Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-24
Murder
Remains Mystery
Continued from page One)

further questioning.
Sheriff Brown is overlooking
nothing, it appears, in his attempt
to get to the bottom of the tragic
affair.
II doubt seriously if the murder
er was in Miss Cleveager's room
more than three or four minutes, %
he said, 'and / am not inclined to
believe a knife or dagger was used"
cit is not logical that a killer
would have carried two deadly
weapons with him to that room,
switching from one to |other,'' the
officer said. Neither is it logical
that a person with a dagger or
sharp weapon would strike a victim
in the fact where the bony struc-
ture makes it extremely difficult to
strike a lethal blow.
II think that in all probability,
the automatic fired one shot, tie
shell that was in the chamber, and
then being rusty or corroded as the
bullet showed, jammed without
throwing a second cartridge into
the chamber.
1.-The murderer, in an effort to
silence the screams of his victim
turned the gun into a club anc
pounded Miss Clevenger in the
face. The cartridge clip on a CUR
of that type would have made tn:
small crescent shaped wounds or
Miss Clevenger's- face"
In the girls rdorn, an exploded
.32-caliber shell was found, but if
the pistol has been found, officers
have kept the fact secret.
Daniel Gaddy, the 2~s-year-old
night Waterman seems to be the
man On the spot. Sheriff Brown
believes he will finally unlock the
mystery, as a super master pass key
may have unlocked the door Of the
unfortunate girl. This key found
in the door lock, is thought to
have been the lone the ravisher-
murderer dused to gain access to the
room. An ordinary room key
found behind the radiator appeared
to have been eliminated as having
a bearing On the case. 1t was be-
|lieved the key had been dropped
there by some other guest, prob
ably months ago, and having been
lost, had been replaced.
1t is generally believed among
the officials who are willing to
hint it, that Gaddy has some
knowledge of what happened,
though he is not thought to have
been the one who actually muir
dered the girl. He may have al
lowed some friend to borrow" a
pass key Ito fill a date" it is
limited, and this friend may be the
murderer.
The sheriff went carefully
over the route he is convinced the
slayer took in making his escape
shortly after 1 o'clock Thursday
morning. The girl was On the SER
ond floor of the hotel in room No.
224. From the room the slayer evil
IDENTIFY speeded down the corridor
to the steps and from there to the
mezzanine. From the mezzanine
he ran down the steps, dashed &C.
ross the extreme left side of the
lobby into the managers office,
and from there out upon the ter
race. Here he leaped over the bal
ustrade and landed on the cement
side walk. The jump carried him
about - feet through the air.
Wol1ner had a cut across his
toes and a bruised heel. That led
officers to suspect he had landed
heavily on some hard surface, and
from that they felt their suspicious
have been confirmed in part. Thus
far, however, officers have utterly
failed to place him at the Battery
Park On the night of the killing,
according to reports that slipped
out of the sheriff's office.
The girl, only child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. F. Clevenger of Great Kills,
Staten Island, had gone to her room
around 1880 the night before
after accompanying her uncle,
Prof. W. L. Clevenger of N. C.
State College at Raleigh, On a visit
to friends.
Professor Clevenger reported
finding the body about $3.50 the
next morning when he went to call
her for breakfast.