Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-09

attorneys office, first man to reach
the scene OF the crime after 1t was
reported.
Parsons declared that when he
reached the room where the dead d.
rector lay, the body had been care
fully laid out, the arms arranged and
cnair overturned across the legs,
that was his belief, he said, that the
setting had been carefully arranged
to throw the Investigators OFT the
scent.
Financial agencies backing h c
film industry and stars whose repu-
tation are lmperlled by impending
disclosures in connection with the
Staying Of the director, have taken
steps TO suppress evidence which
would incrimlrate prominent motion
picture pe0nle, county and police Of
1ic, al charging TODAY.
Checked Everywhere
Police Investigators today admit
they have suddenly found blank on
every side. Evidence, once tangible,
has been removed or distorted by
well paid agents OF the film interests,
they declare.
A strange lethargy, 1t is also stat
ed, has affected certain members OF
the police department since the ind
ing of pink silk night dress among
Iaylor's effects.
The situation had become so seri-
Gus that the sheriff's office here
wired District Attorney Woolwlne,
who had been taking has vacation IN
Ventura. California Woolwlne rush
ed back to the city and today was
closeted with W. C. Doran, his chief
deputy at the sheriff's office. A
grand jury investigation of the
charges that certain witnesses, IN
eludlng film stars, who at first talked
freely, have been suddenly silenced,
is planned.
The real truth of what happened as
Taylor's bungalow on the fatal We'd
nesday night week ago, when he
was shot through the back, IS known
to this secret wire-pulling combine
behind the scenes, the police helleve
and is being concealed because OF the
embarrassment to huge financial IN
terests which disclosures would IN
Volve.
The attempt TO throw the guilt di-
rcctlv upon the slain director valet,
Sands, who has disappeared, was seen
by Investigators convinced that the
murderer was hired by jealous wo--
man as an attempt 70 shield the real
culprit.
The secrecy attitude Of the big
guns" Of FINLAND, was believed TO
have been the outcome OF secret,
clcselv guarded midnight meeting at
the home of Mary Miles Minter. pc
tite screen star, whose love Tor lay
lor is now freely admitted.
Miss Normand Suffering
,,,I 1o of M
tress most prominent in the case, has
suffered an almost complete collapse
Her condition was rendered more SER
ions bv a report spread that her let
ters to Taylor had been found hidden
in the toe of one of the directors
riding boots.
The negro valet Of the murdered
director, Henry Peavey, has not told
all that he could, sherlffs believe and
he Yesterday was subjected TO MS
first severe grilling.
Today, police, detectives and the
district attorneys office, followed
each of their tortuous trails, the first
believed a woman did or hired the
deed: the second group in a wide
spread man hunt for the former valet
Sands; District Attorney Woolwine,
leading a probe into Vaccinations OF
certain interests to defeat the ends
OF justice.
Jealous rage, despicable blackmail-
or deliberate suppression of evidence
the trails crossed and recrossed.
Husbands and wives who h d
Haunted their marital differences
and infidelities before their fellow
stars and permitted a curious world
to catch an occasional shocked glimpse
were crying "Wolf" and rushing back
to the fold.
Husbands and wives were seer
dining together in public restaurants
for the first time in months; film ac-
tresses who had taken their 81 do
lightly were keeping the home fires
Cou1penv- with thalr own husbands
The BRITISH governments secre'
service viii be used to hunt dowr
Taylor's murderer, the British consul
generals office here has announced
it has q theory on the crime which
cannot yet be disclosed"
Miss Normand's letters and tele
grams were found during the nigh
when detectives searched the bunga
low in which Taylor was killed.
A flimsy lace handkerchief, initial
ed "M.M.M.' was found in the same
search.
The letters and the handkerchie,
were turned over to Chief Deputy Dis
trict Attorney w. c. Doran by detec
tives Adams, Cahill, Cline, Cato anC
Murphy who found them.
The district attorneys inyestiga
ton of the Taylor case is to include
an alleged Glove cult" with who's
members Taylor was said 10 have
been on intimate terms.
Oriental Mysticism
The clique, according TO the infor
nation available centered in Los An
gcies and attempted to steep itself il
Oriental mysticisms.
Investigations are inclined to con
slider seriously that it had a possibl
part in the events leading up to tn
tragedy, as the rituals of the cul
were said to have affected its devotee
to the point Of fanaticism.