Evening star., 1932-08-19
MISSING WOMAN
/ IS FOUND BEATEN.
NEAR GLEN ECHO
Mrs. Lucille l.. Silver, Nurse,
Says Five Boys and
Girls Attacked Her.
WAS REPORTED SLAIN
IN MYSTERIOUS CALL
Victim Unable to Give Coherent
Account of Absence From Home
Since Last Night.

North Capitol street, who was the OBJ
ject of a police search today following
a mysterious telephone call reporting
she had been murdered. was found In
the woods near Glen Echo early this
afternoon badly bruised and beaten.
Able to talk only incoherently. she
said three boys and two girls attacked
her, but could give little further details,
according to Sergt. B. c. Beach. seventh
precinct, who was called to Georgetown
Hospital when she was taken there.
Found on Embankment.
Mrs. Silver was found lying on an
embankment of Conduit road, just
south of Glen Echo, by William M.
Combs and Frank Boswell, both of Glen
Echo Heights, who were doing carpenter
work nearby and were attracted to the
spot where she lay by her moans.
Aid was summoned and she was
taken to the hospital, where she re-
ceived first aid and was put to bed. She
was suffering from shock and Sergt.
Beach said she apparently had been
beaten about the head and body. No
bones we're broken so far as preliminary
examination disclosed.
According to her story, she received
q telephone call last night to go to a
house on K street When she arrived
there, the party calling was not pres
ent but there were three boys and two
girls in the house. The five beat her,
she said, but 1t was not possible to de-
termine, on account of her condition,
whether the beating occurred IN the
house or elsewhere.
Sergt. Beach said no attempt would
be made to question the woman further
until her condition improved.
Police started hunting for her this
morning, when her landlady, Mrs.
Hunter Swami, reported she received
telephone message from an unidenti-
fed woman, saying Mrs. Silver had
beer slain. Mrs. Swami said Mrs. Sill
yer left her home last night and an
nounced she was going for a ride with
q girl friend"
Mrs. Silver was found several hours
after the arrest of Miss Esther May
Dodson, IA, of 1909 K street, named as
the girl with whom she began the au-
tomobile ride last night.
According to Mrs. Swami, Mrs. Sill
ver disappeared shortly after announc-
ing Miss Dodson had invited her to
go for ride.
Questioned by Police.
Questioned at police headquarters
following her arrest this morning. MISS
Dodsor admitted having gone out with
Mrs. Silver, but denied anv knowledge
Of what had happened to her.
Miss Dodson said, according to police,
that she and two men took Mrs. silver
for a ride through Georgetown and out
Conduit road to a house near Glen
Echo. There, she said. the party danced
and drank for while.
Suddenly, she said, Mrs. Silver ran
from the room. picked up her hat ana
coat and darted from the house. scream-
ing historically. THAT was the last L
saw of her" she declared, denying max
inc the telephone call in which Mrs.
Swann said she was told Mrs. Silver
had been murdered.
House Is Visited.
After being questioned extensively
at headquarters. Miss Dodson, accom-
panied by Detective Sergt. oscar w.
Mansfield. went to the vicinity OF Glen
Echo and attempted to point out tne
house in which the party was held at
was shortly after this that the missing
young woman was found. ..
Miss Dodson was booked Tor lnVeStl-
pation and held at the House OF De-
fention, pending further questloning VI
Mrs. Silver. .t..r
detectives had spent hours searching
wooded sections of the District, con,
centrating their hunt along Riggs ana
Blair roads.
Meanwhile detectives were seeking
other acquaintances Of Mrs. silver IN
the hope some of them might De apie
to throw some light on her disappear
ance. Among those brought TO mead
quarters was q man, understood TO nave
been named by Miss Dodson.
It was shortly after II O'Clock. MIS-
Swami said, when she received the mys-
tericus telephone message. feminine
voice informed her. she said, that MIS-
Silver had been slain. She SAID the
body was on some road" Mrs. Swami
explained, but I was so excited that
didn't catch the name Of the road.
Questioned by detectives. Mrs. Swami
said she thought the read named was
either Riggs or Ridge, but she was not
sure.
Phone Call Is Traced.
The phone call received by Mrs. Swami
was traced to a store in the HOO nlocK
of Twelfth street The proprietor, ac-
cording to detectives, admitted knowing
Mrs. Silver, but declared he had not seen
her or any of her friends fer some time.
A young man, said to have been
excepting company" with Mrs. Silver:
also was questioned. but insisted he had
not seen the young woman since about
pm yesterday.
Some time ago Mrs. Silver, according
to her sister, Mrs. Louise Rollings, l38
Grant avenue, Takoma Park, Nd, was
involved In a quarrel with another
young woman, with the result that the
two had since been on extremely un-
friendly terms
Mrs. Silver, a practical nurse, came
here from Roanoke, Va. where her
father, Clarence Leslie, still resides.
She was divorced several years ago
after her husband. a native OF Ireland,
had been deported, according to her
sister