Evening star., 1926-10-31

the date, and they set Tuesday, Oc-
| tober 12 for the wedding.
On Sunday. October 10, Scrivener
drove out with Miss Parker. He had
| not vet given her the ring. He was
biting his lips. Seated beside him,
| Miss Parker Knocked him and joked
about it. She told detectives she
| thought he was going to talk about
! the wedding plans. Later he did.
He told her he could not he married
! on October -. Inspector Pratt
wanted him to so to Danville, Va, for
prisoner, he said. He would have
| to ride all day Monday and Monday
might and would not be able to make
the arrangements, he explained. SO
they put off the wedding for another
day. They named October 13 as the
wedding day.
DanvilIe Story Disputed.
! Inspector Pratt had never in
structed Scrivener to go to Danviile
for a prisoner and had no intention
Of sending him there; had no knowl-
edge of any case with which he was
| connected and which could possibly
neceSSitate such a trip.
| Monday passed. Scrivener did not
see his fiancee that day That night
he SAW MISS NIdIkcN I-NCiNCN
the engagement ring from her. as re-
lated above.
Tuesday afternoon at : o'clock, the
eve Of the tragedy. found Scrivener
meeting Miss Parker in the down
town section. He drove her home.
I He told her he did not go to Dan
willie, Va. that it had been found that t
the man wanted was in a suburb, and
difficulty would be encountered in
| bringing him back.
She spoke to him again about the
wedding. She said she felt hurt. but
still had faith in him. At her home,
he called up fellow detective and
asked him to arrange for a minister
to marry them the following night
She had asked him why they could
not have been married that night,
after all. ~ he had not gone to
! Danville, and he had replied that ne
wanted a certain minister to perform
the ceremony, but had found he was
so busy Tuesday night he could not
officiate.
/ Wedding Plans Incomplete.
He had made no arrangements
| about his clothing. as far az Miss
! Parker knew, and had made no sug.
gestion regarding hers. He told her
he had made reservations at the Mar.
Unique Hotel.
| Later Investigation by police
showed no such reservations had even
| been made
| The engagement ring which he gave
her that night was the same that
Miss Markey had given back to hin
the night before. 1t was a size 6
| The wedding ring, detectives founc
later, was of the same size. Its cos,
was SO. The size for Miss Parke,
would have been size 5.
detectives were told by a fellow
detective, George Weber, assigned tC
grand jury work. that Scrivener saw
him at IL O'Clock on the morning OF
tuesday. October -, his last dav
alive. He told Weber he was to he
married.
Weber had watch, belonging tt
MISS Parker, which Scrivener haC
given him to repair, and the repairs
were expected to have been comnleted
three weeks from that time. Scrivene,
insisted that Weber write down the
name ana address of Miss Parker &C
That the watch would he returned.
The investigation disclosed that q
fellow detective introduced Scrivener
ana Miss Parker to an Army oficer
at an American Legion ball last
Winter. The officer was good
dancer Five weeks ago Scrivener
approached this detective. He con
11ded that he wanted this detective
TO accompany him to Camp Meade
where the officer was stationed. The
detective did.
Go to Camp Meade.
Meanwhile Scrivener had written
down the name and telephone number
or Miss Parker in little book. and
had told the other detective that he
W1shed to get the Army officer to cal
up Miss Parker and make a. date.
He thought she'd fall for him" He
saw chance to get out" This was
what the fellow detective told the in.
vestigators
They went to Meade. The office,
had been transferred to Baltimore
They planned a trip to Baltimore
which never materialized
AS to the pistol. the investigators
1ound that Scrivener received from
George Darnall headquarters, detec
| tive, .3S hammereSs Harrington
& Richardson pistol during the lst
ter part of the Summer. Darnal
recalled this. it was stated, after th,
pistol in the case had been sent to the
Bureau OF Standards, where sciC
baths were fruitlessly resorted to ir
an EFFORT to bring out the f1led.o
serial numbers. Darnall saw tn,
weapon after it came back and tn.
acid had changed it's appearance.
1T looks like the same gun" Oar
nall said.
Darnall added that he could tel
better il he had seen the pistol before
the tests. There had been a bit o
rust on the left-hand side, he said.
1t was officially stated that there
was rust on the left-hand side of tn.
pistol found at Che scene of Scriyen
er's death.
Need of Weapon Explained.
Darnall said Scrivener told him h.
wanted the weapon for q friend. Oar
nall said that he had found the pisto
in the drawer assigned to him al
police headquarters when he went
there six or seven years ago. He die
not remember anything about the
serial numbers on the pistol.
A detective was sent to the arms
factory producing the make Of pist o
found at the death scene. Identifica
tion Of the particular weapon was MOI
forthcoming. 1t was stated, however
that the material in the pistol ant
the dimensions satisfied factory ex
perts 1t was produced some time be
fore the war.
Prior to Octcber, 1891. however. II
was stated at the factory, no records