Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-10-07 | Page 2 | Arizona Sleuth Takes Diary of Phonix Victim

ARIZQNASLEUTH TAKES DIAHY OF PHOENIXVICTlMf Many Women's Names in Contents, Says Deputy : Sheriff, May Gire Clue to Identity of Slayer of Man JEALOUS HUSBAND NOW MUCH SOUGHT Official Tells of Hints He ! Heard That It Would Be Worth While for Him to Destroy the Writings LOH A.VOELE8, Oct. T (By A. P.). etearcn for th strangle of Ouy M. Dernier, clubman of Los Angelea. Chicago Chi-cago and Phoenls, Arts., was erpected to be resumed In th Arlsona capital today with the return. there of Deputy Sheriff W. T. Bell, who has been gathering gath-ering evidence In th case her for sereral days. Deaplt what he described as "msny hints" that It -would be worth hi. while'1-" to d.stroy certain data It contained, con-tained, th Arlsona officer, when he started homeward yesterday, declared h still hasf safely ln his possession a diary the dead clubman waa said to hsv kept. This series of books, for th diary was said to have filled thre small volumes, vol-umes, contained the names of a number num-ber of women In Phoenix, Tucson. Ixiuglaa and Florence. Ana, and Los Angelea. Han Diego. Hants Barbara and Hants Monica, Cal. JEALOUS HUSBAND. It was to Interview a number of Arlsona women who hsd com to Los Angeles for th summer that Deputy Hherlff Bell cam to thla city and obtained ob-tained the assistance of J. B. Fox. Los Angelea county deputy sheriff. Bell said he believed it was "a Jealous husband" who strangled the clubman to death September Ji. and then threw his body Into an Irrigation canal on the outskirts of Phoenix, to give the slaying the appearance of accidental drowning. When Bel! started home, he said, ausplclon had narrowed to "two prominent prom-inent bualneaa men" of Phoenix Both wer still In that city. He Indicated that the offlcera wer finding them-aelve them-aelve handlraped In their efforts to find th slayer by th opposition of a number of men and women In several cities. FORMER CHICAGO MAN. Th Investigation so far. Bell added. had disclosed a number tit -side lights," Including th possibility of two Phoanlx men being prosecuted for violation vio-lation of th Mann act if tney persisted In refusing to (ell what thev knew of th Dernier death: th possible prosecution prose-cution of a Phoenix physician foe fail-I fail-I ur to report, aa the law requires, that Dernier, hi. patient, was suffering from a communicable disease: that th theory that th clubman was slain by a bootlegger, who held Dernier and defrauded him of 11100. lle aald the officers took little stock In hla theory, however. Dernier formerly waa a department de-partment manager of a large business house In Chicago. He waa married to a Chicago girl. Mia Sella Iiedl. from whom he was aald to have obtained a divorce at Phoenix November , 111 Mra. lmler la believed to be employed In Chicago now.