Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-29
DiUGHERTY'S SON
MAY Be ||VVOLV WE'D
IN KEENAN, MURDER
Newspaper Declares Young
Member Of Attorney Gen.
erals Family Was, Friend
" With Slain Broadway
Butterfly

NEW YORK, March 2l.-Assls-
tant District Attorney Pecora and
Police Inspector Coughlin today
Joined in an active search for Draper
M. Daugherty, only son Of the at
torney general of the United States,
to question him concerning reports
that he was a friend of Dorothy
keenan,, murdered model, and that
he might know of matchmaking
ring using her as a decoy.
1t was pointed out that Daugh-
erty if he is as reported at At
lantic City, could not be compelled
to come here to tell his story. but
the Inspector declared he would be
glad to listen to" Daughe:ty's
story.
Daugherty, who served for two
years with the British army before
Americas entry into the war, ana
there became major i'll the Amer
lean expeditionary forces. was
quoted by, the newspaper as saying
that he knew Miss keenan, we'll,
had visited her apartment several
times and on one occasion had
given her check to pay a bill
she told him was pressing.
Suspected BIacl1maiI
He began to suspect last Thurs
day, after receiving telephone
call at a New York club, that he,
like the mysterious "Mr. MarshaL'
Identified Saturday as John Hears
ley Mitchell, wealthy and socially
prominent Philadelphia, was mark
cd for plucking by blackmailers,
he was quoted as saying.
This call, he said, came from a
man who had been close to Miss
keenan,. The speaker. he said, ask
ca him how about the job he bad
promised to get for him in the
Caited States, department of JUS
zee, which Attorney General
Daugherty. his father, controlled.
Admitting he had earlier promised
his naan to see what could, be done
= him, Daugherty was quoted as
wing he told the caller he had
itoiSen to a Mr.. --, at Washington
= his behalf. The caller, he said,
I'D him nothing had developed AMI
edded thar Mr. Badgherty had to
get the job for him, inquiring menac-
.ngly if he wanted his acquaintance
with Miss keenan, to come out.
Daugherty was quoted as inviting
the caller to come up and take
tl,rasting. The man called again on
Saturday, he was quoted as sayinSs
asking again about the job in a
more conciliatory tone, but getting
the same response from him.
Only Casual Acquaintance
Daugherty declared he had no fear
that blackmailers could fasten lily
thing discreditabye upon him, as his
relations with the slain model had
Eeen most casual. He added that his
crly regret. he said, was that his
fathers name should have been
drawn into the keenan, case. particu-
iarly in view of the fact that both
his father and his mother are i'll.
IIaugherty was said to have been
acquainted with both of Miss Kee-
nan's brothers, John and Frank, and
TO have employed one of them for
:. time in his automobile insurance
business here.
He laughed at reports that his ap-
pIal to Miss keenan, had been so
strong that he had supplanted both
Mr.. Mitchell and Alfred Guimares,
Ter younger admirer, in her affec-
tens.
MITCHELL AND WIFE MEET
IN PRIVATE RAILROAD CAR
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The
first meeting of Mr.. and Mrs. J. K
Mitchell since his identity as the
mysterious "Mr. Marshall" in the
Dorothy Keenan, murder case, oc-
CURED in the private car of +. T.
Stotesbury, Philadelphia millionaire,
at the Union station here today.
Elaborate preparations We're made
to keep newspapermen and photog-
raphers away from the private car,
which was attached to fast train
Of the A. G.. L.
Mitchell boarded the train a few
minutes after it's arrived. Prepare,
tons were Immediately made to
transfer the private car to a north.
bound, indicating that the party
planned to leave shortly for Balti-
more or Philadelphia.
Big, burly detectives were at all
entrances to the private car. A. spe
cal Gordon of railroad police guard
ed the entrance to the train sheds
seeking to keep out newspapermen,
who eluded them, however, by a
hasty scramble through the baggage
room of the station.
Mitchell succeeded in evading the
reporters in getting on the private
car.
The Salisbury private car. arrived
at the station at 12:40 o'clock. AL
curtains were drawn and no mem
Der of the party left the car.
The Stotesbury private car was
attached to a Baltimore anG Ohio
train and left here about 1 o'clock
Train officials sad they did not know
whether the car would go direct tC
Philadelphia or be detached at Bal
timore, where the party may motor
to the Brooks estate near Stevenson
Maryland.
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