Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-10
STEWART COUNTY SCENE OF DOUBLE KILLING
Miss MINTER
z HOURS WITH
PROSECUTOR
Los Angeles District Attorney
Pronounces Beginning of Movie
Probe Satisfactory

GEVDC 91eaSl ASA0Ay
Topeka, Kans., Feb. 10.-A man
under arrest here, who gave the name
of Walter Underwood, was declared
by Under Sheriff Carlson to answer
the description of Edward f. Sands,
secretarySvalet of William Desmond
Taylor, murdered film director. The
man admits he knew Taylor and
had attended parties at his home.
Los ANGELES, Feb. 10.-After a
beginning pronounced satisfactory" I"
District Attorney Woolwine's investi-
cations of the murder of William Des-
nond Taylor, movie director, was ex-
peeted to be continued today with
the possibility that a number of per-
sons prominent in the motion picture
world would be summonded as wit
nesses.
Rumor has it that Mary Miles
Minter was closeted with the dis
trict attorney for two hours Tuesday
before Woolwine Officially took
charge of the inquiry, but there is no
confirmation of tais.
Among those who will figrue in
the investigation are Mabel Nor
mand, Mary Miles Minter, Neva Ger
Der and Claire Windsor, motion pic
ture actresses, the first three of whom
have been reported to have been par,
ties to love affairs with Taylor;
Henry Peavey, negro houseman, who
found the body; Howard Fellows,
chauffeur of Taylor; Charles Eyton,
manager of the Famous Players
Laskey studios in which Taylor was
employed; Mrs. Douglas MacLean,
wife of a motion picture actor, neigh
Dor OF Taylor, who saw stranger
leaving the Taylor doorway after
hearing a shot there on the night
of the murder, and host of others
concerning whom bits of information
have come to Investigators. Fellows
has said he called aTaylo4 by phone
at 7 :55 p. M, Is minutes after Mabel
Normand admitted she left Taylors
home, and received no answer, the
assumption being that Taylor was
dead at that time.
Unexplained circumstances sur
round the movements of the packet of
letters, including letters from Mabel
Normand to Taylor, which was found
by a police detective in the Taylor
house yesterday.
I Mabel Normand, who was in COM
pany with Taylor until Z 80 o'clock
on Wednesday night a week ago,
within an hour of the time which in
vestigators fix as the time of the
murder, visited the house the follow
ing morning and sought these letters.
She said they might be misinter-
preted if read by the public, but de-
MED that a love affair existed be-
tween Taylor and herself.
These letters, she said, were kept
by Taylor in the drawer of desk in
the room in which the shooting oc-
cured. He showed them to her sew
eral weeks previously in discussing 9
robbery of the house, mentioning that
the letters had not been taken.
1t was announced at the district
attorneys Office that the letters OF
Mabel Normand will not be made pub.
| lie at this time.
The centralized investigation will
be carried on as follows:
Questioning of several wealthy and
influential producers, one of whom
has been questioned before in the
case.
Questioning of at least four motion
picture actresses, in an effort to de-
velop further information concern
in. the theory of a woman being the
motive for the staying.
Questioning of two men, not con
nected with motion pictures, along
lines of jealousy as a motive in
| the case.
Close examination of former en-
ployees Of the slain director in order
| to reveal intimacies of the past thai
came under their observation.