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Show I MAYHAVESEEN I DEATH SHADOW SB Taylor Under Deep Strain H Before Death, Girl Artist H Avers jjH BY I'M MNK PAINE (International News Service LOS ANGEDKS. Feb. 11 That the shadow "f nn ussa-vslu's muxdoroiui weapon may have fallen across the rirab life, path of William Desmond, or aa early ns the Saturday night 1 c rmr to his Siaylnp was revealed to- H -night by Gene Boss, the beautiful H I young silhouette artist whoso studio H In the Ambassador hotel aa vl-ttcd H by the director on that evening. K F Declaring that ho came to her studio V accompanied by ( lalro Windsor, tno- H' tin picture girl. Miss Ross. In a dra- K nmilc and graphic manner, described Ki today for the first time the strange H actions of the victim In the murder had always considered Mr. lay- Hfi (or the most colorless Individual 1 hud K r known until la.-u Saturday ve- E nlnfc a man o'mlstx as far as his por- R tonality was concerned but he seern- K id on that farewell meeting like man H K ipped by a terrible and droodeil jjHH PAGES TUB B "Kiting his lips he paced the floor B , lack and forth back and forth with in endless monotony while Miss Wlnd- K tor examined some of my studies in and white S ' Nervous. abent-nilnd d. "haggard B in a must peculiar manner. B, ho seemed to shnnk from even the HBBBk shadows of pasorshy until my at-J tentlon vu attracted to hi unusual Y' "Always dressed In gray In the1 VBpK night -time and In khaki tones usually HBBBVi About the motion picture 'lots'. Mr. Taylor had often impressed me as be-in be-in rnnn who was an adept at sub- merging himself Into any background Even his way of walking was quiet BBBBfl and nnobstruslve Quite like a camo- ! flaged man, or no. he seemed to me, BBBBB j so remarkably did he succees in ob- livlntlng his own Individuality both j flt physically and mentally. H MO K "Yet on that Saturday night the V lost time I ever suw him alive Mr. Hi Tavlor stood out most vividly because HBBBBj of 'he over-hanging sense of horror or H ite ret fear whic h seemed to have maa- BBBV "I used to know Mr Taylor quite II veil while I Mas sketching art titles yBj for the Famous Playara. We fro- H fuently met on the studio lots. And I HBBBBj Save, often marvelled at the. drabneas HBBBBj BBBBBj "Being an artist, I supple the lack J of coin In both hi attire and pcr- H ' nonalltv struck me more forcibly than H his other associate?. He should have H ' (tressed In dark blues or blacks or some J decided color. but Instead f that BBBH Be was continuously In what I called H to m- self his camouflage tones gray HBBBBj And khaki. Not even a bit of jewelry j or a striking cravat to relieve the dull- H ness of costuming." H ATTRACTED WOM1 n BBBH According to the analysis of the I j i murdered director, made today by the young artist. Mr. Taylor's appeal to It women rested fundamentally upon that BBBBj very ability to submerge his own per- iSSSSSSSSSB Miinnlltv iinil ir ir e e I n .1 Iv IH 1 1 Iltv of those with whom ho anie In i I contact-"Mr contact-"Mr Taylor was never in the least forward with women." said Mlas Ross' today. "In fact, ho wait rather dlf- fldent. But I believe that the i rel nf his attraction to women wuh that ;ne was ever ready to talk of them, of I 'their Interests, of their achievements, their hopes and ambltiona "Then, too Mr Taj lor waa a man of profound culture and could discuss dis-cuss art. mutdc, the drama, literature' or politics with charming ability UNDER (.11 Wi i,v s i RAIN "It Is a noteworthy fact, however.! that he never alluded to his own past I life, his own Interests, hopes or fears in his conversations with others "A man of great poise, that ia.t Saturday night, first time I beheld him with tho veil stripped from his face, perhaps And 1 beheld then a man evidently under a ghatl strain ;"f s. .'ie sort a man with taut nerves. B en his voice was changed thut night. Usually he spoke In a calm holorless. beautifully modulated voire put that night his remarks came In , Jerks." Was it on this night that the "man v i lie mists' beheld the shadow of his assassin s murderous weapon raised for the fatal blow? i oo |