Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-12
$4,000 Police
Flyers Issued
For Medley
Daughter Attends
Rites for Mrs. Boyer,
Murder Victim

1nVeSClgaClOn was conducting :
Nation wide hunt for her slayer
funeral services we're held thi
morning for Mrs. Nancy Boyer
who was slain last Tuesday il
her apartment in Washington
House, 2120 Sixteenth street NV
The Rev. William Jameson of st
Paurs Catholic Church off1ciated a
the services, which were held in tn,
S. H. Hines funeral chapel at 290.
Fourteenth street NV, where tn,
body has been held since the autopsy
Thursday night.
Only her Son-ln-Iaw and daughter
Navy 1t. and Mrs. Donald G. Mitch.
ell, and few close friends attended
the last rites for Mrs. Boyer, whose
body, shot twice In the head, was
found crumpled in the corner OF
the kitchen of her ninth-hoor apart.
ment.
Following the rites, about dozer
cars, bearing mostly women friends
proceeded to Mount Olivet Gene
terry for the burial service.
Medley Search Intensified.
Meanwhile, the search for Joseph
Medley, 43, escaped convict ano
kidnaper, who is wanted in connec.
ton with the Staying of two Other
women in hotels in New Orleans
and Chicago, was intensified after 8
warrant charging him with murder
was issued Saturday by United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage.
Inspector Robert j. Barrett said
$4,000 flyers, an unprecedented num-
Der for the Metropolitan police
would be distributed throughout the
country supplementing the 100000
posters now being sent out by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The police leaflet shows two pho
tographs of Medley, a full-face por-
trait and a full-length view and
gives his description, aliases and
samples of his handwriting and a
picture of the emerald and diamond
ring taken from Mrs Boyer. They
will go to police in every State for
distribution in hotels and pawn
shops.
The FBI posters, besides carrying
full face and profile photographs
and a description and fingerprint
classification, warns that Medley is
! dangerous criminal who is usually
armed with two weapons, one car
ried in a shoulder holster and the
other a small-caliber, snub- nosed
type gun. The FBI is seeking him
technically on fugitive warrant
sworn out Immediately after the
murder charge was placed against
him by Washington police.
Women Warned.
The 100000 figure is about the
Usual number for Nationwide COW
arage of all State, county and local
police agencies, which also takes in
special police employed by railroads,
banks and industrial and private
enforcement agencies.
Maj. Edward j. Kelly, superin-
tendent of police, who assumed per-
sonal direction of the case shortly
after the woman's body was found,
issued warning, particularly to
women, to be on the lookout for the
suave, 45-year old felon, who dresses
well, is good mixer and frequently
carries two pistols.
I'D like to see his picture on the
front page of every newspaper in
the country" he said. Hes a
dangerous man"
Maj. Kelly will be on leave, applied
for before the murder was discovered
last week, but is expected to remain
in the city in the event of sudden de-
velopmentS in the case, the third
Staying in this area in two weeks.
Inspector Barrett, detective chief,
will be in charge during his official
absence.
Jewelry Still Missing.
A thorough check of local second
hand stores showed no trace of the
expensive fur. jacket and emerald
and diamond ring reported stolen
from Mrs. Boyer's apartment, al
though previously three fur coats
and two valuable rings pawned by
Medley under various of his many
aliases had been recovered.
Robbery was declared by police to
be the motive impelling Medley to
return to the Boyer apartment,
where he, Mrs. Boyer and several
others had engaged in an all-night
poker party Monday. AS police
pieced together the tragedy, after
shooting the attractive, red-haired
woman, he took her coat, ring and
sum of money, left the apartment
about 8 am. and checked out of a
downtown hotel where he had been
staying, about an hour and a half
later.
Since 1t. Mitchell arrived here
from Cambridge, Mass, where he is
an instructor at Navy school, and
conferred with police Friday after
noon, both he and his pretty blond
wife, who lived at her mothers
apartment from the time of their
marriage last fall until 1t Mitchell
received the school assignment, have
remained in seclusion. Both were
formerly employed in Government
agencies here. They were seen at
the brief prayer service at the flu
neral chapel, but declined to make
any statement.
Wanted in Trailer Murder.
Medley also is wanted by police
here for Questioning in the double
murder February % of Edward F..
Barker and Pany Casbarian in a
trailer on a secondhand car lot.
Both were shot with a small caiber
weapon and the former was robbed
of about $4,000.
Medley has been indicted for the
murder of Miss Laura A. Fischer,
%, New York City textile worker,
whose body was found in the half
filled bathtub of a New Orleans
hotel Christmas eve, and is sus-
pect in the death of Mrs. Blanche
Zimmerman, 38-year-old telephone
operator, whose body was found in
the bathtub of a room in Chicago
hotel February II.
He escaped from the jackson
mich State Prison November IT