Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-01
William H. WeibIe PIunges rs
Feet From Park Central
Apartment.
TWO COMPANIONS HELD
PENDING INVESTIGATION
Miss Lou Purvis, Victims Fiancee
Says Quarrel Followed New
Year Party.

A mysterious plunge from his apart
ment on the third floor Of the Park Cen
trail Apartments at 1900 r street to q
concrete areaway rs feet below may
prove fatal to william Harry Weible
3o-year-old employee Of the Department
of Agriculture.
Weible is in q serious condition at the
Emergency Hospital, suffering from
fractures Of both legs, fractured right
elbow, decorations of the face and q
possible skull fracture. He has been in
a coma since tumbling from his apart
ment window, but appeared to be rest
ing easy today.
Police Of the third precinct are
holding Miss Lou PurviS, 81 years old,
Of Cleveland, said to be Weibels
f1ancee, and James Gordon Gullett,
"a, Weible's roommate, for investiRa-
ton. They were said to have been
in the apartment when the mishap
occurred, having accompanied Weible
nome after New Year eve party.
Two Theories Conflict.
Detectives investigating the case are
working on two theories, it is said.
One is that Weible may have been
thrown through the window, and the
other that he may have jumped or
stumbled through the window him
self.
Weible was found sprawled in the
alley beneath his apartment window
about o'clock this morning after
Harold Fiji, who resides in apartment
227 at the Park Central, heard a fall
ing object strike the ground. Fits
apartment is just beneath Weibsps
rooms.
Fin called Jack Milton, manager of
the apartment house, and reported. that
he mao heard something tan into The
alley from an apartment above him.
Millions search led to the discovery
OF the crumpled form of Weible, CLAD
only IN underwear, at the rear Of the
building.
Treated at Emergency.
The injured man was removed to
Emergency Hospital In an ambulance
and was treated by DR.. Charles c. Mar
bury of the hospital stan.
Police were notified and q search of
the Weible apartment disclosed Miss
Purvis, fully attired, in the bath room,
with the door locked. She told police
she knew nothing Of the accident and
had been in the room for some time,
having had an argument with Weibel
and going into the bath room and
locking the door behind her.
She was placed under arrest by Pvt.
Earl P. Hartman and taken to the
third precinct, where questioning led to
the discovery that Gullett had also been
IN the apartment before Weible fell
through the window. Gullett was taken
into custody at BIS Eighteenth street
by Pvt Frank O. Brass
Held Incommunicado.
Both are being held incommunicado
at the third precinct until police are
able to untangle their conflicting stories.
The girl told police. according to Capt.
William G. Stott Of the third precinct,
that she had left Gullett and Weible In
the room before entering the bath room,
Capt. Stott declined to say what Gull
lett had told him.
Miss Purvis told Headquarters Detec-
tives Curtis Trammell and j. e. Kane.
who aided in the investigation, that she
had come to Washington from Cleve-
land to marry Weibel, and that he had
turned the apartment over to her until
they were able to complete arrange
ments for the wedding.
Tells of QuarreIs.
Last night, she said, W. Gullett
and herself had gone to Wardnan
Park Hotel on New Year eve party.
and that Weible became angry wheY,
she danced with another man, and that
she returned to the apartment alone.
We1ble appeared q short time after
ward and they began the quarrel anew.
firing OF listening, she went into the
bath room and locked the door behind
her to keep Weible from following.