Show SADIST MURDER 11 GLUES CLUES FADING I I I I KANSAS CITY Mo March 12 I UP UP Police dissolved one promising promising promising prom prom- ising clue after another in their in investigation In- In i of the murder and mutilation mutilation mu mu- I of Leila Lella Welsh attractive year old heiress I Deputy sheriffs questioned one suspect regarding blood stains on the porch of his home which is I within two blocks of the Welsh residence in a fashionable district The sheriffs sheriff's office reported after I Ian an examination the stains were we caused by an injured dog Officers had regarded the suspect as as the hottest yet because one of the gloves which the murderer wore when he slashed Miss Welshs Welsh's throat with a butcher knife and battered her head with a hammer I early Sunday was found in the yard The other glove was not far faraway faraway i away and a p piece ece of flesh which the murderer cut from Miss Miss Welshs Welsh's thigh was picked up in the same vicinity I Although the man was detained i for further questioning deputies said they were convinced he had I Ino no connection with the case The sheriffs sheriff's office and police received numerous tips All were followed up At police headquarters a hitchhiker hitchhiker hitchhiker hitch hitch- hiker who had been picked up at Nevada Mo was held for ques ques- A woman identified him himas I as one who had accosted her ut Bin tt police had obtained no evidence he lie was connected with the Welsh ca case The he diaries and love letters of Miss Welsh revealed she had re refused refused re- re I fused a fervent marriage proposal proposal proposal pro pro- two days before she was slain police said Officers had examined more than 50 letters and two diaries One letter which she received a afew afew afew few days before her death contained contained con con- tamed the proposal A diary en entry entry entry en- en try two days before she was killed said they had reached an understanding she could not marry marry marry mar mar- ry him Police declined to reveal whether er they had questioned the suitor and said there were no definite developments Detectives and Sheriff Granville Granville Granville Gran- Gran ville Richart had questioned scores of suspects most of whom had been released Miss Welsh a year old brunet brunet brunet bru- bru net was killed early Sunday while asleep The murderer forced her bedroom window crushed her skull with a hammer cut her throat mutilated her thigh and I fled He wore gloves and left no fingerprints I |