CINEMA MURDER MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1922, Page 5

CINEMA MURDER MYSTERY.

POLICE OBTAINING CLUES. LETTER FROM MISSING VALET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Feb. 19, 5.5 p.m* New York, Feb. 17. The Los Angeles white Press is full of sensational stories of blackmail plots, love jealousies, etc., as sequels of the case of Taylor, the picture director, whose murder has aroused mystery. The authorities are still without a definite clue after days of questioning Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter and other friends of Taylor. The nearest approach for a tangible clue is the story of a garage man who supplied petrol to a fashionably dressed woman who had driven furiously from the city, the same woman having been observed in the neighborhood of Taylor’s house about the time of the crime and later. The Attorney-General has received a letter purporting to be from Edward Sands, Taylor’s missing valet, who is wanted by the police, offering to surrender •to clear up the murder if a charge of embezzlement made by Taylor a year ago is withdrawn. The letter says Sands did not commit the murder, but he knew who did. The District Attorney immediately issued a statement promising that if Sands surrendered and established his innocence steps would be taken to waive the old charge.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Feb. 19, 11.5 p.m. New York, Feb. 18. A Los Angeles message states that the latest development in the hunt for Taylor’s murderer was an investigation conducted to seek the taxi-cab driver who had disappeared since the afternoon of the day of Taylor’s murder. The police declared the taxi-cab driver left home with a thirty-eight calibre .revolver, which was the same style of weapon as that which fired the bullet killing Taylor. The police say they found three cartridges in the driver’s room exactly like the one which shot Taylor. They also announced that the driver answers the description of the man seen hovering about Taylor’s home on the evening of his murder. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.