The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-03
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chair and attired in trim black vel- vet dress. Door bells and telephone bells dinned unceasingN. Reporters were seeking interviews, chauffeurs were looking for Joe Kelly's" job and friends wanted to speak a word of cheer. But to all these she was not at home. The shades were drawn the room was dark; Miss Normand spoke in a whisper.
 sI didn't sleep all night" she said, worrying about this thing, this dreadful thing. You tell them, Edith" she exclaimed. turning to Mrs. Burns, tell them what we did during the entire day"
 Mrs. Burns then related how Miss Normand had arisen at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, doing little in- consequential things which occupied their time until noon; told then how Joe Kelly was busy taking the Christmas tree trimmings upstairs"
 Tt must have been then that he got the pistol" she said. q know of no other opportunity he could have had to get it.
 Miss Normand explained she had owned the weapon for four years; that 1t was given to her by a friend while on location during the produc- tion of one of her film plays. SnOt bOttIes "1th IL.
 "It was given me to shoot bottles with" she said. T used it all the time for shooting bottles, but only on location; at least I shot at the bottles. I'd shoot over here and blah-Pd hit the mountain some place else.
 Well" she continued, arriving at the point in her narrative where the chauffeur, Horace Greer, or Joe Kelly. entered Dimes apartment while she and Miss Edna Purviance. another motion picture actress, were chatting with the Denver man.
 Well, Joe came in and he had this package. I noticed nothing unusual about him and I left the room.
 I went into the room where Edna was. She had on her evening gown. but it wasn't hooked up. I didn't want this chauffeur to see Edna with her dress unlocked. so I went in and said to Edna: Say, where's your powder puff?'
 Then all of a sudden I heard these terrible things. I thought they wero fire crackers. I used to set off fire crackers-about this long-at Ben Turpen--poor old Ben. all the time, until he threatened to quit his job. That's what l thought they were fire crackers. They were popping all over the house."
 Then she ran into the room where Dimes had been sitting and found him lying on the floor wounded
 She could thing of no motive for feur, she said. and ridiculed the theory that Greer was infatuated with her and therefore shot the Den yer man in a fit of jealous rage.
 Impossible" she exclaimed. "The man must have been insane. He was only one of my servants and was treated like one. I never talked to him even like I have to my servants in the past. I used to ask my chauf- feurs. the ones before this one, how they liked a certain scene or some thing like that-but I got tired of all that blah blah.
 Good gosh, I didn't even hire him. My secretary did that"
 Nor could Mrs. Burns think of any motive for the shooting.
 Greer came to the Normand house at noon yesterday, she said. to clean the car and disnantle the Christmas tree
 "He cleaned the car" she went on. land at 1:30 asked permission to go to lunch. He returned about 2:15 and about that time our lunch was ready.
 Until yesterday we had a Christi mas tree in this room. Edna had called up from friends place and had planned to go over there. Joe started taking the doc dads off the Christmas tree. I was upstairs dress irg."
 Mrs Burns was interrupted by the door bell It was another chauffeur looking for Joe Kelly's job.
 He didn't get it.
 Joe was just IS calm as you are" continued Miss Normand's compan- ion. He fussed around the house, doing this and that. He's always fix ing something-the radio or some thirg-and he's always so quiet and