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spree ten Wir VIF Se = eee y .womam scream while he was waiting for the couple and that he blew his whistle, but that no polic sponded and that his fares came out re-entered the cab. had, “I'nt goin’ oe pulled the trigger. The bullpt entered his right lung) He s in Holy Kamily Ho»pital in a serious condition. James hai Pee | with to kill mys “IF” AND “WHY” BIGGEST WORDS IN ALL THEORIES — lJOHNT. DOOLING Wed who shortly before had a1 | DE BOWER FIGHTS WORKING TO SOLVE 1) f05'to nim ana sala: “sorry and | SUIT OF FORMER WIF ELWELL MYSTERY |«*!! the police: Mr. Elwell has been BOY SHOOTS SELF _ IN PLAY WITH CHUM fa not! He did not €0 oF Make & move, | Head of Alex: d Hamilton Insti | Brooklyn Truants Find Revolver In|‘ Fevo! Re IRS. LARSEN FOLLOWED POLICE | . i; ead of Alexander Hamilton Insti y swAncordt vy ine: $3 ABOUT ELWELL MYSTERY Store and ota nim to call nb ue RRs Court: tp SUIS ee ae HARDING CAMPAIGN ing to the police, Bergt. ande,” ~ H ‘ 8 ‘ Bavry and Patroiman singer, while F lance Out Charges, Disappeared. NO ONE MAN-AF FAIR" oe i} Mrs. Larsen at first fixed at 10 William Liberant!, eleven, one of ao boysead ce ba (ted as wareven| Oelock in the morning the hour at aycanicr Tamiton Testltuter of Nos family of seven living at No. 273 ®ront| Senator Announces He ‘Wants ‘Ad take the wel jevue, ’ ‘ | vhic: 8 5 : = ad Se, a . abe Senator / ces O desae‘ thre Pe Tivol to awa 2e Slayer Was Seen, WHY Haven't Police which the woman who owned $he 13 Astor Place, moved through his at-[strect, Trooklyn, was on hia way to tee and That All Reptiblicans . # oudo! es ha rived at the torney before Supreme Court Justice |), vice at | { revolvers looking for the murderer, Found the Witnesses? Only One house after the murder, but later she Donnelly to-day to strike out change of [Public School No. 7 this morning when Look Alike } 4 They told Mrs, Larson to remain at f M ; could not remember, because of the mirsonduct trom the complaint brought|he met a chum, James De Lussi, also ‘ the door and fot permit any one to fe) an uestions. confusion of things in her mind, by his former wife, Helen De Bower, | ele: of N Front Street. They] WASHINGTON, June 17.—Senator) ng enter, but she persisted in following whether it was the morning or the |!n her action for damages. The plain-|decided to play truant Harding announced to-day that Bis the m ie tiff, through | Blumenthal, her attorney Maurice B.| ¢ opposed this motion. Jug-| nots, campaign as the Republican Presl- dential candidate would not be a one- F Elwell had a quarrel with some horseman, what was the trouble about and’ who was the horseman? ing to the home of Jimmie's par- who were away, the yoys found afternoon, She sald that this young Curiosity or fear of being left alone woman was dark, but not very dark. them in their searoh, whether through ] they could not determine, Twiee the: In an effort t - ce Donnelly reserved decision. a loaded revolver in a dresser drawer.}man affair—that the aid and advice or hed to out with Soe. 7 IF Elwell aroused the wrath of some father or brother over the thea iad Ah! ange ty eet, | ‘The charges relate to alleged rela-| Among other thing Jim did, according} every Republican leader would be “Joe,” the furnace man, ‘ead thw | treatment of a daughter or @ sister, who was the girl, and who eom- tions between De Bower and his former Fto Wil n, was to point the revolver|sought. He declared that this would well did business, Assistant District | stenographer and to methods brought Attorney Joyco and his detectives to pear by the defendant against his have obtained from various banks his wife whereby he induced her to divoree cancelled checks, which they are now |him ten years ago in Illinois, , At-that going over, and also his check books, |time Mrs. De Bower agreed to accept mitted the murder? IF Blwell was tod friendly with a-married woman, who was she and why have not the police interrogated her? ; IF the two sisters who saw an elderly man wearing a Panama hat leaving the Elwell home are such important witnesses, why have they at himeeit and ery, ‘i'm going to kil myself. ‘This is,the way you do It.” Jim then put the pistol in the drawer and the two went out to play. William went back, got the revolver, and point- ing at his breast, cried as his chum be his polly not only during the eam- paign ut iater should he be elected President. “T will see every Republican—all publicans loog alike to me," said Senator. Morning that -he had not washed down the steps, nor the stoop, al- though Mrs. Larsen had stated thoy were wet when she reached the house. Ho stated that he had swept a ten Ea the-stoop at about 6.90 o'clock. District Attorney Swann said this morning that the investigators we-e BO nearer a solution of the murdet mystery than when Mr. Blweil's ‘rumpled figure was discovered on last Friday morning. He issued the following statement: "The Elwell murder case st{ll ro- mains a mystery and up to the press @nt time baffles all efforts to bolve it. We have not been able to obtain pos- session of sufficient facts to justify an opinion as to who committed the murder or the motive that prompted the murderer to commit the deed. Bvery clue we have obtained which neoms to suggest a possible theory is being ping fohowen up. “No evidence has been obtained which would justify the accusing of holding of any person as a material anybody, nor has any evidence been | , murdered? sebece sha. see’ LIwell usually carried a big roll of 100; pfitle, 20l; he pless throughout the|/ money. While about $400 and, his | “iTembino,. lol: Towtle W001 ita obtained which would guetity the a Sawai ‘departure: from: Lexington ‘was: s hurried one, might weok preceding his death, though not {jewelry were not taken, the detec- | Bear liz; Tevgice, 101: Airman, 100; ‘aad witness. ‘ togs meet? nearly always in bed when she ar-|fuim that was not missed because his | w “ae oh, ob ki ra hy “| friends did not now he had Dm ‘Some of the newspapers yesterday IF Elwell had any trouble over a woman at Lexington, would he | rived, she said she had found bim| District Attorney Swann sald last j {i War u 875 Y] : and to-day have erroneously stated] not have stayed there and faced it, as Andrew Soeller, his betting com- | up when she arrived on most of the evening he had been informed by one ; was the price that the District Attorney has formed} miasioner, says he was all nerve? inet tow days, | of Elwell’s male acquaintances, who "3.02 an opinion cn the result of his invés- ‘gation as to who committed the erime and the probable motive for it, , but such a ‘statement Is entirely with- | out foundation,’ a * oY be cata Hy a sit wed ¥ “the fan upstaits, but thé detec-| Mr, Dooling brought up the report |eosked with perfume, It was Eau de/ as he docs not wish it to beat any of | Gomeoiidated Mxchange Suspends for the fact that we contro] 4 - Swann t©| tives were on the second floo of Medical Examiner Dr, Charles} Cologne. I thought that he had put er tite bist om ; A. Bertrand. #0 to his office to-day, but was ex- ciived because she had to give whist lemons to a elias of yourlg women 8 ‘i wis acts detrimental to the interest and isi i afiarnoen, She promised to be/trom that allk garment before you| been pulled out of its hanger and was | he woe killed, ghe found him on her | Mr Swann sald he ited to correct welfare of the Exchange. ate advantage of the disintegration ‘o-morrow, when she would] gnany turned it over the police?” broken. She said that this could not | trival at 8.30 A. M., she paid, sitting | tectives to Kentucky was for the-purs — of high prices at the source. Aside with her the bits of Blwell’s| “No, no. ‘That had been cut off|have been caused by @ struggle in| !2 the chair in which he was found | pose of arresting the murderer of Hl~ Pp : torn letter asking her to get a@ di- vorce. Mrs, Larsen sald that she had hid- taken from Ita apparatus and placed |!ns coat, instead of being in his pa- | mystery.” sald the District Attorney, lored, and are a silent reproach to «fen the* kimono, cap and slippers to| “I saw them in the box where they] on the table some. days before. Sho | Jamas, as when ho was killed. She | “It Is only a very promiaig ind al : A : : ; ‘gave the name of the owner of them, | were kept" Sai We Was EEE UL COWIE Rak. thet | paid Shatnahe foruad tien’ with bis | veer Solawine It Up i te nope Saas the innumerable instances in this ut wasn’t sute whether she did it on| NOT BRIBEQ TO HIDE GAR*|mwell nad a telephone in good con- | mail in his hand, as he had been at/ We know nothing yery definite about 2 : impulse or at the request of thar MENTS, SHE SAYS. . | dition upstairs, Ly >" | the time the bullet was fired through |any avenging father or brother ot city where $50 is asked for suits owner, who went to the hduse shor‘ly after the murder was disvovered and before the newspapers appeared with ‘the story. The housekeeper described the young woman of the silk kimono as about twenty-three or twenty-four Years old, hair “medium dark,” fi rather short and plump, well dressed and apparently “refined and a lad: » The Tuesday luncheon: guest she described as also short and plump but darker hair than the lady of.the lingerie, She wore @ fur-trimmed @ray dress. Mrs. Larsen this morning was averse to talking to newspaper men. She said that she was ill, that she had a headache, “Bee the newspapers; see the po- not been found? IF Flwell was the fastidious man of fashion) why did he appear in the drawing room with his pajamas, without a bath robe or slippers; without his false teeth and his tope? Is there anything significant in this in connection with his murder? IF, as is generally known, Elwell had so many affairs with women, why haven't the police found more of the women? IF Nrs, Larsen, the housekeeper, smelled powder smoke when she entered the house, was the murderer still in the house, as the story of the sisters who are being sought would indicate? IF some one vainly tried to g ABOUT WOMEN GUESTS. Mrs. Larsen, when questioned’ by Mr, Dooling, first tried to’ tell the Ageistant District Attorney there were no clothes in the house except Ehwell's. “Were there not some woman's La “No, she replied, “only a, pink atti 4 cap and slippers.” “fo whom did they belong?” ) “I do not khow.” After some confusion Mrs, Larsen she meant that she had never the woman in them, though she seen & woman there. frequently calling on Elwell in the daytime, and she assumed that they were hers. “You hid them, didn't you, Mrs. Ler- wen, in order to prevent a woman's - oom bycae being dragged into the /*¥es." “Now, Mrs. Larsen, what else did you hide?” "Oh, my God, my God, I hid nothing ” “Did this woman ask you to hide r “No.” ("How did you come to hide them ithout being asked?" "I thought it would not be nice for ‘them io be found there.” ‘Mra, Larsen was asked if she had m the pistol with which Elwell killed, She exclaimed in alarm answered in the nefativ “When did you see this woman?" *) “About two weeks before Mr. Bl- was killed.” —~ On further questioning on this int, Mra, Larsen admitted that she seen the woman who owned the its a few hours after the mur- Bhe arrived hefore newspaper te of the murder had been et the murdered man on the tele phone, may the person have been the murderer? IF some of the witnesses have been reticent, as suggested by Dis- trict Attorney Swann, why have they been permitted to be so? IF a heavy loser on a race in which one of Elwell's horses was touted to win but quit in the stretch was the man who Bae the turf- Man, wouldn't it be easy to trace the loser? IF, as it has been demonstrated, Elwell was bisktag: for the race moet at Saratoga, is it mot unlikely that he had any fear of being the reason not have been his desire to get his horses to the Sara- knew your name, though you didn’t know hers.” “Yes.” “What did she do then?” “What story did she tell them?” “[ don't know.” “pid you cut the name or Initials a long time before, It was that way when I went to work for Mr. Biwell.” “How did you come to see them?” Mra, Larsen insisted that she had not been bribed or requested to hide the garments, and reiterated: “All she said to me that day was: ‘Mrs, Larsen, what an accident?” “Did you hide the things before or after the woman came?” “It was—I think—Oh, how can I remember? There wae so much go- ing on.” Mr. Dooling then said: “1 think, perhaps, if I talk to Mre. Larsen alone she will tell me a good many things that she does pot like to tell me now.” Mrs, Larsen nodded her head. Mr. Dooling continued to talk to her for about an hour longer, When he was through he said that she had told him some interesting things, The woman with the police investigation, but merely to save the young woman from disgrace. « Before she made her sénsational admissions, , Mrs. Larsen told som e interesting things about @lwell and about the circumstances of the crime. She said that on her arrival there she found the stoop was still wet, having been washed by an Italian named “Joe,” who was the furnace’ man. She said ‘Joe’ had no key to the house, and she was sure he did not get the water for the mopping inside the house. Just when “Joe” did the mopping has net been shown, He will be hunted up and questioned again. FOUND STORM DOOR LOCKED ON ARRIVAL. 4 Another curious feature in the case was the statement of Mrs, Larsen that on her arrival at the house at 8.35 o'clock om the morning of the murder she bad fou: 4 the storm door locked, as well as the inside door, and the milk inside the locked storm door, while the milkman, Otter, was just across the street, i This indicated that the murderer might have left the house between the arrival of the milkman at nearly 8.30 im the mornipg and the arrival of Mra. asked if Elwell smoked much she said: “Mr, Elwetl was a heavy smoker of cigarettes.” Norris, which says that the telephone in the reception room on the first floor where Elwell was killed had the room, but that a screw had fallen out, 9 that the telephone had been Mrs. Larsen could not throw any new light on the interesting question of Elwell’s contemplated marriage. That he had plans to this effect was indicated by several developments. Ove was the agreement of his wife to get a divorce, Another was a report that the day before his death Elwell had given money to an occasional employee and directed him to go to Saratoga Springs and lease a cottage there for “Joseph B, Mlwell and wife.” YOUNG WOMAN THERE FOR LUNCHEON TUESDAY. Mrs. Larsen said that at about noon on Tuesday of last week, three days before the murder, the doorbell had rung and Elwell himself admitted the young woman ‘wearing the gray sult her, she said, to get lunch for two, so she went out and came back with chops, tomatoes and strawberry shortcake, a meal on which she sald she was complimented by Elwell, who seemed to be in high spirits, Elwell served it himself, taking it upstairs from the kitchen on a tray. “Did they leave together?” “No, she left in an automobile, Mr, Elwell stayed at home.” “Did the automobile wait for her all the time she was there?” “No, It was a Black and White taxi- cab. It was telephoned for to take her away,” Mrs. Larsen was asked if she had ever seen the young woman before, “Well, I don't know—1 think,” she said, “I did not see her very well She might have been.” Mrs. Larsen sald she was positive there had been only two keys to the frornt door, aince the time of the bur- Mary several months ago, when three len broke through the basement door at 8 o'clock in the afternoon, but were detected by @ neighbor who tele- phoned to the police. Detective Dono- hue and others captured them and they wore sent to jail for three years and a half. Then the lock was changed. Larsen, a fow minutes later, He could; Mrs. Larsen had objected to the poa- have locked the outside door by slam- ming {t shut, On this theory, Mra. Larsen was within five minutes of entering the house while the murderer was there, She sald the milkman could have shut the door, but she had Protested a few days before because she had to unlock both doors and It was understood that the storm door was to be unlocked, Another new feature revealed by Mra, Larsen was that she noticed a strong Odor of cigarette smoke as she 4 and got her information, ap- 1 tly, by telephone or messenger. “She came up all excited,” said irs. Larsen finglly, “and said, ‘Oh, aceldent, Mra, Larsen!’ sald Mr, Dooling,. efitered the vest{bule between the storm door and the inside door. “I thought, when I smelled it that ‘Joe’ had been there," she sald. When — “te Gti oa “elie, "Ke "ruse hse, segsion of ke; Mr. Elwell, “Why did you object?” “There had been some things stolen while he was away on some of his trips. “What was stolen?” “Well, I think, only several bottles of whiskey.” Shortly before last) Christmas, she said, Mr. Blwell had telephoned’ to W. H. Pendleton, his former racing Partner, asking him to come to the house and get something at an hour when Mr, Biwell would be away, He said that be would hide his own key under the mat in the vestibule, Mr. Pendleton called and admitted him- seit with it, “Was Mr. Hiwell in the habit of except by herself and JOHN T BOOLING. leaving his key under the mat, that his friends could enter?” “Did he evor leave it under the mat on any other occasion?” “Not that I know of. Mrs, Larson said Elwell had been in bad spirits. While he had been “It might have been that the painters at work next door disturbed him," she said, “I found on his bed each morning for several days a handkerchief which was folded and) it on his forehead when he went to bed because he had a hehdache.” On Thursday, the morning before murdered twenty-four hours later. He had on a black and purple dres: his forehead. He also had his news- papers. IN GOOD SPIRITS DAY BEFORE MURDER. Tiwell ate breakfast at home alone on that day, she said, and went out about 11 o'clock, She said he seemed to be in good spirts Mr, Dooling took her day by day over her observations of Elwell,dur- ing the past week. On ,Wednesday, she sald, he was about the house when she arrived, had breakfast there, departed, re- turned early in the afternoon and put off his gray suit for a cutaway in order to attend the wedding at the Plaza Hotel. Whose it was, she said, she did not know. Later he returned On Tuesday he received tho visit from the dark, pretty young woman, not the one who owned the robe and boudoir cap and alippe! Shortly after her departure he alfo went out, Mrs. Larsen said. Coming down to the murder, Mrs. Larsen said she heard heavy breath- | ing as she entered the house and that lanee at the reception room off the entrance ball showed her that Ewell had been shot. She ran into the street, where she found Otter, the Mr. Joyce has also, through jnquiry at the clubs to which Elwell belonged, learned that he had been to few of | While he c thom in the last six months. Mr. Joyce deduces from this that Elwell 000 @ yeur had found other Matters to engage | rangements. his time and attention recently, SHOT JUST BEFORE HOUSE- KEEPER FOUND HIM, Dr. Norris's report on the autopsy was read into the inquiry. been shot onty about fifteen minutes before Mrs, Larsen found him, One of the rumors the detectives are looking into is that a former trainer of Klwell’s horses bore him a J. grudge because he had been caught trying to “hold out" money Elwell j}had given him for a jockey, and was | discharged. ‘They also are taking cognizance of | want: miling a report that it was generally known | Gov lives say he may have had a larger has been questioned at length by the authorities, that he Keeps a pistol in his bachelor’s quarters in a fashion- able neighborhood, The pistol, man said, for a year and is dust covered, said he {8 afraid to handle thé pistol, | He to take the pistol and examine It, ; this friend of the slain gambler said he would turn the weapon over to them? well, whose identity the police knew, “~The Kentucky clue has not yet turned out to be the solution of the even about the girl supposed to have been betrayed by Elwell. “The fact that Elwell left Latonta hurriedly last month seems to make this Kentucky clue plausible; but I want It clearly understood that I have no theory about who committed this murder. I have no facts to justify any theory.” i Abate eta KINGS SPECIAL OFF FOR FRISCO One Woman Delegate and Seven- teen Alternates Start for Democratic Convention, ‘The “Kings County Special” started from the Grand Central Terminal this afternoon to take the New York dcle~ a number of other Democrats went along to help whoop things up. ‘The only woman delegate on board | was Mra, Minnie Wichman of the Six- | teenth Assembly District, but there were seventeen women among the alter= nates. Aniong those who visitors were: Mra. John ¥. Hyla wife of the, Mayor; Mrs, John Leach wife of the Deputy Police Commissioner Mr. and Mrs, William J. Hofferman, | and Mrs. William L. Delaney, County | Judge James T. O'Bell, ‘Thomas Wogan and James J, Sexton. Tage Maan PARKLING! SNAPPY! 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Ahe suys that his ineome day is in excess of $160,- E 3 cancellation of nt and® sus. Mle ar the agreem JAMAICA ENTRIES. RACH TRACK, JAMAICA, June 17.— ‘The following are the entries for Fr hedge, 112; Cat irl, dl fr Mlonuanier, “100; Koloina La io 300; Adaty: Bleed, Alta Niacion Holl 100; ie hull wi M5; Frank bor Mervednthhl and 1p. Bar and berenty yards, ith sage, 101; idk Swain, 118} two-year-olds; seine; taleemen, 10t: Dream Or LOT: +, Fernivood picentice ‘alow The Board of Governors of Consoii- dated Stock Exchange has suspended Charles A. Bertrand for one year for Dignified in appearance and : luxurious in comfort. Not merely an ideal article of 1se on which ¢ired limbs | may recuperate at night, but a pleasing accessory at Hl all times to any refined bedroom. iS j bo P with fur at the bottom. This was the|and told her to put away his formal| gation to the Democratic Natlonal “CABS é. , As said, “They know aill| insisted SN re einen to one abe described as “a little, short, {olothes in a chest containing his convention in. San Francisc®, In ade Reanh aA La lgpeditbd i : vine egpedeae Heyy ay ended ‘olfat wontan,” pretty and young, with | winter wardrobe, Vaition to the delegates and alternates | "egding Spesiane tow Yoo OY." ii FIFTH AVENUE MRS. 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