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Show TWO MORE MOVIE PEOPLE FOUND I WITNESSES IN BERGEN TRAGEDY 'Mysterious Blond' and Fireworks Expert Describe Slaying of 'Handsome Jack' in Home of Location Director ! S 1 ' EPOE WATER, N. J.. Aug 30 Two more movie people were revealed as witnesses to the tragedy i Q&ctcd .'it the home of George F. Cllne. locution director, last Friday night, M Handsome Jack" B rgon "dare-dev -11 double" for film stars, wm fatally shot. Miss Alice Thornton, whom Bergen had lifted from b stenographer's desk in financial Manhattan to a i!:m e be-' be-' fore the camera, was identified as "the mysterious blond" who was in the. Cllne home when the man who had befriended her was killed Another witness. who shed new light on the atfalr, WU Joseph Durllo, Fireworks expert in battle scene mov-I' mov-I' les. With the statements of tins' two making seven, who are known to have seen the tradegy enacted at th 1 home, county authorities announced MM they were ready to proceed with tin- case and 1 0 0 men and women w. n Impanelled foi the September, jury. GIRL TELLB HVSBAM) Miss Thornton, it was, according to her story to the detectives, who first informed Cllne that his wife had had an affair with Bergen Then, on the night when Bergen was summoned to the Cllne home and denounced by the husband, she was a witness, I in -lice assert. The movie actress Is alleged by the police to have cleared up a pu.zling phase of the InVestlgatloan by answering ans-wering the question, why. when he feared Cllne. did liergen accept the invitation in-vitation to their home?" 1 The answer Is said to have been Miss Thornton. Bergen was attentive ! to her, she said, until th v quarreled over Bergen's alleged relations with Mrs. Cllne during the recent filming, of Borne scenes at Snranac Like, N. V.. I Miss Thornton said sh told Cllne what she had learned but he did not I' believe her. and he asked her if she would tell the story before Bergen: MAY HAVE BEER LI RJ ! a Cline telephoned her Friday night. she said, and asked her to come to I Edgewater. She declared she did not j know then and does not know now i i; whether she was used as a lure to get i ! ! ,Bergen to the house. The Edgewater J Investigators believe Bergen went to the Cllne home, thinking Miss Thorn-I Thorn-I ton wanted to make friends with him t again, alter he had been informed, it la alleged, that he could "make up with Alice." "When I reached the Cllne house." Miss Thornton said. "Mr. Bergen was already there. The scullion!, Mrs. Cllne's brothers, also were there, and also one or two others. As soon as I was in the house, Mr Cline asked me to repeat What 1 hud told him. ',q "Mr. Cline said to Bergen: 'Now are you satisfied ."' Mr i'.- rgen shrugged shrug-ged his shoulders Indifferent and slighting. Mr. cilnc and Mr Bergen went upstairs. "A moment later I heard a shuffle on the stairs and then B shot S I ran to the door and Mr j.. re, D came stumbling downstairs and ran out of the front door. 1 did not know then that he was the one who had been hot Then Mr. Cline came down and I told me. I got out of the bouse as noon as I could. Mr. Luirllo. the flre- n..l., rhn l..fl r K.. uninA limn took me to the Port i-cu ferry In his tar." EXPKRT .I1-S VERSION Duriio said he reached the hi is oon after 9 o'clock and heard sounds or quarreling Inside. "W h n the door i was opened he said he walked in on Cllne, who was starting up the stairs prodding Bergen ahead of him with the muzzle of a pistol. Cline turned his head, and sai.l 'He wrin:d my wife." When the two men disappeared on the landing above lnirilo said he heard footsteps but no sound of a Bcuffle. Mrs. Cllne, he said. WtLB ecreamlng: "Some one do something for God s sake! Make peace between Vwm them!" Then there wan a shot and Bergen came down with his hand ocr his chest, gasplpg, and ran out. Seven persons are known to have been in the Cllne borne at the time f the shooting Mr. and Mrs Cline, Bergen, Ber-gen, Mrs Cllne's two brother.. Iflss Thornton and Durllo. WIFE BREAKS 8DUEN4 B Mrs. Mary Cllne, wife of the slayer and the cause of the shooting, told h r story of the tragedy for the first time. "Jack Begen told the truth just bo-fore bo-fore the) went up stairs that night." 'she said " After my husband had accuse. ac-cuse. 1 him of having maltreated me, 'he threw his coat back as If to bare Ihl3 chest, and shouted. "I know I Jam a dlrtv rat, I know I'm no good; , I'm a rotten friend; I'm a rat ' Then he said: " AH right I'll flpht.' That Wl when they went upstairs. Down in the reception room we heard them struggling. Miss Thornton knows that. and she'll have to tell the truth. She knows, too, that Jack Bergen made D peaceful settlement of the trouble limpossibe when ho sneered out an unprintable name at me after admitting admit-ting my husband's charges." oo |