanner as "a salesman. After
the shop went out ] lost sight or
Tanner until about a month ago.
here iu Los Angeles.
at that time "A well dressed man
entered my shop. 7 recognized him
Immediately but he refused 20 rec
Ognize me- He assumed the role
could help him iu looking over my
goods and he replied curtly No. ]
am Just looking around
AT first I thought T might have
been mistaken in Identifying him
az Tanner After . had watched
him for a time IA he wandered
around tho shep 7 decided I had
been correct.
Aren't YOU Mr., TANNER ask
ed. stepping up 10 him Mr. Tan
ner. formerly or the antique shop
IN New York
''fIe looked mp briefly and replied
that I was mistaken and hurriedly
left the shor. IIe never returned"
Tending 90 show the alleged feel
ing Of Taylor toward Edward T..
Sands, or Edward Fitzstrathmore.
his former butler. whom the dlrec-
tor had charged with a felony. was
a further statement sunday by Hem
" Peavey, Taylor's colored house
man.
''Not long ago" said Peavey Ell
was showing MT Taylor a coat
had bought. That looks like one
Sands stole from me. he said. oh
n J could only get my hands on
that fellow"
Melbourne Mcdowell actor
husband Of the late Fannie Daven-
port. looked over an old scrapbook
today and then gave 10 the press
his belief that Taylor under the
name ~ Cunningham Deane PLAYED
with the Fannie Davenport company
AZ the Fifth av thcater in New York
IN 1895. and later I'm Boston and
during tour az the country i'm
1895 and 1896.