Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

Allen on a beat south of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue on the night of the death, alyso
VIII be examined regarding Aliens
statement. Bolts told his superiors he
couldn't recall the incident. but his
testimony before the original grand
jury apparently did not cause the Jurors
to doubt Aliens claim. Bolts is runnored
to have told an entirely different story
to the Department of Justice.
Run, the apartment house manager
will be asked to tell of the events which
followed discovery of the nurses body
by the husband on the afternoon of
September IA. The manager was the
first perSodn to look in the bedroom after
Mcpherson notified him of the tragedy
he mas testified previously he had to
push the door Of the bedroom open be-
cause the body lay against 1t, although
McPherson had given him the impress
sion he had gone into the room and laid
dress over the half-nude form. 1t
was this discrepancy in testimony that
is said to have played an important part
In the decision of the first grand Jury
to tndict the husband. The discrepancy
Is said to have been cleared up since.
at least to- the satisfaction Of Govern
ment Investigators.
The list of witnesses summoned before
the first grand jury follows: Policeman
Allen, Run, Mr.. and Mrs. Mcpherson,
sr.; Mrs. Donald Mcpherson, aunt of
the husband, at whose home young Nc
Pherson said he stopped briefly before
retiring at the home of his parents
around o'clock on that fatal night;
Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly and Inspector
William j. Shelby, since relieved as
heads of the detective bureau as q
result of their condemnation by the
grand jury: Warren Embry, Joseph r.
Wsldron. Dennis j. Cullinane and
William +. Burke, detectives, who
worked on the case at the beginning.
Other Witnesses Called.
Capt. w. G. stott and Policemen j.
j. Ramsey, Z. p. Hartman and r. o.
Brass Of the third precinct, in which
the death occurred; Mrs. Lillian Con-
way, telephone operator at the Park
Lane who overheard Mrs. Mcpherson
crying on the telephone shortly after
O'Clock on the night in question; Miss
Eleanor Sheppard, nurse, with whom
Mrs. Mcpherson was talking at the
time: Sue Thompson, desk clerk in the
apartment house, to whom the husband
first came with his disclosure Of the
tragedy; Miss Mary Roberts, another
Park Lane telephone operator; Howard
Templeton, drug clerk in the Park
Lane and friend of the dead girl; Miss
Martha Berry, nurse and friend of Mrs.
Mcpherson; Mrs. Aileen SaVille, man.
ager Of the High View apartments, who
knew of domestic difficulties of the
McPhersonS during their residence at
the High View.
8. M, Perkins, colored janitor of the
High View, WHO said he helped Nc
Pherson prevent his wife from beating
Ian nat Rva ~
hySteria: Mr.. and Mrs. william Brown,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Heavrin, Mrs. Ethel
Schuttler and James Mills. who heard
screams late on the night Of September
Ia: Eugene WeiSbendeT, who didn't hear
any screams: Mr.. and Mrs. Z, r. VaSs
of the Lombardy Apartments, who
missed q tennis ball from the roof out
side the Mcpherson apartment after
the death of Mrs. Mcpherson and
thought some one might have been on
the roof to diSlodge 1t; DR.. Frank 4.
Hornaday, who had been. engaged on q
medical case with Mrs. Mcpherson;
Maj. Albert Walker. who employed Mrs.
Mcpherson as a nurse at one time;
Robert Lyons, Patrick Lynch, Harold
Connor James White, d. O. Lockett,
w. j. Armstrong, Adrian Smith. Clivie
Wilson, Virginia Monk, Samuel Riggs.
j. Tarbell Howard and Mr.. and Mrs.
AhUI 4uVInpSUis IA 1TtCHuSs ACQudlnJ~
ances or associates of Mcpherson.
Garnett Melvin Frye, taxicab driver,
who signed an affidavit identifying"
Mcpherson as the passenger he carried
from Fifteenth street and New York
avenue to the Park Lane after o'clovk
on the night of the tragedy; Walter
Kingren, another taxi driver, said to
have taken Mcpherson from the Park
Lane to Petworth about 8 o'clock that
night; Victor Gauthey, who has said
a woman resembling MRS. Mcpherson
visited his home in Maryland late on
the night in question. in company with
blonde man with green roadster;
DR.. H. c, Wooley, alienist, Of ST.. Eliza
beth's Hospital; DR.. Adams Kimble,
pathologist; DR.. Edward German, house
physician of the Park Lane a number
of newspaper men and few other per-
sons.