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Show 1 SEEK JEALOUS N. Y YOUTH n FILM MURDER j i YOUTH IN LOVE i WITH ACTRESS Woman's Silk Night Dress Missing From Film Dfrec tor's Home I LETTERS ARE STOLEN, Mabel Norrnand Says Missives Mis-sives She Wrote Taylor Have Been Taken LOS .Wi;F;i(Kc. Feb f.. The little green-eyed monster Jealousy, police and private detectives say, has directed direct-ed search for a prominent young New York man. formerly engaged to one of the beautiful stars of filmdom in connection with mysterious murder bint Wednesday night of William Desmond Des-mond Taj lor. noted motion picture director di-rector here. This mystery suspect was reported today to have checked out I ' of a hotel here the day the murder i was committed and left the city the; following afternoon He) Is belleVedH by Ihvestlgato'ra to have headed for i San Piego and possibly crossed the ; border :ni" Mexico. His name Is ni,Uiiviu uv iiii.- lwnur Mi.l tVB Is SEES i The actress to whom this suspect was at one time engaged, according I to ln e-t tutors, was a eloe friend of the slam director and tills friendship, investigators say, they te a possible motive of Jealousy which would lead to the murder. Letters written by Mabel Normnnd to Taylor, reported missing for,w!np the murder, anl evidence concerning presence for six months at least of a I woman's silk pink nightirowm In the I luxuriously appointed bachelor upurt- j menta todaj add considerable interest to the case. j Investigators were reluctant to dts-OUSS dts-OUSS the woman's nl;htgovn and a bit of mystery attaches to It. for Henry I Peavey, the m-gro houseman of Tay- 1 lor, told of its having been in the house until the night of the murder. J Where it Is now Is a police mystery. i ney win nni ti:sru.v it nut roporti are that It disappeared with tho letter?. let-ter?. The complexity of affairs In the motion mo-tion picture colony of Hollywood makes the tangled skein of circumstances circum-stances uncovered by the pollen full of tmirls that prove .slow and difficult f unravelling and project many possibilities pos-sibilities Into 4he cose. Clews develop devel-op as many roots a a banyan tree. This makes the following of the theors of revenge through Jealousy most difficult, dif-ficult, police say, for It develops so many leads, in each case of an actress Involved as the woman motive. BUTLEri S SI l N Police seeking co-operation of law authorities throughout the country continue a dlllk'cnt search for Edward F Sands, known also as Strathmore. the former butler of secretary Taylor A prominent Hollywood citizon, residing re-siding within a block of tho murder seen", has Informed Investigators that he saw the much-sought Sands within with-in a fnw minutes after the time fixed by the police as that of the murder. 'me of the tanglen m the Hollywood skein, police aver, concerns one of the widely known actresses, and a man Raid io bo enamoured of her. This actress, they say. wh frank in expressing ex-pressing admiration of Taylor and it Is known that he saw much of her. 3 i ULOUS1 i II I Ml". Here police nay. is one of the possible possi-ble leads to the "Jealousy"' thcor They tay, however, that while extremely ex-tremely anxious to question the man. thej rind it a most delicate matter, owing to the resonrt es and friends thr.t he has. are .ooklng for the woman's pink silk nightgown, it was declared C Continued n Page Two) FILM MURDER SUSPECT SOUGHT Missing Woman's Night Dress and Mabel Normand Letters Puzzling (Continued from rae t ) today br Captain of Detectives David L. Adams. "We have never Seen it," he said. "U'e b.ie had a lot of report about It. and if It existed It has d Isippe.nred We have had no definite reports thai It belonged to. any actress or woman do not know that It had any Initials Ini-tials upon It. or other marks of Identification Iden-tification but we are gfung to look for It today. STORY OF NIGHT DRF.SS. Tho ptory of Henry Peavey, his colored houseman that William Desmond Des-mond Taylor, slain film director, had kept In hl8 apartments a woman'H pink til Ik night robs, which has bcon missing ."liiee, Taylor was ulaln, received re-ceived support from the police. nils the officers declined to say how much of their attention they were giving to this phase of the Investigation, Investiga-tion, they Stated that Karl Tiffany, formerly a chauffeur for Taylor, had glvnn thtim information of a similar nature Tlffanv was said to have told the I police that Kdward F. Sands. Tay- lor'8 former butler, told him of howl tho bntler had spied upon Taylor and thus had found in his apartments a largo number of pieces of llken underwear un-derwear unknown In u man's wardrobe. ward-robe. According to Tiffany's story to bo police, Shio1 said his curiosity was aroused, so he folded tho garments in a "trick" mannci and, noting th way they were folded the next diy, became convinced the director did n -t keep them In his apartment for sentimental senti-mental reasons STIIiIi SEEK IlUTTJvH. Tho search for Kduard F. Sands, misslriK' butler of William D. Taylor, motion picture dlnctor who was mj i-terlOUSly i-terlOUSly murdered last Wedne.su. ij-nlRht, ij-nlRht, continued to bo the most lm-portant lm-portant element of their invostigatlon Of Taylor s denth, police said Chocking of tho various angles of ' tho case among members of the motion mo-tion picture colony and other friends' and acquaintances of Taylor almost invariably resulted in some development develop-ment In which Sinds name was mentioned, men-tioned, according to detectives Explanations Ex-planations of this situation are regarded re-garded as vital to tho case In Its prosent stage. The police said they had had BV- oral ciue3 to Hands' whereabouts, but thus far those had resulted In disappointments disap-pointments Henry I'eavey, valet of Taylor, who found his employer's body, came to police headquarters again and was questioned by detectives for a half hour. It Is understood he was asked for more detailed Information con-cernlng con-cernlng the arrangement of Taylor's furniture and other belongings in the apartments where he was shot. Detectives would not state whether Peavey'S examination had thrown any-light any-light on the case. Two other men, wh'ose names wee not divulged, also were questioned at police headquarters, but under whit circumstances was not disclosed One I of these men departed with dotcc-j tlves who paid they wore going to check up on an angle of tho ea.-e that previously had been under investigation, inves-tigation, but they declined to be more specif ic. The whereabouts of letters which B Mabel Normand. motion picture i. tress, said she had written Taylor and which she said were missing from .his apartments, continued to be a, matter of speculation. It Is believed that these letters and other papers: could have been removed after Tay- I lor s body was found last Thursday, m.'rnlnK some tlmo during the period ivtinn ihe house was uniruardcd while 1 It was believed h had died of natun'. causes. Miss Norriand first called attention at-tention to the absenco of the letter which she said she had seen In tho apartments a few days before the murder. She said she knew of no reason why anyone should want them and that she would be willing to have published anything they contained. ( ERTAIN DEVELOPMENTS. A. I- Manning head of the criminal crim-inal investigation department of fhu sheriff's office, and several deputies were absent most of tho day on i mission connected with tho slaying. Upon his return Manning said there hid been ertaln developments ho could not disclose at that time Hisj Investigation today, he added, did nut j relate In any way to Sands. The district attorneys office also, had men assigned to the case, working work-ing Jointly with the police detective force. Revenge, prompted by jealousy, remained re-mained apparently tho most probable motive for tho alleged crime, Investigators Investi-gators of the various departments generally agreed. The pr.vslblllty thai tho nlnvr wnn n frustrated black! mallei also was bolng considered. H is declared further to be it remote chance that ho was a burcl.'r surprised by Taylor, who fled after th shooting without attempting to remove any valuables Captain of Detectives De-tectives David P. Adams, who Is directing di-recting tho police Investigation, paid everything In the caso Indicated f.hot the slayer was a man. CHANGE IN NAME. Whether th'.' fact that Taylor hcl changed bis name from that of William Wil-liam Cunningham Dcano Tanner, by which he was known In Now York 4 pears ago, had any bearing upon the cast, had not been determined today, to-day, accordlpg to tho police. This circumstance seemed to have no bear- in upon the principal angles of the, mystery w hich have been under in-1 vestigaUpn, It was stated. Investigators expressed themselves as at a loss to account for the dlsap- ssm ; ptaranco of Miss Normand's letters. IfaJ j They declared, however, that they did Hi I not bellee the letters themselves ST j would throw any light on the case. m , i The "main lsuo" so far, one lnvesti- Brr gator said was the whereabouts of bT:': the missing butler. Sands, for a few W I das before the shooting Uu , Questioning of film actors and act- 3 ; . resses and others who had known Uj Taylor resulted In no Important de- flH velopmcnts Sunday, it w is declared. wM |