Evening star., 1935-10-19
INDICTMENT LINKS
WILSON WITNESS
TO JAIL DELIVERY
Marie McKeever Aided Mais
and Legenza, Charge to
Follow Staying Case.
INVESTIGATORS FEARFUL
SHE WILL BE KILLED
Guards Posted at Hiding Place to
Help Insure Story to Grand
Jury.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.


The secret indictment against Ma
rie McKeever, key witness in the
murder of Allen B. Wilson, involves
her in the Richmond jail delivery of
Robert Mais and Walter Lagenza, it
was learned today.
Formerly the sweetheart of Mais,
she is charged with being an access
sorry after the fact in HOUSEKEEPING.
The HOUSEKEEPING, however, was the
sensational escape from the Virginia
prison of the two gangsters, who ruth
lessly shot down a guard with guns
smuggled in to them by friends on the
outside.
Miss McKeever, it is charged, aided
them in eluding police after their
escape, and it is believed they were
hidden for a while in the Washington
apartment of John (Slim) Dunn,
named as the trigger man in the
murder of Wilson. Later the two
| fugitives we're recaptured and exc
cuted.
The woman, her underworld career
at an inglorious end and in fear OF
| her life, is hiding under heavy guard
in Philadelphia. timorously awaiting
the day when she must come forward
and testify against the gunmen who
murdered Wilson, a newspaper route
agent. when they mistook him for
Edward Mickey Mcdonald, local
gambler.
Fear She Will Be Slain.
Investigators assigned to the Wilson
case make no secret of the fact that
their greatest worry now is that Miss
McKeever will be killed before she can
tell her story to jury. She is In
double jeopardy, first for having
talked in the Wilson case and, sec
ondly, because of what she is sup
posed to know of the Jail delivery.
The probabilities are that she will
never be brought to trial on the in
dictment. If she lives to give her
testimony in the murder case. 1t In
believed, the authorities will then re-
lease her-to spend the rest of her
days hiding from the ever-present
threat of a sudden burst Of gunfire
from friends of the gunmen she has
been instrumental in bringing to
justice.
Lieut.. Floyd Truscott and Detective
Sergt. Earl Hartman, members of the
special Wilson squad, had not re-
turned to Washington today, and 1t
was believed they may be in Phila-
delphia with Miss McKeever, making
final preparations for her appearance
before the Montgomery County grand
jury.
Lieut.. John Fowler, the third MEM
ber of the squad and the Police De-
partment's ballistics expert, has not
| left the city and it was believed he
is devoting his time to efforts to To-
cate and identify the 32-caliber pistol
from which the bullet that killed Will
son was fired.
Think Weapon Found.
The newspaper agent was struck in
the arm and his automobile was rid
died with shotgun slugs, but he was
killed by pistol bullet fired through
the back of his neck. 1t was several
days ago that police knew where the
gun was, but it is not known whether
they have actually recovered it. How
ever, the fact that Fowler has been
working behind locked doors at police
quarters was interpreted in some
quarters as indicating he has the
weapon and is preparing Photographic
evidence to prove the fatal bullet was
fired from it.
Another woman who may testify
in the case is McDonald's wife. She
is reported to have seen two Of the
gunmen running toward their car
after the killing. She told police
she was awakened by the shots when
Wilson was waylaid in front Of their
home in Takoma Park and ran to q
window in time to witness the escape.
1t was believed she may be able par
TALLY to identify one of the men.
Besides Dunn, who Is serving time
in Alcatraz on robbery charge,
police are holding William Cleary,
Dewey jenkins and Albert S. Sutton
in connection with the case. A fifth
suspect, Claude Bailey, was killed by
guard during an attempt to es-
cape from Lorton reformatory several
weeks ago.