Evening star., 1923-03-29
FRIENDS OF SLAIN
GIRL KEPT ON GRILL
All Witnesses. Recalled in
Probe of Dorothy Kee-
mans Death.

BY the Assoc a ted Press.
NEW YORK, March 29.-United in
their search for the murderer of
Dorothy Keenan,. for the first time
since the woman's body was found.
two weeks ago, the police; and the
district attorneys office started. today
on a joint expedition. retracing the
steps each has taken in separate in
vestigations.
Every person already examined was
under recall TO undergo requestion-
Ing by the combined force. The in
vestigations will begin at the bottom.
the officials said. indicating that all
the individual stories must be retold
under thorough rechecking
The two separate organizations
have. up until now, been proceeding
on different theories. The police held
the murder was the bungling oil a
burglar seeking gems and furs, who
did not know how to use chloroform;
the district attorneys office proceed
ed on the basis that Miss Keenan,
100000 blackmail plot devised to
victtmize John Kearsley Mitchell,
SON III law OF l.. T. Stotesbury of Phila-
dclptia.
While Assistant District Attorney
Pecora was Informed by Maj. Draper
NJ Daugherty. son of the Attorney
General, OF the maine of the man he
asserts attempted to intiInidate him
by exposing what the major says
was casual and social" acquaint-
ance with Miss keenan,, Mr.. Pecora
indicated he hasn't sufficient evidence
for an arrest
This individual already has been
mentioned in the case as one of its
minor figures and WAS very close to
the dead girl. said Mr.. Pecora. but
that was as far as he would Identify
the man
J., DEaugherty. appearing voluntarily
before Assistant District Attorney
Recora. discussed at length with him
MS acquaintance with the slain girl,
and then. avoiding reporters. vanish
ed after giving the prosecutor the
name Of the alleged blackmailer.
DauRIrerty Gunrded.
Reporters encountered the same
difficulty interviewing Daugherty as
they did when the mysterious Mr..
Marshalf'-ttle girls elderly admirer
later revealed as J. X. Mitchell, Phila-
dciphia capitalist ana cluhman--was the
central figure in the drama.
Mr.. Pecora. who for nine days
shielded Mitchell from the press. took
the same precautions to see that
Daugherty's wishes to avoid inter
viewers were fulfilled. The latest
witness was whisked in and out of
the Criminal Courts building, and his
meeting with Mr.. Pecora held in the
once or another prosecutor.
Daugherty, who was accompanied
by friend whose name was not
revealed, was closeted with Mr.
Pecora about 45 minutes. AT the end
of the conference Mr. Pecora said he
cd
ms casual friendship with Miss
keenan, and the attempt made by
telephone to bIackmail him. The
biackmail angle was what particu-
larry interested the prosecutor. for
II is his theory that the girl was slain
by blackmailors who failed to make
her cooperate in a plot to shake
down" Mitchell After his visitor
had departed, Mr.. Pecora made the
following comment:
The information given me by Mr.
Daugherty does not tend to shed any
light on the solution Of the murder
mystery, but II is of interes. to me
as an index of the character of the
person VINO made the blackmail
threat. l think Mr. Daughertv smoke
to ma frankly and l regard him as
Mitchell"
Mr Pecora said that Daugherty
would be on call as a witness when
that he might himself interview the
man named by the major. He did not
state, hoWaver, when or where such
an interview would take place, or
whether he expected to receive
another visit from Mitchell or an
initial call from Mitchell's father-in-
law. f. I. Stotesbury. of J. p Morgan
q Co. Daugherty. he said. told him
ne was not acquainted with Mitchell;
John n. jackson, New York attor-
ney VINO posed as his secretary. or
Aibert f. Guimares, a close friend
Of Miss Keenan,
IN sketching his acquaintance with
the model. Daugherty told the pros
ecutor he first had met her during
the world series of 1921. Their ac-
quaintance, he said. was purely so-
c!al. He added that he had called at
her apartment with friends, but he
never saw her alone, although once
he gave her a check when she said
she was hard pressed for funds.
Many Letters Found.
The last time he saw her. he said,
was in restaurant last December.
He was with party of friends and
waved his hand to her at another
table
Daugherty maintains he never had
written the girl any letters. and III at
ne was not intimidated by. the black
mail threat He added that he ex-
with the model would be made public
after he had received the telephone
call.
Another development was positive
announcement by Mr.. Pecora that
among the contents OF the girls safe
ty deposit box opened last week were
number Of letters.
Guardians of the vault he said,
would not permit taking of an In
ventory because this was not called
for in the order issued the girls
mother by Surrogate O'Brien, but de-
tectives had seen letters in the box.
Mr.. Pecora said he had suggested to
the police that they take legal steps
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