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se@ds Resurrection Lilies,lhen
- Slays Widow He Could Not Guide
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
DEAIR Os BEAUEIFRL
■M. M SEDNE
Attractive Young Woman Was
Strangled In Room Where
Potted Flowers Found
**SENT WARNINNG LETTER
Missive Signed ‘Bill’ Figures In
Investigation of Killing At
Los Angeles
By JACK JUNGMEYErt
LOS ANGELES, April 17.—A
death bouquet presented the most
tangible clew in the mystery mur
der of Vera Stone, attractive po
liceman’s widow who was strangled,
police assume, by one of scores of
suitors who had more or less casu
ally wooed her within the past year.
Did the slayer of Vera Stone in
tend, to say it with flowers?
If Stent by the killer, were they a
macabre-- portent of his plan, or
part of an occult rite devised k>£
'deadly jealousy?
The flowers were potted lili< *,
annonymously sent from a public
stand to Vera Stone’s apartment on
"the evening preceding the murder
Chaste resurrection lilies. She had
placed them on a stand near her
bed. They nodded above her bat
tered, garoted body when a sister
. ;m;ide the grewsome find. A
strange, white, symbolical clew po
lice believe, to the identity of the
man who slew the woman he loved.
Thirty days before the death date
Mrs. Stone had received a writ
ten warning, signed “Bill,” adjur
ing her to “Be careful, I will b<»
back in a month.” The floral gift
arrived as the allotted periods waJ
expiring. And a few hours later,
; apaftment neighbors testified, Vera
r Stone was shrieking from her room
““‘Bill —you are killing me!”
Under the lilies, with the corpse,
lay three scarlet little address books
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'ln them the names of some 300
! men, from high social levels to mors
I modest stations, investigators as
|Sert. Among those inscribed in the
red roster of Vera Stone’s acquain
tanceship, there were a dozen or
more “Bills.” The homicide squad
• said it might require weeks to com
i plete a systematic theck up on the
i list.
1 To most of these men, business
- men and professional, police offi
cers, taxi drivers and those uniden-
. tis ied by calling, the pretty young
| widow was was known as Mae.
Lyn, a name she had adopted after
the death of her husband.
) With the new name acquaintance
) assert, come a changed attitude
toward life, a pendulum swing from
■ grief, an inclination toward more
gaiety. Mae Lyn became the oh
. ject of competitive interest among
I scores of men. Most of them, po
lice declare, were content to accept
her as an agreable companion of;
the hour, their names and phone
numbers inscribed in the little scar
let covered roster.
One man, however, officers say
Mrs. Stone told them, declared a
deep affection. He was unlike the
others. He refused to join her
parties, tried to dissuade her from
her favorites.
He told her he would rather see
her dead than indulge in the mode
of life he disapproved. This man's
name she did not reveal to her con
lidanteSj.-, of' his earnest
ness with, a sprt of dreadful re
speefr. q
Was, he, “Wh 0 would rather see
her dead,” the. man who sent her
the white ressurtection lilies as H
reminder, or for a symbol above
the throat so soon to have its en
circling purpie welt?
“The man who loved her best is
the man who killed Vera Stone.’!'
Such is the consensus of most of
the officials ravelipg at the mystery
although other conjectures based jon
meager were also being foi
loWiitl—that she may have been
victim of a fiend, or •of under
worldlings who believed her an in
formant of police.
Murder enigmas, once they are
solved, usually fall into a few typi
cal patterns of motive and mani
pulation. And so may this one..
But at least the resurrection lilies,
mysteriously provided as a death
corsage, will remain a macabre ad
dity, whether they prove of special
significance or merely a symbolical
coincidence in the killing of Vera
Stone.
HARDWICK RESIGNS HIS
PLACE IN DEPARTMENT
ATLANTA, April 17. —Former
Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick gave out
the information here today that he
has tendered to the Attorney Gene
ral of the United States his resign
! tion as a member of the advisory
council of the United States Depart
ment of Justice, and that the resig
nation has been accepted effective
this date. It was tendered several
days ago.
The increase of his private prac
tice and other private business in
terests, he said, have become such
that he cannot longer divide his
time.
He was appointed to the post in
I the Department of Justice by former
I Attorney General Daugherty im
mediately following conclusion of
| Mr. Hardwick’s term as Governor.
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PEPPER’S SPEECH
TORN TO PIECES
Robinson Criticises ‘Blame It
It On Harding’ Address Be
fore Maine Republicans
WASHINGTON, April 17.
Responsible Republicans in the ad
ministration, in Congress and in
their party’s national organization
are still chagrined and dispirited at
.he aftermath of Senator Pepper’s'
keynote” speech before the Repub-,
lican state convention Maine. Their j
liscomfiture is due not only to ■
former Attorney General Daugher-I
ty’s cynical retort with tne a ugges 1
tion that the Coolidge administra
tion is trying to save itself from
the consequences of recent expos
ures of official corruption by the
slogan, “Blame it on Harding,” but
also because of the opportunity that
the speech gave Democrats in the
Senate to disprove Senator Pepper’s
charge that the investigations of
various Cabinet officers had not im
peded legislation.
Senator Robinson, Democratic
'eader in the Senate, taking Sena
tor Pepper’s speech as a text, chal
lenged the Republicans, including
Mr. Lodge, to point to any bill that
had been delayed because of the in
vestigations. The Republican rank
and file in the Senate were hushed
to silence by Senator Robinson's
philippic against the propaganda
that has been started to mislead the
public into the belief that the inves
tigations were art of a Democratic
plan to block legislation and dis
credit the Coolidge administration.
He made Senator Lodge admit that
there had been no delay in passing
appropriation bills as Senator Pep
per alleged.
Turning to President Coolidge’s
responsibility for the misdeeds of
Republican officials, high and low
Senator Robinson said:
“What has been the course of the
head of the administration, Presi
dent Coolidge, for whom the Senator
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