Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-24
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tions. Additional details were received
from Detroit today. The police are In. /.
vestigating these.
The police pointed out two changes
Fields made in his original story. One
was the reduction Of n $1,000 bill to n
500 bill in connection with his state
ment that he was paid 5000 for having
driven n Chinese. n white woman and
white man to the Taylor apartments.
The other was his changing the TO-.
cation where he said the pistol with
which Taylor was shot woul be found.
The officers said they found 1t at neither
place he named.
A bank teller was found here. how.
eyer. who told Of n man entering n bank
with a $1,000 bill and acting suspiciousIIy
about the time Taylor was slain. In
addition Thomas Green. Deputy United
states District Attorney here. was
quoted rs having Stated n man he be.
lievcd was Taylor had sought his aid
a year ago in stamping out the drug
traffic. .,,
This latter was pointed to as possible
martial proof of Fields statement that
the film director was killed because OF
his alleged interference with the drug
traffic.
The officers learned also that Chi.
nese named Wong Lce--the name Fields
said was borne by the Chinese in the
alleged murder party-had left Los An
geles Chinatown three days ago when
It was first intimated Fields might have
important information concerning the
case.
They said. however. they had nothing
to connect Wong Lee With the Taylor
murder and recalled Fields had said the
Chinese in his party went East with
him.
The officers said they were unable to
learn anything of the white woman and
white man whom Fields named as Jen-
ME Moore and Johnnie Clark or any
persons who knew anything of them.
According to Fields story. as tele-
graphed by Sheriff Coffin at Detroit to
Sheriff Traeger here, the murder oi
Taylor was plotted in a ''hop joint at
Venice, beach suburb of Los Angeles.
Tells Of Alleged Plot
Arrangements were completed shortly
before noon February 1. eight hours OF
more before Taylor was killed. the tele-
graphed details continued. At that time
woman named by Fields as Jennie
Moore, Wong Lee and an American
Johnnie Clark sat in dingy room II
Venice and reviewed alleged plans fol
Staying Taylor because of their belle
be was interfering with the drug traffic
Fields. who claimed the ownership o
a small automobile. said he was offere
5000 for driving the murder party to tn
Taylor apartments at 404 Is South AL
varado street. Los Angeles, near West
Jake Park.
At 3 80 o'clock the afternoon of Feb
ruary l, the statement continued, tn
party left Venice. On the way to 10
Angeles they passed through the Holly
wood section. where they waited unit
after dark. and at 1880 o'clock drov
to the Taylor apartments. They stoppe
the car. according to the language Q
the so-called confession, mine door
south of the Taylor bungalow on Alva
RADIO street. and on the other side Q
the street. At that point. accordin
to the Detroit messages, Fields resorte
to his own theory as to what then too
place In the Taylor apartments.
But Fields was said to have declare
the woman carrying an automatic pistc
of heavy calibcr; the Chinese holding
3S-calber breakdown pistol, and CLARK
carrying blackjack. left the automo
bile and disappeared into the bungaio,
court.
Three minutes later, according I
Fields. he heard the ''muffled report" o
a revolver and thirty seconds later tn
woman, the Chinese and Clark wer
back in the car urging Fields to "g
away from here
As he was starting the car. Field
stated, the Chinese sprang out of il
saying wait a minute. wait min
, ute
Wong Lee then ran about thirty fee
up nearby court and hid his revolye