The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-13
ABANlQLS HOPE
Of FINDING film
NAFSn|g|RDERER.
District Attorney Doubts
If Slayer Will Be
Captured
fBy Asgoclated Paul


Los ANGELES. Feb. 13.-There
IS 9 grave and serious doubt al
present as to whether the muir.
deser of William Desmond Taylor,
film director, will ever be appre-
tended, declared Thomas Lee
Wcolwine, district attorney, last
night
MI Woolwine made this declare.
ton in q statement he issued, de.
picring what he termed faxed and
fraudulent Interviews on the case
and atticniarly one purporting to
hate come from him.
HIS statement follows:
IN the early edition of the Elk.
aminer tor Monday morning there
appeared on the first page thereof
an interview purporting to come
from me which was never in effect
given
This interview never took place,
and there is not a word Of It that
have ever authorized to be print.
ed nor did I have the slightest in.
timations directly or Indirectly,
that II would be.
There Is not a sentence that
contains my exact language about
anything. 1t Is composed Of some
things that i have uttered in sub.
stance. There are some half
truths many absolute falsehoods, |
have made complaint publicly OF
the verdict in the Burch case, but ]
did not authorize any further state.
tnent about that case.
The following quotation from
the false interview was never ut
tered by me:
Now, when my office should
be directing all its energies in its
persecution OF Mrs. Madalynne
0henc chain In her trial before Judge
Sidney n. Reeve, Il Have this most
battling OF murder mysteries to
solve the killing of William Des.
mond Taylor.
Iwould not much state:a state.
tneflt At this time, when the Oben.
chain case Is on trial and for the
further reason that there are now
pending in the office of the district
attorney many hundreds OF cases
that should, and do, receive atten.
ton the obenchain case being only
ono Of that large number.
~ did not say the last quoted
words In substance or effect at any
time
aTyhe following language purport.
ed 70 have been uttered by me Is
out Of whole cloth and is vicious.
IN false:
~ the minds OF the jurors who
first tried Fatty Arbuckle and Ar.
thur q. Burch are the minds Of the
publ than I must confess that
HE, people. do notsw to be pro.
tectedE BY the laws on the statute
Books
The following is also made out
81 whole cloth, never having been
uttered or thought OF by me:
Nevertheless I shall ferret out
the criminal who killed Taylor.
Nothing will stop the district attor.
1ey's office from getting at the
ruth and bringing to the surface
he facts which led to the murder
of the noted film director
The facts are that the duties
of fefreting and experimenting the
perpetrator of this deed rests with
The police department and am
only cohnselling with and advising
hem,
There Is grave and serious doubt
" the present time as to whether
khe murderer. will ever be appre.
hendeda and certainly do not know
whether he ever will be.
q intend to give my best en-.
dearors in counselling with the OF
licers, but / would not in the pres,
mt condition OF the investigation
hazard the statement that ! or any.
one else, will be able to solve the
mystery.
Itisicertainly an outrage for any
newspaper to be guilty OF such a
TAXED and fraudulent interview.
Lam informed that this fake has
been telegraphed all over the Uni
ted States which maguified its in
iluity'
While the police detectives and
the sheriff's deputies have not
acknowledged defeat, they say the
case is one Of the most bewiIdering
ever to come to their attention
Eleven days have passed since the
discovery Of the directors body and
the officers assigned to the mystery
have worked with less than their
ordinary sleep and under unusual
pressure In tracking down what
seemed like tangible clues and in
gestigating almost innumerable
tips;
A sample OF some Of the tips:
ssnt the officials is the following
rom q letter in what seemed Q
womanis handwriting:
"a dreamed last night that Mr.
Taylor was killed by a fair.haireo
Woman with hooked nose. Find
That woman AID you have the muir