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The murderer of

The murderer of Nancy Evans Titterton must have been a stranger to her in the opinion of Dorothea Brandy,

the noted teacher of writing, who knew her mind as well as anybody could.

The technique devised by Miss Brandy to induce self-searching and fluency of expression

has placed her in the role of confessor and psychoanalyst to the scores of riders who have been her pupils.

It requires the pupil for a given number of exercises to set down immediately upon

rising everything that comes to mind.

Miss Brandy is in possession of a dozen such exercises of stream of consciousness by the murdered rider.

Said Miss Brandy, quote, I cannot, of course, make them public. That would be violating the

confidence placed in me by my pupils. But I can say, from my knowledge of her writings, that this terrible thing could not have arisen

out of Nancy's own life, but must have been something external.

It seems so fortuitous to happening.

That is why one can't trace it.

There is nobody definite to look for.

Mrs. Titterton took a course of 12 evening sessions with Miss Brandy last spring and was to have enrolled again this spring, but lost

contact with Miss Brandy because the teacher had moved, from West 11th Street to East 59th Street in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge.

Said Miss Brandy, quote,

I found her an extremely well-poised and balanced person.

She was so remarkably fair-minded to her fiction characters that it was something of a handicap.

Most writers have a slant on their characters favorable or unfavorable but she was so fair to them that her work was not as

dramatic as it might otherwise have been I don't believe I ever saw a morbid note in

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