The Washington times., 1922-10-22
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SWEETHEARTS.
LIKE NECKT|ES
Guy Dernier FIouted Death in
100 Amours, Says
Arizone Official.
BoAsTED OF LAST "DATE"
Deputy Hints Broadly at Frame
up to SIay Hero Of Many
.Pajama Parties.

Pajama Parties.
. PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 21.-"Trou.
bic with the fellow was"
The deputy sheriff, r. A. Bell.
Glanced around and then continued,
Trouble with that fellow was that
he changed his sweethearts like he
changed his neckties--and he had a
lot of neckties!
He was talking about Guy N. Der
aier, the victim Of the startling mys-
terry that has stirred the authori-
ties of four States and thrilled the
hearts of a hundred women with
fear.
Had Flair for Women.
Guy Dernier surely did have
I flair for women. He married Stella
Dedi in Chicago and she divorced
him. Then he drifted to Arizona
and began to climb hand over hand
up the ladder Of society in the flour
ishing city Of Phoenix. =!
Good looking? Well. he was young
! and women thought him handsome.
Men seemed to hate the sight of
him, though. but he was a pusher
and progressed until he became sec
\ rotary and q director Of the Coun-
try Club and a sort Of social arbiter
among the young set.
Exactly what cut Dernier's career
/ short IL not clear. They found him.
dead. clad only in a suit of silk pa
tamas, in an irrigation ditch out
/ side Phoenix. Nearby was his auto
mobile, with his evening clothes piled
on the rear seat. A stranger. un-
familiar with Arizona. might have
, decided the man, while intoxicated,
had committed suicide, and let 1t go
at that. But Phoenix folk knew bet
The Harem List.
In his coat pocket was found a
list of women's names-exactly one
hundred there were-and 1t Is the
possibility of the publication OF this
list that has thrown the dread Of
disgrace into the feminine circles
around which Dernier circulated. In
Chicago, Los Angeles and other
cities he knew many women, and
everyone fears that her name, with
perhaps a notation Is in the little
memorandum book-the "harem d.
rectory," as the police refer to 1t.
Guy Dernier was strangied and
flung into the ditch as q man might
fling the carcass Of a coyote to get
1t out of his sight and mind. Three
hours before he was fonud dead, a
friend invited him to dinner and he
mo, thanks; I've got a date with
. widow"
He kept that date. but It was the
last date Of his life, the sheriff's men
ny. They believe that Dernier's use
Of the word widow" was in q jocular
sense. and they think they know the
woman he had in mind. She Is
young. married, and her husband is
rated as one Of the most powerful
men, physically and politically, too,
in that part Of the country.
Tho Pajama Parties.
There was, according to Deputy
Sheriff Bell, more Significance than
might be guessed in the fact that the
body was found clad in pajamas, and
tie Deputy explained:
"Dernier used to stage pajama par
ties among the younger set Of mar
ried and single folk. They were
mighty popular, too, among the
smarter, swifter crowd. Several peo-
pie that I've talked to have told me
that Il was rather a fad to trade
wives on these occasions. Dernier
had been divorced, and 80 was neither
single nor married, 80 to speak, and
I'm told he played the whole field.
Husbands resented this"
Deputy Bell paused, considering
whether he should say more. He
had been raking the Country Club
and the countryside for two weeks
and he had o lot Of information on
hand. but no arrests have been made
and the man wanted to be cautious.
Maybe no arrests ever will be made.
Western law 10 strict enough in
most things. but when . mans
wffe-weli. anyway.
Husbands resented Dernier's
ideas. because they thought IT wasn't
fair. He had the edge Of them all
In . way, for he was about the only
divorced man thereabouts. And the
women got irrftated, too, after q
while. He changed SO often. They
got resentful and then one OF them
saw red when he tossed her aside
and amused himself with a younger
woman. You know how II is1
This woman was married. I
don't know whether her husband
knew that she was often q guest
at Dernier's paJama parties. I don't
hhO" thot CNCH SuSpCCtCu IL
the time. Men out here aren't sus-
picious Of their women. But II he
didn't know Rt the time, the knowl.
edge certainly came to that two
listed husband in one quick flash"
The Wife's Confession.
Deputy Bell was leading up 10 a
tragedy adroitly and he seemed to
appreciate the dramatic possibilities
OF the situation. He knew what had
happened and he wanted to tell II in
his own way; let him.
"Friend Husband got a confes-
sion from that woman. and she came
clean, too. She would have to when
the pressure was thrown the right
way-and anyway, she was as anx.
ious to break Dernier as her hus-
band was; more so, guess: Women
are that way.
80 the husband set the trap and
the wife crawled into II to be the
halt. They agreed that something
definite would have to be done about
Guy Dernier. He was a menace to
the community. a wrecker of hearts
and homes. and all that. He had
been warned several times by jcal.
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