Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19
Medley on Way
Here toFa
Boyer Charges
Sloyine Suspect
To Be Arroiened
Before Turnoge Today

Joseph Dunbar Medley. 43,
whose arrest in st. Louis yester-
day was attributed by Washing
ton police to a tip from a War
Department psychologist here,
was being rushed to Washington
today by Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents. The group
was due to arrive this afternoon.
AS soon as he reaches Washing
ton Medley will go before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage for arraignment on a
charge of unlawful flight to avoid
prosecution in the murder of Mrs.
Nancy Boyer, who was shot to death
on March in her apartment at 2120
Sixteenth street NV.
Medley's arrest by FBI agents as
he entered Jefferson Hotel suite
with an attractive woman in her
early forties was credited by In
spector Robert j. Barrett to the
alertness of Dr.. j. H. Elder, AZ, Of
1902 North Twentieth road, Arling-
ton, Va, who called the Washington
police after seeing man he thought
was Medley while on trip to Mis-
souri, on War Department business.
Doctor Tells About Trip.
At his desk in the Pentagon this
morning Dr. Elder readily related
his part in discovering Medley's
whereabouts.
The psychologist. a professor on
leave from Louisiana State Univer-
slty. said, Il can use that reward
money. all right My 16-year-oid
daughter Betty is working here for
the War Department. I am going
to send her to Swarthmore College
next year and that money would
come in handy"
A $500 reward was posted for in
formation leading to Medley's ar
rest.
On the event Medley is in
volved in the Staying of Pany
Casbarian and Edward Barker in
a trailer on used car lot here
February %, DR.. Elder also would
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posted in that case
DR.. Elder said: I went to st.
Louis week ago Saturday When I
got myself seated in the train that
evening at Union Station l read
the details of the murder for the
first time in a Washington news
paper. I had heard a lot of talk
about the murder, but that was the
first time I had read about it or
seen Medley's picture.
/ Medley Close BY.
I "On Tuesday between Z and I 80
ppm, was with two fellow psycholo-
1gists in the hotels cocktail lounge
The men with me were DR.. E. A.
jerome, who is on duty for the War
Department in St. Louis, and DIR.
Fred S. Keller. who is on the faculty
lof Columbia University.
II found myself staring at man
only few feet away from me who
reminded me of the picture of Med
ley had seen in the newspaper.
HE was with an attractive middle
aged woman. would judge she was
about 40. She had gray hair. I be-
lieve.
Il overheard her ask him, Ace
you married.
/ I could not hear his answer. But
I did hear him say. i have just
been transferred to ST. Louis, have
only been here few days
Man Stared Back.
THE woman was attractively
dressed but the man was not what I
would call well-dressed-cert
/ not natty as he was described by the
police.
For one thing he was not wearing
vest. He looked tired and hag-
gard.
"He stared back at me and I
looked away. He did not seem
alarmed-just cautious
Il returned to Washington Thurs
day and I could not get the similar
ity of that face to the picture in the
newspaper out of my mind.
ut seemed to me that the man
had seen in st. Louis must be
much taller than the fugitive. Fri
day, at home, I looked through a
pile of old newspapers in the kitchen.
When came upon picture Of Med
ley in tennis clothes, it seemed to
me that the man 1 had seen in St.
Louis might be he.
Il telephoned the Washington po-
(See MEDLEY, Page A-140