Paragould soliphone., 1922-02-06
Robbed by Ex-Employe.

A"SDGSSi ~ ---A i~J O' Six months ago, Taylor returned to Los Angeles after a tour of Eu- rope. Then he learned man he had employed had raised several personal checks and had stolen many suits of his clothes, He re- ported the robbery to the police and charged that the man had se- cured many thousands of dollars by illegal methods. A police search was being made for this man when Mir. Taylor's house again was en- tered, suits and articles of jewelry taken
 It was after this second robbery that Mr. Taylor received a letter. It read;
 Dear MT. Taylor: So sorry to inconvenience you, even temDorari- ly; also observe the lesson of the forced sale of assets.
 fSigned) Alias Jimmy ""
 From Miss Normand and other persons the police learned that MT Taylor had often~ expressed fear that some time this man would re turn and do him bodily harm.
 The police are not, however bas ing their investigation now on tho theory that the thief was the slay CT. Instead they at present list it- as sfr1117,6o J,1yCtclsy
 The slayer evidently committed the crime about or o'clock We'd nesday night. It was at that time that Douglas Mclean, motion pie ture star. and his wife, who live next door, say they heard thf sound of one pistol shot. Police also believe that the staying occur red at that time because of ths opinion expressed by the deputy coroner that the man had been dead tor moro than 10 hours when the body was found.
 Had Many Women Friends.
 Taylor was high liver and hat many women friends. He was, ac cording to general opinion in the motion picture colony, engaged fol a time to Mary Miles Mintcr ano later to Mabel Normand A Mrs Paul A. Crawford Ivers, continuits editor for Lasky's, also is said t. have been good friend Of his. Fay. Tor had been married twice, havins been divorced both times. He wa 1rc-eminently a man who kept tho greater part of his life a myster! 10 those about him. Few mel knew very much about his business interests, which in purely invest ment way and aside from his large earnings as chief motion picture director for the largest producing concern in the world, were yer! extensive. He was man of de aided attraction for women, but ont who, in affairs of the heart, as il everything else, played without making any noise.
 Apparently the actual staying wae by a man. The description of tht man who was seen leaving the house two minutes after the shor which killed Taylor was fired. ha! been secured. It destroys tht theory that Sans, former secretary to Taylor and accused by the lat. ter of having twice robbed him an6 tied, could not have been the slay.
 r. The man who was seen leav- ng the house was entirely differ ent in size and appearance iron Sans.
 There is a theory that some wo. man, deeply in love with and, al
 he same time, jealous of Taylor. vagarieS as 6 lover. had him killed by man, probably a professional gunman
 In the room adjoining the one il which Taylor was slain was cocktail mixer, with the dregs only temaining. Near it were two glass ss, from which two persons evi lently had imbibed shortly before he was slain.
 Visited by Miss Normand.
 The last person who saw Taylor Hive, with the exception of the assassin, was Miss Mabel Normand film star. She visited him at his home Wednesday night. She arriv- d at the house shortly before