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Van Muys Buys Palatial Bartlett Home; Grounds Being Divided Info 4 Estates lind road and the third on Oak Grove avenue. The fourth parcel on which the original house stands will have its main entrance on Oak Grove, according to Barnett. There also is an entrance to the mansion from Rosalind road. However, another authoritative source said the main entrance to the former Bartlett mansion would be from Rosalind road and that the estate was being parceled into five estate properties. At the time of the auction of the two-story mansion and its park-like grounds, it was rumored that Nauert had handled the transaction for Van Nuys.

Mrs. Van Nuys refused to confirm the rumor at that time, saying the sale speaks for itself. The Van Nuys, who live at 975 Orlando road, San Marino, are not expected to move into the Bartlett residence, it was learned. Upkeep on the palatial home and grounds in its present state is estimated at $2000 a month, including taxes of $6306.40 annually. A I ndependentf PASADENA CALIFORNIA, What People Think Every dy the Inquiring Reporter seeks ont ths answers to pertinent questions, sampling the opinions of Pasadenans.

Do yon have a qnastloa yon want answered? Send it in. If yonr question is used in this column, with yonr name as contributor. The Independent will send yon $1. Send yonr questions to The Inquiring Reporter, Pasadena Independent, 34 M. Raymond Av.

Pasadena 1, Calif. GOES FREE If Edward H. Evans (left) committed a murder it was "the perfect crime" insofar as the law is concerned. Although he confessed the slaying of A. Deputy City Marshal Frederick F.

Moore here two years ago, and Moore has been missing all that time, the victim's body has not been found. There is no corpus delicti so the law cannot prosecute him. Evans, turned free yesterday, cleared of murder charges, is seen talking to Deputy District Attorney John Galliano. Law Aint Got No Free Evans Bodyi The palatial 30-room Mediterranean type mansion and eight-acre estate of the late Fannie D. Bartlett, at 1020 Oak Grove avenue, in San Marino, sold on the auction block last Sept.

14 to August B. Nauert for $80,000, yesterday had been sold to J. B. Van Nuys, wealthy San Marlnan, and its fabulous grounds were being broken up into four estate parcels. Nauert, who is assistant to the president of Consolidated Western Steel Company, said he had sold the vast estate to' Vein Nuys "a couple of weeks ago.

Tenative plans for the estate, which is 906 feet deep and has a 250-foot frontage on Oak Grove avenue, call for dividing the property into four parcels, according to City 'Engineer Harold A. Barnett of San Marino. Three of the parcels will contain slightly more than one acre each, two of which will front on Rosa- Motorcycle Disappears After Crash Pasadena and Los Angeles police are hunting a green Harley-David-son 61 motorcycTe which disappeared from the scene of an accident on the Arroyo Freeway at Avenue 64 Wednesday noon. It may have been stolen. Donald G.

Hawthrone, 27, of 620 Mountain View road, owner of the cycle, was enroute to Los Angeles about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Suddenly, he told police, a car driven by Gwendolyn S. Cooper, of 1868 Palmas drive, San Marino, stopped in front of him to allow another car to enter the Freeway. Unable to stop quickly, Hawthorne crashed into the rear of the Cooper vehicle.

He was taken to Georgia Street Receiving hospital where doctors announced his Injuries as mostly burns and contusions suffered In the fall. When his wife, Louise, drove him back to Pasadena about noon for additional medical attention, both saw the wrecked motor being checked by police. Later though, Mrs. Hawthorne said, when she went for the cycle, it had disappeared vanished into thin air! She-and police think someone with a trailer took the vehicle inasmuch as it had been banged up and officers said they had been unable to start its engine. License number of the cycle Is Calif 245-63.

400 $1 Coins In Can Stolen From House Burglary detail detectives yesterday sought a suspect who's loaded with hard cash. James McClair, Los Angeles cafe manager, reported somebody stole 400 silver dollars he'd collected for eight years. He said he kept the cash In a can in his bedroom dresser. Dets. Doug Downey.

Art Boyd and Art Farlee said McClain told them the money vanished while he was out and his home was un locked. He lives at 126 West Tremont street. Betty, who's been living at 306 South El Molino avenue, won her nurse's cap at the Los Angeles General hospital. She enlisted in the Army Nursing Corps in 1940, served in the South Pacific for years' and wound up a captain. She became a civilian again in 1946.

I think there'll be another war, she says, and I want to be in there pitching when it comes." Spoken like 'a real. Murphy, be-gorra She disappeared and returned a couple of minutes later. "He did it." ehe said resignedly. The firemen gawked. Clutching her hand and smiling cherubically was her 4-year-old son.

Edward H. Evans, 34-year-old missing corpse murder suspect, went free yesterday. A 2-year-old murder charge against him was dismissed by Municipal Judge Joseph A. Sprankle, jr. Its absolutely impossible to establish that Evans victim is now dead, Dep.

Dist. Atty. John Galliano told the judge. In the interests of justice I'll have to ask for a dismissal." Evans, who confessed slaying L. A.

City Marshal Frederick Moore in a cafe at 37 North Arroyo parkway the night of Jan. 16, 1947, promptly left the turned up his coat collar and shambled out into the rain. Galliano said he planned to make a further Investigation of the case. he added, I dont know If well ever get enough evidence to convict him. All we have connect him with the crime is own confession." Sprankle observed: It's unfortunate the Taw quires a 'corpus even though police have a confession.

But then, if it didnt, an innocent man might be convicted in spite of himself. The law may be intricate but in the final analysis it's supremely just." Evans confessed that after he shot Moore he "drove and drove with the body and finally hurled it into a hole with trees air around." He was picked up two days later near Independence. found to be insane and committed to the Mendocino State hospital. He was declared sane last month. At the time of the slaying the cafe was owned by Evans' sister, Mrs.

Eleanor Madras. Moore, who had served a writ of attachment on Mrs. Madras, had been assigned to keep the cafe under sur-veillance. Mrs. Madras reportedly Is living in Maywood.

fCE in a blue moon man, nature and circumstances combine to produce the perfect work of art and usually, despite the presence of newspaper reporters and photographers, it goes begging. Yesterday Edward H. Evans, the so-called missing corpse murder suspect, was haled into court again, and the judge ordered him freed because the body of his victim has never been found. The photogs, assuming hed be released from the county took his picture as he sat in the courtroom and then left. Later, they learned that Evan3 had been released on the spot.

Think of it!" one of the photogs moaned. There he was a pathetic figure of a man, broken in spirit and still not quite sure what was happening to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1949 XL JOHN K. POOLE. 1003 Atchison street, Pasadena, attorney: "I think a candidate's cicgihility for the presidency should be determined by experience rather than sex. If a person has the qualifications and experience I think they should have a chance to go before the voters.

But personally I don't think a woman could handle it." NORMA SINGER, 210 Berkshire drive, South Pasadena, store clerk: "I feel that a man is better qualified to handle the job of president. After all, most women want a home and children. I think a women's place is In the home. Usually a woman isn't built physically to assume the responsibilities and work the position demands." Firm's Low Bid Wins 4h Job of Week A Torrance contractor scored his fourth low bid of the week yesterday when he bested five other bidders on a job to Improve Walnut street and six other Pasadena thoroughfares. The Warren Southwest Box 419, Torrance, entered a low bid of $24,133.80 on the Job; which calls for resurfacing of 2.58 mile of roads.

This newly-established firm also was low bidder on jobs to Improve 23 streets in the northwest and southwest sections and to improve Wenger alley. City Clerk Hara Belle MacLellan opened the bids at city hall yesterday. Other bidders were: Griffith Company, 1060 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Osborn Company, 3200 Edgecliff lane, Pasadena, Schrocder and (Turn to Pass Forty-three) The Independent's Inquiring Reporter yesterday decided, in view of the recent state election, to ask five persons this question: Senator Margaret S. Smith, of Maine, firmly believes that a woman should be a candidate in the next presidential election. Do you think a woman should be president of our country?" SAM WOODY, Pasadena Playhouse, student actor: I think its about time we gave women a chance in politics.

I think women are here to stay. They proved themselves in the last war. Ter IRWIN KARL, 1165 Topeka street, Pasadena, salesman: "I don't think it's a woman's place to go up for election myself. Some of them have done a good job In politics but I still don't think that's any place for a woman." ROSEMARY BOOTH, 1745 Lincoln avenue, Pasadena, stenographer: I think that the problems of today are a little too much for a woman to handle. It's a man's world.

There are lots of jobs In Washington that women can handle but I think the presidents Job Is too big for woman. him. And then they turn him loose, and he walks out of the courtroom and down the stairs and looks out the door. Its raining. He turns up his collar (he (Turn to Page Forty-Two) Looks Like Herd Winter Eugene Hulbert apparently figures itll be a long, hard winter He told police he returned to his parked car and found a- thief had broken into it and made off with a pair of ear muffs Hulbert lives at 833 Garibaldi street, San Gabriel.

Better Watch Out, Joe, Irish Gal Enlists Again Psst, Jos Stalin! Take it easy, Joe. Uncle Sam's Air Force has a flghtln' Irish-WOMAN now. She's Betty Murphy, pert, pretty native Pasadenan. Betty, 37, and a City Emergency hospital nurse for 3(4 years, worked her final shift last night. Tomorrow she'll hop train for the Air Forces Great Falfs, base and check in as Capt.

Betty Murphy. bell. A woman answered. "Goodness, no, she said. There's no fire here." The firemen scratched their heads and turned to go.

"Walt a minute! the woman exclaimed. Well, as Baby, He Liked Sirens Firemen yesterday recorded the youngest Pasadenan to turn in a false alarm. They got a call from a house in the 000 block of Avon avenue, roared out and found nary a algn of a fire. Then they rang the door.