Show I ARREST WATCHMAN ATCHMAN IN DEATH Of GIRLS I Foster Father of Actor Former Lund Utah Man Held for Questioning Question Question- ing in Killing of Sisters LOS ANGELES Feb 7 S. S. S C. C Stone StoneS 55 55 stepfather of Jack Hoxie film actor employed as night watchman watchman watchman watch watch- man in the residential district from rom which May 1 an and Nina Martin disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared last August was being held in the county Jail today for tor further furter questioning concerning the and death of the little girls whose bodies were dis discovered in In a shallow grave not far from their home here last Wednesday Stone was arrested by deputy sheriffs last ast night Under ques ques- by officers he declared re repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly re- re that ho knew nothing of how the Martin sisters met their death and also maintained that he was Innocent of ot a statutory charge brought last October Involving another young girl He was was held to answer on the latter charge but the case did not come cometo cometo cometo to trial I Investigators announced however however however how how- ever that they had fo found nd witneSses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses ready tp 9 testY testily that they had seen Been Stone with the Martin girls Shortly before their disappearance They added that the suspects suspect's automobile had been searched and suspicious clues clues' were What the clues were they did not divulge Stone Stone told his questioners that he formerly lived JIved in in Lund Utah where he married the mother of ot HoxIe They separated later he heI said At the time of his arrest he I occupied bachelor apartments |