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Show FIELDS WILLING i TO REVEAL ALL- I For Partial Immunity He Offers to Tell Who Killed Taylor I DETROIT. Mich.. Feb. 26. Assert-I Assert-I ing he had previously glyen fictitious i names in ldentiflt)K the persons he claimed were Implicated In the murder of William Desmond Taylor. Los An- j geles film director. Harry M. Fields, i held hero awaiting sentence for forgery, forg-ery, told authorities today he would 1 furnish Information that would clear 1 up the crime, if promised partial Im- . munlty by tho California officials. "I expect to do a prison stretch for my part In this mess but I don't want to hanc' Fields was aiioted as ay Ing. Fields, subjected today to another cross-examination by Lieutenants of Police Murtln unl Smith, and Shirlff J. Coffin made two changes in his story' of the shooting of Taylor, but .still Insisted he drove the car used by the slayers, and was paid $1 000 for his part in the murder. HIS RIA ISM) STORY He said today, according to tho in estlgators, that a prominent motion mo-tion picture actress, who was one of the quartet that plannod the killing, preceded tho othor three participants to the Taylor Irome, with the understanding under-standing that sho was to give tho signal when the opportune moment for the shooting arrived, and then escape. When the car containing the Chinese, Chi-nese, the white man and woman who he said were the others implicated. urrHed at Taylor's bungalow, Fields Is said to have declared tho actress emerged from the house, and Stand ing in the shadow, waved a bag of I candy The two men Immediately left the automobile and a few seconds later Fields hoard a shot, according to his purported statement. Tho men stepped from a window of the house, and re-entered tho car, the investigators investiga-tors said he told them Meanwhile, the actress who had given the signal sig-nal disappeared. FICTITIOUS NAMES. Fields was previously said to have told ..officers that the actress Implicated" Impli-cated" in the killing w;u not at tho scene of tho tragedy. After the shooting shoot-ing Fields. It Is claimed, says ho drovo back tho other throe and rocelveJ his money. , He left Los Angeles that night, officers said ho told them, although he previously had asserted he stayed there two days When Fields was questioned as to his reason for giving fictitious names in describing tho killing, officers said he told them "They were pressing me hard for names and I had to ?ny something." Fields is to be sentenced here next week on the forgery charge to whl h he recently pleaded guilty. RUMORS DISPROVED. CHICAGO, Feb. 25 Rumors that five Los Angeles detectives had come to Chicago in search of clows to the slayer of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, were disproved dis-proved tonight. Tho detectives had accompanied al , shipment of several million dollarr worth of Los Angeles bonds, which had been bought by a Chicago bank, to tho city. They denied that they were seeking any Information in con-nectlon con-nectlon wllh the Taylor mystery, Tho visitors were being cnterlulnd by the Chicago pollco officials und expected to hturt back to Los Angolos o morrow. |