The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-25
REVEALS IDENTITY 0F 'MR. MARSHALL HE |S MILLIONAIRE
Names of Old Philadelphia and New York Families
 Brought Into Notoriety

NEW YORK, March 24.-It was J. K. Mitchell of Philadelphia, capitalist, clubman and son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury. multi millionaire partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, who was the unknown friend of Dot" Keenan, Broadway Butterfly" and whose later friendship for the girl is be- lieved indirectly to have led to her death.
 Mitchell, 52 years old, president of the Philadelphia Rubber works. a husband and father. the nephew of the late pr. S. V. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia, world famous psychia- trist, has been revealed by District Attorney Pecora as the mysterious MT. Marshall"
 Thus New York. playground of America where the tired business man frolics after the lights so on. whore class lines are obliterated in the common melting pot. where trag- edy fingers and laughs with the merrymakers. has a new sensation.
 Yesterday some one. now forgotten, ripped and may have died at play. Tomorrow it will be some one else. Today it is J. K. Mitchell.
 The old story. Mitchelrs family is wintering in Florida. He becomes one of the millions who gather at New York's shrine of fun and fancy. And while at play he is attracted by a playmate.
 The flanA of New York at night dulls the shadows where tragedy waits for it's next new playmates, who mingle with old ones and whirl through their evenings together rC do near the flame. Perhaps life may be taken or the foundations of a home shattered. But there is no pause in the music. "Encore!" is the cry, and the play goes on.
 Flame Destroyed Girl.
 The flame destroyed Dot" keenan. Mitchell was the last man known to date. to have seen her alive-but he is cleared by Pecora of any direct connection with her death.
 With the lifting of the curtain of secrecy for many days protecting him, authorities say that they find as the motive for the girls murder her refusal to sponsor a blackmail- ing scheme against the man who had befriended her.
 Mir. Wilson," the second mystery man in the case, and known as "Marshalls" secretary, was revealed as John H. Jackson, prominent New York attorney-also married.
 Mitchell, handsome, middl aged man, is graduate of Princeton and was married in 1909 to Miss Frances B. Stotesbury, daughter of one of New York's most prominent bankers. Thus there was linked an old Phila- delphia family and an aristocratic line from New Yorok. The Mitchells have two daughters. Their Phladel- n q city's social center and their coun try home, Red Rose Manor, Is a show place of Rosemont, Pa.
 How Mitchell and Jackson met the beautiful Dorothy has not yet been disclosed, but their evenings togeth- CT, the kindness and rich bestowals he made upon her and her family are now familiar to those who have followed the mysterious murder of the pretty girl. When she was found dead with chloroform gag in her mouth, and her gift jewels and gor- geous wearing apparel gone, few suspected that there would follow disclosures shaking the wealthy clubs and social circles of Philadelphia. lies high on the register of the prominent and rich.
 ConfeSsed to Prosecutor.
 Immediately after discovery of the murder, Mitchell and Jackson called at the office of District Attorney Pecora and gave a full account of their relations with the dead girl. Because of the prominence of Mitch- eils family, Mitchell asked Pecora to keep his identity secret behind the cognomen. Marshall" as he had been known in the girls life. Pe- cora, resisting the chidings of the New York press, maintained the sec ret until today, in order. he said, to protect the innocent families of the men.
 Finally, however. both Mitchell and Jackson said that if the ends of justice could be better served, they would no longer ask that the mys- tery of their identity be maintained.
 When it became necessary t call Marshall" for further Questi ming, the futility of keeping the ccret longeh led to Pecora's announcement. New information" is at hand, Pecora says, which. if Mitchell can in part substantiate. will lead to speedy solution of the "Butterfly's" death a solution. it is hinted, that will re- veal the slain girl in the act of re- sistng a giant blackmail plot aimed