The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-19
by MARGERY REN.
L N. g staff Corrcspondcnt.

by MARGERN REN.
I. N g. staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK.--1t is easy for the
enemy OF a man who lives secretly
to murder him unseen.
| In mysterious manner two men
who ate the secret bread OF pleasure
and drank sweet stolen waters have
died by the fury OF assasslns stu
unknown.
The career OF william Desmond
Taylor, slain movie director, In life
and death paraleled that of Jim"
Elwcll, so strangely shot down in
his New York home two years ago.
Each lived alone, and alone each
was attacked. From both Taylor
and Elwe1l. in their last moments
someone fled.
Men who ahun daylight are hpt
to make themselves tempting targets
for marksmon In the dark.
Taylots leavetaking OF life was
just as mysterious AS his incxplicable
departure in 1908 from his wife and
child and just as unaccountable as
his later change OF name, for the
dead man was known originally as
william Cunningham Deane-Tauner.
Who Was Slayer.
who could have arranged Taylor's
clandestine rendezvous with dcath2
suspicion goes over the list of pos
slbillties. There Is. for instance.
Edward 4. Sands. the dead mans
valet. who robbed his master and
whom one OF the feminine stars
says, Taylor vowed to kill at sight.
And there are the men who are In
terested In the women Taylor knew,
VIII one OF the brilliant stars OF
that glamorous world. whose little
suns are Cooper-Hewitts, shoot
down TO earth and be obliterated in
the tragedy.
: Like his prototype ElwelI. Taylor
: was adored by the opposite sex,
hut cared for none constantly. In
fact. 1t is said he was Indifferent to
I love. Interesting. travelled we'll
read, a brilliant talker and discreet
confidant Taylor held the friend
ship OF many women. Whether or
I not his relations with them were
sentimental cannot be determined
Mt this time.
But why did he disappear In 1908
from a beautiful wife and daughter,
from q host OF friends and gay
SOCIAL circle?
Rover by. Nature.
| Rover by nature. william Deane-
Tanner came 10 New York from
Dublin I'm the late nineties. Movies
were unheard of then, and the young
Irishman did not dream of the magic
lantern which would create n life
OF splendor for him and for thou
:. sands of others.
He was interested In antiques and
:. objects of art. He entered into that
. business near Thirtieth street and
: Fifth avenue at "a period when this
. neighborhood held many small
= shops with fascinating wares when
= the Holland house was flourishinH
q and the fine old homes and oldfash-
!. ioned apartment houses had moi
been superseded by business.
n "Florodora' was then in her first
q fling. Among the pretty girls OF
that first cast was Ethel May. Har'
Il .rison. They met and married IL
5, 1901.
q / Clubs, racetrack, theaters and gay
l. parties drew this restless individual
WHO because OF his addiction to @
l. life OF pleasuree did not cause scri
10 ous worry to hts family when hi
X disappeared in i9OS for what hi'
d friends Thought would be n shor
l. time.
i Waved Goodbye 60 wife.
70 At the Vanderbilt cup race tina
~ year Taylor waved boodbye to nj
wife. later sent to their apartmen
n In the Colonial hotel for his clothe
20 but remained unheard from unit
,e the movies begau to flash face
y around the world, In this way hi
% friends knew that Taylor was Tan
ner and not dead by any means.
is His wife meantime had divorces
n him and married Edward Robin
ly restauranteur, now proprietor q
,s Delmonicos. Tanner, become Tay
Tor. tired of the old life, found ney
outlet for hts whims and rowing dis
position in the adventures that h
directed for the films.
,P Taylor's associates were men an,
women whom the screen brought be
fore all OF us. We know their man
re nerisms, their charms and thei
r. features as well as those of our owl
rs relatives. Mabel Normand WAS. hi
ne pal" claire Windsor was friend
d. Neva Gerber was once engaged I
In the man, hut they decided In a per
a, fectly friendly way not 70 marrS
n He admired pretty Mary Miles MIN
lis ter, famous long ago as ''Tbe llt
Sc tie Rebel
y, Lived Like Elwcll.
M Taylor lived as Elwell did, alon'
,d and his servants went away at nigh
he While this mode OF lifo encourage
IS intrigue not possible In more Ope
existence, Il makes the occupant G
a lonely house liable to attacl
he Blackmailer or murderer coul
at easily gain access to his intonde
an victim.
a. And. like the slain Whist eNper
IT. Taylor received young women call
re ers freely at his home, He had re
Is ceived n visit from one of them o
he the very night of his death. Won
ems garments Wee found In hi
home as in Elwelrs
hn Thn killin.- Of Insnnh lrlu,nn