St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 20, 1923

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Originator of Plot Reported to Have Become Angry and Threatened Young Woman. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 20.—The Dorothy Keenan murder case took a today, when the police that -he hal 9 began investigating a ‘“‘tip’’ mode] had been slain after refused blackmail the mysterious shall,” her mirer. Confidential received by that session a package Marshall and that they apartment the night before she wus found chloroform she a plot “mer. Mis wealthy to co-operate in elderiv and id- information vas the police to the effe-t Miss Keenan had in her »ws- of letters frorm her were in in bed, with bottle nearby dead an empty Miss Kee- nan was said to have been .>- proached by one of her male friends with the suggestion that the letters be put to practical money from ‘Mr. “T have never that and I would auch a thing now.” use to extract Marshall.” like te W's done anything consent model never the The originator of the blackmail plot then was reported to have be- come angry and threatened Miss Keenan. After this scene. Miss Keenan in her private It at the National City Bank at least one letter. ‘The police said fhe box would be opened today. The model was said to have toid friends of the blackmail sugeesti ya. and they informed ‘Mr. Marshall,” | who was reported to have gore to the Keenan suite the night of ‘the murder with his secretary to get the letters. vos searching today charac- Detectives were for a hitherto unmentioned ter, who was alleged to have threart- ened the girl and held her In ferr for six months. The police picked up this clew through a former ten- ant of the apartment house who «aid the model had appealed to him protection. Mrs. Arna Keenan. the girls mother. accompanied by her son 104 feiectives, today opened her daugn- ters deposit box. and then left bank without making known what they had found in the vault. It learned that the girl's jewelry been insured by Liovde. 7 nee AED Story of Slain Model; How She Becume a “Lady of the Evening’ o---— ir This is the story of the girl born Anna Keenan, who, as Dorothy King. became one of Broadway's best-known “ladies of the evening.” “nd whose murder has turned @ searchlight upon her life in an ¢f- fort to discover the slayer and his motive. From those who knew her best and from the records, a narra- | ite of her life. so far as it is’ Known, has been constructed. By Leased Wire Fram the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, March sory of Dorothy Broadway is concerned, five or six vears-ago. her blond beauty first began to noticed in the cafes and dance places fiong the gay white way. Before that there was nothing her life to indicate Broadway. She Was Atrina Keenan, a very pretty Irish girk whose parents had both heen born in the old country, and Who, wigh her two brothers and two "Stere “all older she, had been brought up on West Eighty-ninth Btreer. between Amaterdam Columbus avenues , She went to the Holy Name school | °0,.—The as as began some King, far be in than tioning the | it was then. and | tomorrow: portions tomerr Stage of the river at 7 feet, a fall of .& ———— ecider Official cast for St. and Partly tore- Lantis inity: cloudy vic and some whine and tomorrow : warmer tonight, “ith the lowest tem pe rature above freezing: colder tomorrow afternoon Missouri: ly cloudy solinewhat Part- and lnset- tonight and in «© 1 am 4 tied t © warmer ecolicer to tounigiat morrow afternoon. lilinois. QOver- cast and wanmer ‘ollowed rain In) ow afternoon. a. m., by 16.3 of a foot. U, S, OFFICIALS CONFER ON RADIO CONGESTION ISSUE —_—— - Hoover Buapeste Extension of Num- ber of Available Wave Lengths. By experts gan ment a two-day means for imy wireless operations. ver, beginning ihe failure of touching wireless regulatory the Associated Press. WASHINTGON, March and Gov today at the Commerce -~Radio officia| Depart- conference to devise roving broadcastine Secretary Hoo- discussion, said 20 zs he- ernment the legislation in the last Con- gress made it necessary to see wheth- voluntary ministrative er by ference and con Heover said, broadcasting where between 000 lengths. ’ tion through assistance could not be done “Today stations. receiving stations is confined We must trv number of channels of ether, co-operation and ad- something “to relieve inter- gestion.” there are 588 and some- 1.500.000 and 2.509.,- whose func- to Iwo wave to increase the communica- by extending probably the number of wave lengths available to broadcasting. “As you know. 600 and 1690 meters _bave been reserved for lengths between the bands of wave Government use. but the department will recom- mend is necessary.” to the President ‘opening be made in thet area hy ex- ecutive order if t that hie conference deems _— = — —_ CHECK-OFF FUNDS CAN'T BE SENT INTO WEST VIRGINIA lederal Court at Einjoins Use of Moncy Huntington, W. Va.., for Un- lonizing Open-Shop Mines. B) [se of “check “open-shop”’ Yederal Jud ize bv the Associated Press CHARLESTON, W. Va., Mareh 20 -off funds to union. mines was forbidden ge MeClintick it) wi ‘injunction handed down in a special! at District session ' States national Hluntington Court The injunction prohibits the organization | from sending money ae 6 today nited inte? of the into West Vir- ‘ginia to be used in organization ac | tivities. * GRAND JURY TO INVESTIGATE unsetticd tonight. north and west) some | a — —— —_——— I = ere cell ne en ee a ———— + — - ssi ‘ gi “a iaidetat pe o ga sult oe et ar z fe © INAL (Complete Market Reports) 1923—32 PAGES. Se —- ~~: wees ‘GETTINGAWAY WI T FINE UNTIL HICK | boarded | Hellems’ money. iwhen | 'Higlin double-crossed me, } another _ilater. I : i union | nati, CHARGES INVOLVING SMALL JURY, Request Judge Calls Next the Associated ,On By WAUKEGAS., of States Judge Claire C. return request Smith, day ordered a grand jury tor Smith decla of next State's Attorney, March Body for Monday. I'vrese fll.,. March Attorney Edwardes to- of Mareh Mondas Prosecv- red that the a complete investigation would be made by the grand jury into ‘ leged jury tampering in the trial Gov. Small! last the charges of ail- of summer SECOND DEATH SENTENCE FOR TEXAS NEGRO FOR MURDER Roy Mitchell. W Killings. Jury the WACY, Mitchell, death today | Court, Denecaimp. Hie alread) hang for escort to i were Bae. Bs Tex.. Mre. L FREEZE Again Associated Press negro, b\ for the slaying of Mrs. F near Waco had the killing HALTS ho Confessed Scveral Convicted by at Waco. Rov to March 20 was sentenced jury in Df&trict ithel on 29 centenced to of W. E. Holt yenecamp, when they A Jan been EE INDUSTRIES around the corner in Ninety-seventh | Newfoundland , Pemenanern Su- RAPPED 10 HIM’ Shares Go From 72 to 124, Then Closé at 82— | RUHR BURDEN. Delivery Reported Demanded on 42,000 Shares Sold Short. Dispatch March = sensational the Pos! YORK, the Special to NEW of market one most movements since the noto- stock Ine. was rious Stuts corner, in which of which, the Piggly Wiegly Stores, about two months ago, selling slightly above $350 a share compared with closing of last night. the governors of the New Yorsu orderel as rese 52 points today the price board of Stock Exchange pension in ti toda \ “rock. 4 iz in the from (42 two 1 then droppec back to One of the governors exp! formally that this been ordered after counse! ing Clarence ders of head the pany. It adi. stock jumped Fe ained “t- had wita Sarnn- COllt- suspension consultation represent Memphis, of exchanire far the available reported to were was no shares ‘' loaning purposes to traders who had was or- nad 7 The after a recemmendation received the Commit! and the Com- which had in- short. suspension dered been from on Business Conduct mittee on Stock List, vestigated the situation. The stock today showed a jump of from 3 to 4 points sales and @ the transaction which set tgie top figmre it jumped more than eight between sales. The spectacular performance the stock marks the probable culmi- nation of a between the larg@st interests in company led by Clarence Saunders Memphis president of the concern, and a grou) of New York and Chicago specnu- lators. Listed in May Piggiv Wiggly was exchange on May 31 of Many floor traders halled en- trance on the exchange with uncon- cealed pleasure, for they judged tha: furnished an excellent opportunity build up commodious profits by selling it ‘“‘short.’’ A statement furnished the change at the application made for listing showed that in the» with the close of . the company had earne.l 000 avalabdte for divitends and value of the stock was between market war the of Last Year. the vear. listed on f last its La time wis June, 1922 $425 ,only $42 a share, without taking into ‘ Higlin jumped | | Taylor in | fainted ' i met ‘clothineg account $6.33 of accumulated unpaid dividends and after including in as- sets building improvements and cost of establishing its chain of grocer \ Various concerns having name received patents from the com- in different parts of the country. One of these was in New York Several of these con- cerns got into financial difficulties. including the New York concern which was promoted by James Flli- otts Business Builders, since gone As these receiverships announced, “short” selling of the jal stores a similar pany and operated bankrupt. were WOMAN FAINTS, CRYING SHE IS MARKED FOR DEATH Collapses in New York Court Saying Her Circumstances Are Same as Those of Slain Model. the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 20.—Crving that she was ‘‘marked for death” and that her circumstances were similar to those of Dorothy Keenan. slain model, Mrs. C Tavlo a fashionably dressed voung woman. vesterday in West By o> 1; aroiilne Side (Court Mrs complaint of scribed a ‘‘night apartment of Mrs. Tavlor Hie said he had given her jewels and other things worth $10.000 since he first her last September. On March Forlini testified, he visited Mrs Ss apartment and was forcibl, held there after he had announced he was gotng home. He said Mrs Tavior threw acid him. cut his into shreds with ai carv- ing knife and detained him throuzh the night. rraigned upon who de- in the Taylor was a tomeo Forlini of terror’ 13, ot) SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION lo you! ASKING FOR SCHOOL SURVEY — ——— Carnegie Foundation Will Be Re- quested to Investigate Sys- tem-in Missouri. a) the Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY. March The Sen today pased a resolution asking the Carnegie Foundation. for the Advancement of Teaching Paake a survey of the elucationa! system of Missouri A similar resolut which passed the Senate last week. was defeated in the House Senator Painter. in offering it again today, made it only a Senate resolution, not requiring ac- tion by the House Spe to °0 ate to ,Or) Propellor of Plane. Press Tex.. Killed by ASe20oc is SAN ANTONTO, Wick (Chamlee the ted Be March 20 fiving cadet of Brooks Field, was killed here th « morning when he was struck on the head by the propellor of an airplane lie did not hea the ship come up behind him. His skull was fractured. Tie lived at Gatesville, Tex. ' exchange leaving Memphis for New they of in street ' whereupon Ox. | 'mors were current, it in on the New York increased. nt pany announced stock dea the Preside Saunders of the com- last fall that he planned make these short sellers pay for what he termed their foo! hardiness. Dispatches told of his York with market opera- make New York But nothing de- time Meanwhile. the stock! went to financial backing: for tions sufficient to speculators squirm. veloped at that short selling of rily on The But in short He! dow n close weeks It sellers ? ’ ae all pax We ? 7. * Sth se tt. Ss 2 ; . és - a ' zo p revolution is a begins with the . the erm - $i 4 a “Fen . te * and ends only Ww