Show L UTAH WOMAN KNEW KNE NURSE F 0 U N D 5 l IN Clara E E. Larson of Garfield Served With Inez Incz Reed Chidester Sa Says ys Illegal Operation Caused Death ea l T I liE HE nation wide search for Tor persons intimately acquainted with Miss iss Inez Reed Heed t the nurse found lend dead SlUt San Mateo in a 1 rocky ravine near Cali CaliC Calif r. r reached t this hi community t yesterday yes yes- when Miss l Clara E. E Larson a n discharged Red Hed Gross Cross nurse who had known m the dead woman for nearly a n Miss Larson year was located here came caine recently to the thc homo home of her par par- cuts Mr and Mrs A. A B. B Larson of Garfield from Fort Riley Kan Kall where Miss l Reed formerly had been stationed Although frankly avowing 1 her close acquaintance with the victim and confiding confiding confiding con con- many details of their friendship friend friend- ship hip Miss Larson said she could not note give gic e nIl any information which would clear the mystery of her friends friend's 8 h. h added adte to I Further local interest wu the C case CSC SC when it became known that laJ W w. C. C formerly ormed head of ot the he medical department nt at Fort las Ius s and now stationed tit qt San Matco i had announced officially that MIt J s s need apparently had come conic to her heri i Sh ci from roin the tho effects of an illegal megal Mi Ii Miss s Larson it is 18 believed cd may ma- mabe be ho luc by th tim tho California tics as soon as her presence here herc is She last night Miss liss Reed need a native of California was vas born horn at Antioch Contra Costa coun oun March huch IS iS In t 4 she graduated from rom the thc Merritt Hospital Oakland Cal Cat In April InS 1018 sho she entered en- en ed tho the Letterman General General hospital ho as a as an arm army nUrse i Acquaintance It was at this hospital that Miss liss Larson Larson Lar- Lar son sori son first met Miss liss Heed Beed at the time of ot 01 the thc hatters latter's arrival there On October 10 1918 InS Miss 1155 Lar Larson on said she fane and Miss l Reed ced were transferred from froin the Letterman hospital to Fort nile Riley Kan iCan to combat the influenza epidemic there On February 6 1919 Miss Miss Reed let left on a a. months month's furlough for tOI Oakland Cal to visit Isit friends and antl relatives there On her arrival in California Reed stayed with Ith an intimate friend Mrs Irs Maude aude I of or OaI Oakland lan Miss Reed on March larch C left Mrs Irs Frank Frank- enfield sa saying ln she hc intended to visit friends in Marin Mann count county That Tha was the thc last time tho the nurse nurge is known to have been seen alive flod Body Dropp Dropped J Ocr Cliff Clift Following the finding n of oC her dead bod body in its rock rocky er crypt pt where it had been thrown over o a a. cliff supposedly t by parties in an automobile after all f identification marks marIs had hall been cen removed from the clothing a wide search for means to identify her was instituted by y the te authorities Searchers were mis mis- led ed d at first b by initials M M 1 B. B found written on the tLc solo sole of a pair of gray ray t kid d shoes worn b by Miss lI s Heed when ilc hc he was wai found After Arter the lie print printing InS InS' o of pictures of the clothing worn WOI by y the tho dead ead woman and tho the tracing of or num num- hers bers found in the lining of or the womanS worn worn- anS an shoos shoes ho s tl to a shoe house hO in J Kansas hanas as City Cli- Miss Heeds identity was as din diM c dosed closed sed She hc was pu punitively positively identified by ly her brother Arthur 4 A. A Reed Heed o of Jr Fresno sno Cal Cat and aud her law brother 1 11 1 L L. L Stevens o of San Pan Francisco Police arc ale now ilow tracking Ing- Ing down the tho yel person on or J persons er who W are arc Ie believed ed to have hate ha performed an illegal egal operation on Mibs s Reed Man GI AV W v. v K F French a shipyard ard who lives at itt Hah Haft Matco tateo visited sited the thc ii ue 3 where Miss Reeds Reed's body od was lying and identified hc he clothing as that thal worn b by a woman who on Oil March G GIn G In the tIle streets oC of San Matco l asked to be directed to tu a physician stating staling that she sho was very ill He directed her t to a a local doctor but saw Maw her a few tew minutes later apparently asking the same question o of another man On Match March 7 an automobile part party of or one man and woman entered the Hotel Motel Maleo fat o an and lod lodged lodd cd there for the night un under er the name of oC D D. Hoy Roy and wife From the thc room used b by them hotel at at- at aches arc are alleged to have heard a womans woman's moans in tn the early morning hours An Au autopsy performed b by Maj TV iv C. C Chidester revealed re that Miss Reel Reed died after an illegal operation He Hc said her Ute life l might have ha been saved had she been tal taken en to a ho hospital for a second operation Arrest Inspected Expected soon That an establishment where me illegal al operations are aro being performed exists now hOW in San Mateo Matco count county and that Miss liss Reeds Reed's death will be he traced is the tho gist Slat of or evidence e said to be be held b by Captain of Police Pollee John O leara of or Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land the dead girls girl's home The arrest of Miss 1155 Reeds Reed's murderer is expected momentarily and police investigating In the tho case declare tho the end Is near When hen questioned yesterday whether I Isho sho ho knew of or any of Miss Heeds Heed's personal personal per per- sona 1 affairs Miss 1155 Larson declared she knew of ot no men with whom hom Miss Reed ha had bad been keeping company When hen asked a whether Miss Reed had associated ed cd with a Maj laJ Charles E. E Browne Drowne of M f the tho I infantry stationed at Fort Riley filler who is alleged to have ha sent 75 73 7 and an offer o of more mora to Miss Reed Heed while she was in California Miss Mies Larson LarRon replied that she nhe did not know Browne Is said to have haYe sent Bent a t telegram legram to San Francisco denying that he know the dead woman Miss Larson Larsn left leCt Fort Rile Riley after re receiving re- re her discharge o from arm army work worl on March 9 0 three weeks after Miss Reed need departed for California She declared de de- 10 dared sho she had heard no WOI word wOid 1 from Miss Reed since the latter went vent awa away from rom Fort nile Riley |