Evening star., 1935-10-22
0MAHA'S JOCKEY
HUNTED IN DEATH
Woman Deliberately Run
Down by Auto, Party
Friend Charges.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, october o.
The jockey who rode Omaha to a
thrilling victory in the 1885 Ken
tucky Derby, dapper little Willie
Smoky" Saunders, today was named
by Louisville police as one of two
men they wanted to question about
an after-the-party Staying of young
Louisville married woman.
The second man has not been iden-
titled.
Police in Baltimore, where Saun-
derS has gone to ride in races at
Laurel Park, went to Saunders hotel
early today to question him, but the
Jockey had gone.
D. B. Headley, whose uncle, Hal
Price Headley of Lexington, KY, holds
Saunders riding contract, expressed
the belief that Saunders was on his
way back to Louisville.
Body Found in Road.
Headley, staying at another Bal
timore hotel, said he telephoned Saun-
ders and advised him he was wanted
for questioning in the Staying of
Mrs. Evelyn Sliwinski, 24-year- -old
wife of a Louisville tailor, whose
mangied body. crushed by automo-
bile wheels, was found in a road early
Sunday.
7 advised him to go back and see
what it's all about" Headley said
"No, he didn't seem bothered about
It."
Saunders and his booking agent
E. Whitley" Danenhauer, arrived in
Baltimore late yesterday and reg
istered at a hotel there.
Louisville police we're informed that
Saunders, Danenhauer, and a third
man, known to acquaintance here
only as "the Dago," left Louisville
early Sunday morning in an auto
mobile.
Oficers were checking up to deter
mine whether the Dago" fitted the
description of the second man they
wanted in the case.
Woman Tells of Party.
The party that preceded the slay-
ing was related to police by Mrs
Agatha Mackison, 28, who identified
a photograph of Saunders as that
OF Mrs. SliwinSkiS companion on the
Saturday night party.
Mrs. Mackison was quoted by Detec-
tive Capt. William A. Celtjen as saying
she, Mrs. Sliwinski. and two men she
knew only as Jimmie Smith" and
Tommy" met in a saloon and visited
several night clubs.
Jimmie" she identified from a
photograph of Saunders. Tommy
she said, spoke Italian fluently. Both
spent money freely and talked fluently
about racing.
Jimmie" and Mrs. Sliwinski quar-
relied, Mrs. Mackison's statement re-
lated; he knocked her down, and later
resumed tN@quarrel in the car and
ordered her out
Ran Over Girl.
"She walked around in front of the
car" Mrs. Mackisons statement to
police related. Tommy the man I
was with, stepped on the gas and ran
over Evelyn. We kept going for sew
eral miles and turned AS we came
back about so miles an hour We ran
over her again. AS felt the wheels
pass over her body, I screamed.
What's the matter with you?'
Tommy asked, we didn't hit anything;
maybe a cat
After we drove little while longer
they stopped and got out and inspected
the car. think they wiped the wheels.
Then We started again.
Take Survivor Home.
Jimmie said, step on it. think
the laws after US They took me to
my home.
Just remember this they told me-
You amt seen nothing, you amt
heard nothing; you don't know any
thing, and you're lucky you're alive {"
Mrs. Mackison said she hesitated
about telling police, because she was
afraid she might be killed
She described Tommy" as about 26
years old, 5 feet tall, speaks Italian
exceptionally WELL" we'll dressed. driv-
ing an automobile with New York
license plates.