Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-05-03 | Page 9 | Veteran Suspect in Film Case Dies

VETERAN SUSPECT IN FILM CASE DIES I. S ANGELES, Cair . May A special dispatch to the l.oa Angeles OS miner from Calcxlco, Cal , an-nounc-d the death near Mexlcall, Lower California, of Walter Klrby. Canadian world war veteran, who a Itw weeks ago was taken Into custodv both here and at the Mexican town on suspicion of having knowledge of the murder In IjOs Angelas Tebruary 1, of William Desmond Taylor, film director. di-rector. Klrby's body was found in a swampy district near New River by two boys Out hunting. The authorities have begun be-gun an Investigation. Klrby and several other men wen arrested here on information supplied the police by a woman at whose house some of them lodged. Later thoy were rfell us.-d A short time afterward, los Angeles detectives went to the border, where Klrby had gone, held him again for 24 hours and then definitely announced an-nounced his arrest "had been a mistake." mis-take." 00 Peru Is celebrating the centenary of Its Independence from Spain FOREST OFFICIALS GOING TO PROVO District Forester R. H. Rulledge and S. B. Locke, in charge of fish and game Investigations in district 4 of Ihoj f t.p .-' r ic... v. ill k to Pi ..'. In-night In-night to attend the meeting tomorrow I Of the directorate of the Utah County Outdoor association. The meeting has been called to dls- j I uss plans during the coming season of fhe recreational activities of the i association and also to devise methods i for a closer co-operation with the work along the same line that la being done by the forest service.