Evening star., 1953-07-09
.Manhunt Grows
In Search for
.Taggart Slayer
Over 800 Questioned !;
Friend of Victim Is
Released After Quiz;


released a 39-year-old real estate
man who had dated murdered
Alyce Taggart and engineered
a $400 loan from her for friend.
But the case, which has grown
into one of the biggest man
hunts the city has ever seen, is
still wide open." according to
Chief Of Detectives Edgar E.
Scott.
Fifty policemen have been. as
signed to it and the entire force
is alerted.
Over 600 Questioned.
The real estate man is one Of
more than 600 persons questioned
since the body of the 45-year -old
National Science Foundation sec
retary was found bludgeoned to
death in her tiny room at SCOTS
Hotel for Women, 2131 o street
NV, on Monday. The death
weapon was her own souvenir
duckpin.
Police said the real estate man
introduced an acquaintance Of
his to Miss Taggart to make the
$400 loan contact. witnessed the
promissory note under which the
acquaintance was to repay her
5000, and then split the $400.
The note was overdue at the
time of the murder. The bor-
rover has been questioned and
released.
Homicide squad men, plain
clothesmen and the man on the
beat blanketed the 3rd Precinct.
Their ranks are increased by
many former 3rd Precinct men
moved back into the area on
special detail because of their
knowledge of the neighborhood
and its residents.
Military Are Checked.
The search, already city-wide,
! moved into the military, with
requests that authorities report
any personnel at liberty Satur-
day night who may have re-
turned to their stations with
scratches, bruises, or blood on
their clothing.
st. ElizabethS Hospital has
been checked for any inmates
who may have been free over
the weekend.
To police it is a Herculean
task. All persons with a record
Of sex offenses, all persons
ever arrested on housebreaking
charges in which window entry
was used are being brought in
Hope to Find Clue.
Somewhere in this great mass
Of information being collected
police hope to uncover even a
tiny bit of information which
they can build into a clue.
A report by Mitzi Kish, a
United Mine Workers secretary,
that she saw man answering
the general description of a Sus-
pected "cat" burglar seen re-
Gently in SCOTS Hotel brought
police rushing into the third pre-
cinct early tdoay.
Miss KiSh said she was stand
ing on the fourth-floor landing
Of her apartment house at 1911
Twenty first street NV. - two
blocks from the SCOTS Hotel
when she and her escort heard
a door slam.
Saw Man on Stairs.
Then looked down the STAIR
well and saw a man coming up"
she reported. Her escort asked
the man what he wanted. I'VE
couldn't hear his answer" she
related. "He mumbled something
about a restroom. Then he
turned and almost ran down the
stairs" She described the man
as a light-skinned Negro.
Within three minutes after her
call. police had rounded up three
men in the area, but Miss KiSh
was unable to identify any of
them as the man she had seen
on the stairway.
Whether Miss Taggart was
raped has not been determined.
Death was caused by repeated
blows on the head and face.
Miss Taggart was buried in
Cedar Hill Cemetery yesterday.
Since the Staying the hotel
has reinforced the wire fence
with steel pipes and chain locks
! are being installed on all rooms.
A guard continues to be on duty