Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-22
POLICE BAFFLED
Continued from Page One)

! Sildi.. Ilc WAS toO Hlcc W Her,
! she said.
! Then there is Alfred Guimarcs,
! close friend of the erstwhile butter
| 1iy of Broadway, who had been in
dicted in Boston in connection with
q stock deal.
| Guimares, says he knows, and
| that "Marshalr should not be kept
under cover while he is in the lime
light, but that it is up to the dis
| trict attorneys Office to do any talk
ing.
The third to know is an unidenti-
| fed friend of Guimeres. Asked by
new spaper mon whether "Mr. Mar
shall" at frst described as a Mil
| lionaire tire manufacturer. of Bos-
| to-. Philadelphia and New York,
! name has been going the rounds,
this friend said: mo. he's bigger
man than that: in fact. he is one
of the biggest men in the country"
But he hurried away without utter
ing the name.
Nelson Olcott. "Mr Marshalls''
lawyer, IS the fourth who knows. He
remains num-.
Finally there is assistant District
Attorney .oecoras in charge of the
case, who has been asked pointedly
by several newspapers why he shields
Mr. Marshall"
Il can see no good that would
come from revealing his name. but
only needless humiliation and suffer-
ing to his family" is Mr.. Pecora's
final word.
. Mr.. Pecora. who today received a
number of anonymous letters. one
reading Marshall must have fed you
WELL" said he was we'll satisfied with
"Marshall's statement that he had
left the girls apartment some time
before she was killed, and asserted
he would not be "bludgeOned" into
revealing 'Marshalls" name.
The prosecutor intimated that
| "Marshall' was not SO prominent as
his wife. He said he had heard Of
the wife's family name before, that
| it was in the social register. and that
! her family is wealthy. But, said Mr..
| Pecora:
There is no reason to believe that
| Mr.. MARSHALL Will not be here when
wanted, il he wanted, by the au-
\ ,horities."
Il can see no reason why the fam
| ,ly should be made to suffer i'm view
oi the fact that they, at least, are
! innocent of either wrongdoing or in
, discretion. l shall maintain this at
| titude despite the fact that Mr.. Mar
shall through his attorney. has in
\ formed me that he is willing to re-
! lieve me of any embarrassment Oc-
casioned by shielding his identity"
Olcott. questioned regarding the
statement attributed to-. Mrs. Anna
keenan,, the dead girls mother, that
his client intended to get a divorce.
so that he could marry the model,
| said:
There is nothing to that story. It
Is natural to assume that any girl
placed in the same circumstances az
Miss keenan,, when chided by her
mother, would say that her admirer
was seeking a divorce to marry her"
| Meanwhile Guimares told reporters
| he was not getting a fair deal, from
the newspapers. 'They are trying to
make me out something l am not" he
said, referring to gifts he was alleged
to have received from the model. Il
Of it l spent on Dot. l bought her
gifts of jewels and clothes.
1T doesn't seem right that 1 should
get all the publicity in the case. Why
has 'Marshalrs' name been withheld
I was not the last known person to
see Dot alive, Marshall saw her after
I did. Why don't the police and the
district attorney make public his
name?"
| What conclusions the police
reached after their weeks investiga :
ton remained tonight beclouded.
Suicide, murder for robbery. murder
| for vengeance because the girl would
not conspire to blackmail ."Marshalr'
and several other theories, have been
advanced revised and advanced
again.