The Washington times., 1923-05-12
MRS. KAHN
ASKED To
explain
CARDS
Auto Permits Issued Persian
Are Found in Purse of
Young Peruvian.

Detective Inspector Clifford
Grant today announced he would
question Mrs. Lydia Molavi Kahn
as to the presence in a bill-fold
found on the body of A. Fer
nandez Concha, young Peruvian
Journalist, of a District automo-
bile operators permit and q
Maryland registration card issued
in her name.
This find on the part of de-
tectives last night recalled that
Mrs. Kahn is the woman. Who, in
1921, shot and killed her Persian
husband in their rooms at 1914
Rhode Island avenue. She was
later acquitted by a jury in
Criminal Court.
TO Clear Up Mystery.
None of Concha's friends in neWa.
paper circles or in the diplomatic
corps could say with certainty that
he had been q friend Of Mrs. Kahn.
Discovery Of the cards, however, is
proof that he must have known her.
Grant, anxious to clear up the case,
sent detectives after the woman be-
fore noon and expected to have her
in his office within short time.
All exterior Indications point to
suede sad the Inspector. How
ever, the coroner has not completed
his autopsy, and the prese1lce of
the automobile cards is not ex-
planned. / shall not be content to
let matters lapse until have talked
with Mrs. Kahn and unless the
coroner's jury returns verdict of
death by suicide"
Both investigating headquarters
detectives and officials Of the Asso-
ciated Press, in whose Washington
bureau Concha had been employed
for more than year, are about
satisfied that the twenty-five-year-
old South American went to his
suite, 101. in Rutland Court, 1725
Seventeenth street, yesterday after
noon and shot himself through the
head.
Inquest This Afternoon.
Nevertheless, an inquest viii be
held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
at the District morgue over the
body, which was discovered at 10
o'clock last night lying on the living
room floor of the flat by Concha's
roommate, B. D. Hulen, stationed
at the State Department for the
Associated Press.
That the correct solution OF the
case would be verdict of suicide
was predicated upon the following
facts:
Concha wrote a letter to L. c.
Probert, A. P. bureau manager, on
Wednesday, notifying him of his
intention of ending his life because
of i'll health, which he said he
feared would cripple his work the
rest of his life. At the same time
he left four letters diPected to
friends in Lima, Peru, his native
city.
Concha gave explicit directions as
to the disposition of his effects.
The letters discovered in his apart
ment were found by comparison OF
type peculiarities with the type
writer in his office to have been
written on the same machine and
the signatures were identified as his.
The suite was not in disorder az at
first reported, being on the contrary
carefully arranged. There was but
one chair overturned, thought to
have been the one in which Concha
sat to perform the deed. Near II
was a splotch of blood.
Bullet Holes Explained.
Four bullet holes, one through
window pane, one through wainscot-
ing, another in the ceiling, and a
fourth in the window framing are
thought to represent the continuous
action of the small automatic pistol
which was found in the dead mans
hand. Nearby was new box OF
bullets from which six had been
taken and a new box which had con-
tanned the weapon.
Concha, who had many friends
in, the Peruvian embassy and other
South American embassies and
Legations, had been in bad health
for months. Probert said. He was
operated upon twice for tonsil
trouble, and was frequently forced
to remain away from work on &C.
count of sickness. He was seen in
the Associated Press office as late
as noon yesterday, and is thought
to have gone to his flat about 2:30
o'clock.
Hulen came in at 10 p. m, found
the body and notified the police.
Attaches of Rutland court said they