Evening star., 1923-08-15
MOVIE STAR TELLS
OF TAyL0R'S LOVE
Miss Minter Reveals Mid
night Visit to Slain Chief.
Discusses Death.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 15.-Mary
Miles Minter, motion picture actress,
was not formally engaged to marry
William Desmond Taylor, film di-
rector, who was shot to death in his
apartment here February l. 1922, but
hoped some day they might marry,
according to her signed story pub
lished in the Los Angeles Times to-
day.
I'VE were never engaged in the
sense that he had asked me to marry
him and l had promised" the story
stated. II had always hoped that some
time we would be married. had
planned in my own mind-never with
Mr.. Taylor-that as soon as I had
made enough money so that mother
and sister could be assured of COM
Portable income for the rest of their
lives, perhaps we would be married.
But We were not engaged in the sense
or wearing ring or of telling ones
friends of an intention to marry or
Of telling my mother. Marrying Mr..
Taylor was just my dream-a dream
which, voiced to him. always met with
the answer that it was impossible"
In her story Miss Minter also told
or differences which have arisen be-
tween her and her mother, Mrs. Char
lotte Shelby, over an accounting of
the actress earnings which, she as
serted, must be settled by attorneys
or the court"
VIII Not See Mother.
u shall not see mother again." she
affirmed
Mrs. Shelby is reported GONZALES
eng from recent major operation.
Miss Minter's story told of how
Taylor put his arm around her dur
ing motor ride in New England on
her seventeenth birthday; of how she
grew to admire him; of an alleged
atfront she said her mother offered
the director; how the girl apologized
only to hear Taylor tell her that
her mother was right; how he
was the first person to call her Miss
Minter," which impressed her, as up
TO that time she had been generally
considered little girl, and every
body had called her MARY; of how
he finally told her not to write or
phone him: how she suffered when
she heard he was i'll; how, while in
Europe she learned of his war rec
ora, which made her proud because
ana how. finally, few weeks be-
fore he was killed, she called at his
apartment late at night
Went to Him At Night.
II rang the bell her story con-
tinues. 'All was silent My hear,
stopped. Then l heard the rattle OF
a newspaper; the door opened and
there he stood.
Why Mary he said. its quite
Yes. it is nearly II o'clock
answered But I must see you.' and
pushed past him into the room
Il noticed that things were
changed. that the furniture wa;
moved. but on the wall there still
nung my pictures-two of them-ant
one of Mabel Normand"
Then, she stated he told her sb.
should not have gone there. and sht
replied she had gone to tell him good
bye and thrust into his hand a note
rreadlns: Dear William Desmond
to know that 1 viii always love YOU
Mary" ~
Kissed Her, She SAYS,
Then. her story goes on. "he put his
arms about me and kissed me. 7 love
you Mary, better than anything in
clared he said.
During the same meeting, she added
Taylor clinched his hands so tightly
his finger nails brought blood through
the skin. He wiped away the blood
TAYLOR -
He kissed it and slowly walked
pack into the house" she wrote, after
putting her into her automobile.
That was the last time 1 ever saw
him alone" she went on.
Her story proceeds to the morning
her mother told her Taylor had been
murdered.
Where were you last night?" she
asked
II was here, of course I said,
hardly realizing what she was say
ing.
Then Miss Minter dressed. Her
mother asked where she was going.
To him, of course"
Il shall not let YOU
Threatened Mother.
II am going to him if 1 have to
throttle you to get past" Miss Min
ter stated she told her mother, and
the latter stepped aside. But she ar
rived at Taylor's apartments too late
the body had been removed to an
undertaker's establishment So she
called on Miss Normand who said
she knew nothing of the slaying, ex-
cept what she had been told, the
narrative added
THE next day went to the under