San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-01
|OLICE FAIL TO FOLLOW
DIRECT THEORY in DEATH
OF ENGINEER REMINGTON
assassination Probably Will Go Unsolved as Have
Forty Odd Others in Los Angeles in the Last Two
Years, Because Officers Have Followed False
Trails and Shown Reluctance to Go Direct
to Possible Solution.

dered man and the utter muddling Of
what might have been a clear case
for police investigation.
Only One Clear Theory.
There is only one clear theory to
the case that stands now above all
the exploited and exploded sensations
that have been injected in response
to the eager scramble for questionable
publicity, and that theory, strange
enough in itself to satisfy all morbid
craving. is that Earle Remington
may have been the victim of the mis-
guided chivalric impulse Of some
shell-shocked soldier to whom Mrs.
Peggy Remington, the wife Of the
murdered man, had appealed as an
angel of mercy in her work among
the disabled veterans of the great
, war.
This theory was suggested not only
by the circumstances of the Staying.
bearing in mind the probability that
Remington's own. shotgun was the
weapon of his assassin. but by frank
statements Of theory on the part of
Remington's sister and the brother of
his widow at the outset of the in
vestigation.
The police. however. were looking
for Glove trail" A motion picture
actress. neither beautiful nor charm
ing, promptly, came forward and told
all she didn't know about Remington.
Close on her heels stenogrRher was
"discovered" who had a regular movie
name and also movie ambitions. Her
testimony was valuable in establish
ing the important fact that Reming
ton had been surprised by an assassin
in the grounds of his own home.
The "love trail soon grew faint
and vanished and then the prohibition
agents stepped in with the theory
that Remington was n "socicty boot
Logger and had paid the penalty with
his life in the "bootleggers' war;"
Mrs. Remington. the widow. surpris-
ed his friends by backing up this
theory with n fearful story of what
she had suffered in the knowledge that
Remington was engaged in the illicit
traffic of selling whiskey.
Was Not a BO0tlegger.
Remington's staunch friends say
that ii is ridiculous TO voice all these
charges against the dead man-to
blacken his character needlessly as
though he were the criminal instead
of the victim of the crime: They
say that Remington engineered sew
eral pools among friends for the pur-
chase of liquor in large quantities.
thing quite common about the clubs
of the city-and declare that If that
is bootlegging, hundreds Of others are
equally guilty. Police theselves now
admit that there is nothing to con-
meet Remington with a war of boot
leggers. that there is no such war to
their knowledge. and that bootleggers
as rule are the mildest hammered of
men.
Illness OF Mrs. Peggy" Reming-
ton. the angel Of mercy among dis
abled soldiers who made such a hit
at the bachelors ball few DAYS
before her husband was slain. has
somewhat hampered the notice in their
investigation and they hope for her
speedy recovery and that she may
give them aid in the solution of the
crime.
Mrs. Remington who as the wife of
Harry Stone. well known profess
sIonal people chase jockey. was
dashlng figure about eastern race
tracks, particularly at Saratoga. de-
clares she has given the police all
possible aid in her power, and like
many others, now despairs of solu-
ton of the strange crime. The
strangest part to her is why her hus-
band should have come after tele-
pnoning her that he would spend the
night at his ranch many miles from
Los Angeles--come home to meet his
death when she believed him safe at
the ranch.