Evening star., 1923-03-27
DAUGHERTy SOUGHT
IN KEENAN, INQUIRY
Pecora Wants to Question
Attorney Generals Son
: in BlaCkmail Clue.
BLOCKED EXTORTlON PLAN
Threatened to Thrash Mysterious
Telephone Caller, Who Sought
Job as U. S. Agent.
BLOCKED EXTORTlON plan
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 27.-Assistant
District Attorney Pecora and Police
Inspector Coughlin today Joined in an
active search for Draper NJ. Daugher-
ty. only son of the Attorney General
OF the United States. to question him
concerning reports that he was a
friend of Dorothy keenan,. murdered
model. and that he might know Of a
black mailing ring using her as a
decoy.
Detective Inspector Coughlin. in
charge of the investigation of the
murder today sought further light on
a story published in a morning news
paper to the effect that Daugherty,
was a close acquaintance of the slain
girl and might be able to put him on
the trail of the blackmailers thought
to have used her as a pawn.
Once Loaned Her Money.
1t was pointed out that Daugherty
II he Is as reported, at Atlantic City,
could not be compelled to come here
to tell his story. but the inspector
declared he would be glad to listen
to" Daugherty's story.
Daugherty, who served for two
years with the British army before
America entered the war. and then
became a major in the American ex-
pediuonary forces, was quoted by
the newspaper as saying that he
knew Miss keenan, well. had visited
one occasion had given her a check
to pay a bill she told him was
pressing
Believed Marked by Blackmaiier.
He began to suspect last Thurs
day, after receiving a telephone call
at a New York club. that he, like
the mysterious Mr.. Marshall" iden-
titled Saturday as John kearsley
Mitchell. wealthy and socially promi-
nent Philadelphian, was marked for
a plucking by blackmailers, he was
quoted as saying.
This call. he said, came from a
man who had been close to Miss
keenan,. The speaker, he said. asked
him how about the job he had prom
ised to get for him in the United
States Department of Justice. which
Attorney General Daugherty. his
Admitting he earlier promised this
man to see what could be done for
him, Daugherty was quoted as saying
he told the caller he had spoken
10 Mr.. - at Washington in his
nothing had developed and added
that Mr.. Daugherty had to get the
job for him, tnquiring menacingly
II he wanted his acquaintance with
Miss Keenan, to come out.
Invited Him TO Take ThrashinE.
T1anrharfv m ir, ,itI,
the caller to come up and take a
thrashing. The man called again on
Saturday, he was quoted as saying
asking again about the job in a more
conciliatory tone, but getting the
same response from him.
Daugherty declared he had no fear
that blackmailers could fasten any
thing discreditable upon him, as his
relations with the slain model had
been most casual. He added that his
only regret was that his fathers
name should have been drawn
into the Keenan, case, particularly In
view of the fact that both his father
and his mother are i'll.
Acquainted With Brothers.
Daugherty was said to have been
acquainted with both of Miss Kee-
mans brothers. John and Frank, and
to have employed one of them for
a time IN mis- automobile insurance
business here.
He laughed at reports that his ap-
peal to Miss keenan, had been so
strong that he had supplanted both
Mr.. Mitchell and Alfred Guimares,
her younger admirer, in her affec-
tions.
Two theories formed the background
of today's police investigation of the
murder.
The first was that a man intent on
blackmailing chloroformed Miss Kee-
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