Evening star., 1931-12-19
SHOW GIRL FACES
QUIZ ON DIAMOND
Boston Police Asked to Hold
Marion Roberts-Weapon
Is Only Glue in Staying.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y. December 19-Al-
bany police have notified Boston au-
thorities to hold Marion "Kiki' Rob-
erts for questioning in connection with
the murder Of her gangster sweetheart
Jack Diamond.
District Attorney John T. Delaney
could not be located today and his Of
flee presumed that he had gone to 3os-
ton to question Miss Roberts, former
chorus girl, who left Albany for Boston
a few hours after Diamond was shot
to death in a roomng house yesterday.
"Kiki" was the last Of the gangster's
intimates to see him alive From her
apartment Diamond went home and
there was shot to death, Diamond had
left drinking party to visit "Kiki'
Hopes to Learn Staying Motive.
From Miss Roberts the district at
torney hopes to obtain information Of
Diamonds activities out Of which may
develop a lead as to the reason for the
murder. There have been many known
reasons in the past why enemy hood
lunls would want to remove Diamond,
but none within the past few months.
AS proof of the belief that the Dta-
mond killers struck from an old grudge,
the investigators cite Diamonds recent
indifference to personal safety.
He ignored warning in the Troy
court room the day before he was slain
that New York men we're after him
and that night he went out alone and
eventually reached home unattended.
May Have Feared Comeback.
The Diamond beer business still ex-
listed, but it had fallen off and the mot
that Jack built up in the Catskil
Mountain resort district virtually had
been dispersed.
was that rival beer runners may have
feared that Diamond. freed of State
accusations by two Troy juries, woulc
reassemble his followers, renew his
''muscling in" activities and revive the
terroristic regime in the Catskills.
Police admitted, however, they knew
nothing definite as to the identity o1
the two or three men who shot the
gangster at dawn yesterday as he lay
asleep in his dingy room.
A pearl-handled pistol, presumably
uSed IN the ShoOLNlg, was practlcally
the only clue. It was found a few
blocks from the scene of the shoot,
ing. There is a number on it, anc
through this and flngerprints police
believe there is a chance of learning
the identity of the killers. A flashlight
was wrapped in a handkerchief with
the pistol
Previous Slugs Found in Body.
The autopsy on the gangster's bod,
established that the pasty-faCed anc
frail racketeer was pretty good physi
cal specimen. He was still carryln;
some CT the slugs from the New York
hotel and Aratoga Inn shootings, ont
being in his chest, but there were M
signs Of the tubercular conditions fire.
ouently attributed to him.
Police expected little help from th
bullets taken from the body. The,
were badly mushroomed.
A glimpse into the love affairs Of th'
sporty, free-spending and well-dresset
Diamond at the time Of his death wa
given by Mrs. Diamond last night wheI
she told how she felt about her hus
bands other woman"
He loved her. and I loved him." sf1!
said. That's all there was to it. L
was nothing I or any one else coulc
help. I never felt particularly un'
friendly toward her. 1t wouldn't have
done any good