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FINAL VOTE 10 TO 2 FOR CONVICTION OF ROTUND COMEDIAN More Than Forty Hours Spent in Deliberation —ll to 1 for Acquittal at • First Trial. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 3.—The Jury trying Roscoe ) Fatty( Arbuckle on charges of manslaughter In connection with the death of Virginia Rappe, failed to reach an agreement and ■was discharged today. They stood ten to two for conviction, members announced. This was the second jury trying the comedian to disagree, the first voting 11 to 1 for acquittal.

The Jury called a bailiff at 11:20 a. m. after more than forty hours’ deliberation and announced it wanted to see the judge. The foreman reported to the judge that the final ballot showed 10 to 2 for i. and the jurors were immediately discharged. The judge took no action in setting a new trial. ( will convene Monday for that pnrp#f/ Attorney Brady said informally that as a result of the jury favoring conviction he would consider sending Arbuckle to trial for a third time. INDICATE EARLY START ON FALL CREEK BRIDGE City and County Officials Push Plans for Erection of Structure. Intention of city and county officials to pti*h the construction of a bridge over Fall preek at Delaware street was Indicated today. The board of park commissioners has instructed its attorney to prepare a resolution for the acquisition of a block of ground on the north side of the creek between Delaware street and Washington boulevard, which will be necessary in connecting the north end of the proposed bridge with Washington boulevard. J J. Griffith, county engineer, who estimates the bridge will cost approximately $125,000, said that the county council may make an appropria. on for the construction at Us Feb. 10 meeting. Delaware street is not a continuous thoroughfare from the creek to the north city limits. Washington boulevard Is. For this reason city officials plan to construct a diagonal connection between Delaware street and Washington boulevard. The scheme also calls for the widening of Washington boulevard in narrow sections. The bridge and the diagonal street would provide another through traffic artery from the business district north.

WATER COMPANY ASKS PERMIT TO ISSUE STOCK Will Use Funds to Pay Debts Incurred by Making Improvements, Issuance of $154,000 worth of preferred stock to reimburse the treasury of the Indianapolis Water Company was asked of the public service commission in a petition filed by the company today. The money which will be derived from the sale of this stock is to be used for paying off the debts incurred by the company in the building of its new reservoir, the construction of distribution main3 and other improvements which were made between September and December of last year. Since May, 1020, the commission, according to the petition, has authorized the company to issue $1,736,000 worth of stock, which was used to pay for improvements made by the company. According to the petition filed with the F mission today the company spent ,681.32 for improvements to its plants jhe city during the last quarter of 7021. ; The net operating revenues of the company during the last year were $1,114,22f>.64 and after raying taxes, interest anld other expenses the total balance was $456,326.66, the petition sets forth. Shock Absorbers on His ‘White Mule’ .Id>hn Eads, 920 North Belmont avenue, was! fined SSO and costs in city court to day Jon the charge of operating a blind tigei He was arrested a few days ago at h>s home where he had about a pint of “ovhlte mule” in a gallon jug. The jug in a cleverly constructed wooden pack ing case and was protected from breakage by spring “bumpers.” An drew J. Sloan, 922 North Gladstone avenjue, was arrested early today on the change of operating a blind tiger. Two quarts of colored “mule” were found at mis home when it was raided by police ejtid Federal officers. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity •for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 p. m., Feb. 4, 1922; Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 25 degrees. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 27 7 a. m..... 26 8 a. m................... 28 & a. m.. 28 10 a. m................... 31 It a. m................... S3 13 (noon) 34 4 JK 33 3 Ph, 836

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SAYS OPERATORS PLAN TO FORCE ACTION BY U. S. William G. Green, Miners’ Secretary, Declares Crisis Precipitated. Demands of mine operators for wage cuts and the refusal of some of the operators to enter into wage negotiation* with the United Mine Workers of America are. in the opinion of William G. Green, secretary of the minters’ organization, efforts to precipitate Government action. Mr. Green today said further that he believed they are an effort to destroy the union, but, he added, “they cannot destroy us.” “I believe the operators are trying to force a crisis,” Mr. Green said. "They are hoping that their activities will result in the Government stepping in and taking some such procedure as recommended by Senator Kenyon. "This would mean the differences must go before a court and there would be no possibility of collective bargaining across a table. Attorney General Daugherty says he Is prepared and efforts appar- | ently are being made to force him to 1 act.” One of the questions which has resulted from the refusal ot the operators In the Ohio district and the Pittsburgh district to meet with the miners is that of what will result if they continue to hold to this policy. It was said that the policy to be pursued In case some of the operators agree to meet with the miners and others refuse must be determined in the convention opening here, Feb. 14. It was pointed out by Mr. Green that of the agreements which expire March 31 are allowed to expire without new agreements being made there will be immediately a cessation of work In the districts where this condition exists until new agreements can be made. Whether this will result in a general strike, or whether the operators in the Individual districts will be asked to sign agree- ! ments collectively or individually must i be determined later. The miners are making much of the | fact that in the last paragraph of their i statement issued at Chicago, the Indiana j operators say “That such adjustment j when made should take into consider- ! ation the continuance of the competitive i relations which have existed between | the four States comprising what has been known as the central competitive field.” They take this to indicate that j Indiana operators will not follow the j lead of operators In other States in re- | fusing to meet with the miners, j The question of what action the Gov- ■ ernment will take should it step in 1s i causing considerable concern. It was . pointed out that an attempt may be made to obtain an injunction or that (Continued on Page Nine.) Hollander Elected World Court Head THE HAGUE, Feb. 3.—Dr. C. B. J. Loder of Holland today was elected first president of the permanent court of international justice, established by the I League of Nations. The eleven Judges forming the court met at the Carnegie ; Peace Palace and elected Dr. Loder, who | Is a member of the Supreme Court of the | Netherlands, and one of the draftsmen of j the international court’s fundamental | statute on the first ballot.

Saving of $100,000,000, Claim of Dawes Bureau Large Economies Said to Have Come Through Systematizing Government Traffic and Hospitalization Coordination.

WASHINGTON, I'eb. S.—President Harding appeared this afternoon before the semi-annual meeting of the business organization of the Government and expressed bis appreciation for the efforts made during the last six months to cut down expenditures in face of the “unresisted flow of extravagance and the tendency to drift the shift of state on the rocks of bankruptcy.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Operation of the bureau of the budget during the six months ending Dec. 31, 1921. resulted in a saving to the United States of at least $100,000,000, according to a report submitted to President Harding today by Budget Director Dawes at the semi-an-nual meeting of the business organization of the Government. Through the complete reorganization of routine methods by co-ordinating agencies created under executive order, Dawes said a saving of approximately $32,000,000 had been effected through interdepartmental transfer of property

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CITY GARBAGE PLANT IS RUN AT BIG LOSS Shows Few Symptoms of Paying for Itself. EXPLODES Board Says Reduced Prices Explain Deficit. The city garbage reduction plant, which Charles W. Jewett, then mayor, three years ago said would pay for itself in five years, was operated at a loss again in 1921, the annual report of the hoard of sanitary ! commissioners, made public today, shows. The total operating deficit Is set out as $30,451.51. Total operating expense was $76,231.35 and total operating revenues, representing the sale of grease and tankage and the estimated value of I such products delivered but unpaid for and the products left on hand at the end of 1921, were $45,779.84. It was the dream of the Jewett administration that the products of the plant would pay for Its operation. ’ This Is the plant that the sanitary ( board under the Jewett administration bought for $173,000, including garbabe collection equipment, from the Indiana Reduction Company, an officer of which a short time before bad testified In b tax bearing that it xbonld be assessed for not more than $15,000. 1 Furthermore, this is tho plant which members of the board of sanitary commissioners frequently have said In the past few months must be replaced entirely within the next two or three years. ! It was bought in 1018. Low prices for grease and tankage were ■ the chief causes of the operating de- , flcit. There was no lack of funds for the operation of the plant in 1021, however, because citizens paid SOI,OOO in taxes to he p keep It going the report shows. I In one table in the annual report, there ; is an item which shows the board spent $78,780.62 for replacements, repairs and general expense at the plant. I The commissioners, In discussing the ! plant, say. i “The great reduction in price of by(Continued on Page Four.) LOCAL WOMAN WRECK VICTIM Wife of Grain Man Killed in Auto Accident Near Buchanan, Mich. BUCHANAN, Mich., Feb. 3.—Mrs. l'stella Helnmlller, 30, of Indianapolis, was killed Instantly four miles west of here last night, when an automobile In which she was riding ran over an embankment. Scott C. Gentry, who was driving the car, escaped with slight injuries. Gentry said he and Mrs. Ileinmiller were on their way to South Bend from Chicago. Mrs. Estella Ileinmiller was the wife of Fred G. Ileinmiller. 1428 North New Jersey street. Ileinmiller is president of the Ileinmiller Grain Company, 716 Board of Trade Biulding. Scott C. Gentry lives at 2106 East Tenth street. lie is a traveling salesman for the Hibben-Hollweg Company, and, according to officials of the company his territory is in the Northern part of Indiana.

alone. The value of the property thus transferred was placed at $112,000,000. Large savings were being made, the budget report said, in the systematizing of Government traffic and the co-ordi-nation of the program of Government hospitalization, and additional economies are expected to be effected when the bureau enters the field of co-ordination in the letting of Government contracts. Dawes pointed out that the various boards now working under the bureau of the budget were operating without added expense. Under the President’s program of reduced expenditures, Dawes stated the actual figures received from the departments for the first six months indicated the total expenditure for the fiscal year 1921-22, including transactions in the public debt, would not exceed $3,967,922,360, a reduction of about $050,000,000 under the estimates made by the heads of the departments at the beginning of the year and a reduction of more than $1,500,000,000 as compared with the expenditures for tbs fiscal year 1920-21.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922.

Rip Into Private Lives of Screen Idols in Effort to Solve Taylor’s Murder

BT WALLACE F. SMITH. (Copyright, 1922, by International News Service.) (Copyright, 1922, by the Chicago Evening American.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 3 —Through the silvered screen on which the moving picture idols troop in silent drama for their millions of admirers, detectives plunged today in a desperate effort to solve the mystery in the slaying of William Desmond Taylor, one of the bestknown directors in all film-land. Behind the screen they ripped straight into the private lives of these public idols. They were ordered to spare no person, however mighty, if their Investigation UNDERWOOD WILL DEFY ‘SPITE BLOC’ Minority Leader Will Ask Support of Harding Plan. Special to Indiana Pally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By ROBERT BARRY. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The proposed Democratic “spite bloc" in the Senate is to receive a challenge from Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, representative of the minority party on the American arms conference delegation. He Is to give an accounting of his stewardship to at) infor; ,al conference of Democratic Senators. He will defend his title as minority leader in the Senate. Mr. Underwood will counsel a course of party procedure which he believes holds promise of party success. He will urge his colleagues to support the Harding treaty program to be submitted soon after adjournment of the conference. Ho believes the Democrats have an undoubted advantage on domestic Issues oue to the “Incompetency” of the Republican Congress. He thinks “popular disgust’ with Republican domestic policies Is spreading “like n prairie fire.” He holds, however, the American public "approves" and “will continue to support" the President and the Secretary of State on the “epochal achievements” of the conference. He does not wish hi* party to be led by blind partisanship Into butting its political bead against that wall of public sentiment. Although elected to the leadership of the Democrats in the Senate largely through White House Influence when Mr. Wilson became ungrateful of what Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, had done In behalf of the League of Nations, the Senator from Alabama gives no Indication of taking orders from the former President. He 1s not In sympathy with the prospective “spite bloc" formed by Democrats to strike back at President Harding and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge for the rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, embodying tho covenant of the league. Mr. Underwood, friend and admirer of Mr. Wilson, will not carry loyalty to the extent of taking orders from the S street residence Republicans !n the Senate, may vote for the conference treaties because they have the stamp of a Republican executive, but Mr. Underwood does not wish bis party to oppose them for a like reason. He feels the country will respect the Democrats for refusing to make partisan issue of foreign relations which are Intended to advance the cause of peace In tho Pacific and to reduce the tax burdens incident to naval competition. ! The Alntama Senator has an idea many of the “seven million”—the Ilardlngj Coolldge majority—have developed some rather positive views about the degree of partisan bigotry and personal spleen In the R< publican attack on the Wilson foreign program. He would not arrest what thus appears to him to be a most favorable reaction to the demands. There Is nothing In Mr. Underwood’s current attitude to indicate he has been (Continued on Page Four.)

NEGROES GIVEN 866-DAY TERM Court Finds Trio Guilty of Firing Barn While Out Hunting. Eight hundred and sixty-six days each at the Indiana State Farm was the sentence given John Whitney, Gus Sleets and Clarance Staten, negroes, by Judge James A. Colilns in Criminal Court today after >he bad found them guilty of having caused a fire that burned a barn and house belonging to Frank Tatrnan, east of the city some time ago. The three negroes stoutly denied their guilt and while admitting they had passed the barn while hunting, they denied causing the fire. Judge Collins suspended sentence on Charles Kessler, 19, who pleaded guilty to petit larceny. William Fields was found not guilty of grand larceny and the case against him was dismissed. George Chappie, charged with operating a blind tiger, took an appeal from the Jurisdiction of Judge Collins and a special judge will be appointed to hear his case.

promised to clear the tragedy that stunned the world of movies when Taylor was found shot to death in his South Alvarado street home. He was slain, detectives believe, less than half an hour after a visit by Mabel Normand, screen favorite, to whom Taylor was once reported engaged. Three moving picture actresses whose names are Ifousehold words were spitted over a lira of close questioning by the detectives as they carried on their investigation of the faster moving picture set of Hollywood. The detectives pointed out that a score of smiling photographs of film beauties smiled down at the ugly scene of death and that a larger one, beautifully framed, must have gazed at tho raw crime. The detectives sent In to Hollywood to run down the slayer of Taylor were instructed to overlook no whisper of gossip that might bring the answer to the riddle of death. They were told to inquire especially. It was stated, about a recent “party” where dope, ether, cocaine and morphine took the place of wine and whisky. The party ended in a savage brawl, it was declared, in' which two Infuriated women attacked each other and fought as men fight until their clothes were ripped off. Both hf them, the report insists, were prominent actresses whose names are known to the police. They were to be questioned during the day. One of the first visitors to the home of Taylor after the tragedy had been revealed was Mary Miles who had been directed by Taylor in several pictures. Accompanied by hex mother she hurried to the tragic scene. She became hysterica! and It was several minutes before she was able to speak. “He was a wonderful man,” she exclaimed, "and every one who knew him loved him. I don’t know of an enemy bo had In the world.” Edna I’urvlance, once leading woman for Charlie Chapiln who lives near the Taylor residence, returned home at midnight. "i saw the lights burning In Mr. Taylor’s study,” she said. "I thought J would Just pay a friendly little call. I rang the bell and knocked on the do ir. When he didn’t answer 1 thought he had gone and left the lights burning. Just think—all the time i was trying the door he was lying dead just a few feet from me.” Mabel Normand remained In seclusion today in her dainty rose snd old ivory boudoir. There she was persuaded to speak of her friendship with the murdered mnn. "There was no affair of tho heart between us,” she said; “in spite of reports that we were engaged to marry. His friendship for me, I alwi elt, was for a girl who liked the >ov sports he liked, and whom he wished to help from the great storehouse of knowledge he possessed. "Frankly, I liked, to go ont with him. There was a wondrous dignity and sense of selection in his quiet, well bred manner. We were the best of pals. I think that tells It better than anything else. "It seems impossible that, such a highminded man should have an enemy who would murder. And it seems horrible that he should die such a death. “I regret that my visit to hts home should have Interested the police. It seems cruel that I should be questioned about It. I have been broken up all day. But I am in the midst of a big picture and must go back to my work as best I can.”

QUICK PASSAGE OF’BONUS’BILL IS SCHEDULED Fordney Makes Prediction Following Conference With President Harding. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Secretary Mellon’s demands that special taxes bo imposed to raise funds for the soldier “bonne” will be accepted by Congress, members of tko House Ways and Mean* Committee framing the bill virtually decided today. Where to place the special taxes is the dlflleult problem faced by the committee. This, It was said, would be worked out by a process of elimination in order that the taxes will he least objectionable to the people and the easiest to collect. WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.—A soldier "bonus” bill carrying provisions for raising funds for cash compensation will be passed by the House within two weeks, according to predictions made today by Chairman Fordney, of the House Ways and Means Committee, following a conference with Fresldent Harding at the White nouse. Fordney suggested the President call members of the Senate Finance and the House Ways and Means Committee to the White House in the next few days to disenss methods of raising the money required by a “bonus.” Members of the committee have not determined whether the revenue should be raised through direct taxation or by the utilization of interest payments on the $11,000,000,000 foreign indebtedness to the United States. The Administration's foreign debt funding bill also was discussed by Fordney in his conference with the President. She measure no tv is in conference due to a disagreement over the limitations placed upon the authority of the funding commission by the Senate. Through an amendment to the bill and passed in the Senate the commission would not be permitted to fund any of the loans for a period longer than twen-ty-five years at interest not less than 4ti per cent. Secretary of Treasury Mellon Insists that the limit should be fifty years, pointing out at the same time that some of the countries cannot pay a rate of Interest of more han 4 per cent. Chairman Fordney told the President he believes these limitations could be removed while the bill was la conference.

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END OF ARMS CONFERENCE SEENINCALL Hughes Announces Open Session to Close Up Work. MEET TOMORROW Foreign Delegations Planning to Leave Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—A plenary session of the armament conference tomorrow to close up the work of the three months’ parley was called today by Secretary of State Hughes. The session was called to meet at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow, in all likelihood, will see the official ending of the conference, although the call for the open session did not so state. with the completion of the Far Eastern treaties, however, the work of the conference Is concluded and a formal sine die adjournment is generally expected ta come at the close cf the open session. The treaties, after their formal presentation and acceptance by the fall comference, will be signed on Monday. Janpan’s renunciation of group V of the twenty-one demands, admittedly has removed some of th“ fireworks with whicn the Chinese had planned to enliven the closing days of the conierence. All that Is now left for the Chinese to do Is to register a vehement protest against the treaties wrung from her In 1915. This will be done in the session late today of the Far East committee. And that will end tho delicate and highly controversial Issue of the twentv-one demands. The drafting committees are busily engaged in whipping into shape the final treaties that will incorporate the conference work on Far Eastern questions. According to present plans there will be three of these: 1. Embodying the Root principles with respect to the open door and the maintenance thereof, with an International board of reference to adjust disputed points: 2. Granting China permission to increase her customs duties, and 3. Incorporating various resolutions adopted affecting China, which pledge the removal of foreign poetofflces, foreign troops, etc. The Shantung treaty, a matter between China and Japan, may be signed today, although the drafting committee has not completed its work and met again at 10 a. m. to continue its labor. All the foreign delegations are making preparations for an early departure from Washington.

Congress to Halt Ship Building Program WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Congressional action to halt construction of battleships as provided by the arms conference Is expected soon. Such action will mean a saving of more than $5,000,000 a month to the American taxpayers and Congressional leaders are anxious to make the naval building holiday a reality as soon as possible. House Concurs on Debt Funding Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Senate amendments to the Administration’s sll,000,000.000 funding bill, placing a twen-ty-five-year limit on tho maturity of bonds received in the payment from foreign governments and fixing the minimum interest rate at 414 per cent; were concurred In by the House this afternoon. The vote was 299 for and 26 against.

Puff of Smoke Tells Those Outside Pope Not Elected Watchers Get Information of First Ballot From Sistine Chapel Chimney,

ROME, Feb. 3.—A puff of smoke from the little chimney of the Sistine Chapel today told watchers outside the Vatican that the first ballot of the Cardinals of the Sacred College walied up In the secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XV, had been unsuccessful. The ballots of the first gathering, held at 10 o’clock this morning had been burnt, together with a wisp of straw and the necessary majority had not been secured by any Cardinal. A second ballot was taken Into this afternoon, but It, like the first, was fruitless. For the second time during the day black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney and the waiting crowd knew there was no chance of any election until Saturday at the earliest. Within the secret conclave fifty-three Cardinals of the Sacred College deliberated. Outside, representative of the press of the world and a huge throng of Romans, awaited the result of the papal election. No communication wa permitted between the Cardinals and the world which waited.

DETECTIVES CLOSE IN ON SUSPECT IN NEW MOVIE TRAGEDY Man Reported to Have Been Driven From Picture Director’s Bungalow at Point of Revolver.

LOS iNGELES, Feb. B—An arrest in connection with the murdfr of William D. Taylor, motion picture director, will be made before night, Capt. David L. Adams, detective chief said today. “We are closing In on one suspect,” said Adams. “He will soon be in custody and charged with Taylor's murder." According to Adams’ associates the man sought has been driven from the Taylor bungalow several times at the point of a revolver. It was reported throughout Hollywood that police definitely had established that Jealousy over Taylor's attentions to a woman was the motive of the crime. Mable Normand, screen comedienne, was the last person to see Taylor alive. Work on anew feature comedy In which she is playing the lead, has been halted because of the star's near breakdown. Twenty-four hoars after Taylor’s body was found lying on the floor of a reWILLIE CARETS TERM IN JAIL MADE DOUBLE Appeal From City Court Brings Defendant’s Record Into Prominence. Outside of that Willie was a good boy. Willie Carey, notorious visitor in police and Criminal Court, found out today that it doesn’t always pay to take an appeal from the findings of the city court. Some time ago Willie was given a sentence of thirty C s In the Marlon County jail and fined SIOO and costs In the city court on a charge of operating a blind tiger. Willie decided the Judgment of the lower court was too severe and he appealed to the Criminal Court. In Criminal CMurt Willie decided he didn't want Judge James A. Collins to preside at his hearing. He asked for a change of venue and the case was get for hearing before Judge Harry O. Chamberlain In Circuit Court. Judge Chamberlin patiently heard all of the testimony. Including a record of Willie’s numerous appearances before city and criminal court and then decided the city court had made a mistake in its verdict. He said Willie should spend sixty days in the Marion County Jail Instead of thirty and pay a fine of S2OO and costs and that the sentence should begin at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. It seems Willie has been arrested only fifty-nine times by city and county officials during tbe past three years. However, Willie has been fortunate in that he has been convicted only seventeen times. Claude M. Worley, special investigator, did not have time to make a thorough search of the records but in the time he did have he found the above number of cases, according to evidence presented to the court.

CHICAGO UNION HEADSTABBED President of Musicians’ Organization Attacked by Huge Mob. CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Joseph F. Winkler, president of the Chicago chapter of the American Federation of Musicians, was stabbed three times in the face and beaten today when a crowd of five hundred or more persons stormed his downtown headquarters. A riot call brought the police to the scene. The crowd was routed. Winkler was taken to the Iroquois Hospital. He told the police he knew who stabbed him, and why. He said he would have “a whole lot to say” later. Winkler was reported to have been named In a State grand Jury true bill on a charge ot attempted extortion, and the trouble Is believed to have resulted from the grand Jury disclosure.

Every effort has been made by Cardinal Gasparrl as Cardinal Camerlengo to prevent an untimely “leak” of Information. While within the walls within the conclave. each Cardinal spends much of his time in his private apartment. Meals are served separately anJ masses celebrated by each Cardinal dally. According to custom, the members of the Sacred College were summoned to assemble in the Sistine Chapel for the first ballot at 10 a. m. today. For each casting of ballots, the Cardinals will take up their places at chairs and tables which have been arranged around the wails of the Sistine Chapel. Over each Cardinal's chair there hangs a silken canopy and these are so arranged that at the moment the vote shows some Cardinal has been elected Pope,- the canopies of all the other Cardinals will drop, that of the new Supreme Pontiff remaining up. Cardinal O'Connell, arrived at Naples today and hurried to Rome, where he will enter the secret conclave immediately. His presence in the conclave will make fifty-four cardinals present for the balloting tomorrow.

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ception room by Henry Pearey, a negro servant, tbe announcement was made b> Detective Captain Adams, that "interest* ing developments possibly will occur during the day.” The theory of Jealousy Is based upon the supposition that he may have been the vlctom of a discarded suitor of some woman to whom he had shown considerable attentions, professionally op otherwise. At 6:45 o’clock Wednesday night Taylor ate dinner alone. At 7.05 Mabel Normand, a film actress familiar to "n-- vie’* audiences, entered the apartme- , Her chauffeur awaited outside. Miss Normand told the police she called to gat a book. At 7:40 she says she returned to her automobile, escorted by Taylor, who chatted for a few minutes and then went back Into his home. TELLS OF MAN LEAVING TAYLOR S HOME. A few minutes before 8 o’clock Mrs. Douglas Mac Lean, wife of a film utar living in a nearby apartment, heard a pistol shot. Mrs. Mac Lean saw a man leaving the Taylor home. He wore <f cap and muffler. He hesitated about leaving the apartment and started to walk In again. Then finally he closed the door and disappeared through an alley Instead of going Into the street entrance of the court. The police are of the opinion that it was this m\n who probably fired the shot that killed the director. It was a .3S-cablber steel-nose bullet that caused the director's death. The bullet was found by Autopsy Surgeon Wagner. It had penetrated the back

Taylor's Murder Recalls Slaying of Joseph B, Elwell NEW TORK. Feb. B.—The murder of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, in Los Angeles, recalled to New Yorkers the mysterious and as yet unsolved murder of Joseph B. Elwell, bridge whist king, more than a year ago. Both men were alone In their homes when an assassin's bullet snuffed out their lives. Both were popular with women and in some ways were "men of mysterywho might have bean slain for any one of several motives. In neither case was the slayer's weapon found, nor was It apparent how entrance was gained to the home of the victim, all doors being locked at the time. A woman is believed to be the central figure in each crime and Jealousy the motive.

beneath the left shoulder blade and after piercing the heart had taken an upward course into the neck, where It lodged. It was first believed Taylor had died from a hemorrhage. The police are of the belief who* ever attacked Taylor did It he returned to the apartment on leaving Miss Normand. The director Is thought to have sat down at a desk to work and was possibly bending over when the assassin fired In connection with the burglary theory, it is sugested he heard a noise and turned about to see an intruder at work, then started to rise and seek a revolved when shot down. FORMER VICTIM OF ROBBERS AND FORGEBS. Taylor was the victim of robbers and forgers during 1921 that amounted to several thousand dollars. When he returned from a trip to Europe, he lodged a forgery charge against E. F. Sands, a former secretary and valet. He declared Sands had looed his apartment, forged many checks on bis bank account and charged bills for expensive lingerie and women's clothing to the director. An effort to locate Sands was continued for several months by the police, but proved fruitless. Taylor was president of the Motion Picture Directors’ Association and a leader In the fight against drastic censorship and for clean pictures. To some of his close friends he occasionally referred to a daughter Ethel, IS, believed to be In, or near New York City In school. It was the Impression of some of his friends Mrs. Taylor either died or went out of the director's life years ago. He was a man of fine Intellect, of a retiring disposition and had few friends visit him at his home. He was an enthusiastic motorist and spent a great deal of his leisure time outdoor*. Jesse Laskey, first vice president of the Famous Players-Laskey Corporation, which employed Taylor, Issued the following statement: “This organization proposes actively to enter Into the plans for the detection of the murderer. Resources of time and money will be drawn upon to acompllsh this object. A man of finer Ideals I hare never known.” Hold Funeral of ■ Jap Prince Feb. 8 TOKIO, Feb. 3.—Prince Tama gats last of the Genro and for years a leader in the Japanese government who died a few days ago will be buried with elaborate services Feb. Sand 9. A full army division will take part in the fuueraL FIND BEER IN HOME. Forty-one quarts of beer and a pint of whisky were found in the home of Harry R. Linehan, 519 East Twenty-Second street, today by police and Federal officers. Linehan was not at home, bat be appeared later at police headquarters and surrendered. He was charged with operating a "blind tiger.”

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