Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-02-27
SEEK A WOMAN
WHO GOT WIRES
IN TAYLOR CASE
Messages Said Sender,
Also Woman, Needed
Aid, Was in Trouble.
Another Telegram to
Connecticut Was to
Get Word toDaughter.

Los Angeles, Feb. 26.-Police Ser
geant Jack Stelzreide is reported
to have gone to San Francisco to
search for woman to whom three
kilograms bearing on the Taylor case
were said to have been sent on the
night the director was murdered and
one the next day.
The kilograms, it was said, had
been sent by the woman reported to
have telephoned message to friend
in San Francisco the night of the
murder.
1t is said the kilograms, as was
the telephone message, were address
sed to Mrs. Walker" in the north
ern city and declared the sender was
lin trouble and needed help
Mrs. Walker according to 'tip"
given to the police, was a guest at
San Francisco hotel.
Trace Message for Daughter
Deputy sheriffs also have worked
on other clews involving kilograms,
public the following telegram which
they said had been filed for trans
mission in a Hollywood telegraph Of
flee at 1908 o'clock the morning If
February . little more than two
hours after Taylor's body was found:
Mrs. Gergea Freeman,
"Shippins Pint, Stamford. CT.
Pete Tanner fatally shot behind
right ear in his apartment this morn
ing Ask Ethel Daisy if l can do
anything. Should l send flowers in
among movie colony. No details avail
able yet.
Marion
The officers stated they had obtain
ed from Miss Marion Graham, adver-
tising manager for a Hollywood pub
lication, admission she had sent the
telegram and that she had known |
Taylor in New York under the name
of Tanner, when his daughter, Ethel !
Daisy. was year old. She said when |
she first met him in Hollywood, he |
admitted it.
Concentrate on Sands
A concentration of police efforts to
find Edward F. Sands. missing former
butler secretary to Taylor. was an
nounced by detectives attempting to
solve the mystery of the film directors /
murder.
1t was planned to begin by assem-
bling data for handbills to be sent
through the country, it was stated to
supplement the information regarding
the missing man already distributed
broadcast through news dispatches and
police bulletins.
This announcement was made by
Herman Cline. police detective, who
pointed out that, while no reward was
offered for the location of Sands,
against whom a felony charge is on
file here, rewards totaling $4,000 had
been offered for information leading
to the arrest and conviction Of the
murderer.
Found No Clue in Frisco
I'VE have run down tip after tin u
without results" said Cline Now.
we will concentrate upon finding Sands,
With the hope that we shall either prove
correct our first suspicious that he
has information bearing on the crime,
Or eliminate him.
Immunity from prosecution on the
felony charge recently was offered to
Sands by Thomas Lee Woolwine. dis ,
trict attorney. if Sands would make
good promise contained in an anony-
nous letter purporting to have been {
iictated by him, that he would clear up l
he mystery.
Cline has returned here from San
Francisco, where he went to check I'D y
Information that on the night Of the |
murder Los Angeles woman had +
elephoned to friend in the northern r
.ity that she was ''in trouble" He h
'aid he could find no record of such i
! call in either Los Angeles or San i