Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-27
DAUCHERTY IS
GGAALLEDFR|END
Of DEAD MODEL
AttcrneI Generals Son Admits
Having Visited Girls Apart
ment, is Claim
TELEPHONE MESSAGE
Furnishes Another Sensation
al Turn in Battling New
York Murder Mystery

NEW YORK, March 27-Detec-
dive Inspector Cougnlin, in charge
oe the investigation of the murder OF
Dorothy keenan,, model, today
sought further light on a story pub
iished by a morning newspaper to
The effect that Drayton M. Daugh-
arty. only son of Attorney General
Daugherty, was a close acquaintance
.of the slain girl and might be able
to put him on the trail of black-
mailers thought to have used her as
pawn.
1t was pointed out that Daugherty,
if 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 in the British army before
America entered the war and then
became a major IN the American
Expeditionary force, was quoted by
the newspaper as saying that he
knew Miss keenan, we'll, had visited
her apartment several times and on
one occasion had given her a check
to pay a bill she told him was
pressing.
II began to suspect last Thurs.
day, after receiving a telephone call
at q New York club, that he, like
the mysterious MIR. Marshall,
Identified Saturday as John Kearsley
Mitchell, wealthy and socially prom
nent Philadelphian. was marked for
plucking by blacknailers, he was
lucted as saying.
This call, he said, came from
man who had been close to Miss
Keenan,. The speaker. he said,
,sked him how about the job he had
promised to get for him in -he
Emitted States Department of JUS
ice which Attorney General Daugh-
arty his father, controlled.
Admitting he had earlier promised
this man to see what could be done
for him, Daugherty was quoted as
saying he told the caller he had
spoken to a Mr.. -- at Wash
ington in his behalf. The caller. he
said, told him nothing had develop
ed and added that Mr.. Daugherty
had to get the job for him. inquir-
ing menacingly if he wanted his ac-
quaintance with Miss keenan, to,
come out.
Daugherty was quoted as inviting
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.
His only regret, he said, was that
his fathers name should have been
drawn into the Keenan, case, particu-
larly in view of the fact that both
his father and his mother are i'll.
DauEherty was said to have been
acquainted with both of Miss Keen
ans brothers, John and Frank, and
to have employed one of them for
a time in his 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.
The police quietly were continuing
.cday their investigation of the muir
der of Miss keenan,, branched on
ave INTERVENING trails.
The first was that a man chloro-
formed Miss Keenan, to obtain an
endearing letter writer to her from
Palm Beach by John Kearsley
Mitchell, the prominent Philadel-
phian, who was known until Sat
urday as John Marshall of Boston"
intending to blackmail him.
The second was that a rohber en-
cred Miss Keenans Fifty-seventh
treet apartment and chloroformed
Ter. stealing her jewels and furs, lS-
GRANT that he had murdered the
oman.
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