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} To Be Sure of Gett ing The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer [* Circulation Books Open to AIL. | Circulation Books Open to All.” | SAP ET i. Sereigen es OUISVILLE WOMAN FIRED SHOT AT EL WELL 16 YEARS . 60" UAT 2 Vou | LX. NO. 21,460—DAILY. 'e. (The Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Ci New York World). NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920. Entered na Second~ ‘Post Office, New Matter York, N. Ys PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK COLLEGE SENIOR SHOT 10 DEATH BY FELLOW STUDENT ‘Victim Followed Into Frater- nity House of Dartmouth After Quarrel. SLAYER TAKES FLIGHT. \ Caught on Train for Boston, He Admits Shooting— » Claims Self Defense. , HANOVER, N. H., June 16.—Henry B Maroney, of West Medford, Mass... ‘a senior at Dartmouth College, was t and idled during a quarrel at his s in the Theta Delta Chi Fra- ity house early to-day by Robert . Meads, of La Grange, Ill. a junior. Meads, after being arrested on a Boston-bound train, betwen Cangan and Franklin, admigted the sho! said he had been drinking, and a: gerted he fired in self-defence. He wired hig father, A. H. Meads of -Chicago, to come here and defend him. Stories of the trouble differ. The college authorities say it grew out of ‘a call on Meads early this morning, by a group of three students, includ- ing Maroney, who bad been sitting up reviewing studies in preparation for examination to-day, They entered Meads's room in Massachusetts Hall, found that he resented the intrusion, and withdrew, Meads firing several shots to drive them off, according to their story to the college office. The men said they thought the shooting was “movie stuff,” and théy laughed and went out. Subsequently, Meads pursued Ma- ney, they said, entered his room at the Fraternity House and, after a quarrel, fired, killing him almost in- stantly. Meads fled. ‘Accompanied by Erwin T. Wels of Hull, Ala. a fellow junior, Meads said later, he walked to Masooma, and there boarded the train for Boston, ‘Weis returning to Hanover, where he was detained as a witness, Meads was caught on the train by Deputy Cheriff Claude M. Murray of Fronk- lin, to whom he surrendered an auto- ‘matic pistol. Meads, in the county jail at Frank~- Mn, told the sheriff that a party of students went to his room early this morning to obtain liquor, He had poured several drinks from # quart bottle of whiskey, he said, when the men sprang on him and took the bot- tle away. He said he went after it, found Maroney in his room, quarieled nd, in self-defense, firde President Ernest M. Hopkins stated t he was certain that Maroney had ot been drinking, and that all his in- estigutions convinced him that the ad tnan had not touched intoxicat- Ing liquors since his return to college st tall. Maroney was twenty-five years of age, a graduate of Medford High School with the class of 1913, and the gon of Mr. and Mrs, James E. Ma- roney. Meads, a youth of twenty- two, served with t aval Aviation Service at Pensacola during the war June 16.—Henry son of West Medford Inc., nd oils, MEDFORD, Mass., B. Maroney was the James E. Maroney « r uf John BF oldest ‘Henry was born in Now Haven, Con, and was graduated from the Medford High School and Phillips Handover Academy During the war ign in the Navy ho served as an ¢ and for nie moths was eng the Overseas Transport Serv ag Pres Dramatic Cat Dartmouth, brother, Maroney, is a freshman at lege, and active in athletics Jiis father and his mother, recovering from an illness, “tor Hanover ( this noon, THE WoRLD TRAVEL. Puliiaes (World) cy] Wi ater | the col- who is left BUREAU. ON OHIO 6,0 Soap Manufacturer Often “Milked” by Leaders. Who Now Look for More. IS PARTY’S EASY MARK. Thinks Money Can Get Any- thing, but Has Failed to Get an Office. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CITY, Col. June 16.—A manufacturer of lacteal s that he gets his cows, Cok William Cooper Procter of Cincin~ nati, who financed the campaign which did not get the nomination for Gen, Leonard Wood in Chicago, has acquired the reputation of be- ing the “contented cow” of the Re- publican Party. Men who are in Position to know say that Col. Proo ter has yielded to the Republicans of Ohio clogs to $1,500,000 in past years and that the Wood campaign will have cost’ him $750,000 by the time all bills are paid, But the Colonel is waiting to be “milked” again, and the Republican Party of Ohio numbers among its leaders several who are planning to do the milking in the interests of Senator Harding, although Harding opposed Wood in the Ohio primaries. Those who know Col. Procter say all the milkers have to do 1s persuade the Colonel they have something that can be put over with the ald of money, and he will come across, if the project 1s Republican, BELIEVES MONEY CAN BUY ANYTHING. Procter believes, according to Ohioans who have seen him milked, and occasionally assisted at the oper- ation, that money will buy anything. He believed that by the use of money in an extended publicity campaign he could “sell” Gen, Wood to the Repub- lican Party just as he sells !vory soap and crisco to the public, His friends say that he can't understand yet how the scheme ran off the track, but wise explainers are framing up reasons to satisfy him, and he js apparently not hard to satisfy, which makes him such an admirable contented cow, By birth and environment Col Procter has come naturally to the belief which {s entertained by nearly all men of his class, that anything can be bought with money. Before he grew uncle had made a tremendous suc- cess of the Procter & Gamble Soap Works. Col. Cooper Procter assumed the manage- ment of the soap factory and there (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) —— Bix (G) Bell-Ans, hot water, Sure re- Mel. For indigestion. Don't forget.—Advt, [Important ! Classified. advertising copy tor The Sunday World should be tn the World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication arly copy receives the preference when Sunday advertising !. 1+ lu b omitted, Late advertising 1a now omitted for lack of tine to set It. THE WORLD, to manhood his father and) On the death of his father William | Classified Advertisers ||’ ‘$1,500,000 SPENT BY PROCTER P. BEFORE HE ‘TOOK UP GEN. WOOD'S FIGHT WOMAN WITH BABY GIRL WINS HIGHEST HONOR IN COLLEGE Covers Four Years’ Course in Three, Takes Care of Child and Does All Her Housework. CHICAGO, June 16. HE highest honors among qe the 878 persons graduated to-day from Northwestern University were awarded to-day to Mrs. Howard Van 8. Tracy of Evanston, who took her baby daughter to college with her and completed the four year course in three years, was graduated with She said she planned to return for her master’s degree, Besides going to college and earing for her baby, Mrs. Tracy did all her own housework. The baby wae bern four months after the mother entered college in the pata tei “Some One Will Have to Pay When I am Exonerated,” Declares Fitzgerald. ened him if he did not answer ques- tions, chauffeur at the Caruso household in East Hampton, L. I, where the recent theft of $500,000 worth of jewels oc- curred, to-day said that he will spend every cent he has to exonerate him- welt. “And when I am exonerated some- body wil] have to pay for it. This George Fitzgerald, the chauffeur added Fitzgerald was arrested yesterday had been home,” following a secret hearing before Jus- It was ex- taken tice of the Peace Sherrill, plained that this action was | simply to prevent the possibility Fitzgerald leaving the jurisdiction of the court for the John Doe hearing to be held Friday in East Hampton zgerald sald this action was taken because he displeased detectives by | engaging counsel “I did that because I saw they were trying to fasten it on me,” ho said, “and I wanted to protect mysel! against being framed.” The technical charge is violation of the Sullivan law, On the night of the theft, Fitzgerald fired two bullets in the direction he thought the thieves had taken. The revolver, he asser ed had been given to him by Mr Ca could protect said he n uso so he the household nerd a permit honorary partment, At noon to-day Fitzgerald sent the following cable to Mr. Carusc “Arrested for having gun y me, Madam refused to go my bail." her ne uldn't a8 her husband is n the pullec She we captain he deelar ou gave — D RESTAURANT Siegdaye dup 20, 1920 Bintan letter CARUSO CHAUFFEUR HELD FOR INQUIRY, CRIES “FRAME-UP” Charging that he had been “framed” by detectives who, he said, had threat-/ wouldn't have occurred tf Mr, Caruso an | de. FOUR AUTO BANDITS HOLDING UP BAKERY ROUTED BY WOMAN Fights Armed Men Who Shot and Robbed Her Husband As He Purchased. Rolls. CASH REGISTER RIFLED. Highwaymen Escape in Lim- ousine Without License Tag —Police Mum on Robbery. Mrs. Delia Murray of No. 204 West S4th Street, attacked and put to flight four auto bandits armed with eight revolvers, who early this morn- ing held up the Fairbanks Bakery, No. 688 Columbus avenue and robbed the clerk and Mrs. Murray's hus- band. __ It wag. a large limousine from which the license number tag had been removed, drew up in front of the bakery, in which Mrs. Murray and her husband, Stephen, were buying rolls for their breakfast. The chauffeur remained at the wheel of the machine, Five you.g men jumped out. Each of them car- ried two revolvers. One remained on the sidewalk and four ran into the bakery, pointed revolvers at Joseph Schwartban, the clerk, and Mr. and Mrs. Murray. One of the robbers another pocket. Mrs. Murray grabbed the man who had robbed her husband, The rob- ber's companions pointed their re- volvers at the courageous woman and | threatened to kill her. She defled'them |and struggled with the robber she had seized. Murray jumped into the |scrimmage and one of the robbers fired at him, The bullet struck Mur- ray in the foot and his wife released the bandit she was struggling with and went to her husband's aid, The four robbers ran from the bakery and jumped into the limousine, which sped south to 92d Street and then turned west. Policeman James McGarr of the West 100th Street Station was at 97th Street when he heard the shot. He jumped into a taxi and told the driver to chaae the machine, which he could see starting away from the curb in front of the bakery. When the taxi reached 92d Street and Broadway, the limousine had disap- peared. At the West 100th Street Police Sta- tion, the desk leutenant declared he had heard nohing about a holdup in the district, and knew nothing about the ambulance being called to attend Murray. took $19% from Murray's ‘| HARDING WRITES A LETTER TO WOOD Admits Embarrassment in Not Knowing What the Victor Should Say to the Vanquished, WASHINGTON, 16. Harding to-day following let- ter to Major ¢ . Leonard Wood in reply to the latter's telegram of con- gratulation “I do not know quite how to express feelings in dictating an acknow!- edgment to one nder my who was a co |for the distinction which came to me | Perhaps I shall express myself suf- ficlently If I say that had the distine tion come to you instead of me, 4 | should have found very great pleasure and satisfaction In conveying to you a very cordial message of felicitation ind good wishes “I know that we are both Interested in the same great good to our common country and I feel confident that you will be very deeply interested in bring- ing about @ restoration of a Republ » Party administration in Washington and a return to the Constitutional methods of government which were the concept of the founding e | took $75 from the cash register and| Elwell did not press the case and for Elwell. horses. LONG BEACH HOUSE SOLD BY ELWELL ‘Whist Expert Had Handsome Place as Well as Yacht Until Two Years Ago. Joseph Bowne Elwell owned a large, modern and very handsome house on Penn Street, between Walnut and Laurlton Avenues, Long Beach, L. 1. which he had built for himself several years ago, and which he used for week- end visits unt!l about two years ago, when the British butler who had been in charge went into the army. Elwell, say the neighbors in the vicinity of this house, then closed the place and later disposed of it, together with vir- tually all of bis other holdings in Long Beach, ‘The house was a large concrete structure with all the modern equip- ment and artistic furnishings with which Elwell loved to surround him- self. He kept several automobiles in the garage and a cruising yacht with auxiliary engine near at hand. So fr as can! be learned in the nelghborhood he had few women vis\- tors at his Long Beach house, Lately Disposed of Property Worth More Than $100,000 —Feared “Going Broke.” Conflicting statements by the fam ily and friends of Joseph B. Elwell as to the probable amount of his estate have added anotther totich of mystery to the case- After talking with Elwell's father and mother and Attorney Alexander McCurdy of the law firm of Davies, Auerbach & Cornell, who filed the will for probate, District Attorney Swann to-day announced that they believe the estate will not excced $15,000. Walter Elwell, brother of the s n, shortly before his parents visi to the District Attorney, sald the es- tate would be valued at least $500,000. ‘The widow has for several years been out of touch with Elwell’s finan. cial affairs, so cannot speak definitely regarding them. It learned that Iwell conducted his Florida real es- tate deals through the Long Boach Realty Company, a New York corpo- ration, of which his chauffeur was wi WOMAN FIRED SHOT AT ELWELL IN LOUISVILLE 16 YEARS AGO; CASE WAS NOT PROSECUTED Slain Man Was In Lexington the Night of May 28 Last and Left Following Morning Without Paying Bill (Special to The Evening World.) LEXINGTON, Ky., June 16. years ago, Joseph Bowne Elwell, HILE in Louisville sixteen x who was mysteriously murdered in New York, was fired at by an unidentified woman while he was standing in front of the Galt House, according to the Louisville police, They added that No arrests were made. Elwell came to Lexington the night of May 28 and after spending the hight at the hotel left in the morning without paying his bill. Elwell came here last fall from Palm Beach, and not finding a place to winter his horses, appealed to Edward R. Bradley, millionaire horseman, who had known him In New York, and Bradley wintered the racers. Bradley also got Lloyd Gentry, former Bradley jockey, to train Elwell played whist at the Lexington clubs and made many friends among society people, but had no entanglement with women. He came here alone. He had no record here as a gambler, and the only sporting proclivities exhibited were a fondness for whist and visits to hia yace He was never seen here with a strange woman, and did nothing that would connect him with anything unusual. | are ary ORIN for in the South, ELWELLS Wirt TOSUEH Planned Action at His Request —Slain Man’s Family to Provide for Her. Mrs. Helen Derby Elwell, widow of Joseph Bowne Elwell, admitted at her home, No, 1186 Lexington Avenue, this morning that she had agreed some time before her husband's mur- der to begin divorce proceeding! “About a month ago,” she sald, “Mr. Elwell wrote me asking me to gue for divorce and saying quite plainly that I had ample ground and would have little difficulty in obtatn- Ing my freedom from him, He added ‘ ELWELL ESTATE VALUE VARIES FROM ONLY $15,000 TO $500,000; CREATED $200,000 TRUST FUND siven as secretary, This was done by selwell so his wife would not have to be asked to sign deeds, Elwell's racing interests, centred in the Beach Stables, are said on good authority to represent an investment of about $100,000, Settlement of the estate probably will bring $25,000 or $20,000 from this source. Sunny Slope, the horse that cost Elwell $25,000, and was the best in his string, recently went lame, This and other circum stances may reduce value of the stable. Walter Elwell, brother of the mur. dered man, eaid to-day he was sure his brother left more than $500,000. In addition to any other property Walter yell declared, there is a trust fund of $200,000, paying $10,000 a year, created by Elwell to guard against his “going Ke." Elwell's home at Street the tangible was not owned by him, He rented it at $1,800 a year. e conditions of the trust provided $2,000 a year of the income should go to Elwell’s father and $8,000 & year to himself, In @ vault opened after his murder, (Continued on Second Page.) >». 244 Weat Toth | HAD AGREED IMFOR DIVORCE that I need not worry over money matters as he was prepared to settle 4 certain yum upon me for life which would be sufficient to care for me and for my boy. “after thinking the matter over I wrote hit that I agreed to his sug- gestion, ns there was no longer any love between us and that in view of al} the circumstances a divorce would be the best thing for all converned. | I told him that after the divorce was granted, which probably would have | been next fall, I intended to go West with my son.” Referring to money matters, Mra, | Elwell said she was no longer worried | about them “At Mr- Elwell's funeral I mot his father, who patted mo on the shoulder and told me not to worry as he intended to take Care of me and of Rohard,” she sald. ‘That little talk cheered mo up immensely, 1 want to contradict reports that “here has been friction between Mr, El- well's family and myself., There has been nothing of the sort. Mrs. Elwell sald her son might go to work this summer, but she Is con- fident that by timo school opens in the fall she will be able to send him back to Andover. She declined to liscuss the probable action of her at- torney regarding a contest of her husband's will, saying that was a matter for the lawyer to decide. Walter Plwell, brother of the mur- dered man, announced to nowspape: nen this morning that at a family unference held last night the decis- jon had been reached to make ‘am- ple provision” for Mrs, Helen Elwell und her son Richard, KRAUS DECREE NOT FILED. Judge Has Signed Final Pape However, Secretary Say WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., June 16.—~ divorce hus not yet been filed in the suit of Viola Kraus von Schlegell axainat Victor vou chiegell, tt was declared to-day by Deputy County Clerk Frank Coffey. Ii Vight not be fled for several weeks, ry to Supreme Court Jus- A pking sald that the Jus tice did not have the pa but hac signed the final decre papers had | case: n file in th It shows that Arthur ML Johnsun was appointed as referee on Jan, 19% 1920, wet wer [MAN SEEN BY TWO SISTERS LEAVING SCENE OF MURDER; MRS. ELWELL GOES 10 HOUSE Letter From 2 “Annie” Fo Found in Vic- tim’s Room Reveals Motive for Killing by Kentuckian—Swann Starts New Inquiry of Own. THRER CENTS | New vigor has been put into the search by the police for the two girly who saw an elderly man with a Panama hat leave the nouse of Joseph Bowne Elwell a few minutes after the discovery of the , body of the whist expert and racing man ina chair in his drawing room, he police were at first inclined to be sceptical of the story of the * P, sisters, but it was accompanied by such circumstantial, detail that the mt ie Vestigalors now believe their testimony is one of thé mast important links” in the chain they are endeavoring to weld about the man the detectives. District Attorney Swann {# con: vineed that it was the father or ‘brother of a.young girl in Lexington, Ky., who killed Elwell to avenge the wrong he had dono to her.. The Dis- < trict Attorney claims. to know the name of the girl, having found a let-* ter from her to Elwell in the mystery house which told of their relations, All the information the investigators’ will give out for publication is that, the letter was signed “Annie,” Tt ts also suid me nena Sa phoned to the Elwell house yesterday that the father or brother of “Annie” hal bought a ticket for New York at Lexington one day last week. The letter found in the house was hot one of those which was left at the? door by Postman Torey on the morn- * ing of the murder, but had been re- evived some days previous to Friday. The information of the detectives is that Elwell made @ butried trip from Lexington not long vefore he was killed. REPORTED FRIEND TRIED TO WARN ELWELL, The District Attorney {is investi- gating a report that some friend of the murdered turfman made frantia efforts to reach him by telephone early In the morning of the murder, doubtless to warn hum that his Nem- esis was in the city and to put him on his guard, It Is sald that the efforts continued until after 3,30 v'clock, nearly two hours ‘before Elwell reached bis -home, District Attorney Swann is not eat- (fled with the manner in which the investigation of the murder has been conducted and has taken personal charge of it. He said this afternoon that he intended, personally, to ex- «mine all the witnesses and go over the whole case again, He started this afternon by having in his oMca Joseph C, and Walter Elwell, facher snd brother of the murdered man’ und the attorney of the latter, Mr. Swann has summoned aleo Bd ~ ward Rhodes, Elwell's chauffeur; Marie Larsen, his housekeeper, and William Barnes, the valet and secre- tary. “The withesses,” said the Prosecu- tor, “must answer fully or I may haye to Invoke the ald of the Grand Jury which ts now in session.” Mrs, Helen Derby Elwell, the mur- lered man’s widow, ts deing ques- ioned by the investigators at the West 70th Street house, It was the irst time that she had ever been in » her late husband's home, The girls for whom the police have been looking for the last five days, claimed to have seen Mrs. Marie Lar-* sen, the Elwell housekeeper, when, she told Policeman Singer of her dis-- covery of the unconscious form of OR