Evening star., 1941-03-10
Police Seek Slayer
OF Society Girl al
Kansas City
Abandoned Weapons
Found After Brutal
Killing of Beauty
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 10.-Clum-
ily-abandoned weapons OF death
guided police today in the search
for the killer who beat Miss Leila
Adele Welsh, "a, with stone ma
sons hammer, slashed her with q
butcher knife and fled with deeply
cut section of her hip.
The body of the young woman
was found in her bedroom yesterday
morning by her mother, Mrs. Maris
F.. Welsh, who went to awaken the
daughter to attend church.
Miss Welsh, a 1897 beauty con-
testant at the University of Kansas
City, had been slain during the night
by a person who apparently entered
through a bedroom window of the
Welsh home, in a Well-to-do section.
Her head had been fractured and
her throat slashed.
Hammer Left Near Bed.
The hammer was left at the foot
of the bed. The knife's seven-inch
blade was sticking in earth outside
the open window. There we're mud
tracks on the window sill. A mans
shirt, minus its collar, was left with
the body.
In the backyard Of a home 100
yards away, police found the miss
ing section of flesh with a pair Of
stained cotton gloves.
investigation discounted robbery
or assault as the motive.
Miss Welsh, escorted by Richard
whom she had been dating for five
years. returned home at 130 am,
yesterday. They had attended a
circus sponsored by the police and
had stopped later at a cocktail
lounge
After Mr.. Funk left. she talked a
few minutes to her mother, then tip
toed past her brother, George, asleep
on the living room davenport, to
her bedroom at the rear of the
house
Shortly afterward, the mother
heard a thud which she thought was
caused by the son falling off the
davenport. She investigated and
found him asleep. Mrs Welsh told
police she was up and around the
house several times during the night
but heard nothing further.
Miss Welsh, beneficiary of a S65,-
900 trust fund established by her
grandparents, formerly taught school
in Knoxville, Ill.
A university sorority sister, Miss
Phyllis WetherilI, told police that
Miss Welsh mentioned last week
having met young man while she
was teaching in Knoxville who
wanted her TO marry him, and
she didn't know what 10 do about it,"
Miss Wetherill also recalled that
last December an unidentified man
called Miss Welsh on the telephone,
said "he had noticed her on the
street ana that he didn't know how
to get introduced and so had called
up to seek a date"
Miss Welsh rejected his offer.
Had to Force Door.
The young Woman'S mother said
she had to force the door to her
daughters bedroom yesterday morn
ing because a chair had been
propped against it as if to bar entry.
A string and a bit of newspaper
led police to conclude the killer
brought the hammer and knife
wrapped up for ConCealment.
Miss Welsh first attended Western
College, girls school in oxford,
Ohio, where her late grandmother,
Mrs. Leila Mckee Welsh, once served
as president. Later she entered
the University of Kansas City and
was graduated in 1893. She taught
two years in Knoxville grade schools,
but quit last fall at her mothers
request.
The Welsh family alternates liv-
ing quarters between the Rockville
home and a farm operated by the
father, George Winston Welsh, near
Lees Summit. Mo.
The brother and a sister. Mrs.
Jack Turner, wife an Army officer
at Scott Field, Ill, shared the S65.-
900 trust fund with Miss Welsh.
She also shared in the residue Of
sl25OO0 estate left by her grand
mother.