Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-04

DR.. Hornaday and learned that Mrs.
MCPHERSON had been employed in his
Office for nine weeks at a salary of
$42.50 week, which he had paid by
check. DR.. Hornaday, however, Shelby
declared, said he had observed no
bruises on Mrs. Mcpherson. At the same
time he said he also got denial that
any money had been saved for the
nurse.
Shelby then related the details of
another interview he and Kelly had
with Mcpherson for the purpose of
checking up on some information given
the police that the young bank clerk
had mistreated his wife. Mcpherson de-
MED this, Shelby said, but admitted
that he had slapped her face several
times.
Not at Inquest Tuesday.
Shelby said he did not attend the
coroners inquest the following day,
Tuesday.
The next event in the story of the
police investigation, Shelby said. was a
report given him by Lieut.. Kelly that
the coroner's jury had held that Mrs.
Mcpherson was suicide. Later on the
same day, he said, received tele-
Stott of the third precinct asking him
If he had ordered police guard at
the Mcpherson apartment.
Shelby added that he told Stott he
had not placed such a guard there
and the police captain then related to
him a story Of having received a tele-
phone call from former Policeman Rob-
ert j. Allen announced that he would
be late reporting for duty that after
noon because he was making an in
vestigation at the Mcpherson apart
ment with a representative of the
United States attorneys office.
Continuing his story, Shelby went
back to Monday. September Is, and
recounted an interview he had with
Sue Thompson, telephone operator at
the Park Lane Apartment, who told
him she had seen Mcpherson come in
the apartment house on the day he
found his wife's body.
According to the telephone operator,
Shelby said, Mcpherson went up to his
apartment and returned a few minutes
later and told her, IT guess my wife has
locked me out. I'll have to have the
pass key" The operator said she gave
Mcpherson the key and said he went
upstairs, returning a few minutes later
and announcing his wife was dead.
Henry I. Quinn, chief defense coun-
sci, then asked Shelby when he first
heard that former Policeman Allen had
any facts in connection with the Nc
Pherson case. Shelby replied:
1T was on Sunday. September %. I
received a telephone call stating that
Allen would be quoted in a morning
newspaper as saying he had the names
Of two witnesses who had seen a man
on the roof of the Park Lane Apart
ment restaurant on the morning of
September 10.
Allen Statement discounted
ct realize If there were any witnesses
to such an incident 1t would Justify a
reopening of the case. Indeed I was
shocked and amazed to learn that the
Police Department had on its rolls a
man so base and low as to retain,
locked in his heart. information, If true,
vital to the public justice. Con-
sldertng its source, however, did not
give any credence to the statement"
The following day, Shelby said, he
ascertained from the records of the
third precinct that at 2:10 o'clock on
the morning of September Is, Allen and
his partner, Policeman Laurence Bolts,
had reported from a patrol signal box
at Eighteenth and F streets.
"I learned, too" Shelby continued,
that Allen and Bolts had gone on
duty at midnight, and, according to the
records of the patrol signal system
they had not gone west of Eighteenth
street from that time until am. I
knew that about 5 am. on that morn
ing Allen and Bolts were found loafing
IN an automobile in the rear of Emer-
gency Hospital.
my investigation convinced me be-
yond a scintilla Of doubt that neither
Allen nor his partner could have been
In the vicinity Of the Park Lane Apart.