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i I i flAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1935 Quizzed hi Murder Probe enudls TTIhireanljS ffinm 0D (Special Cable to The News) London, June 23. The name of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, $40,000,000 Woolworth heiress, was linked in society's whispering: galleries tonight with that of Prince Frederick of Prussia, 26-year-old grand Barbara Carroll shown here), pretty girl friend of Paul Dwyer, who is serving life sentence for double slaying, testified yesterday before Grand Jury investigating the murders at South Paris, Maine. son of the former Kaiser And London9 All Agog of Germany. They, it was said, had received simultaneously threatening letters from someone on the Continent and both missives had been turned over to Scotland Yard, which was watching every rail terminal and airport to apprehend 43-year-old Count Kurt Haug-witz-Reventlow, should he decide to return here from Paris. The letter to Prince Frederick was mailed from but no decision had been made tonight to give him the police protection which has made Countess Barbara's palace in Regent's Park a veritable fortress.

Climaxing reports of a quarrel between Countess Babs and Count comes news that London society is linking name of $40,000,000 heiress with that of the handsome Prince Frederick of Prussia, grandson of Germany's former Kaiser. Both Babs and the Prince, it is asserted, have received threatening letters. (By Acme) Dwyer Youth's Girl Grilled in Your Murder' (By United Press) South Paris, June 23. Barbara Carroll, comely, 18-year-old ex-sweetheart of Paul N. Dwyer, who is serving a life sentence for the double murder of a middle-aged country doctor and his wife last October, was questioned today by a special grand jury which has reopened investigation of the case.

Prince Seen As Cause. The actual cause of the breach between the Danish nobleman and the five-and-dime store princess, according to drawingroom gossip tonight, was not a mere difference over the upbringing of the Haug- Miss Carroll, a dark-eyed whose father, Francis M. Car roll, has been linked with the re fort to involve him in the murder case. He has indicated he believed an attempt would be made to draw him into the case, and has retained Clyde R. Chapman, former attorney general, as his counsel.

Dwyer sat in an ante-room, manacled to a guard, while the dark-eyed Miss Carroll passed within a few feet of him. Neither gave any sign of recognition. opened investigation, was one of a procession of "mystery summoned to the grand jury chambers. Boy's Mother Testifies. These included Mrs.

Jessie L. Dwyer, mother of the 18-year-old youth who confessed killing Dr. James G. Littlefield and his wife on Television Shovss a bizarre "murder tour" last Oc Will Ask New Indictment. Dwyer's original cpnfession said he murdered the physician and his wife and drove their car, with their dead bodies in the back from Plunging Body 0 ma i Maine to New Jersey.

Last week he made a 17-page statement at the State Prison, Of Girl where he was confined, repudiating the confession and supposedly naming the slayer. Ingalls, who forced the reopen ing of the case after hearing Dwyer's statement, said he expected to ask an indictment as soon as a half dozen witnesses have By Edna Ferguson and George Dixon. A mobile television transmitter making experimental street shots in Radio City yesterday picked up an unprecedented scene of tragedy the body of a jilted young woman plunged to her death from the eleventh floor of the lofty Time and Life Building in Rockefeller Plaza. Prince Frederick Cause of Haugwiti rift? witz-Reventlow's 2-year-old son, Lance, but the Countess friendship with the German Prince, who is working as a student employe at the Schroeder Bank here. Thus for the second time in less than two years, an American-born woman had set London by its ears, for not since King Edward VIII renounced the throne to wed Wal-lis Warfield of Baltimore has England known such a sensation.

The giant eye of the camera was1? Father Tries to Mediate. testified before the Grand Jury. Gets iTKfor Cheating Women Sorrowful tales by women of being loved and defrauded, including the story of a prim schoolma'm, who blushingly admitted membership in a nudist colony, sent Edward H. Gould, dapper ex-convict, to Sing Sing yesterday for fifteen to thirty years. The sentence was imposed by Judge Charles C.

Nott Jr. in General Sessions. Principal witness against Gould was Miss Margaret Wells, who teaches school in Parkersburg, W. Va. She admitted authorship of a letter to the swindler reading: "I have joined a nudist colony and I am writing this with nothing on.

See what you arc missing!" Miss Wells said Gould took her life savings of $600 after hectic wooing. The testimohy of other women victims followed virtually the same pattern. sweeping the facade of the building at 3:30 P. M. when something flashed past.

Inside the National Broadcasting Building, a group of engineers, headed by O. B. Hanson, vice-president and chief engineer of NBC, sat before a screen upon which the images were being projected. See Crowd, Then Body. They barely noted the flash.

But the next instant they were startled by a thud like a pistol shot. On the screen they watched a wild scene develop outside the building crowds converging on a spot, men and women pushing and shoving. The televisor continued to point at the crowd. Inside the building the engineers saw police rush up and part the milling throng. Through the gap they saw the broken body huddled on the pavement.

The victim 'was identified as Marion Perloff, 28, of 939 47th Brooklyn, a stenographer and clerk offices in the Time and Life Building. The young woman had been back at work only a week after a nervous breakdown caused by a shattered romance, other employes told police. Three weeks ago, when the man she was to marry jilted her, she was so unnerved that she was forced to take a vacation. When she arrived at work yesterday she appeared highly nervous. Other workers tried to induce her to accompany them on a Girl Scout picnic outing at Scarbor-ough-on-the-Hudson in the afternoon.

Went to Rest Room. "Ill have to telephone mv sister first," Miss Perloff told them. She made several ineffectual attempts to. reach her sister, Mrs. Irving Sibushnick, with whom she lived.

In the meantime, buses were departing for the outing with office membersSeveral girl friends looked for Marion but couldn't find her. It was learned ater that she had (Continued on page 6, eol. 5) Haugwitz-Reventlow, who announced yesterday he would set foot on English soil some time today, had apparently changed his mind. Following his 26-year-old wife's action yesterday in obtaining a court order for the temporary custody of curly-haired Lance, the Count, who left here two weeks ago, decided to remain arother ten days in Paris. There, it was revealed, Countess Barbara's father, Franklyn Hutton of New York, was nervously attempting to find a solution to his daughter's problem.

At noon today, he had luncheon Franc: M. Carroll Father of Dwyer's ex-sweetheart, now held on morals charge. tober, but has since recanted his confession, naming another man as 'the real slayer." Shortly after Mrs. Dwyer appeared, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls, who ordered the case reopened after hearing Dwyer's story, brought two unidentified girls, one about 15 and the other 10, into an anteroom and talked with them.

Carroll Prepared to Fight. Ingalls gave no indication what Miss Carroll's testimony might have been. Her father, a former deputy sheriff of Oxford County who. is being held in $20,000 bond on a morals charge involving the girl, said he would fight any ef with the Count, whose mother has joined him in his temporary exile, (Continued on page 7, col. 1) i for Girl Scouts, which has.