Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18
NURSE VOLUNTEERS
TO GIVE TESTIMONY
IN MCPHERSON CASE
Former Acquaintance of
Dead Woman Coming Here
From New York.
BUREAU DENIES REPORT
WARRANT WAS ISSUED
Mrs. Billie Lindsay Moved From
Apartment Two Weeks Before
Body Was Found.

Mrs. Billie Lindsay, nurse, said to
have been acquainted with Mrs. Vir-
ginia Mcpherson, strangled wife of
Robert A. Mcpherson, jr, was expected
here from New York today for ques-
tioning by Department of Justice agents
in connection with their investigation
of the Mcpherson mystery.
Mrs. Lindsay, formerly an occupant
Of an apartment in the Park Lane,
where Mrs. Mcpherson came to her
death with a pajama belt looped about
her neck, was located in New York by
Federal operatives and it was said she
readily volunteered to give the Govern
ment any information in her possession.
Mrs. Lindsay's testimony is desired in
order to augment information being coll
lected on Mrs. McPhersons life, both
from professional as we'll as domestic
standpoint It is understood the two
women had been associated in pro-
fessional way in their work as nurses.
No Warrants Issued.
A published report that a warrant
had been issued for the arrest of a
woman witness in the Mcpherson case
was denied emphatically at the Bureau
of Investigation. No warrants of any
kind have been issued for any one, and
no arrests are contemplated at this
time, The Star learned. The report is
attributed to the fact that subpoena
was issued, as matter of form, for
one out-of-town witness, but the sum-
mons was not served because the wit
ness volunteered to appear.
Mrs. Lindsay moved from the Park
Lane Apartments on September 8, two
weeks before the body Of Mrs. McPher-
son was found lifeless against the door
of her bedroom, with the improvtSed
garrote knotted tightly around her
throat 1t Is likely, therefore, that any
information Mrs. Lindsay can give must
concern what knowledge she Tnay have
of Mrs. McPhersons life and asSocia-
tiOnS as nurse.
Meanwhile Justice agents continued
questioning other persons thought to
have information which may help in
the solution Of what has been termed
the Capitals greatest murder mystery
Mr.. and Mrs. Eliot H. Thompson,
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Mcpherson,
were in conference this morning with
Thomas F.. Cullen, in charge of the
examination of witnesses. Mr.. Thomp-
son Is employed at the bank where
Mcpherson was a bookkeeper.
In his capacity, on the side, of a
minister, Mr.. Thompson performed the
marriage ceremony which united the
young nurse from China Grove and the
youthful bank clerk and foot ball player.
Visited Mrs. Mcpherson.
At times during the ensuing months
OF the couples short married career,
MIR. Thompson's services were sought as
friend and adviser, and he learned of
the difficulties which eventually were to
estrange the two. Mr.. Thompson said
today he and Mrs. Thompson paid a
visit to Virginia Mcpherson in her
apartment on the night before she is
supposed to have been choked to death.
MIR. Thompson said Mrs. Mcpherson
on that occasion seemed rather de-
pressed. Her husband had left her
after quarrel a day or so previously.
Mr.. Thompson declared, however, that
Virginia at no tines intimated she had
any thought of ending her life, and he
is loath now to believe she did so, de-
spite the findings of coroner's jury to
that effect.
The Thompsons are believed to have
given the Federal investigators an in
innate first-hand picture of the Nc
Phersons' home life, based on their
visits to the Mcpherson threshold in
times of domestic unrest.
Parents Questioned.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Mcpherson.
Sr., parents of the boy who now stands
charged by the grand jury with will
fully numbering his wife, were ques-
toned for several hours yesterday
afternoon.
They are said to have told freely and
frankly of their knowledge of the trou-
bleS of their son and daughter in law.
It was the first time the parents have
been questioned by the Government,
which has been given the responsibility
of prosecuting their son on the first
degree murder charge.
Interest of the Federal authorities is
keyed to high pitch as, they await
the report of experts now studying
X-ray photographs OF Mrs. McPhersons
body. Preliminary examination of the
plates Is reported to have indicated that
important developments may result
from the Roentgen examination. The
report of the experts is not expected be-
fore Monday.
The Importance being attached to
the X-ray inquiry is regarded as sig
nificant, in view of the first report that
the preliminary surgical examination of
the body failed to disclose anything i'm
portant Intimation that the subsequent
development of X-ray plates revealed
something overlooked by the surgeons
has given new weight to the autopsy.