Evening star., 1932-08-20
Mrs. Silver Still in Hospital,
Too Dazed to Explain
WeIts on Body.
FLED CONDUIT HOUSE,
SAY GIRL AND TWO MEN
Six on Thursday Night Auto Ride
Which Led to Finding of Nurse
Near Glen Echo.

conference WITH Maryland autACr-
ities that John Tucker and Ar
thur E. Turgeon, held in their in
vestigation of the beating of Mrs.
Lucille Silver, would be released.
Montgomery County authorities said
they would not prosecute the case.
The beating occurred near Glen
Echo, Md.
With 14-year-old girl and two men
under arrest today in come ction with
the lashing of Mrs Lucille Leslie Silver,
25, Headquarters detectives in co-opera
ton with Maryland police were seeking
two other persons for questioning.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Silver. a divorce.
still was in too dazed condition to give
a coherent account of what transplred
between the time she left her home at
1924 North Capitol street early Thurs
day night and the time she was found
unconscious near Glen Echo, Mo, early
yesterday afternoon.
Physicians at Georgetown University
Hospital, where she was taken after her
discovery in clump of woods of Con-
duit road, said she still was suffering
from shock and scare" in addition to
having numerous weltS about her body
Those held in connection with the
attack were Miss Esther Mae Dodson,
1900 block of K street; Jonn Tucker,
90 of the 1400 block of G street south
east, and Arthur E. Turgeon, "a, OF the
3700 block of Twenty-fourth street
northeast.
Six Reported In Party.
rroro Mrs Silver's rambling state
ments, Detective Sergt. Oscar w. Mans
field gathered, he reported, that the
woman was beaten after accepting an
invitation to go for an automobile ride
with Miss Dodsop, Tucker, Turgeon.
another man and another girl.
Although Mrs. Silver, nurse, de-
clared the lashing was administered in
q house on K street, Miss Dodson and
the two men held with her told an al
together different story.
The gist of their statements was that
they called for Mrs. Silver. took her to
a house on Conduit road and began
party. Suddenly becoming hysterical
after taking a drink, Mrs. Silver, &C
cording to the others, ran screaming
from the house and disappeared. Where
Mrs. Silver went after that or how she
received her injuries, Miss Dodson.
Tucker and Turgeon insisted they did
not know.
Search for Mrs. Silver was begun
about 1880 pm. Thursday, after her
landladv Mrs Hunter Swami, received
a telephone call from woman, who
informed her Mrs Silver had been
murdered and her body could be found
on Riggs road.
Means Attract Rescuers.
That thoroughfare, together with
several others in wooded sections of the
District, was being searched when two
workmen found Mrs. Silver, took her
to the hospital and notified police. At
tracted by her means, William M.
Combs and Frank Boswell, both Glen
Echo Heights, discovered her lying face
downward at the top of the embank-
ment.
Miss Dodson, who denied making the
telephone call in which Mrs. Hunter
was told of the Staying" was held at
the House of Detention, pending further
questioning. She and the two men
were to be requestioned today.
Meantime, Mansfield planned to con-
fer with Montgomery County, Md,
authorities regarding the attack, which,
police believe, must have occurred near
the place Mrs. Silver was found.