The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-01
Slueitzer Admitted
Killing Dickinson
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three women engaged in two
day drinking bout before Dickin-
son was killed early Thursday
morning - already was disproven.
Detectives accounted for Dickin-
sons time from his arrival in De-
troit Tuesday to work on the claim
of Mrs. Elizabeth Carmichael
Witherspoon against the 100000
900 estate of the a e William
Yawkey, lumberman, until We'd
nesday night when he was seen
leaving the Book-Cadillac hotel to
keep an engagement, presumably
with SweitZer.
Dickinson liked an occasional
cocktail, but was not a heavy
drinker, police learned. A family
man devoted to his wife and child,
a man of culture and distinction,
detectives did not believe he
would seek pleasure in the com
pany of a procurer and three OF
his women. But through hours of
questioning Sweitzer insisted Dick
iIison introduced himself to the
sisters jackson and himself while
they dined at the Book-Cadillac
hotel Tuesday night, and was with
them almost continuously until
Thursday morning when, he was
killed.
Told of Pistol Fight
Sweitzer said the five of them
were taking fresh air" in drive
through Rouge Park early Thurs
day. He stopped the machine so
the women could get out. While
they were gone, Dickinson produc-
ed q revolver. He said first they
had shot craps and Dickinson,
enraged because Sweitzer couldn't
pay 81 he had lost, intended to kill
him. In his second story he said
Dickinson fired at him without
cause. In each story he said he
wrested the pistol from the lawyer
and fired in self defense.
In another story, he said Dick
inson produced the pistol and fired
two shots, one into his chest, the
other into his head. Frightened,
he left the body beside the Rouge
Park driveway and fed with his
women, he said.
Dickinson was barely more
than i've feet tall. He would have
been as helpless as a child in the
hands OF the comparatively brawny
Sweitzer, police said. His local
associates said he did not carry
Q pistol, so far as they knew.
Brief Case Mystery
None of Sweitzer's stories ex-
planned the mysterious reappear-
ance of Dickinson's brief case 10
hours after his body was found.
A nervous woman checked 1t at
the Book-Cadillac where Dickin-
son had q room. Police did n o t
reveal IL any of the three women
arrested with Sweitzer was the one
who returned the brief case. NOR
did they say If any check had been
made of the heaps of legal papers
It contained.
Tuesday and Wednesday, detec-
lives determined, Dickinson con-
ferred with Detroit lawyers asso-
ciafed with him and his cousin,
Charles Evans Hughes. Jr., in the
legal work of the Yawkey estate.
Sometime during that period ne
made q contact with the UNDER
world hanger-on, a professional
procurer of entertainment for
out : of town visitors. Sweitzer.
How he managed this contact and
for what purpose, detectives could
not say.
Party For ''Big Shot"
wednesday Sweitzer told a taxi
driver he was giving a party for a
ssbie shot New York lawyer who's
rot plenty OF dough. "Wednesday
evening Dickinson hurriedly LETT
his hotel, after telephoning the
Detroiter hotel where Sweitzer
had . room and where. according
10 his confession, he and his wo-
men slept In the same bed. Early
thursday Dickinson's body was
found in the park, fully clothed ex-
sept for coat and vest. Those gar
1nents were found in roadside
bitches several miles away.
sweitzer's evasjve and varying
stories explained only a few of the
circumstance of this known Sc
uuence. In dragging the body from
his car, he inadvertently pulled
che coat and vest from 1t. he said.
ana. having left them on the run
ming board. they fell Off In his
fIirht. He said the body was de-
serted A few minutes after Dickin-
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