Evening star., 1936-04-14
ARTIST IS CLEARED
IN T|TTERT0N CASE
Police Decide Horstmann
Not Man Seen Near
Authors Apartment.
AZ the Associated Press.

oy the ASSOCldteQ fIeSS.
NEW YORK, April IA Green
wich Village artist was eliminated
from the battling Nancy Evans litter
ton murder case today after police de-
termined he was not the tall, blond
man seen near the strangled authors
apartment.
Herman w. Horstmann, 26, was
questioned after he was arrested on a
charge Of violating the Sullivan gun
carrying law, but Assistant Chief In
spector John A. Lyons said:
''He is out Of the picture completely
and has no bearing on the case what
ever"
Horstmann has light brown hair. A
midtown modiste had told police a
tall, blond man had given her two
worthless checks, and neighbors of
Mrs. Titterton in exclusive Beekman
place had reported man of similar
appearance in the vicinity.
Little Interest in Convict.
Officers also expressed little interest
in a former convict whose name was
supplied by Quincy, Mass, police as
possible suspect.
Lieut.. George w. Fallon of Quincy
advised New York authorities the
man had attacked a woman and left
her in a bath tub there in 1927 and
that he committed a similar crime in
Auburn, N. Y.
While detectives pushed a wide
search for strangers seen at various
times in Beekman place, police scien-
lists worked in their laboratories for
the fourth day examining articles
found In the Titterton apartment.
Inspector Lyons said, however. he
had heard nothing Of report that
three blond hairs had been discovered
on a bedspread.
Mrs. Titterton, author of magazine
stories and the wife OF q National
Broadcasting Co. executive, was as
saulted and strangled last Friday in
the Titterton's fashionable Beekman
place apartment.
Her body, nude except for stockings,
was found later in a bathtub there.
Microscope Mud Test.
Under powerful microscopes, police
chemists compared three Jumps of
mud found on the bed with mud from
the shoes of an unnamed man en-
ployed in the apartment building.
Fifteen other detectives sought to
trace a 13-inch piece Of cord, which,
Assistant Chief Inspector John A.
Lyons said, was taken to the apart
ment by the slayer. 1t was found un-
der Mrs. Titterton's body.
The name of former convict was
supplied to the investigators as pos
Sible suspect in the case. Police
Lieut.. George w. Fallon of Quincy,
Mass, said this man, who attacked a
woman and left her in a bathtub in
Quincy in 1927, now is resident of
New York City.
The New York American, in copy
righted story, said that laboratory
investigation by the police had dis
closed three strands of sandy-colored
hair on the counterpane of the bed
on which Mrs. Ttterton was attacked
before her death.
The strands of hair were not visible
to the human eye, the paper said, but
were discovered by use of a micro
scope.
Their presence on the counterpane,
the American said, has caused the au-
thorities to redouble their efforts in
the search for tall sandy-haired man,
whose actions in the Beekman place
neighborhood have aroused suspicious.
A man answering such description
called on two occasions recently at
the door of the Countess Alice Hoyos,
who lives on the floor below the Tit
terton apartment. Each time he asked
for different person.