Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-26
MURDER SUSPECT
IS HELD FOR Jury
Frederick G. Taylor Faces
Charge in Death of Mrs.
Evelyn Jordan.

Frederick George Taylor, 50, an am
ateur photographer who once fell un-
der suspicion in the five-year-old, I'M
solved murder of Beulah Limerick.
was being held for the grand jury to-
day on a murder charge in connection
with the fatal shooting Saturday of
Mrs. Evelyn Jordan.
The coroner's jury which brought
the murder charge against Taylor
after an inquest late yesterday chose
to disregard Mrs. Jordan's death-bed
statement of suicide in view of medical
testimony that the 23-year-old woman
would have had to be "a contortionist"
to have inflicted the fatal wound.
DR.. Christopher Murphy, deputy
coroner, who performed the autopsy,
testified that the bullet entered just
under and well behind the right breast
and went downward and across the
body. He said only a contortionist
could have placed the revolver in po-
sition to fire the shot.
Shot in Defendants Room.
The photographer, in whose room
at 419 New Jersey avenue southeast
Mrs. Jordan was shot, told the jury
in a voluntary statement that Mrs
Jordan had come unsolicited to his
place in quest Of drink and shot
herself after consuming seven bottles
of beer and almost pint Of whisky
Taylor, small, grizzled man, de-
clared he fed in terror from the
room, and that he telephoned ar
alarm of the shooting to Emergency
Hospital before he hurried to the resi-
dence of his estranged wife in the soc
block of Massachusetts, avenue tt
await the coming of the police.
Occupants of the New Jersey avenue
they knew nothing of the shooting Of
of Mrs. Jordan's presence on the prem.
ises and reported there had been "nC
trouble" when police and an ambu.
lance responded to Taylor's anony.
nous call.
The police and doctor went away
and it was almost six hours latel
when the dying woman's groanS fol
help prompted the other occupants o.
! the dwelling to investigate.
Declared She Shot Self.
Two policemen and one roomer ties.
tifid they heard Mrs. Jordan say sht
had shot herself before she lost con-
seriousness, while another roomer tole
the Jury Mrs. Jordan refused to tel
him who fired the shot when he ques.
toned her before the arrival of tn.
officers. A note, apparently written b!
Mrs. Jordan. told officials who to no
tify when something happens to me.
Mrs. Jordan was the common Law
wife of Harry P. Frye. a salesman
and had lived with him since las
June, Frye testified, at the roomini
house in the 600 block of Massachu
sets avenue, also occupied by Taylor
estranged wife.
When l9-year-old Buelah Limericl
was mysteriously slain in a house II
the Southeast section five years age
two other occupants of the premise
denied hearing the fatal shot. Au
thorities attributed the death to nat
ural causes and it was hours later be-
fore an undertaken discovered bulle
hole in the girls skull.
Taylor told the jury yesterday h
was arrested in the Limerick investi
CATION and released three days late
without being formally charged. HI
said he was arrested because he wrot'
a note at the suggestion of a member
of the Limerick family in AL effort Il
discredit the investigation conducted
by the chief Of the homicide squad.
Headquarters Detective CLYDE
STRANGE, who arrested Taylor at hi
wife's home early Sunday, testified
Mrs. Taylor told him her husband go'
into trouble because he couldn't leave
women alone"