Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 37, 13 February 1922 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, FEB. 13, 1922.

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PROBE OF DEATH OF MOVIE FILM DIRECTOR GOES i

SLOWLY, SAYS LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Washington Fire Threatens BJlions in Bullion and Currency

liy Associated Press) . LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Feb. 13 In-! vestigation by the district attorney's office into the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery will proceed today, although it is a legal holiday, according to a statement by Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attorney. He said he was uncertain what form the inquiry would take, but thought it unlikely he would summon to his offices any motion picture stars or others. He thought it more probable, he stated, that the detectives would investigate any available leads and that witnesses would be summoned for questioning by him hereafter only when the preliminary work of the officers indicated some discovery of more than usual import. This latter course would place the detectives of the police department again on their theory that the finding of Edward F. Sands, missing former butler-secretary to Taylor, was essential to the solution of the enigma and

those of the sheriff's office on their diametrically opposed contention that Sands had nothing to do with the

slaying.

Shortlv before this partial dis

closure of the future procedure of his

office in the investigation, Mr. wool wine had issued a statement concern ing "faked and fraudulent interviews"

on the case and declaring "there was grave and serious doubt at the present time as to whether the murderer

will ever be apprehended."

While the police detectives and the

sheriff's deputies have not acknowl

edged defeat they admit the case is one of the most bewildering ever to

come to their attention. Eleven days have passed since the discovery of the director's body and the officers assigned to the mystery have worked with less than their ordinary sleep and under unusual pressure in tracking down what seemed like tangible clews and investigating almost innumerable "tips." Sample of Tip A sample of some of the "tips" sent the officials is the following from a letter in what seems a woman's handwriting: "I dreamed last night that Mr. Taylor was killed by a fair haired woman with a hooked nose. Find that woman and you have the murderer."

"There is a grave and serious doubt at present as to whether the murderer of William Desmond Taylor, film director, wiM ever be apprehended," declared Thomas Lea Woolwine, district attorney, late last night. Mr. Woolwine made this declaration in a statement he issued, deploring what he termed "faked and fraudulent interviews" on the case, and particularly one purporting to have come from him. Text of Statement His statement follows: "In the early edition of the Examiner for Monday morning there appeared on the first page thereof an interview purporting to come from me which was never in effect given. "This interview never took place, and there is not a word of it that I have ever authorized to be printed,

nor did I have the slightest intimation j directely or indirectly, that it would i be. There is not a sentence that contains my exact language about anything. It is composed of some things that I have uttered in substance. There are some half truths, many absolute falsehoods. I have made complaint publicly about the verdict in the Burch case, but I did not authorize any further statement about that case.

False Statement "The following quotation from the false interview was never uttered by he: " 'Now, when my office should be directing all its energies in its prosecution of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain in her trial before Judge Sidney N. Reve, I have this most baffling of murder mysteries to solve the killing o William Desmond Taylor.' " 'I would not make such a statement at this time, -when tho Obenchain case is on trial and for the further reason that there are now pending in the office of the district attorney hundreds of cases that should, and do, leceive attention, the Obenchain case being only one of that large number. "I did not say the last quoted words in substance or effect at any time. Viciously False

"The following language purposed j

to nave Deen uttered Dy me is out or whole cloth and is viciously false: "If the minds of the jurors who first tried Fatty Arbuckle and Arthur C. Burch are the minds of the public,

then I must confess that the people do

not want to be protected by the laws

on the statue books."

The following language is also mad

out of whole cloth, never having been uttered or thought of by me:

'Nevertheless, I shall ferret out the

criminal who killed Taylor. Nothing

will stop the district attorney's office from getting at the truth and bringing to the surface the facts which led to the murder of the noted film director.'

Belongs to Police The facts are that the duty of

ferreting out and apprehending the perpetrator of this deed rests with the police department and I am only

counseling with and advising them.

There is grave and serious doubt

at the present time as to whether the

murdered will ever be apprehended, and certainly I do not know whether

he will ever be.

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Billions in bullion and currency were endangered when fire destroyed the roof of the United States treasury

"I intend to give my best endeavors i building in Washington, D. C. President Harding watched the fire, which destroyed priceless documents.

in counseling with tne officers, but I

would not in the present condition of

the investigation hazard the statement that I or any one else will be able to solve the mystery.

It is certainly an outrage for any newspaper to be guilty of such a faked and fraudulent interview. "I am informed that this fake has been telegraphed all over the United States, which magnified its iniquity." DILLON ASKS (Continued from Pace One.)

cated on a side street, about thre; blocks from the downtown section. Dillon stayed at the Hamilton hotel or atthe New Howald when in the city, Mr. Weller said. Reports that he

had been goin

contact with light plant superintendents over a pretty wide territory," he said, "and I found Dillon one of the most efficient and up-to-date of them

all. He seemed square in all the busi-

daughter were denied by Mr. Weller.

Dillon was called to the door of the Weller home and informed of the mission of the officers. He returned inside, excused himself, and departed without any opposition. Smith's Views "I dealt with Dillon for several

whole thing." he said, "and I haven't years and found him to be a keen busi-

under an assumed .. axHtstk that t haft with him and

name in Hamilton, and that he had . x am gUrprised to learn that he has taken trips to the east with Weller's , arraatcA"

any statement to make at all."

"I haven't anything to hide, and everything will be found all right." Q. Did Dillon pay you with check3 for his storage and repairs? A. I haven't anything to say about that. Q. Did Dillon make long trips with his car? A. I don't know. Q. Won't you say anything about how Dillon paid his bills?

A. If you want to know about that, see Walker Land. He can tell you

everything you want to know. Q. Have you 'talked to Walker and since Dillon was arrested?. A. No.

Q. Did you talk to him between the

nrst or tne year, when he assumed of-, fice on the board of works, and now? A. Yes. You see him: he will tell i

you everything. I haven't anything to say. I am not worrying about it. I know I am all right on it. Green has been an employe of the garage for about five years. Weller Surprised. Warren W. Weller, superintendent of production in a Hamilton factory was surprised at the arrest of Dillon. "I have known Mr. Dillon for sbout five years." he said to a Palladium reporter a few minutes after the arrest. "I do not recall exactly how I happened to meet him first, but I often used to dine with him, making trips to Richmond to visit the International Harvester company works. "Dillon was well known in Hamilton and was a frequent visitor at the Elks

club and at my home. I, with my daughter, sometimes took trips to Cin

cinnati with him, when he was passing j

through.

It was at Weller's home that Dillon i I"-. . 1 ml

was arresieu aaiuruav evening. 1 ne house, a small brick stucture, is lo-

ness man," said O. K. Smith, of the

Richmond Coal company. "I come in

been arrested.'

"Of course there was a lot of talk about him and about the big car he rode around in but I never paid any attention to that as cars can be purchased on payments and many buy them that way. "I have never had a coal contract with the city during the time that I have furnished coal with the exception of a period between July, 1920 and September of that year, when I

had an agreement with the board of works. "During the war the operators were not allowed to make contracts and so we could not make any with the city. We got coal whenever we could.

Whenever I got a chance to get some coal I called Dillon or the board of

works, and if they told me to buy it I got it I did not have any contract, verbal or written, with the city and (hey bought coal wherever they could get it. "In July, 1920, shortly after the rail strike, I got a chance to get oal for $6 a ton, providing I would agree to take it for a year. I told the board of works about it and John Peltz and , T. C. Taylor, then members of the

board told me to get It and made an; agreement with me. "The price of coal began to drop at once and in September the board canceled the agreement. This left me 'holding the sack' with the company, but I managed to dispose of some of the coal. : "After that time I sold some coal to the city and they bought on the market, wherever they could get it. "Last fall members of the board said they felt they ought to have a contract as there had been a great deal of talk about them buying coal on the market and without a contract. Dillon drew up the specifications, patterned after the government specifications. "The board was to give each bidder a test order and the sample was to be tested to determine the number of

heat units. About this time I went to the lakes. When I reurned I found that the contract had been let to the Price Coal company of his city. No

test was made of my coal nor of the other samples, as far as I know. "My bid was a little higher, prol ably five or 10 cents, than that of the

successful bidder. The board was not to let the contract, however, on price per ton but on the number of heating units per ton. My coal was high grade coal. It would test high in heating units. "I did not protest the contract, as the board reserves the right to reject

any and all bids." Mrs. James P. Dillon refused to make any statement Monday except to say that she did not know anything about the matter. She refused to come to the telephone. "Does she wish to make any statement whatever?" a relative was asked. "None whatever," was the answer. "Mrs. Dillon says she doesn't know anything about it" The first information regarding an alleged padding of the payroll was

given to a city official last Sunday by a friend whom lie- met casually ott the street. Acting on this tip, city officials spent last week , going over the payrolls, with results that led to the charges which were preferred against Dillon. ' - -

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Miss Vera Poppe, English cellist, from Cape Town, South Africa, will give a recital next Friday evening at Earlham in the chapel as the third number of the artist series. A critic in the New York Tribune says of her: "Miss Poppe is an artist of attainment, a sincere musician, the possessor of an excellent tone and an admirable technical equipment." She is under the exclusive concert direction or Harry and Arthur Culbertson, Aeolin hall. New York City. Miss Iona Burrows will accompany Miss Poppe at the piano. The program, which will start

promptly at 8:10 Friday evening, follows: Arioso (Bach); Gavotte (Rameau); Sonata (Boccherini); Variations on a Rocco Theme (Tchaikowsky) ; -Le Cygne (Saint Saens); A Spanish Sere

nade (Glazounow); The Deserted i

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