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Show 1 TWO SUSPECTED 1 OF STRANGLING "Husband Works Nights,"! Says One Note in Club-man's Club-man's Diary. PHOENIX, Ariz.. Oct 7. ( Ily tho l; sedated Press.) A single lone dark colored hair oie that carries a glint if bronze, when it is hehl to the light V la th.: only real tangible clow Sheriff John Montgomery and his deputies have had to work on since the body ( Ouy I'ornlcr was floating in the ri2onir canal near here the afternoon ' .. .r flfcpti mber 1 3 'i Thio one hair. eir. fully stored In an . nvelnpe In the sherlrt s safe, was ,771 n.uod clinging to one of Dernier?; socles shortly after hl9 body was found II was absolutely the only thing founl about Oernler's effects that did n 't in ions to him. said the sheriff to-; LQS ANGEL.ES, Oct. 1. Suspicion ,-ss to ibf identity of the strangler of Guy M. Dernier, clubman of Chicago. I.os Angeles and Phoenix, Artt.. whoso oody was found in :.n irrigation n : ; on flic outskirts o Phoenix several v. .-..!s ago, has been narrowed to it j "two prominent business men" of V f Phoenix. Raid V. W. Boil, doputj sher- Hi' of that city, J'ist befon lie started, fil h.i'mc Friday al or gathering evi- 1 dehce here tor si vt ral days. M I ;V diary s.i'.d I i have been kept by 1' Domler and which contains! the teYtJ- j I'orary addresses of Phoenix women 'J who ha.l come to Los Ann les and oth-' HI m Bnnlhorn l"" 1 1 If ir II ill e'tlfcH l'iir lll tH suttfmcr, was what led Bell to this' city, ho mid, as suspicions' pointed to rA jealous husbnr.d." as the man who. if S strangled the clubman and thi n r y his body into the water In an effort 'til to' make it appear he had died from if actSflcntal drowning. in company with J- P. Eon. Ix. 'if Migoles deputy bhorlff, urcd ''l.yj !! LVnier. of Los Angeles.- a eousirt, to a! the dead man. Bell hns Interviewed! siu moat of these women, he said. to si r Li n i.i; v. mow" f The Arizona otiicc:-said that the day I t lexJilcr was killed he met a frlond, I 'tyl HafTy Trytle, at the Phoenix Country! 5 I club i where Dernier acted as secre-1 -rrj tar. Tho clubman declined an lnvlta- Jt i Hon to lunch with Trytle, saying he S was "going out to see a little Widow, j i and. would be back in an hour,'' the dopuly sheriff said. J An hour and 20 minutes later, at i cording to Bell, Dernlers body, still ,'U warm and clad only in under, lathing, fitt v Bp found in the irrigation ditch. Fljs $i automobile was two mill s . JM hlfbody apparently had floated about EJj 300 yards from where it had been j thrown into the water. , At first it w.i bi Ii .1 he had been r ! drowned, but an autopsy disclosed j itr.uigling was the cause of death. REMAKKS IN 1I.KY. . Addresses found in Dernier's diary ' ineludcd those of women in Los An-; i gel en, Santa Slonlrn, San Diego and Santa Barbara. Cai., and poUglas, V, ' Florence and Tucson. Ariz., op jj j "iic name was the notation: "llus-I "llus-I j band works nights." ii j A Phoenix man left hurriedly for U j Los" Angeles, when sumi.ion. d i " 1 pear before Sheriff John Q. Mont- j romcry, of Maricopa county, with of- i flees at Phoenix, it was ad. , Dernier formerly was . : p . l ia ri a fSppartmrnt man - si buslneys hou-,- in Chlcaj relatives ber-- and In Spoki n . f Sheriff Monttromery. Deputy -Sheriff ; Bell, Iew Parham, detective of the Phoenix police department and V. T. Bledsoe, a special Investigator of the , Maricopa district atior: ! engaged in trying to solve the slay-i I i irifT SUBPRISK itXPRl .- i :' JPHOENIX, Ariz.. -.:. ?. If tb0 !?, nrrcst of ". proniln. i t . r" m . ness man." as the Strang, r .i" Guv Ot-rnier. is t- ie- i'i to Marleoj.a county off i. j' to n statement made here D ;i Sheriff Alberl c. l.-i'.. shei j .l.'hn Montgomery is in Xo I. . riz., r 'iut the nature of his bus:,, ; wajslnot divulged. f Dernler's body reeentiy was f mnd floating In the Arizona irrigation . r qa 0 j The police and sihci'lff's office have j been working on the theorv that Dernier Dern-ier was murder. 1 1 j She statement, alleged to have been made In L Angel, by Depul P. M. Bell, of Phoenix, that the lljH ot suspects bad been "narrowed down to three men." apparently riu id I much surprise at the sh.Tiii's office, i ltf " IRS OP Y 15N! SO. It was stated by th-- ;i uthorii i s th.it Deputy l.ell bad been sent to Los Angeles to interview friends in ri.-ler ri.-ler there, with no particular angle of the cas.- In view, but with instructions to Investigate rumors that Dernier hail received a warning of some sort some t:me beiore bis sudden death. Th-nature Th-nature of this warning- appears to be n mvstery. The poliec say they bc- It probably originated In street gossip, when the discovery of Dern-.. Dern-.. feo 1 1 si.u tied Phoenix. Lewis A. Pari, ha in, i:y detectlv, h also is wori.lng en the Dernier id h" had olved a telegram Tom I eputy Boll. In which Bell had stated, he bad 'cleaned up his work" in Los Angcicri u...o would be back in i "ii .. nix today. i i'lSCnYE HIRED. Operatives of a world famous detective de-tective agency, employed by rtdfttlve of Dernier, now are in Phoenix wording word-ing on the ca-;.'. :t bdcanji I.:.-. n These detective's, It was s'lt'-d. were employed by Mrs. A. O Dernier, of Spokane, Wash., mother of the debd man, after she had consulted with Mrs. James L. Burns, also e.f Spo-Korie, Spo-Korie, h sister, ajid It. T. Dernier, of Chicago, bis brother. All sorts of rumors concerning tl case have been re vived here. Stri l gossip lias bad prQtnlnOpt people under un-der surveillance and arrests Imminent, police and the sheriffs office have Ot ' n kcjit busy answ ering telephone Inauirles and denying wild rumors. DENIES lUAI'V KA3LES CRlCAGO, Oct " Reports thai i'iuv X. 1ii-ii:.t i-, ! a diary in v hi. b h -'liM d ntm.'j "f twenty-two Phoe-iii::.. Phoe-iii::.. and Los AngelCS, Cal., women, and the laic that he obtained lsrge sums from them are myths, said his brother. R6j Dernier. hcr- tonight, "My brother may have had affaltt with several worn, n he was a man of the world bucI had no little wings ap routing nut be did not make a bus-Iness bus-Iness "r blackmailing women," Mr, 1 ii roicr said. "1 .believe that story of the diary is a loilbrrale falsehood." Hoy Dernier said bis brother had plenty of money in his own right, was an insurance expert, and president and pari owner of a rold mine. Cur Dernier left Chicago six years go 'suffering with a tubercular ln-'rtion ln-'rtion of the throat sneelalists here a ivlng given him six month?; to live. "Polities Ynav liave played a pari 'n his death -or Jealousy or revenge; I know," continued Mr. Dernier. I say politics because of his connection con-nection with th - government; jealousy because of his r.at popularity; re-vfenge re-vfenge because ae may have had an affair With a woman." I . IRMER WIFE TLKS. Guy Dernier for four years was with the internal revenue department In N( v: loTexiCO and Arizona, Mrs. Stella Lerll Dernier. Ouv's former wife, said sho believed he had been murdered. She said they renaalrt-i renaalrt-i d friendly after tho separation and th-' rh. stall retained hH last letter. "1 divorced rny husband three years apro. but not because of any other woman," wo-man," Mrs Dernier said. "Mr. Dernier was Almost Ideal as a home man. Ret never went out evenings." ' The tragedy comes as a terrible shock to me. ' Bite continued. "The , motive fur the murder is as much a mystery to me ats ft is to the authorl- lies." |