TAYLOR TO FLEE FASCINATING BLONDE AND BIG DEBTS CAUSED / MARY MILES MINTER Movie Folk Want Only Miss Gerber's Name is Square Deal, Says PSYCHOLOGIST Found on Taylor's REWARD ' 94,900 AND SLAIN DIRECTOR "Our Mary" Checks DIRECTOR By latornatlonal Nsws ScrriM. CHICAGO, Feb. 15 "The 1115 BLONDE IS OFFEREDFOR whole motion picture industry should not be condemned be¬ cause a few persons do ntft con¬ TAYLORSUYER ONEOF'JOLTS' duct themselves as they should." From Wife's This was Mary Pickford's Brunettes Fiercer, Tridon, Players-Lasky to Civ® $2,500. Expected Money avalancho Says Uncle to Pay Debts and contribution to the on Account of Bigger Few New jFacts Dis¬ of comment that has followed covered. Was Disappointed. the revelations of alleged de¬ "Anger Gland." m in NEW YORK, Fob. 16-.Financial pravity Hollywood, Cal., By MILDRED MORRIS, By International Newt Berries. whert the authorities are inves¬ NEW YORK. Feb. 16..If a woman LOS ANGELES, Feb. IB..Re¬ Enchained and other troubles were pressing tigating the murder of William killed William Desmond she Completely Fancy hard W. C. Deane-Tanner at Taylor, wards for information leading to the upon Desmond Taylor, film director. was a blonde, according to Andre arrest and conviction of the of of Film Man, Accord- the time of bis disappearance. At her Tridon, French slayer Mary, husband, Douglas psycho-analyist. William D. Taylor, movie director, * ing to Reports^ that time ha and Mrs. Tanner, now Fairbanks! her mother, Mrs. Blonde women have leas courage the wife of Edward L.. C. Robins, Charlotte Pickford, and her than their darker sisters, Tridon de¬ aggregated $4,500 today. The latest arrived here yes¬ clared dotay. . addition to the fund was $2,600 of¬ NEW YORK, Feb. 15..To the proprietor of Delmonico'a. were liv¬ brother. Jack, "A dark woman would never have two names.Edward F. Sands ing In Larchmont. terday from Los Angeles en ¦hot Taylor In the back," said the fered by the Famous Players-Lasky route to New York for a busi¬ Corporation, for whom Taylor was a and Daniel Deane-Tanner. It waa open gossip about the "Lit¬ sclenttat. Gage that Mrs. ness conference. "She would have killed him aa she leading director. A local had as whose dis¬ tle Shop" and elsewhere paper suggested persons Tanner waa distressed over the "We motion picture people stood face to face with him. A blonde previously offered $1,000* and the covery may furnish a clue to the course of family affaire. "Petes are trusting the American peo- would shoot him In the back. That's Screen Writers' Guild a similar sum. Identity of the slayer of William hablta, especially his extravagances, to give us a square deal," because she has less nerve than the The district attorney's office al¬ Desmond were held to blame. When a friend &le[ary said. dark woman. Also she is less vio¬ ready has been flooded with sugges¬ Taylor.has been added remonstrated with him, Pete, as he Doug also said he is going to lent." tions and theories, but ferw facts. a third. was then generally called, explained: make his moustache perma¬ Tridon expressed the theory that According to reports published A Fascinating Blonde. "Mrs. Tanner's uncle, Mr. Braker, nent. a woman did the killing. here today, ^fack Sennett, motion to take care of us finan¬ "Taylor was a' man with many in conference with The third person is a a la going And Jack said his clothes fit picture producer, woman, cially." women in his life." said the noted a representative of the district attor¬ fascinating blonde who was the com¬ him "something terrible." "In a of Taylor (or W. C. Deane- Wife's Uncle Very Rich. psocho-analylst. my opinion, ney, pledged full assistance In the panion woman killed him in a Jealous huff." Miss Neva Gerber. motion-pic¬ Investigation now being conducted. Tanner, as he was then known) on Daniel J. Braker, a multimillion¬ FREEZING The is ture actress, who was questioned a trip through the Adirondack^ dur¬ aire and Importer, TEMPERATURE^ "anger gland" responsible Sennett has been Ul. the realty operator for one's emotions of anger or vio¬ by the district attorney concern¬ Mabel Normand was rffwrted to¬ ing summer of 1908, three was one of the best-known men In TO FOLLOW RAINFALL said Tridon. it ing her friendship with William months prior to the sudden disap- York. Pete confided that he lence, Scientifically, day to be seriously ill. The cough- New Warning: You had better clean off is called the adrenal D. Taylor, the slain movie dire©- which nerv¬ of "Pete" Tanner In late had borrowed a deal of money gland. developed following her 1908. great your sidewalks today or you will "In the blonde It is less developed tor, said that during their en¬ ous coliap«e Is causing her friend* Searancectober, from Mr. Braker "to tide thins* find slush turned to some¬ the director showered This woman, who had completely he and today's than In the brunette, consequently gagement anxiety. She has been unable to en¬ over." but he waa confident thing like granite by morning. The she is less violent," he continued. her with gifts. She said she be¬ of seclusion at her .nch&ined the fancy of the aristo¬ Mra. Tanner would be remembered fine which lieved he would have continued joy any degree cratic, handsome Tanner, was mar¬ rain, persisted through "And so, if a man killed Taylor, we home, where a trained nurse watehes handsomely In Mr. Braker's will. the morning, will change to snow be certain that he his generosity to her even if he ried. She waa the co-respondent In were somewhat may reasonably over her, because of the interrup¬ the divorce suit Instituted some two Pete's hopes again late this afternoon or tonight, was a blond. had lived to a very old age. tions of dashed In June. 1907, when Braker with much colder weather 1 . continually persons seeking years ago after "Pete" Tanner's dis¬ tonight "The dark races, like the Latin, a sight of the star whose name haq married Mrs. William H. Gelshenen, and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau are more violent than appearance by Mrs. Ethel May Ham- no-called $10,000,000 widow; they forecasts. the blond races, ONE-THIRD OF UNCLE SAM'S appeared so prominently in conneo , llton Robins, now the wife of Ed- ./mtw/al s/roro like the Scandinavian. Also they (ion with the case. were dashed In the surrv There probably will be high winds . ward L. C. Robins, managing pro¬ completely have more courage. The Italian uses Miss and Desmond tner of when Mr. Braker died here this afternoon. EMPLOYES ARE WOMENr Normand refused to disru** prietor of Delmonico's. Mary Miles Minter, motion picture actress, William 1908, a knife more often than a revolver further her letters to slain motion were in San Francisco in suddenly and his will, filed shortly Wire service throughout the Nearly one half of the 70,000 Gov¬ Taylor, which How She Found Him. Taylor, picture director, In Oc¬ eastern of the to kill. It requires more courage to site had announced were returned. 1919. Miss Minter addressed members of the San Fran¬ before Pete's disappearance part country ha/i a a man to ernment employes stationed In At her home. Oriental Point, Efecember, a brief been an tin usual weather stick knife into than Woolwine stated he still holds the cisco Club on December 3. The above was taken tober of 1908. contained crippled by him." are women, Mamaroneck, Mrs. Robins, former Advertising picture clause to this effect: phenomenon throughout so large an shoot Washington according letters and will do so until the close wife of the slalm director, today at that time, Taylor also being a visitor in San Francisco. Tanner I leave snd area.rain with a below It was called to Tridon's attention to returns of the United States Cen¬ of the Investigation, although he "To W. C. D. freezing was of as a refused to discuss this episode In the amounts of money ow¬ temperature. This condition pre¬ that Taylor spoken "quTet sus Bureau. The bureau also points found nothing in them to throw light of her former husband. She Thoirui, and he brought auit for di¬ daughter, met Tanner, or Taylor, bequeath man." « on the case. the life wan to me by him." vails throughout Maryland, the Dis that one-third of th« see but vorce against Mr. Tanner. This at luncheon In this city. ing "Why do quiet men attract wom¬ 500,000 persons Woolwine had a of a refused to newspaper men, in the latter ot 1918. At tbat Pete (Joes On trlct of Columbia, and portions of transcript told a friend: part Tanner had changed and aged. Spree. the north. As a the en?" he was asked. employed by Federal, State and local statement made by Carl M. Melster, time I dia not know whether Mr. noon on States to result "I would do anything In my power He never mentioned the fact he had This was the situation at wires were coated with a "For the simple reason that they are women. a taxi driver, who ha/1 told a strange Tanner was dead or alive. 1 Tanner steadily governments to solve the mystery of Mr. Tanner's deserted his wife and daughter. October 28. 1908, when Pete increasing sheath of Ice and torn don't talk," the psycho-analylst an¬ The census shows that women are .tory of four passengers carried the but I do not think there can "It was later, perhaps seven years They thought the subject too deli¬ left his home in Larchmont. The swered. to the front In Gov¬ of the Two of death, that I saw Mr. for the down In numbers of places rapidly coming night Taylor slaying. be any relation between this ago, Tanner cate to bring up. Taylor failed to ¦tory. aa p.eced together by quiet about their heart ernment work. are them were men and two and poeslble first time on screen. I cannot that The center of today's storm Is now "They keep Responsible Jobs .women, incident and the crime. It was not the remember friehds of the old days. friends and associates, indicates over affairs, and when have several to this sex and the remarks made one of the meji remember the name of the heav- centered southwestern Georgia, they being assigned by until long after Mr. Tanner's disap¬ photoplay However, he remembered very well he Immediately begun to drlng with another center rapidly forming women In their lives never tell one number of women- employes Is In¬ caused Meister's suspicions to be pearance that I learned definitely in which he appeared. However, it favorite dishes of his former wife. ily. off Cape Hatteraa. about the other." creasing yearly. aroused. there was another woman In his life. was not until two and one-half years Many letters were exchanged l>e- On October 28. while friends were "This information was placed in ago that 1 learned definitely that tween Ethel Daisv Deane-Tanner out setarching for Pete, a note came the hands of my attorney, George William Desmond Taylor was my and her father. Ho mentioned but from the missing man. lie was at former huaband." one screen star In these letters, and the Broadway Central Hotel. The Debt Caused Disappearance. that but a casual statement that note was delivered to Thomas F. Information recently devoloped in-1 he was directing Mary Miles Mln- Devoe, secretary of the "Little 8hop. dlcatea that it was not an attack of ter in a photoplay. Mabel Nor- It asked that »«00 be sent U> the SureRelief aphasia but a burden of debt, plus mand's name was not mentioned writer. This is All Government the pressure of a love affair, that once. Got fash, Then Vanished. High-Grade Surplus Property FOR led "Pete" Tanner on October 23, In one letter he told of his ex¬ INDIGE$TIOK in how Mr. Devoe got the money and went 1908, to desert his wife and baby perience Alaska, narrating to the hotel. He found Tanner worn daughter and seek his fortune in the he had contracted scurvy and had mustache had Far West. suffered from loss of hair, head¬ and haggard. His aches and Another let¬ been shaved off. Tanner took the .. P. IKDWfSVf»i "Pete" Tanner's beautiful young neuralgia. money, put $100 of It in his pocket, WOOL SMICwfevaa daughter, now grown to womanhood ter referred scornfully to Edward F. Sands, tlie valet-secr«- placed the remaining $500 in an en- discovered he was in the West and missing velope and addreased It to his wife Office* him in I.os His t*rjrv had upset tats . "* * ' \ jttBkts Angeles. home