Show Murder Weapons Scanned for Clues i 1 ItOI w v r n 4 f t t 1 t att t z 0 r y M rS Associated Press h t HAMMER AND KNIFE WERE USED IN SADISTIC SLAYING William J. J Meyers Kansas City police laboratory technician turns microscope on death tool Reward Spurs S Search For Sadist Killer KANSAS KANAS CITY March 11 AP The AP-The The sadist who hammered hammered hammered ham ham- and slashed Leila Adele Welsh 24 to death in her bed during the dark hours Sunday morning and cut a away ay p part of her hip still eluded police despite a host of clues and the spur of ofa a reward Although he left behind the death weapons weapons-a a railroad hammer hammerand hammerand hammerand and a butcher knife knife knife-as as well as a pair of ot stained bloodstained cotton colton gloves the slayer benefited is in his escape by the fact the tragedy was not discovered until daylight by the mother of the attractive socially prominent victim yi Council Offers Reward Police questioned several suspects sus- sus sus suspects peets to little avail The city council council council coun coun- cil appropriated as a reward for apprehension and conviction of the killer A blood analysis completed Monday Monday Mon Mon- day night convinced officers Miss Welsh a 1937 beauty contestant atthe at athe atthe the he University of Kansas City awakened and registered fright seconds before her assailant sent the he hammer crashing through her skull at her home in a well-to-do well section of Kansas City The slayer cut her throat knifed her pajamas to shreds tossed the bed covering over the body and fled led with the slashed portion of hip only to drop it yards from the house along with the gloves No motive for the slaying has been uncovered Miss Welsh who shared with a brother and sister In n a trust fund was not robbed or criminally assaulted No outcries were heard and police police po- po lice ice have been unable to find anyone anyone anyone any any- one who saw the killer in the neighborhood The theft Saturday night of an automobile which police fired on onI I later near the Welsh home and which was found marked by two bullet holes near Corydon Iowa Monday drew police attention Officers expressed doubt however however however how how- ever that it had any vital bearing on the case Lase The Kansas City Star says it learned late Monday night that blood smears were found in the bathroom of a vacant house in the neighborhood of the Welsh home hoppe and that the blood is being an an- Police would not comment on the report Chief Requests y id Aid tAid t Police J. J B. B R Rf t. t fo t r rF rp F p B I I ia s. s s od da a t for fox s' s t to department department de department de- de quest r J helps hep his s in in tracing ownership of the hammer and knife Scores of tips most of them dealing with persons suspected of perversion were telephoned police Miss Welsh would have Inherited at the ag age of 35 approximately fr from m trust funds William C. C Lucas lawyer and a trustee of the estate said her death would increase by one half the amounts which will go ultimately to the brother George a bond and mortgage mortgage mortgage mort mort- gage salesman and the sister Mrs Jack Turner of Scott Field III The funds were established by grandparents |