Show Initial in Blood Provides Clue To Sadist Murder of Beauty KANSAS CITY Mo M March 14 UP UP Chief Chief of Police Lear B. B Reed disclosed Friday that the person who murdered and mutilated mutilated mutilated mu mu- Miss Leila Welsh left an initial printed on the calf of her left leg in her own blood He did not disclose what the was or whether he regarded regard regard- ed ILas the initial of the killer Reed said the letter was about four inches high and done in strokes about five-eighths five of an anInch aninch aninch inch wide Miss Welsh beautiful year 24 old brunette was murdered in her boudoir Sunday her head beaten in with a hammer her throat slashed anda piece of her thigh cut away Reed said the initial was discovered Immediately immediately immediately immedi Immedi- but he had kept this clue secret until today The chief said he believes the evidence thus far adduced will lead to solution of the crime but that he does not expect an immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate arrest |