Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-13 | Page 8 | Beauty Still Mum on Killing

BEAUTY STILL MUM ON KILLING NEW YORK Nov 13 UP uP M Prose Prosecution cution cuton officials today rushed to seek seel indictment of or pretty Vera as the slayer of ot her purported fiance Dr Fritz Gebhardt wealthy German Ger Ger- man yuan Industrialist and economist Miss Mias silence about the fatal shooting remained unbroken after a night In jail Her lawyer backed her up saying that neither he lift nor any of oC her family would disclose anything Jealousy Suspected Police expressed the belief beliet that the killing was an act of oC jealousy They said the woman told them she had become engaged to the industrialist industrialist Industrialist indus indus- last lat December Gebhardt however had a wife anc an and two children children children chil chil- dren living near Karlsruhe Ger many Investigators worked on the theory theory theory the the- ory that Miss MiS had just learned of her fiances fiance's wife wICe or had hadj j just st st. been told that their friendship must end Gebhardt recently re returned returned returned re- re turned from his homeland and police police po po- po- po lice out mi might ht have come to s such ch a a. decision on there The former president of the Mannheim Automobile company and the Henschel Locomotive works was shot four our times In his twenty first floor apartment in the Beckman Tower hotel early yester yester- day Miss college graduate and a time part-time clerk in the Ute International international international Inter inter- national exchange firm which he headed In New York lived two floors below him Find Gun in Purse She was found on a fire lire escape After the shooting In her purse police said were a pistol cartridges a nightgown an engagement ring and a a. ke key to Gebhardt's room Gebhardt Gebhardt Geb Geb- Gebhardt hardt was sprawled in a nightshirt on the floor of his room Police Pollee found many many affectionately phrased letters among the effects of the dead man and the prisoner They also learned that the economists economist's economists economist's economists economist's mists mist's eldest daughter a girl of 17 planned to join him here soon This they reasoned might have encouraged encouraged aged him to break with Miss