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Show ! NEW PLAN TRIED IN FILM MURDER 1 1 MISSING LOVE LETTERS GIVEN TO PROSECUTOR Efforts to Find Slayer I I Center in Office of Dis- I" trict Attorney t FIND HANDKERCHIEF Mabel Tells Why She Made Such Efforts to Recover Missives SAW PIF.GO. Calif . Feb .Belief that m n known both r Willi kLcJ -1 James M.arrln. and who Emitted -ulcldc hero last da night or Sunduy is kxlword . snnl . .ought In connection with the murder !,f William Desmond Taylor was pred today by (oroucr S. C. Kellv LOS .WGELES Calif., Feb 9 The nmera of tho district attorneys 01-,c" 01-,c" whs turned toward Hollywood to-. to-. : , imprint all tho Information (hat could be obtained from noted ac-7, ac-7, .. producers, directors and other. rtler to find a solution of the myr ery drama of the fienth a week ago last nlht of William Desmpnd Tay- or I , .-tor. formerly Known ua wnmia Cunningham Deano-Tanner, w ho was killed by a pistol bullet In his h0Di.irict Attorney Thomas Lee Wool-v Wool-v ine it was announced, turned the-. the-. ""'of Mr, Madalynne Connor pben-, pben-, hBin on tr.al for murder, over to hi? cbfef deput. and devoted his attention to the .notion picture colony murder , .,, ,'lex angles of acts that occurred - tho murder which Investigators give strong Indications of connoc-ons connoc-ons wlth the murder Use f were placed under exhaustive scrutiny. LETTERS RECOVERED Thev Include recovery ui . : of letters, including someny"rn i Mabol Normand actress, and last per-W per-W Sn h now n to the police to have been , with Taylor Just prior to his death Yhis packet was found late yesterdav I ih- murder house In a book In a closet on the floor above that In which the murder was committed K M been sought six days. According to 4 el Xormand. Taylor kept these let- I iers In a drawer of his desk on the 'TwaTjnnounoed at the district at-L at-L lorney's office that these letters would' IVI ,.. I- ,,-iidc public at this Hint PLAN OF IN INSTIGATION J Tho centralized ln cstlgatlon will be I V carried on as follows: I Km . ....-stb.nlng of several wealthy ami mm Influential producers, one of whom WS a been questioned before In the EH Questioning of a number of film mW directors, two of whom have been ex-1 amlned by the police. Questioning of at least four motion picture actresses. In an effort to de- EH v. lop further information concerning WpU whe theorv of a woman being the mo- WSM live for the slaying U "Questioning of two nen, not con- Wm nected With motion pictures along B lines of Jealousy as a motive in the MM i lose examination of former em- mjM ploves of the slain director in order miM to "reveal incidents of the past that gjj i-aine under their observation. I EFFORTS CENTRALIZED fei The centralized Investigation at the elV , i i i r i t -.it., i it.. . s- of flee of the mys- 1J iory surrounding the murder of Wil-I k Ham Desmond Taylor was expected to begin today, following the alleged dispel dis-pel covery and turning over to that of-wkM of-wkM fice last night of the missing letters fej written to tho director by Mabel Nor-2L Nor-2L J mand. Ejl V NORMAN D LETTERS SAFE tcf Although verification from him was El not Obtainable, the lxxs Angeles Times Kijj published today a statement that tho ggrj Normand letters with several Jtele- rrams were In the hands of Mr. Toran Lfl It had been previously announei-.l 4 evidence In the cae from all sounres KM -whether gathered b city police do. tcctives or by deputies of the sheriff BSV would be turned over to Mr. Doran B md all forces. IncludiiiK dotr. i o-- Bfl -igned to the dlstrlot attorney's office. PI would p"Ol their c-nergenles In trying BH to solve the mystery. HB To thls was added today the an- nounoement that Mr. , Doran would make all offlcal statements in progress Kgfl of the Investigation hereafter, althourh the various officers stated there would be no abatement of their zeal in try st mg to uncover tno rnuraor. V MABEL NORM AND ILL MlSl Normand who once searched fl(H the Taylor ajjartments for her letters IwH and who Is said to be 111 as a result El ..f a c-ollapse .'it tho T.-ivlor fi r . -1 . I Tuesday has been ouoted as Raying her only desire to regain possession of the ISA letters was founded on a fear thai of the pbr-i:-"- in them would i"i mis E understood She said she felt a strong friendship for the director, but there had boi-n no serious love affair between them H A second handkerchief found Its way Into the Investigation when, about they found the letters in a book" in a IH eloset In the Taylor apartment Honryl JH Peavey, Taylor's negro houseman, ns iH suddenly found a handkerchief bearing dH the Initials "M M M U NO MURDER COMPLAINT H a handkerchief psevlously reported W iJi near the bod shortlj aftei the murder i was discovered, but since said to be I Ba missing was alleged to have borne thel H letter "8" it is regarded Improbable H that a complaint charging murder will fH bo issued against nnv person in con-. If nectlon with this case until after the 3 Hi w hole . 1 1 f i i r has be. n pri i nl O I o the H county grand jury, which bus not yet H been impanelled for 1922. H Meantime, although the sheriffs deputies profess to scout the theory at Edward P Sands, fornu-i butler- l secretary for Taylor, could throw any t I (Continued on Page TWO.) SOLDIERS MAKE ULSTER BORDER LINE OF STEEL (Continued from Pnge 1.) by continued raids, arrests and torture tor-ture inflicted upon them by agents of the northern government. 'The majority of those in prison In Pelfast and Drry are suffering be-cuuse be-cuuse they carried out my orders while. 1 was liaison officer to protect the llveR and property of Catholic civilians ci-vilians from tho ravages of Orange mobs when those who are entrusted with law and order refuse to give protection pro-tection " The statement conclude. "Let the northern government Immediately Im-mediately release our prisoners. We baVfl shown by our action our dselre to havo peace; let the oorth show by Hlmilar '" Hons that they desire to have peace. Granted this, none will believe be-lieve there would be difficulty in finding find-ing a common ground."' LONDON UfXlOVB LONDON, Feb, 0 Arthur Griffith, president of the Dall BJrrar.n. went to I 'owning street earl today and conferred con-ferred with Premier Lloyd George and A ii -ten Chamberlain, government Uuder In the house of commons, regarding re-garding the kldnnplngs. Later the prime minister presided at a conference confer-ence of the cabinet officers. Mr Griffith expects to return to Dublin tonight. I KiN POSTPONED. CORK, Feb. 9. The striking railway rail-way men at a mass meeting Wednes day nigni nwiuwi uu kv" IT Friday their announced plan of taking tak-ing over tho railway lines and operating oper-ating them themselves Wednesday night had been set as the time for seizing the lines. RELEASE ORDF.RKD. BNNIBKILBN, County Fermanagh Ireland. Fob. 9 Quiet has been restored re-stored here today. The roads were closely patrolled. The provisional government It U stated, has telegraphed instructions to the commanders of the IrNh Republican Repub-lican army to release the prisoners taken during the raids. oo |
