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Joseph Medley, 43, escaped
convict and suspect in at least
two other recent slayings in
volving women, today was
charged with the murder of Mrs.
Nancy Boyer, about As, who was
found dead Thursday night in
her Washington House apart
ment, 2120 Sixteenth street NV.
The warrant sworn out by In
spector Robert j. Barrett, detective
chief, before United States Com
missioner Needham C. Turnage,
specified murder in the first degree.
The filing was formality since a
coast-to- coast search already had
been instituted last night for the
ex-convict after he had been iden-
tilted as a caller at the Boyer apart
ment and a participant in a poker
game there the night Of the Staying.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton will be called on to help in the
Nation wide search for Medley, one
of whose many aliases here was L.
A. Fisher, the name of the 28-year-
old woman textile worker from New
York whose nude body was discov-
cred in the bathtub of her room in
a New Orleans hotel Christmas eve.
Medley, former CnIcagoan who
escaped from the jackson (Mich)
State Prison November 27, where he
was serving a 30 to 60 year sentence
for kidnapping and armed robbery,
is wanted for questioning in the
Staying of Miss Fisher and also the
death of Mrs. Blanche Zimmerman,
38, telephone operator found dead
in the Atlantic Hotel in Chicago
February IT, He was indicted in the
Fisher Staying.
Medley made his escape when, as
a "trusty" he was taking into jack
son $700 which convicts at the
prison had given him to buy War
Bonds. He had been sentenced in
1927 in Arkansas to four to tive
years for larceny by conversion.
To Send Out Circulars.
Inspector Barrett said that cir.
culars would be sent to every law
enforcement agency in the country
and that pawnbrokers also would be
notified, since robbery has been the
motive in most of the cases in which
Medley has been involved.
Robbery was the motive, police
said, in the Staying of the attractive.
Ired-haired Mrs. Boyer, who was
found shot twice in the head, in the
kitchenette of her ninth-foor apart
ment in Washington House Thurs
day night. The body was discovered
by Mrs. Ida H. Soelter, apartment
manager, entering with a pass key
at the insistence of friend of Mrs.
Boyer who said she had been un-
able to reach her on the telephone
for the past three days.
The autopsy indicated the slain
woman had been dead since Tues
day morning, several hours after
a poker party in her apartment had
broken up.
Hint at Other Grimes,
Inspector Barrett said that Med
ley had been identified as one OF
those at the Boyer apartment Mon
day night.
Police were silent on whether
there was any connection between
the murder of Mrs. Boyer and the
Staying of two men, Edward F.
Barker and Pany Casbarian, in a
trailer on secondhand auto lot
February %. However, it was
learned that police here had been
asked by Chicago authorities to look
for Medley in connection with the
Zimmerman case on the day that
the two men were slain and that
they missed him by only few min
utes at a downtown hotel.
Police said Mrs. Boyer was killed
with a .32-caliber bullet. The slay-
ing of Mr.. Barker and Mr.. Cas-
barian involved a .25-caliber weapon,
but the difference was not regarded
Important.
Outlines Known Facts.
Inspector Barrett outlined the
known facts in the case which Led
up to the fatal shooting. Medley
met woman in downtown rest
aurant February %. This woman,
whose identity police declined to re-
veal, introduced him to her mother
and subsequently to several other
friends and on Friday of last week
to Mrs. Boyer.
Since then Medley had been seen
frequently with the slain woman,
the last time Monday night in the
lobby Of Washington House, only q
few hours before she was slain. He
is believed to have left the Boyer
apartment early Tuesday morning
after late poker party, with an
other woman, whose identity was
likewise withheld by police, but later
to have returned. Since there are
"peepholes" in all the doors Of the
apartments Of the building, through
which occupants may see who is OUT
side, police believe Mrs. Boyer was
expecting him for the smack" she
was preparing in the kitchenette
where her body was found, crumpled
| In corner in sitting position.
/ Fingerprints Found.
The evidence linking the well
dressed former convict with the
Staying includes profusion of fin-
Igerprints discovered by police finger.
print experts in an exhaustive search
Of the apartment yesterday and
Identification Of his rogueS gallery
photograph by the woman who in.
troduced him to Mrs. Boyer and also
by several pawnbrokers, who said
he was the man who pawned three
expensive fur coats and two rings
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