Evening star., 1923-03-17
SEEK BOSTON MAN
IN MODEL MURDER
"Mr. Marshall" to Be Asked
to Explain Presence in :
Apartment.
POCKET COMB A CLUE
New York Police Hope to Trace
Slayer of Miss King Through
Article.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE police
today expected to question The mys-
terious Mr.. Marshall who is eener-
ally Supposed To have supplied the
gilded wings with which Dorothy
| keenan,. known as Dorothy King, the
model. flew as a gay butterfly through
broadway to her tragic death.
Police Inspector Coughlin. who is
directing the murder investigation.
was waiting for the appearance of
'Mr MARSHALL and wilson" his sec
retary. to explain their presence
edneSdaN night in the apartment
where the girls body was found
Thursday. MIR. Marshall' is said to
be wealthy Bostonian. about sixty
| years oId. ana engaged in the automo-
| bile tire business with offices i'm Ros-
ton. New York and Philadelphia
While the girls supposed benefa.tor
may give helpful information. detec-
ttFeS were plnning more faith in a
mans small black pocket comb. en-
taSeu IN leather sheath. which was
! found IN her bed They think il was
dropped there by the man who admin
lStered the chloroform which caused
the girls death
Bottle Number Efaced
Another clue was furnished by the
cillorof"rln bottle. but the user had
ieSSehed ITS value by scratching off
.ne Serla number. placed there for
.lacIhs the purchaser. The police
were not positive that the bottle had
not been procured by Miss Keenan,. as
lhere We're stories told i'll the aZz
palaces she frequented that she was
User OF drugs. including narcotics,
me release of Albert Guimares, the
man IN the fur coat" who is held ON
technical charge of carrvinp con-
cealed weapons while investigators de
lefHiie MS connection with the case
was to be sought through hahea :
corpus proceedings today, Miss Kee-
tali was SAID to have been fond of
! GulmareS. and made him Inanv cos+I1-
presents, including jewelry and a fnr
coat. e''" d LUZ
ulfnares was with her until n
oclock "Wednesday night. arcordine-
10 lne police. Guimares. who is mn
yer yer; Increment in Boston in connec-
tioh with the failure of a brokerage
mousse voluntarily went to the police
When they first got busy
Married When But Eighteen.
Additional details of Miss Keenan.s
me were made public today. She ha
oeen married when eighteen-She was
twenty y-seVen when she died-but
Sooh separated from the husband
whose name her mother would nor
dlsclose. The mother. incidentally,
was said by the police to have given
them the name of the man she suspect
ed to be the MURDER.
Before moving men, directed by the
mother, came yesterday to remove the
girls property from the apartment.
there were other taps at the front
door. 1t was the knocking of two
nuns of the Order of ST. Francis.
other emissaries of the mother, come
to urge the daughter to return 10 d
normal, quiet life.
Detectives investigating the life of
the model have woven together a
tale of the trail of gayety, white
lights. cabarets and other pleasures of
Broadway.
Il left Dorothy because she drank
too hard" said Miss Hilda Ferguson,
d dancer in a Broadway musical com
edy and a former roommate.
Miss Ferguson said Dorothy had
on several occasions appeared to have
taken some sort of drug and that
her fondness for alcohol was growing
fast.
Another friend Miss keenan, wa s
said to have made was Blossom See
ley. vaudeville headliner and former
wife of Rube Marquard, base ball
pitcher. There were many others, all
of them well known along the Great
White Way