Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28
IDENTIFIES
MYSTERY VISITOR
Says He Took Passenger to
Park Lane Night of
Nurses Death.
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driver so cents, and disappeared up the
alley, according to Fryes statement.
| The drivers statement was of such
a startling nature that he was sum-
moned before the grand jury as the first
witness this morning to repeat his story.
! The affidavit was sworn to after FRYE
had been taken to the home Of the
man whom he is alleged to have identi-
| fed as his fare
Authorities Moved.
Authorities connected with the in
veStigation plainly were moved by this
new development and from one high
| official came a prediction that an
amazing development may be ex-
| pected during The day.
The taxi driver first told his story to
| newspaper men last night, He declared
! the man he took to the Park Lane
was young and smooth Shaven, and eX-
| pressed confidence he would be able to
identify him if he met him again. He
said the street lamps had illuminated
the mans features so that he could be
sure of Identification. Frye agreed 10
go to the home of a man suggested to
him and there, it is said, identified
this man as his passenger.
Frye was taken before Assistant
United States Attorney Collins, who is
| assisting the grand jury with its in
vestigatlon, and made out the affidavit.
Frye was questioned by the grand
jury tor nearly All hour. He refused TO
| talk TO newspaper men as he came out
Of the Jury chamber Then Dyer.
owner of the taxi cap which Frye was
driving, followed the chauffeur into the
grand jury room, presumably to undergo
questioning as TO the movements of his
cab on the fatal night.
Company Checks Trips.
Meanwhile, the police began a check
on Frye's trips during the night of Sep
TENDER II. E. o. Turner. president of
the Diamond Cab Co.. said bulletins
had been issued three successive days,
the week following Mrs. McPhersons
death. asking for drivers to search their
mani1eSts for records of trip to the
Park Lane early on the morning Mrs.
Mcpherson died He said a copy of
this bulletin was placed at every call
box of the company'S cab stations.
Mrs. Brown, petite young wife of an
insurance salesman, called to testify
about the screams, told The Star that
she was the woman referred to by police
as having engaged in an alteration
with her husband late on the night of
Mrs. McPherSon's death, but she de-
MED having raised her voice loud
enough to be heard by her neighbors,
and declared further that she had been
awakened herself about or o'clock
in the morning by agonizing screams of
a woman.
Tells of Shrieks.
Mrs Brown refuted the purported
statement of her husband to Lieut.. Ed
ward j. Kelly. head of the homicide
squad, to the effect that Brown and his
o'clock in the morning and that Mrs.
Brown had screamed number of times
Mrs. Brown admitted having had a
disagreement with her husband around
o'clock, but denied having yelled loud
enough for any one outside to hear her.
She said she was asleep half an hour
or SO later and was awakened around
or 3 o'clock by piercing feminine
shrieks. She said her husband was not
awakened and that she did not disturb
him. and went back to sleep.
Mrs. Browns statements would tend
to corroborate the assertion of Mrs.
Roy Heavrin, a resident of the PARK
Lane and Robert Mills. colored, janitor.
of the Lombardy. who said he was
awakened around or o'clock in the
morning by a~womans screams ana
groans The Detective Bureau has at
tributed these screams heard by Mills
to the couple in the Brown apartment.
Tells of Tennis Ball.
In the late session yesterday the
grand jury called E. Russell Vass. &C.
cupant of an apartment in the Lom-
| hardy. across the court from that OF
the McPhersons. to tell of the tennis
ball that mysteriously vanished from
the roof adjoining the dead woman's
apartment. Vass is believed to have
told the jury of having observed the
tennis ball lying in one spot outside OF
the Mcpherson window for two months.
but after the tragedy he said that the
ball had completely disappeared.
Ralph D. Palmer, reporter. who
has covered the grand jury proceedings,
was grilled for Is minutes The test1-
mony which he gave has not been dis
closed.
Although he has been questioned on
numerous occasions, Policeman Law
renee Bolts, Aliens partner on the
night of September II. was recalled late
yesterday. Allen had said that ne ana
his partner had been in front OF the
Park Lane Apartments on the night
Mrs Mcpherson met her death and
that a man had been seen to emerge
from the window of the Mcpherson
apartment, cross the adjoining roof and
disappear in the darkness.
In accordance with previous agree
ment with United States. Attorney Leo
A. Rover, Allen, after it was believed
that all witnesses had been heard. sum-
married. events which he believed indi-
Gated murder in a discussion which &C.
cupied half an hour. He was then or
dered from the courtroom. but was re-
called and remained a similar length
of time. 1t is believed, however, he
made plea that the grand jury should
not smirch the dead girls reputation by
reporting a finding of suicide.