New-York tribune., 1922-02-08
Los Angeles Officials Say
Missing Secretary Of
Screen Director Will
Be Formally Accused
Mabel NOrlnand
Collapscs at Bier
Miss Minter in SecIusion
After Love Letter Signed
''Mary" Is Made Public

Los ANGELES. Feb "A complaint
charging Edward +. Sands, alias Ed
ward Fitz Strathmorc, missing butler
secretary. With the murder Of his for
mcr employer, William Desmond Tay-
lor Will be issued. it was declared to.
night by Detective Sergeant Edward
King, of tho Police Department. The
complaint will be based on "ncw and
concusive' evidence uncovered to day.
according to King
Special Dispatch to The Trrbunc
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7-Mss Mabel
Normand, the screen actress, collapsed
TINS afternoon as she attempted io take
Il last look at the face Of William Dcs-
nonG Taylor, the film director VIII, vas
murdered last Wednesday, ThoNeands
81 scnsatlcr- hungry men and women
eager 20 zee lim stars in rcat life,
stood silently in the stree, before st.
Iauls Pro Cathedral as, Just within the
Nostlbule entrance, the inert form of
Miss Norrnand was carried avav and
revived
It was estimated that there were
10000 persons inside and outside the
Cathcdrai. SO great was the crush
outside IN the crowd that many women
tainted.
Tonight the solution Of the murder
seems as distant as when Taylcrs body
was found in the study Of his bunga-
low home Edward r. Sands, reported
carrier N the day to have been detaipc
IN little Nevada town, still is at large.
VIC man arrested proved that ne was
not Sands when he exhibited wooden
leg.
More "Clcws" Arc Exploded
The famous tlm star who was sup
posed to have been so closely uucs-
toned du:ing the day proved to be
minor player who was not at xny time
thought TO have important knowledge
of the case. And the New York man
pictured as q sutor OF Mary Miles
Mintcr. WHO was said to have fed the
city after learning Of the Taylor mur-
der. WAS proved to have departed when
ordered to do so BY hotel house de-
women guests of tho hostery.
The fainting Of Miss Normand WAS
the climax of funeral service as
dramatic as it it had been planned by
the genius of the photo drama whose
violent death it was TO mark The
coffin stood Just within the church
door, almost buried by the floral of
ferings from friends. great and mod
est, Who had known Taylor during his
years of work for the screen. Cana
dian soldiers, medals on chest. heads
bowed. rifles reversed, stood at each
corner Of the mound of flowers. A few
T..
! apancsc film star and long time friend
of the director. his head erect his face
as cxprcssi onlcss as the sphinx.
Down in the courtyard, where tho
open doorcd hearsc still stood. muffled
sounds Of the police. who wore scuffIing
with the curious thousands, could be
heard. Still further away camc the
sounds Of the marching Scottish bag
pipcrs. "thc ladies from hell" as they
we're, known during she days when
TAYLOR was a soldier III the British
army.
There were film notablcs in the line
Of men and women that passed slowly
before the open coffin. Huge bouquets
of flowers bore their signatures. How
ever, these who sought the faces OF
such favortcs as Mary pckford, Doug
las Fairbanks. Charlie Chaplin, Nazim-
ON1 ana OCItiO WClC OiCdEDcIUICN.
The stars Of tho screen apparently are
not so anxious to bask in the lime
light on all occasions as is popularity
Friends Hold Painting Girl
There came a slight break in the
lines as Miss Normand supported on
either side BY close friends, approached
the coffin. She leaned forward to look
at the face of the dead director, but
evidently saw nothing. Her eyes closed
and She would have sagged to the floor
but for the assistance of those who
her She was unconscious
as she was taken into tiny antcroom,
where a matron administered to her
wants.
Close behind the actress who is
credited with being so closely asso-
c'atcd with the murdered director was
Henry Peavey, Taylor's negro valet.
sobbing loudly. The coffin was then
closed and carried away.
Thousands of cars followed tho
hcarsc to the palm skirted park that
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