Show SLAYER SlAnn STill UNKNOWN No Tangible Evidence Keyes Declares SAYS NEWSPAPERS STOLE HIS PAPERS PAP RS Has Statement of Mary Miles Minter l. l By LINCOLN United Press Staff Correspondent a 1 LOS ANGELES March 29 Car Car a a. brief briet bag full of ot evidence on on the the Ta Taylor lor murder mystery District District Dis Dis- tt ct Attorney Asa Keyes and his chief homicide deputy Harold LDavis L L. Davis returned to the 1 Pacific coast today Several hot hours rs before his train pulled into info Los Angeles the district attorney toll toH newspaper men he Intended in intended In In- tended to go before the grand jury Immediately on his return and report re- re port pott on his six wp weeks weeks' ls' ls investigation n in Eastern cities of the Taylor case ca e. e Keyes denied at the same time however that his Eastern tour tout was devoted entirely to the Tayl Taylor r in In- In STUDIED PROCEDURE In In fact tact We e w went nt East East primarily to study criminal procedure of ot other cities with a n view of ot improving our own method methods of prosecution sa said ald hI hIthe the district attorney Most 1 of the statements attributed to us lis by Eastern Eastern Eastern East East- ern n newspaper men were false We wanted to g gather ther at firsthand firsthand first first- hand important data that will help the proposed revision of the C California California Cali Cali- ll- ll fornia Cornia criminal code recently suggested suggested suggested sug sug- by Governor Richardson We will go 11 before the grand Jury as soon as convenient and recommend recommend mend some seine constructive ch changes n es in California Cl inal procedure In Incidentally Incidentally Incidentally In- In ve we will report on our findings in the Taylor case Keven Keyes red declared he did not believe that he had obtained sufficient evidence evidence evi evi- dence to warrant a demand for indictment Indictment in indictment In- In of anyone for the murder of Taylor Asked regarding theft thet of his il brief briefcase briefcase briefcase case containing the Taylor evidence In Chicago o. 1 Keves Keyes eyes said PAPERS WERE STOLEN The papers Were st stolen l n from our hotel room and taken to a news nee newspaper s- s paper l iff ice arid ard examined and then returned However the most important Important important im Im- documents on the case happened happened happened hap hap- to oe be I e in my pockets The district attorney said he still sUll had the statement of ot Mary Miles Minter l obtained in New York and nd important information concerning the tho of Edward F F. Sands Sands was vas the Valet of the stain slam movie director who disappeared im immediately immediately immediately im- im mediately after the killing and was never located loca located by process servers nothing nothing- obtained But Rut we have h e Which warrants us to say we know the murderer of William Desmond Taylor continued Keyes Keyes' Neither Mr Davis nor myself ever made such a statement as s was attributed to us us- by Chicago ne newspaper news newspaper news news- s- s paper men men |