The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-10
Topeka, KANS., AUTHORITIES Nab
MAN ANSWERING DESCRIPTION OF
SANDS-CAME FROM CALIFORNIA
Admits Knowing Taylor
But SaysWornan Killed
Him-Tells About Par
ties At House of Dead
Director Where Dope
and Liquor Were
Served

Los Angeles, Cal. Feb. 10.-After
a beginning pronounced "satisfactor-
ily," the distric; attorneys investiga-
ton of the murder of VIM. Desmond
Taylor was expected to be continued
today with the possibility that a num-
Der of persons prominent in the mo-
tion picture world would be sum-
moned as witnesses.
Twelve persons bo-h men and wom-
en-, believed to have information of
value to the Investigators, have al
ready been questioned by Thomas Lee
Woolwine, district attorney, and VIM.
c. Doran. his chief deputy.
The information already obtained
was desired, it was said for ground
work upon which to base the examina
ton of persons known to have betn
closely associated with the dead di-
rector.
Witnesses Examined
Those who appeared at the district
attorneys office in connection with
the investigation include Charles Ey-
ton, general manager of the Famous
Players-Lasky studios where Taylor
was under two year contract.
Others were Douglas Mclean, film
actor, neighbor of Taylor and his
wife and their maid; Henry Peavey,
Taylors negro servant; Howard Eel
lows, Taylor's chauffeur Harry Eel
lows, the latter's brother and former
ly Taylor's chauffeur, and more re-
Gently his assistant director; Verne
Dumas and Neil Harrington, oil op-
orators and neighbors of Taylor;
TAs
thur Hoyt, an actor and a close friend
of Taylor, and Captain R. A. Robert
son, who, as an. officer in the Ameri-
can army, said he had an overseas
acquaintance with Taylor as an officer
in the British army.
Rumor has it that Mary Miles Min
ter. for whom Taylor formerly was a
director, also was closeted with he
district attorney for two hours last
Tuesday, before Mr.. Woolwine off
cially took charge of the inquiry, but
there has been no confirmation.
No Announcements
There has been no intimation as to
who would be summoned before The
district attorney today, but previous
inquiries by the police into the case
indicate that among the witnesses to
be summoned eventually before the
distric. attorney will be included Miss
Minter, Mabel Normand, whose letters
to the dead director are now in the
possession of the district attorney;
Neva Gerber, said to have been en-
gagged to marry Taylor at one time:
Claire Windsor, who had recently
dined and mo.ored with him; Edna
Purviance, formerly leading woman
for Charles Chaplin and a neighbor
of Taylor. who was said to have tele-
phoned the news of the directors mur-
der to Miss Normand, and a number
of others more or less prominent in
the motion picture colony
Looking for Sand
Meantime the police search for Ed
ward F. Sands, formerly butler-secre-
tary for Taylor, continues, while the
sheriffs deputies maintain their posi-
tion that Sands had nothing to do
with the crime.
Both joined in decalring their dis
belief that Walter F. Underwood, un-
deS arrest in Topeka, Kan, for mis-
appropriation of funds of a Los An
geles company, had any connection
wi h the murder of Taylor.
Miss Normand, one of the last per-