The Washington times., 1932-09-24
POLICE REPORT
!. SISTER DIED
BY HANGING
George B. SpeideI ReCounts
+ Details of Love Life With
Il Girl Found Garroted
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woman aSSOCld JlOn Will lOSdl
artists, police also are trying to
find out the identity of the per-
son who performed a criminal
operation on her last Monday
the thing which Speidel insists
weighed on her mind and i'm
PEELED her self-deStruction.
A young art student at
studio in the 100 block Of Con-
necticut Ave. N. W., said today
that Speidel had been living there
until two months ago with
"Lynn Chary," whom he said he
recognized as the Rochkin girl.
He said they had been living
there for five months.
Posed at COrcOran
The young man also said that
he had seen the girl posing at
the Corcoran Art School some
time in May.
Sergeant Wilson, in reconstruct
ing the death, pointed out to Cap
tain Thompson that the rafter of
the galley from which the wom-
ans body is supposed to have
been hanged is no higher than
his head.
He held that it was entirely
possible for the woman to have
tied one end of the rope around
the green-painted nail, then to
have wrapped it around her neck
and looped the other loose section
over the nail from under the sec
ond knot.
Police did not believe any COM
plicationS would result over the
fact that George C. Dalglish, a
member of the coroner's jury.
sworn in over the body Of the
woman today, is brother of De-
tective John C. Dalglish. a men,
ber of the homicide squad, who is
taking an active part in the in
vestigation.
Check N. Y. Angles
Captain Thompson talked to
Speidel for three hours last night,
making a surprise decision to do
SO after Sergeant Wilson had
gone 10 MS IlOIIlc.
It was this conference which
sent the police looking for other
artists, acqLaintanceS, and the
illegal operation doctor.
Police went step further when
they wired to New York city
detectives, requesting full infor-
nation concerning the alleged
suicide of q former artist sweet
heart of the woman last year in
Greenwich Village, N. Y, and the
self destruction of sister,
Beatrice, who is reported to have
hanged herself in May, 1928.
Police today also will question
Henry Underestimate, postoffice
employe and alleged owner Of
the househoat and its fixtures,
which include number OF
books dealing with the philosophy
of suicide, free love, and sex.
Called Upon Him
During the grilling. Speidel as
serted emphatically that he did
not kill the woman, but admitted
that he knew the illegal opera
ton had been performed.
He states that the woman
called on him Monday at the
poStoffice and told him she had
been operated on.
She returned to the place
where the operation was per
formed and remained there un-
til Wednesday, when Speidel says,
he went for her and took her to
the houseboat.
Thursday morning, he said, the
woman was in a nervous condi-
tion, and when she asked him to
remain with her, he notified
the poStoffice and also asked
that his address be changed to
the houseboat.
Travelled in East
SpeidelS S ia t ement deals
frankly with his and the woman'S
"love life" They met last May,
but travelled considerably in
New York and Massachusetts, be-
fore returning here.
The man declared that a few
weeks after they had met in
May the woman advised him
that she was in a delicate condi-
tion and was undecided whether
to have an illegal operation per-
formed.
The problem of motherhood
weighed on her mind at length,
Speidel said, as did indecision as
to what to do.
While admitting he was reSpon-
sible for the woman's condition,
Speidel insisted that he had
urged her not to subject herself
to an operation.
In support of this contention,
Speidel pointed out that he had
leased the houseboat so that the
woman, who was said to be par
ticularly keen about the water,
would have a quiet place to rest
during the birth of their "love
child"
Visited Island in River
The woman smoked cigarettes
necessarily on Thursday, Speidel
said, and he padded her over to
Analostan Island several times in
an effort to quiet her nerves and
get her mind off her problem.
Speidel is a married man, but
has been separated from his wife