The evening world., 1922-02-10
Prosecutors Office Learns of
Mysterious Visitor Who
May Be Miss X. Police Now
Regard as One of Suspects.
District Attorney in His New
Inquiry Examines Twelve
WitneSSeS-Mabel Nor
mand to Be Called Next.
suspicion Now Centres Upon
Valet, Young Easterner and
Two Motion Picture Men.
in Addition to. Jealous Girl.

LOS ANGELES. Feb. 10.-Now
and direct evidence singing out the
son OF a rich New York manufac-
turcr from the four unnamed sug
poets under investigation in the VIII
liam Desmond Taylor murder case
was obtained to-day.
The lead was furnished by Dep,,v
Sheriff Joseph Nolan, who declared:
1.-The angle l am working on may re-
suit in an arrest within the next few
hours, if the man we're after fails 10
clear up the question of his where
abouts on the night of the murder
The young man was grilled early In
the murder investigation. \ He offered
an alibi which cleared him at the
time, but which officials claim apid
'v crumbled as one witness after an
other named in the alibi was cross
examined by District Attorney Wool.
, wine.
The Sheriff's office entertained from,
the first the theory that the man
undor suspicion, reputed to be jealous
and hot-tempered, was in love witt,
an actress prominently mentioned in
| the Taylor case and might have haG
hand in the shooting
Another development in the inyeati
CATION into the murder of Taylor is the
positive assertion by Il detective at
! toched to the District Attorneys offlre
] nat Frp,, a
his bungalow preceding Mabel Nor
nand by matter Of minutes. Tie
woman left, the detective asserts, "a
I brief time elapsed and Mabel Nor
nand arrived
Inquiry is under way to determine
whether Or not this woman is tho
owner Of the dainty nightgown. cor 70
sidered the most important clue yeS
found.
Mabel Normand Will be the mex
star called IN the inquiry by the De
trIct Attorneys Ce into all facts
and circumstances that investigator
can obtain to build up the real story
OF The mystery drama surroundin;
the shooting OF William Desmond
Taylor, it was announced to-day by
District Attorney Woolwlnc. Mary
Miles Mtnter was the first actress
questioned, having been secretly eX-
amIned Tuesday by Woolwine. while
Taylor's funeral was in progress.
Woolwinc said,
Having concentrated all the forces
Of law under his own direction in au
effort TO penetrate the wall of mys
terry. District Attorney Woolwine hg.
narrowed the field of suspects dow
TO four men and Miss X. the mys
terious woman in the case.
This Miss X" is not a pointed ref
cience TO any one actress among those
~ Taylors acquaintance. She repre-
sents the police theory that a jealous
"oman actually killed the director ur
'nstigated the murder.
The first OF the men suspects is Ed
ward f.. Sands, who, according 70 one
theory, might have both planned and
executed the crime. He Is considered
by one branch Of investigators as the
possible murderer, because Taylor had
threatened him with prosecution on
grand larceny and forgery charges
The blackmail theory also involves
this former servant. Taylor, bank
records show, drew out s2,5 900 a day
or so before the murder and then re-
turned II TO the bank the day OF the
shooting, Feb. !. This, according 20
the police. might Indicate Taylor had
decided 90 pay blackmsD, then