MURDER CASE REVIVED
LOS ANGELES. May 8. A sensational murder case which disturbed tho American film world t5 years ago has been reopened by the Los Angeles polise. The case concerns the murder, m February, 1922, £ William Desmond Taylor, famous iilm director. The mvestigations linked the natne , of Taylor '» fianeee, the then vveii- / known iilm actress, Mary Miles Min- j ter, with the affair. The . ee -sar they have now discovered new evidence. Tlicy havo seized diaries alleged to have been kept by Miss Miuter both before and after Ihe murder. Evidence was given before a grand jury to-day by Mrs. Margaret dhelby Fillmore, Mis* Sninter's sister. She alleged that there had been a iove affair beiween her sister and James Kirkwood, former silent film star, now playing on the legitimate theatre m New York. She aiso described a wedding ceremony which she alleged had taken place between Kirkwood and Miss Min ter. Kirkwood has jb§§a to au: » »tatement, L — . -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 129, 17 June 1937, Page 6
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