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amount to anything-juSt rs al
ways.
'Tf I thought there was any
thing at all / could do that 1
have not done to track down the
murderer, / would not sleep or
eat until had done it,.
81 am not unconscious Of all
the gossip that has been going
on about me and my famil."
Nothing in Diaries"
Asked about the two diaries
which have been seized for the
grand jury, Miss Minter replied :
There is nothing in them 1
would not be willing to show the
world, If 1 thought it would help
in the case. Most Of them we're
written long before the murder
by a girl going to school and
working. Can you imagine
there is anything there that
would help? Don't you think 1
would have turned everything
over to the police II it could
have done the least possible
gOOd?"
Although she used the woro
murder" to refer to the death of
her loved one, Miss Winters voice
broke whenever she referred to the
crime.
Speaking half to herself and
half to the interviewer, she told
haltingly Of her actions at the
time Of the murder.
II was sitting on the sofa in
my home. My sister was there,
and she knows 1 was there that
night that. that. :" She was
unable to finish the sentence.
TELLS OF FATAL NIGHT
She referred to the night OF
February 2, 1922, when Taylor
was shot to death in his Swank
apartment. She continued:
"My dear precious grand
mother, Julia Branch Miles, and
our cook, Belle Simpson, was
with us that evening, l remem-
Der.
1--WE knew nothing about 1t
until the next day. Those next
days were almost blank for me
the police. the questions. :"
Again her voice trailed off.
Miss Minter said her mother,
Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, who is to
appear with her before the grand
jury today, was remodelling a
home nearby at the time of the
shooting.
But she knew nothing of it.
My mother likes to talk for a
long time on the telephone, and
that night she made several
calls and talked to people for
hours. My sister knew that,
too"
Miss Minter and Mrs. Shelby
were called before the grand jury
after q deposition in a civil suit
was given by the sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Fillmore, in which she said
she shielded my mother from
the Taylor case"
Investigator Calls
Miss Minter told how she came
back to her home lost night after
dining out, to find Capt. Jesse
VIM, district attorney investiga-
tor, there. She said:
HE said he'd been there since
s o'clock. My maid was fright
ened to death. He had searched
the entire house.
81 helped him in the search.
81 told him to take every
thing he wanted, but he took
only the diaries. Then he gave
me the subpoena. / asked him:
Is this another attempt to in
vOlve me or my family?' But all
he said was: Just be down
there in the morning.
I'LL be there, and I'll tell all
I know again-but I'm afraid
it's just another scare headline
case that won't amount to a hill
of beans"
Miss Minter said she believed
the present reopening of the case
was due to an "upheaval" by her
sister. She declared:
Margaret has been bitter
against our mother, as you
know. They, as well as I, have
been involved in litigation of
some kind for years.
SISTER JEALOUS, SHE SAYS
"Then Margaret was very jeal.
Gus Of me-She wanted to be an
actress and yet took the lime.
light. It's a terrible thing to
say about ones own sister, but
then there it is.
tits all come out in court,
anyway, and as you remember
in one case mother had Margaret
kept out of court by calling a
doctor for her.
"Tm afraid this is just an. up
heaval."
Asked if she had any theory of
her own as to who shot her fiance,
Miss Minter shook her head sadly,
"FVhat do you think I've
thought about these Is years?
If I had any theory would
have taken it to the police at
once. I've racked and racked INV
brains I can't think of an
enemy in the world that Mr..
Taylor might have had"