Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor was murdered Feb. 2, 1922 and the crime went unsolved. It was determined that his real name was actually William Deanne-Tanner. Seated in this picture is Mrs. Ada Deanne-Tanner, wife of his brother Denis. She is holding handwriting samples of her long-missing husband which proved to the police that he was not the same person as the Taylor valet, Edward Sands, who was being sought for questioning.
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