The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1920, Page 2

nih hls grip to go to the “Rubbe: it im Atlantic City, he President of a rubber com- He found his car out of order ‘borrowed the car of a friend Edson. At the last minute his ‘Ar was repaired and he used 11 ‘(0 OF MURDER THE FOL- LOWING MORNING. Morgan, N. J, the car broke and he put it in « garage and to Red Bank by train, reaching He City at 11.30 Friday night. read of the tragedy the next morn- at breakfast, attended the con- t! and returned to Morgan for ‘ear, which be drove back, arriv- Uh last night. - © He eaid, according to Mr. Joyce, tha | he had never had a quarrel with i} and that he has only the kind- feeling for his former wife. He aid he was glad she got a decree, and the only trouble was he had © Been @ bachelor so long when he mar- " see ‘he could not get over his bachelor "> Mr. ana Mrs, Von Schlegel! were ©) marriea tour or five years ago and | Separated a year ago. A divorce was granted and Mrs, Von Schlegoll re- her maiden name. She and had been seen frequently to- and it was rumored in cer- quarters were engaged to bo 7 married. Elwell’s closest friends, it Ea ‘Sppears, were under the impression _ that he and his wife were divorced, ‘and it did not develop until after his that they were merely living ‘The Rits-Cariton affair, the inves- ‘Cgatore did not learn until last night, | * Was a “divorce party” celebrating > Miss Kraus’s freedom. On learning this, Assistant District | ‘Attorney Joyce last night at 9 o'clock fmvited to the dead man's home all the iiving members of the “divorce party” in hope of getting a better line, where Elwell went after leaving | oe party at Seventh Avenue and 424 | Street at 2 A. M. Friday, The Lewi- gohns and Miss Kraus were accom- panied by their lawyer, Lyttleton _ @voted him as saying he would spend | th fortune to bring about the arrest * of Elwell's murderer, Mr. Fox re: fused to make any statement on : ven Schlegel! had arrived with two Getectives before the Lewisohn party ton of the others continuing on the ‘DETECTIVES USING PROCESS OF 4 ELIMINATION. ‘The police are now giving consider- © “able attention to the similarity of the | miurder of Elwell to that of Frederick aseassin who waited in his luxurious bachelor apartment in Hoboken, N. J. | ‘were many elements about the “Rueckert murder similar to those of > Elwell’s slaying—women, photographs, dinners, drives and theatr: parties. * ‘Rueckert was slain on hie return from a theatre party in the early {morning as'Blwelt wat, Rueckert, a _) naturalized American, was conspic- uous during the war for his activities ‘egainst German propagandists and apies; Miwell was a German spy unter as @ momber of the American fssociation; The mystery of Rueck- ert’s murder has never been cleared Time wiwell case tnvestigators have st ‘working out an elimination pro- Te yeeding out possible acquaint. Seances who might have slain him, Yo but have deen throwing into the discard such witnesses as they are ) > @atisfied have given them all the in- ‘formation they possess. Among the | “Matter are. Mrs. Marie Larsen, the | hhouseeeper; Willam Barnes, El- ‘well's secretary, and Edward Khodes, | b the chauffeur, Assistant District At- | \torney Joyce said he believec they had given all the information they pers ond. that they are eager to assist | » ip every Way in clearing up the mys- ® similar elimination process y of the stories and clues have diaproved or abandoned. In- tigation hus revealed that Elwell ery careful man in his de with women. Apparently he x yed all his letters. The only ~ ones found were those received with- short time of his death, and they of consequence, Dink silk lingerie found yester- ed useless as a clue, be- ere is no way to tell how ae it had lain away tn @ box. It| have been merely a sentimental | had had for years. of Elwell’s friends thought a} of his home would disclose is of scented missives, pos. filing case filled with them, nothing 6) oe Se surprising thing was there wae hong eds . t One is that the bullet that ‘went through Elwell’s head instead sree at 8 A. ot Friday aot] ELWELL WILL FILED EVERYTHING LEFT TO HIS PARENTS Document Which Was Drawn In January, 1915, Ignores Wife and Son Entirely. HE will’ of Joseph Bowne Elwell was filed at noon to-day with Clerk Daniel A. Dowdney of the Surrogate's Court, as was directed yesterday by Surrogate Cohalan’ when the order was given to open Elwell's @trong box. The will is comprised in three arflctes. The first reads: “L give all my property, real and personal, unto my parents, Joseph 8, Elwell and Jennie A. Elwell, equally, share and share alike, or to the survivor of them absolutely, in case either of them shall predecease me.” Article 2 makes the father and Alfred H, Cafparrey executors of the estate and requires no bond of them. Article 3 says: “I hereby revoke and cancel any and all former or other wills by me at any time made.” The will was signed on Jan. 11, 1915, and was witnessed by Mil- ton M. Rosenberg of No. 457 Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn, and Hala Lack of No. 219 West Slet Street, New York City. oe of the arsenal and the date of man- ufacture i” The fact that the cartridge had been ejected is accepted as proof it ‘was fired from an automatic, It is the belief of the police that if a re- volver had been used the murderer would have carried the shell with him, as it would have required spe- cial action to remove it. One thing that puzules the police is why the murderer did not pick up the shell and take it away, Instead of leaving it as a possible clu The telephone company haa c! up one other point.by its records. No one walled Elwell over the telephone that morning. — in run down other leads, the investigators hi found no one who bi and were unable to locat “At every angie in U confronted with indisputable proot fact that Elwell was slain by man who nursed for the gambler a grudge that had its inception in his We have eli friends of the slain man, and we think that the narrowing circle of our investi- gation is in ing the slayer.” NEVER SAW BUT ONE WOMAN VISITOR AT HOUSE. » “I came to Mr. Kiwell us bis house- keeper jast October,” guid Marie Lar- “He may have known many he may not. | can't say as Personally, all 1 know is that | never heard the names of any womea with whom he was acquaint- ed, Only once in the entire time that 1 have been here have | ever known ® woman to enter the house, That was some weeks before Mr. Elwell was murdered, “The doorbell rang one afternoon. I was working is the kitchen, I went BS open the door and found that Mr, well had got downstairs jbefore I had left the kitchen, He admitted a woman. 1 don’t know who she was, She and Mr, Elwell ha. luncheon to- gether and the. left the house.” Mrs. Larsen asserts positively that when she arrived both the outer and inner doors to the Elwell home were locked, She is contradicted in this by the testimony of Torey, the mail man; Otter, the milkman and the newspaper delivercr, who called at the house between 630 and 7.25 A, M. These men say that when they reached the house the outer door leading to the vestibule was ‘un- lock The milk, mall and papers were placed by these men in the vestibule. William Barnes, Elwell's secretary and valet, gave the detectives an in- timate outline ot his employer's ac- tivities in the card rooms of ‘the city gramme. Not only have they been| ong at race tracks. From nothing that Barnes told «hem, the police way, have they been able to get the sUghtest aid in solving the murdi adding they were convinced Elwell and his slayer were alone in the house several hours prior to the murder. No reason is given by the detectives for this theory. The belief is that the murderer met Elwel! in the darkened house when the gambler entered, probably an hour or #0 before daylight. As Elwell flashed on the light, the theory is, be was confronted by a man wit whom he was well acquainied and who, for some reason, he feared. and Elwell, it is believed, mounted tho stairs to the gamble: bedroom, where they discuawed the affair that brought the visitor tq the house, The discussion was under wi it believed, when the post. ma ed the house, that Elwell descended the stairs to get his mail and was seated in the reception hall reading @ letter from one of his ables when the visitor, w! ing, shot Elwell, The police say that If the men had quarrelied and the slayer had shot in anger, there would have been more than one exploded cartridge shell on the floor when Elwell's body awas found, BRITISH OBJECTIONS TO'U. S. MARINE LAW WASHINGTON, June 15,-~-Britiah objections to the enforcement of the new American merchant ‘marine act which Premier Lioyd George indicated in Parliament yesterday as likely to be ‘of embedding itself in the wall struck | the subject of formal representations to wi ail and landed on the mahogany & more careful examination " showed the cartridge shell found in room was not made for the Inited States Army, as first sup- ¢ The only marking was that the manufacturer, Capt. William Ld formerly pistol expert of the ‘al e] bal i. ‘ork Police Department, said the State Department are understood ia beside the body. The other isto be based principally upon two sece | tons of the measure. The firat prohibits the carrying of merchandise in other than American ships between American ports, via @ foreign port. This would stop the car- riage of freight between points in the United States and Alaska over the AN-ARMY CARTRIDGE, EX- PERT DECLARES. three weapons in which been fired, the Colts esson re- A Canadian raliroad ines or in Canadian ships, are has grown into a business the Preat- dent to terminate, as soon as that can done under their terms, all Tek t it of the Unit patory dui ~ |ton Street, Hoboken, on the morning RUECKERT WILL (Cress LEAVES ALL. 10 §, M. RUMBOUGH Neither Miss Vorrach nor Miss . Trask Mentioned by Mur- dered Manufacturer. ‘The will of Frederick C. Rueckert, Vice President of the White Metal Company of Hoboken, who was found dying from a bullet wound in ‘is apartment at No. 1127 Washing- of May 9, was fled with Surrogate James F. Norton, Jersey City, his afternoon, It leaves the entire estate of the murdered man to his “friend Stanleigh M, Rumbough,” an official of the White Metal Company, who lives at No. 108 Bust 82d Street, Contrary to the reports current im+ mediately after tho death of Rueckert, the will doesnot mention either Clara} Q%F]() E. Vorrach, who lives at Garden and Tenth Streets, Hoboken, or Mae Trask, who disputed Miss Vor- rach’s claim to be engaged to the murdered business man, Th6 will was drawn by Attorney Alfred Frankenthaler of this city while Rueckert was dying in St. Mary's Hospital and was witnessed ‘by George and Alfred Frankenthaler; Harry Vorravth, brother of Clara: Wiliam Roltman and Charles A. Fulle, President of the White Metal Company, Although Rueckert had a mother, two brothers and two sisters living in Germany, no provision was made for thom in the will, but friends say they understand arrangement was made with Rumbough to care for Rueckert's relatives abroud, ‘This method was adopted, It was said, to avoid dim: culties which might arise over the Alien Enemy Property Act, this coun- try being still officialy at war with Germany. COUNTESS'’S PICTURE NOT AMONG THOSE IN ELWELL’S HOME ter Declares, and Concemed Bridge (Whist Only. By Fay Stevenson. The beautiful nineteen-year-old sis- ter of Countess Sonia Szaniawska and Mra. L, Hardy, whose pictures it has been intimated were among the El- well collection, denied to-day that this is true, “Neither of my sisters’ pictures were amon; the «focts found in the Eiwell home,” said the Countess's sister, who is not only very beautiful but extremely shy. “You wil) just have to call me the jJatter’s apartment, No, 11 West 52d Street. “We do not like all this notoriety and my sister's maiden name or my name must not be made public. However, I will say that both my sisters were very much annoyed when it was suid that their pictures were in Mr. Elwell's home, “Both of my sisters play bridge whist and I have heard them tell many times that they played with) Mr, Elwell.” “Did they ever mention anything | him, about the Way he dressed or the typ of man he was?” L asked this bew tifui dark-eyed, dainty girl. “They used to day Mr, Klwoll was Just like an Englishman in his man- ner of dress,” replied the Countéss's sister, “that he Was always correct (ud Very la .idious, he always wore Just the right thing and in just the right way. “Lt have rd them tell what a splendid host he made, what a charm- ng manner he had and what excel- lent taste he had jn the color schemes he used in his, hqgme furnishings. have been told also that Mr. Elwell had a very beautiful villa at Long Weach. That there he entertained many society poople over the week- end and that the villa was one of the most elaborate homes of the beach. Hand-earve? woodwork, hand-painted eilings, beautiful thirrors in every room and on every door are rome of the features of this beautiful place “My sisters are both out playing xolf,”” ec tinued the Countess's sister, “and they will probably scold me for talking and telling the few things I know about Mr. Elwell through them, They have been called the most beau- tiful women in New York, the most Intellectual and the most charming, Were among a group of many other wemen collected by the late Mr. El.) well, when the fact is they scurcely knew the man.” 2 DEAD, 40 HURT IN SANTA FE WRECK Accident to California Limited 12 Miles South of La Junta— Injured Will Recover. LA JUNTA, Col., June 15.—Two per- sons were killed to-day when the Cali- fornia Limited train, eastbound, on the Santa Fe Rallroad was wrecked at Kene, Col., twelve miles south of here, At Santa Fe Hospital here it was an- nounced that forty injured had een given treatment, Most of those hurt, it} was sald, would recover, + The dead are: Dr, Harden, address un- | ihown; negro chet of dining ear, pt eae ese ELWELL CASE STRIKINGLY LIKE FRITZ RUECKERT MYSTERY Section View of Mystery House Where Elwell Was Found Murdered OF ELWELL LEFT TO PARENTS; WILL IGNORES WIDOW AND SON ESTATE Countess's sister,” she said at the| BANDITS GUILTY, __ POLICE PRAISED (Continued from Page One.) to the theory that an ex-soldier mur? i dered her husband: “The person who murdered Mr. | Elwell was intimately acquainted with The, reason I feel true ig that my husband was very affected and Was always striving to impress others. He had two natures, one for his acquaintances and the other for his intimates. made enemies, for he has always in volved himself with other women, most certainly would never have r celved an acquaintance in the attire | in which he was found dead. “A newspaper man Alexander Sokas and Alexander Bod- €anoff, both of No. 518 Hast 11th Street, pleaded gullty to robbery before County Judge Gibbs in the Bronx to-day and were sentenced to not less than five ears nor more than ten years’ impris- onment in ing Sing, The men were arrested after a run- ning fight with the police on May 5 last, when they attempted to roy thé clothing establishment | Street and Third Avenue, by binding the Nathan Bergman. summoned help by kicking a clothing dummy through a plate glass window. Policemen Blake; and Murphy of the Alexander Avenue Station chased the robbers, One they arrested after a race and revolver bat- tle for more than a mile. was pried out of an alrshaft with crow- vars. ‘The third escaped. Judge Gibbs praised the* police and would recommend He must hav. informed me Wlwell's turf friends had) made remarks about how seldom he was seen with women. easily understand permitted women interfere with and his business was fam- bling. It is quite possible be led life which was apart from the life he led with his sporting friends. people knew him afraid that those fow led into that friendship to their cost “Yes, I have eked out my allow- who did were “itizens of the, locality recently gave a pr to the four policemen and pre- nied watches and fobs to them. HUSBAND’S MEMORY HAZY OVER VOWS whist,” ‘she said when bhe saw the and you can imagine their dismay interviewer glance at the card forms when It was asserted thelr pletures|on the shelf of a nearby table, spite the fact of my husband's repu- tation as an authority, which is really my own, I have retained gome little prominence as an authority on this} That the day of marniage left such an indistinct memory that he was even “In case my husband's estate ‘as to the city it was in Is the not all it should be I stall continue giving lessons and T am also making notes for another book I shall write This one, however, will No. 350 West 55th Street, in an answer- ing aMdavit to Mrs. Mary butkin’s ap- peal for a reopening of proceedings at- tending her action for separation. Lutking is Vice President of the ‘Theo- dore Is Lathins Company, leather im- porters @nd exporters of No. 40 Spruce {about whist \be published under m: The book really should a change in the values of the game the books I wrote | Which brought so much money to Mr. jhas antiquated “Not go long Ago I’asked his per- write a supplementary book on those already written, and I asked for half of the royalties, told me to go ahead and write the book, but that 1 would not get another "said she called up the father of her Lutkins obtained a separation from her husband on June §, 1912. The court awarded her $120 a month, this amount was reduced to $15 a week by the Appellate Division, tion both parties said thelr marriage took place in Haboke Joseph 8, Piweil, usband, at his home in Rid, the date, Nov. ‘The wife wants more than $15 her in the dispo- latkins sald in an anewering af- 1920. f SULZER PROTESTS “VILLAGE” CHANGE Former Governor Against Plan to Tear Down Greenwich Apart- ments for Theatre, Borough President Curran devoted a large pant of to-day to a sécond heal ing of the question whether the @ro- posed Sheridan Square Theatre pro- moters shall be permitted to tear down apartment houses to make room for their theatre, Projectors of the theatre ask that the south side of Sheridan Square tbe changed from a residence to a Wusiness zone. Among those who opposed the change were former Goy. William Sulzer, Mrs. Vindimir G. Simphovitch, Rose Pastor Stokes and many persons who have dived ail their lives and own. thelr Tomes in this, the Greenwich Village section, 3. Jay Kaufman suggested that this e city was more suitable for a “temple of art” than for homes. He referred to it as a most unsultable Both Lived Alone and Were Pound Cabarets in Search of Dead in Their Homes in Dry Law Violators. Eatly Morning, ‘The dry lid is clamped down tight in HERE are many points of | cniet prohibition Enforcément Agent, similarity between the | saa to-day. ‘Then he added: tmurder of Joseph Bowne “AN day yesterday squads of revenue Piwell and that of Fritz Ernest | men went from suloon to*suloon seek- Rueckert, who was mortally shot’ | ing’ viotatfons. They even changed his apartment in Hoboken their regular practice of entering cafes early on the morning of May 9 in pairs, and made the attetnpt singly, Bach mumer is still a mystery, defying all the skill of police and detectives to solve. Both Plwell and Rueckert lived [the driest spot in the city.” alone, the former separated Quigley inaugurated a new method from hig wife, the latter a bach- to-day in his drive, the effect of whicl elor, though engaged to be mar- | will be felt, he says, in hotels, Broad- Both were shot in their homes |oPsanized a ‘socicty squad,” These in. the early morning, the assas- sins fleeing without leaving 4 trace of identity. Elwell and Rueckert were es- | nd pecially fond of the companion- preying on strangers in the city and ship of women, In the rooms of each were found a number of Photographs of women. Women were frequent visitors in the homes of the two men. A pink silk kimono and toilet arti- oles usually employed by women were found in Elwell'’s home. Each man had a chauffeur who | * was among the last to see his | Nevins Street. master alive. He fined Dirt $5 or five days tn jail, Each had been in the-company | with a warning that the next time he of ‘women or a woma few hours of the ti shot to death. section for rearing children and ‘said that few of the residents there had children. reat RE Ee RUTGERS HONORS HOOVER. tor New York Men Alsos ‘at Women Gradaated, Herbert Hoover received the honor- ary degree of doctor of laws to-day at the commencement exercises of Rut- gers College, New Brunswick, N. J Other ‘honorary degrees were given to Supreme Court Justice Gilbert D. B, Hasbrouck, President “Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell, Joseph D. Allen of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Prepara- tory School and Dr. John Wyckoff of Manhattan, For the first time In the Mstory of the college two women re- geived graduation degrees. They arc Jessie G. Fiske of Manhattan and Ger- irude KE, MaePhergon pf Trenton, each taking the degree of Master of Science. Mr. Hoover and Justice Hasbrouck were the principal speakers this after: noon in B: Gymnasium. There tysnine graduates, Those from New York. Clty. we David M. Abt and Stephen Herben Manhattan, and Harold N. Neeley an: Jacques M, Stryker, Brooiclyn, pe aout SUES ACTOR FOR ALIMONY. = Mra, Ariine Peck Bien filed a suit in the Supremé Court yesterday to, recover $38,321 from her husband, Robert Tay- lor Bien, better know as Robert War- wick, the actor, She alleges the amount sued for represents alimony her hus- to pay since she ob. from ‘him In October ‘on the ground of desertion and upport. By the terms of the decree the actor Is required to pay his wife $260 a month, ‘They were tharried in 1902. Her father was Ferdinand W. Peck, a Chicago miiiiiona Killed in Fight Over 40 Cents, In a fight that resulted from an argu- ment over 40 cents Carmine Katchiano, aged forty, of No, 248 Palisade Avenue, Inion Hilt, N, J., was stabbed to death, was found in front of No, 650 treat, North Bergen. Luigi aged thirty-nine, of No. 1347 New Durham Avenue, North Bergeo was locked up on the charge df killing him, they were wed The place, he stated, was idboken, and the cir- he described sunatnere exroundine: “He hasn't any mo Eivsis‘tala ‘the [MURDER OF ELWELL |“SOCIETY SQUAD” - i IS LIKE THAT OF | |AFTER BOOTLEGGERS FRITZ RUECKERT Beau Brummels to Visit Hotels and f New York, John Quigley, Assistant to get drinks, Even this ruse failed. ‘They got the inevitable nod and ac- companying remark. ‘Nothing ‘doing,’ from the bartender, Only a few arrests were made. The Bronx proved to be way cabarcts and restaurants. 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