Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-08
Two Witnesses Tell of Seeing
''BIond''' Man in Apartment
of Dead Nurse.
ANSWERS DESCRIPTION
FURNISHED BY GAUTHEY
Blue-Green Roadster Also Recalled
by Neighbors, Further Corrobo.
rating Gardeners Story.

Acting on information from three
additional witnesses. whose names were
furnished by The Star, agents of the
Department of Justice today probed
deeper into the death Of Virginia Nc
PherSon and claimed to have made
some progress" toward solution of
the mystery.
Early this morning justice agents
interrogated two witnesses who live in
the Lombardy Apartment, next to the
Park Lane, where the McPherSons
lived. They told representatives of The
Star yesterday that they had seen a
blond man in the Mcpherson apart
ment who closely resembled the man
described by Victor P. Gauthey, Ard
more landscape gardener, as the COM
panion of the woman he says was with
Mrs. Mcpherson when they visited his
home on the night Of September IL.
One of the witnesses also described a
blue-green roadster similar to the one
which Gauthey said the blond man
drove to his home on several occasions.
Admit Seeing Blond Man.
One also told of seeing the man with
Mrs. Mcpherson in the latter'S apart
ment at the Park Lane two or three
times during the months of August and
September The other witness tells OF
seeing such a roadster as Gauthey de-
scribes parked in the rear of the Nc
Pherson apartments on several oc-
castons. He has not seen 1t there since
the nurse died.
The third witness is a clairvoyant
who is said to have given Mrs. NC
Pherson a reading four days before her
body was found. This witness has been
quoted as saying she was convinced
the nurse was murdered, basing her pe-
lief on the impression" she gained Of
Mrs. Mcpherson. She declined to say
whether her subject told her she was
in fear of being killed, explaining that
it is contrary to the ethics Of her busi-
ness to discuss for publication the de-
tails of a reading.
Acquainted With Husband.
Gauthey told Department of Justice
agents Yesterday that he believed the
man he says was In his home, near
Ardmore, Md, with Mrs. Mcpherson
until after IL O'Clock on the night she
died was personally acquainted with
Robert A. Mcpherson, the girls hus-
band, who is now in the District Jail
under indictment for murder IN con-
nection with her death.
Mrs. Mcpherson, Gauthey said, asked
her companion when he had last seen
her husband"
"I met him downtown two or three
days ago." Gauthey quoted the stranger
as replying.
Gauthey also told the agents he saw
a closed car bearing District of Colum-
bia license tags drive very slowly back
and forth in front of his home several
times while he was entertaining Mrs.
Mcpherson ard her friend on the night
of September IL.
Allen Gets Tip"
The information relative to the pres
ence of the blond man In Mrs. Nc
Pherson's apartment was furnished by
Mrs E. Russell Vass, who lives in the
Lombardy across a narrow courtWay
from the Mcpherson apartment in the
Park Lane.
It was obtained on tip from Oficer
Robert j.. Allen, who has bucked the
police department in a single handed
investigation of the case.
ION several occasions" she said, II
have seen Mrs. Mcpherson in her
apartment with a man who at first
glance bears a resemblance to her hus-
band. I last saw them together about
two weeks prior to the night she was
killed. The man came to the window
to draw shade and got good look
at him.
IT remember well that he had blond,
wavy hair and his forehead was some
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