Evening star., 1932-03-28
INQUIRY DEMANDED
BY MRS. DAVIDSON
Asks GIassford for Sweeping
investigation of Attempt
at Extortion.

Mrs. Betty Hanna Davidson, grand
| daughter Of Mark Hanna, the latest
target Of attempts at extortion, today
demanded of Police Chief Pelham D.
Glassford a sweeping investigation of
threat against her 6-year-old daugh-
ter, Daisy.
Mrs. Davidson disclosed today she had
received second telephone call about
5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, advising
her that she would receive further
communication later" as to where to
pay $4,000 demanded in the first mes
sage Saturday afternoon.
Police Mystified.
In conference this morning at
police headquarters, Gen. Glassford
and Inspector Frank s. w Burke.
chief of detectives, decided to bend
every effort to solve the latest of the
three mysterious extortion attempts.
Police, together with Mrs. Davidson
and her husband, Richard Porter Da-
wilson, were completely mystified as to
how person who described himself as
newspaper reporter found out about
the first telephone message which Mrs
Davidson received at her Dupont Cir
Gle flower shop Saturday three hours
before she had made a report to police
about the incident.
She said this morning that after re-
ceiving the call, about o'clock, she was
stunned, but said nothing to any one
until she arrived home an hour or two
later" Then, she said, she told a
friend, who was at her house, and her
secretary.
Three hours after receiving the call,
and despite the fact no word of it could
have leaked out, she said, newspaper
man called and asked If she had not
received a threat against her daughter.
At first, she said, she denied she had,
but later told the reporter of the cir
cumstances of the call.
Working on New Tangent
How the reporter could have found
out about the telephone message, 1 do
not know" Mrs. Davidson said. Il
know neither of the two persons whom
told of the incident breathed word
of 1t. Both were at my side through
out the afternoon, until my husband
returned home, and 1 reported the
matter to police"
At the conference in Gen. Glass
ford's Office, the police chief declared
all angles of the case would be run
down. Glassford said detectives also
were working on a new tangent" but
refused to reveal its nature.
The first telephone call, according
to Mrs. Davidson. was substantially as
follows:
Your child is in danger. Leave 50 900
in small bills in the grocery store at
Florida avenue and Nineteenth street
between 2 and o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
IF you do this there is no danger" !"
Yesterday afternoon the second call
was received and Mrs. Davidson was
informed, You'll get a further COM
munication later"
Who is this?" Mrs. Davidson said
she asked
That's all right about who this is. -
was the reply. Il see you're still at
Two Voices Different.
The voices in the two calls were not
alike, Mrs. Davidson said, the first be-
ing Southern drawl, while the second,
she said, sounded a little higher
pitched and not quite so Southern"
In demanding from Gen. Glassford
"a sweeping investigation" Mrs. David
son told the police chief: THE man
who made those threats against my
baby should be found and put in jail,
whether he's a crank or not"
A constant police guard has been
placed in the Davidson home, 304l N
street, by Gen. Glassford, as in the case
of Sir Willmott and Lady Lewis, whose
5-year-old son, Willmott, jr., was
threatened last week.
Investigation into the Lewis case and
that of Mrs Alice Roosevelt I,ongWorth
both from whom extortionists have de-
manded $500, stood at a standstill
today pending receipt Of report from
Bureau of Standards experts of an ex-
animation of threatening letters re.
ceived by both families The report is
to be in the hands of police this after
noon, according to Inspector Burke.