Evening star., 1936-07-05
PART IN Staying
DENIED BY FREED
Missing Night Club Owner
Quoted as Planning
Aid to Wife.
Ry the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. July 4.-Edward Freed,
missing partner in the Nut House"
North Clark street haunt frequented
by slain Audrey Vallette, was quoted
in a copyrighted story in the Chicago
Times tonight as denying any knowl-
edge Of the staying Of the Inflated
pleasure girl.
The 32-year-old night club oper-
ator admitted he was hiding from
police, who seek his brunette wife,
Ruth, as the last visitor in the near
North Side hotel room Of the plat
mum blond, Miss Vallette, but added
that he intended to give himself up
soon and would stick by Ruth" the
newspaper said.
Il am just trying to get back to
normal before face the ordeal Of
questioning" the Times qouted Freed
as saying. "I want to be fit and have
my wits about me. And I want TO
know how Ruth is and what I can do
to help her before I get into position
where can't be of any help at all.
Fullest Aid for Wife.
shes my wife and I'm going to
help her. She can have anything I've
got and I'll do all can for her. I
love her"
Freed was quoted in the story as
denying a statement made by Capt.
Andrew Barry of Hudson avenue po-
lice that he was secreting himself for
fear of his wife. The captain had
said the cabaret man knew his wife
had a gun.
why should she want to shoot me-"
Freed was quoted as asking She
loves me and I love her. That's all the
bunk"
Sure" Freed was quoted as answer
ing to a question as to whether he
knew "Annabelle Blake" name Miss
vallette used frequently in the Bo-
hemian circles she frequented.
She used to come in the Nut
House once In a while"
He told the newspaper he believed
that the photograph of himself found
in the dead beauty's room might have
been taken from his Office and added,
in regard to the frequent mention of
an Eddie" in her lurid diary Of night
life:
There are lot Of Eddies and fell
lows whose name begins with e in
this city-why pick on me?"
Discussing her conversation with a
reporter for the Times yesterday in
which she allegedly admitted having
visited the dead womans apartment
building early the afternoon Miss
Vallette was killed, Freed said: Ruth
has been nervous and sick for long
time" the paper quoted him as say
ing.
To Talk With Eddie"
The previous Times story had quoted
Mrs. Freed as declaring she would
/ not surrender to authorities until
after she had talked to Eddie"
Earlier today police had received
information that both Freed and his
wife might have scurried to old-time
hideouts of the Capone mob some
where between Michigan City. Ind,
and st. Joseph. Mich. Freed said he
had not been out of the city since
Thursday.
The Times said Freed was located
in the home of a friend. With a
three-day growth of beard, he was
propped up in bed and said he was
suffering from a nervous breakdown,
brought on by rumors linking his
name and that of his wife with the
fate of the voluptuous 31-year-
party girl.
Freed said he would remain in Chi
cago. He denied he had talked with
! Attorney Abe Marovitz, who previously
had announced Freed would surrender
Monday. He declared. however, that
time was agreea BILE to him for giving
himself up and that he would see
| Marovitz then.
Contradicting a previous assertion
by Mrs. Anna KoletSky Freed, his
first wife whom he married in 1917,
that he had not divorced her before
marrying Ruth Carmelia on August
l. 1884, Freed said he had won the
divorce a few weeks before his second
venture in matrimony, apparently
without his first wife's knowledge.
The first Mrs. Freed, who told
police her husband once acted as a
collector for the Capone syndicate
during the dry era. said her successor,
Ruth Freed. had known Eddie" since
| 1926. She declared Ruth had "a fiery
temper and was jealous of Eddie's
attention to other women"
Visit to Vallette Woman.
Mrs. Freed has been identified from
photographs. police said as the at
tractive brunette who a few minutes
before the shooting visited the VAL
lette woman in her near North Side
hotel-apartment. The visitor was seen
to hurry out of the building only a
moment or SO before Miss Vallette's
! telephoned plea Help. I'm shot" led
to the discovery of her half-clad body.
| dead on her bed.
The investigators believe the killer
was motivated by jealousy.
Michael Ross. 80, bartender In
the Nut House." night club around
which much Of the preliminaries to