New-York tribune., 1922-03-07
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Film Man to
Taylor. Murder
Alleged Confession. Written
at Atlantic City, Is Said
TO Be Signed by Name
Well Known TO Screen
One of Eleven Received
we Protect Our Women Is
justification of KILLING.
as Claimed by the Writer

LOS ANGELES, March GA brief
part OF the ten-page handwritten let
ter purporting to be confession to
the murder here February of William
Desmond Tay.or, fln director, mailed
10 the Los Angeles Police Department
from Atlantic City, February 27. and
received in this city March q, was made
public tonight by David l.. Adams.
captain Of detectives.
The part made public read:
I'VE South Americans always take
care Of our women. We are hot-headed
ard see that swift Justice is meted out
70 those who wrong us
= KILLED the and even this ;s
4 mild description Of the man who
hiding behind polished manner Won
The regard Of many women. only 10 .,
them aside when tired OF them for y
new plaything.
The confesson according TO CAPTAIN
Adams, was signed by the name of :.
man who occupied prominent Mac
IN the motion picture industry and
whose wife was native of South
America. 1t WAS said the man had
left Los Angeles about the time of
the murder and that he had previously
been sidered by the police in con-
aection with the crime.
Captain Adams said his previous
statement that the letter came from y
Connecticut town was a mistake. as he
had in mind a different letter when he
made that statement.
The letter
tionery of n hotel which the police said
was well known in Atlantic CITY. The
handwriting was clear and the text Of
the letter was we'll constructed. the
captain said. He declared that pub
lshed reports purporting to give quota
tons from the liter were far from the
truth and that none other than police
had read the letter. It was the
eleventh letter from individuals who
claimed TO have slain the director, the
captain said.
Captain Adams said the police were
making close inquiry into q letter
received few days after the murder
which II is believed is in the same
handwriting 8 the letter from Atlantic
City and possibly may dovetail into
the Atlantic City letter
The inquiry was merely in a primary
s.hSS ne Sdlu, uuI WUuIU De gone INTO
fully, and the whole mass Of corre-
spondence received by the police re-
alng to the murder would be ex
h2ustively examined and compared.
An examination by experts of the
Atlantic City communication proved it
not written by Edward F. Sands,
missing former butler secretary to
V-er, it was said.
This confirmed previousle an
acunced view of the detectives, they
said. as Sands, SO far as known, is not
married, while the confession, they
sGded. was made by husband. They
declared the letter said the mans wife
had first engaged in an "affair" with
Taylor, only to be SCORED" by him
late-
1t was reported, but not confirmed,
nat the police had asked Boston de-
tectives to search an establishment in
mat city in the hope of effecting an
arrest in connection with the murder
Of Taylor.
HARTFORD, Conn, March s.-The
Connecticut state police to-day re-
newed their Investigation into the
mystery of the suicide of a young man
at Warehouse Point, Conn, whose body
was found on February 19 with bull
let hole N the head. It is understood
the state police believe the body may
be that of Edward F. Sands, missing
secretary Of William d. Taylor.