The Washington times., 1929-09-23

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covered nothing. This was not in
Aliens report to police authorities.
Shelby said.
Sobbing Woman Seen
Aliens contention today was that
q woman answering the description
Of Mrs. Mcpherson accompanied BY
4 man got into Kingree's taxi cab
the night Of September Is about To-
o'clock and went to Gauthy's house
IN Maryland. When they left about
1:3O o'clock the woman was sobbing,
according to Allen. Kingree brought
them back into Washington and left
them at Tenth Street Northwest be-
tween D and 3 Streets.
Kingree under questioning by
Shelby said that it was not McPher-
son who accompanied the woman,
but that it was another taxi driver
named William Bailey Walker,
known as Bill Bailey, who hired his
cab that night. The homicide squad
was immediately sent out to bring in
Walker They brought him in and
he fatty denied having taken the
ride previously described by Kingree.
Walker later changed his story
and admitted that he had gone to
Gauthy's home in the taxicab, but
said he had taken married woman
whose name he wished to shield.
Again the homicide squad dashed
out and brought in this woman. She.
was Immediately identified by
Gauthy and Kingree as the woman
in question, thus blowing up another
angle of the case. ALI were later
released.
Allen Disappears
Inspector Shelby in describing
Aliens activities Of today said that
he had come back from Maryland
with Gauthy and Kingree and had
gone to the washington Loan and
ployed. He went to Mcpherson Is
office, telling him he was an officer
to take him into custody, and took
him downstairs. Allen then per-
mitted Mcpherson to report the
matter to his superiors and when
Mcpherson came out of the office
Allen had disappeared.
Although admitting that in view
of the new developments in the
case surrounding the mysterious
strangling of Mrs. Virginia Ne.
Pherson, another inquest should be
held, DIR. ]. Ramsey Nevitt. Dis.
trict coroner, stated this afternoon
that the matter viii be left up to
the grand jury.
Rover Is Opposed
Or. hewitt at first stated that he
would reopen the case. but follow
ing q conferences with United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover decided
against such a course.
He pointed out that the inquest
would have to be heard by the
same Jury which brought in a sui
eide verdict and that in view of
the decision being questioned such
course would not be wise. Under
the law a new jury would have to
be sworn over the body of the
woman and this would be impracti-
cal in view of the fact the jurors
would have to be taken to North |
Carolina.
While not saying so in so many
words, DR.. hewitt indicated that the
suicide theory is questionable.
Shelby was bitter about Aliens
failure to report his finding of the
new witnesses to the proper authori.
ties.
ANY officer" he declared, "who
obtains knowledge of the commits
sion of a crime and does not report |
the same to his superfors, or gives
It to other persons, neylects his |
duty, is false to his oath and Is a |
most damnable traitor to the |
service"
Jury Probe Opposed
Police, however, are believed to |
have been led into moving for the |
reopenlng OF the coroner's inquest |
BY reason OF Aliens declaration that
he could not obtain a fair presenta. |
ton Of his case behind the locked |
doors OF the Grand Jury room. He |
said that he was reluctant to ask |
his witnesses to go before the
Grand Jury tomorrow to testify in
proceeding which ne said viii
largely be dominated by an assistant
district attorney who is committed
to the suicide theory.
Doubt was cast today by relatives
OF the dead girl on the reported
previous attempt which she made
on her own life. According to the
suicide by gas poisoning in June. /
This. 1t was claimed, was an mn
portant factor IN determining that
the nurse strangled herself to death
with her pajama cord.
Accident Is Charged
Mrs. ". G. Blackwelder, of Green's
boro, N. c., sister OF Mrs. McPher-
son, and Al. A. Hurley, father OF the
girl, appeared today with the posi-
tive assertion that when Mrs. Me.
Phefson was overcome in her home
in June It was due to an accident.
Immediately after the incident the
nurse went to her fathers home in
South Carolina. There she told her
sister and her father, they teIe-
graphed The Times today, that she
had lit the gas under a coffee pot
In her kitchenette and then gone
Into another room. While she was
absent the wind blew the light out.
Upon her return to the kitchen she
was overcome, according to the story
her relatives say she told them.
Dr. Frank A. HOrnaday. upon
one of whose cases Mrs Mcpherson
worked from July till the Monday
prior to her death, today declared
the young woman to be an iedal
nurse. During her service he came
In contact with her daily, he said.
He found her to be generally cheer.
fuI and not given over to melan-
cholia. So far as he could deter.
mine, he said, she was not subject
to, fits Of despondency.
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