Evening star., 1935-07-01
DICKINSON KILLED
IN ROBBERY, GIRL
in PARTY STATES
Medical Examiner Holds
Lawyer Could Not Have
Killed Self, as Claimed.
SUSPECT TELLS THREE
STORIES OF SLAYlNG
Police Continue to Grill Detroit
Man, Who Accompanied At
torney on Ride.
BY the Associated Press.


DETROIT, July Prosecutor
Duncan c. McCrea said this afternoon
that Jean Miller. also known as Lillian
Winles, told him that Howard Carter
Dickinson was shot and killed while
William Lee Ferris was trying to rob
him.
Any theory that Dickinson may have
killed himself was discredited earlier
by the report of DR.. Robert Kallman,
Wayne County medical examiner, who
performed an autopsy.
Suicide was one of the explanations
given officers by William" Lee Ferris,
26, in statements after his arrest as a
suspect.
DR.. Kallman said he believed the
shot through the chest was fired first,
but that the direction in which it
passed through the body indicated
that Dickinson couldn' have reached
around that far in that direction to
fire it."
Death Immediate.
Both of the shots-the one through
the body. the other through the head"
the medical examiner said, would
cause death in less than a minute
He couldn't have fired one shot and
lived long enough to shoot the second
time. The shot through his head was
fired from the left
He added that he understood Dick
inSon was not left-handed.
DR.. Kallman said he found no marks
which showed that Dickinson had
struggled before his death and added:
The second shot, through the head,
probably was fired to make death GER
tain
Recorders Judge Christopher E.
Stein postponed for 48 hours a hearing
on a habeas corpus writ sought by
Ferris when Prosecutor McCrea told
the court he would issue murder
warrant within "A hours
To Seek Out Motive
IT will not recommend a warrant
charging murder until I am satisfied
know the motive for the killing,
the prosecutor said in explaining why
he had issued no warrant yet.
McCrea said he would question en-
ployes at the hotels where Dickinson
and Ferris stayed and attorneys as
sociated with Dickinson.
II can't see how man Of Dickin-
sons standing, a good, sober, family
man, with a high ranking In his pro-
fession, could get mixed with a gang
of tramps like this" McCrea said. re-
ferring to Ferris and the three young
women arrested with him. There
seems to be something missing here
and I won't take the case into court
until I know the motive"
Ferris, called "a liar" by McCrea,
underwent renewed questioning by de-
tectives and the prosecutor, unsatisfled
with his three versions of the Staying
Of Dickinson.
Ferris and the three young women
arrested with him at Fort Wayne.
Ind, Saturday were questioned all day
yesterday. Ferris made three separate
statements and the women each made
one.
Dickinson, New York attorney and
nephew of Charles Evans Hughes,
Chief Justice of the United States,
was slain last week and his body was
found In Rouge Park early Thursday.
He had gone for ride Wednesday
night with Ferris, who uses several
aliases, and the three women. The
women-Loretta and Florence jack
son, sisters. and Jean Miller, also
known as Lillian Winles-were held
as material witnesses.
Prosecutor McCrea refused to put
Ferris stories in a permanent record.
Robbery Seen Motive.
while there is no evidence to show
the girls were in plot to kill this
man." the prosecutor said. "the state
ment of Ferris Is ridiculous. Ap-
parently robbery was the motive. But
he will not admit it,
Ferris third and last version of the
Staying told how he. Dickinson and
(see DICKINSON, Page 81