OCR Text |
Show Probe Into Murder Plan Leads Investigators to The 'Drug Ring9 Tfieo?y Man Found Hiding in Home of Bebe Daniels Says He Was Sent There to Kill Pretty Film Star; Sanity Is Being Probed ' I l.OH ANUBLKK. CaJ, May it (By V. P.) Inveallgatlnn of tha alleged! attempt on the Ufa of Beh. Daniel.,! made Tliuraday night, followed two rhannela today: FN-at came a mental examination of i rhurle. Caprice, whom deputy aher-j irfa found In Mlaa I-anlela' home and who aald he had been aent thera to take the life of the film artreaa. Hecond wna an Investigation of ('aprlce'a atatemrnt. that h. had been ordered to kill Mlaa Di.nlcl. by a dopa '' ring who "had aomethlng on" him. Tha aecond phuee drew cloaa attention atten-tion because of It. parallel to tha William Ieamoml Taylor murder caae. Authorlllr. and the entire motion picture pic-ture colony her. nr. convinced Taylor wua the victim of a drug ring. offlcere were convinced Caprice either waa unbalanced mentally or wua a drug victim. I'hyalclane and mental experta were obaervlng him today. j Inve.tlgatnra attached aa much Importance Im-portance to the affair aa furntahlng In-dicallona In-dicallona that an alleged drug ring la determined to prey upon th. motion' picture colony and remove anyone! who throwa nbatacica In II. way, a.i they did to the threat ugalnat Mlaa! Daniel. Of ull the rountle.a clew. In thai William Ieamon.1 Tuylor murder In-! veatlgatlon which wet. traced by de-j tectlvca. the only onea 'which would atnnd the acid teata were thoaa baaed j on a theory that narcotic peddlrra were l rention.ible. i Officer, were reported to have evidence evi-dence Indicating extreme dlallke by. underworld chuructera for a half-dozen or more alar., managera and director.. They believed that even though Tuprlc. mlKht prove Inaane, hi. atate-ments atate-ments warrunled complete inveatlga-lion inveatlga-lion on the po.nthllltv that they might lead to more auhatantial revelation.. Particular Intercut waa taken In the similarity of the method in the alleged al-leged ntlnek upon Mlaa lianleta to those believed to huve been followed In the Taylor case. Taylor, Il has been fairly well established, estab-lished, was shot and killed by someone some-one hiding In his home. Caprice told officers that that wua exactly what he waa doing-hiding In the Daniels home awultlng hia opportunity. |