The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1920, Page 3

‘BANKERS CALLED IN BY SWARN TO BARE ELEL'S FINANCES Prosecutor Hopes to Find Some New Woman Clue in Accounts. FRESH WHISKEY TRAIL. Turfman’s Housekeeper Names Girl Who Break- fasted With Him Sunday, ELWELL’S “SYSTEM” FOR WINNING OVER WOMEN HE WANTED Held Aloof, But Much He Li Explained to Trainer, ISTANT DISTRICT AT- TORNEY TALLEY told to- day of an interview with Joveph 1. Elwell’s horse trainer, who sald Elwell had given him tips on Yhow to handle women.” Elwell's systom, the trainer sald, ‘wan to hold aloof from the woman ho wanted, at the same time tell- ing other women haw much ho Uked her, Tho statement would find its way to the woman, and Elwell is quoted as syanig it invariably brought her to the point of seek- ing him. Told Others How » He® Me ‘District Attorney Swann and those collaborating with him in the Elwell murder investigation started a new line of inquiry this morning by sum-| moning to the District Attorne: office a number of banking officials from the Wall street district. * Whey had records of Hlwell’s check | t¥ansactions covering a period of sev- em! Months leading up to the morning og Friday, June 1, when he folind dying in his home at No. 244 West 70th Street. ‘Phe tendency of the inquiry of late} | | | was hag put increasing emphasis on the money side of Elwell’s life, and it was hoped that the records of his dis- bursemeats might yield a clue. It was | sald that one additional purpose in the bank investigation was to learn whether Elwell had written checks | tor any women whose names have not yet appeared in the published apd unpublished lists. William E. Barnes, steward of the Studio Ciub and secretary for Blwell, Wag to have appeured in the office} of) Assistant U. 8. Attorney Albert | G, Rothwell in the Federal Building gy THis morning to undergo further ex- ; | | | | i © > mination, but failed to do so, though Rothwell and other offictals waited | for him for more than an hour. Later Rothwell, August Hassen-| flug, special counsel for the Prohi- bition Enforcement Office, and agents for James B. Shevlin, Supervising Prohibition Agent for this district, conferred with U Attorney Francis G, Caffey, after which Rothwell an- | nounced that a now plan of procedure fad been adopted. , From other sources it was learned tat additional information has been | obtained by the United States Attor- | wey who is working with Shevlin on the theory that Elwell was acting for fe widespread whiskey ring that was bringing Kentucky whiskey Into Nev York and, through the murdered sportsman, was distributing it to the homes of wealthy men in the Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue sections of the city. : Capt. Carey of the Homicide Squad and Detective Oswald had a three-| hour conference in the District At- torney’s office. On the desk was a) Colt :45 revolver. *Bound the gun that killed Elwel @ reporter asked. « No,” said Capt. Carey. ‘Just one e it, We are making experiments.’ Dr. Otto A. Schultze of the District | Attorney's office was making the tests. | One of the ywitnesses examined to- day by, Assistant District Attorney) Dooling was Frederick Ingraham, lww- yer, No. 192’Broadway. He came with his stenographer, Mary EK, Tidmarsh.) "They said they had drawn a will for Elwell in December, 1916 (subsequent t6 the date of the will recently offered for probate). It contained a legacy for William H. Barnes, This will hag not beech found, Mr. Ingraham said the will drawn to give the major portion of the estate to Elwell's son, Rickard, | Jeaving nothing to his wife and stip-| ulating that the boy's guardian should | be some other person than his mother, Barpes, said the lawyer, was one of the minor Jegatees. My. Marie Larsen, who was El- well's housekeeper at the time of his death, appeared at the District At- torney's office to-day for further) questioning, She was accompanied by her counsel, Victor Gartz, No. 2 Rector Street, When she came out of the Districty| Attorney's office she said she had been asked about Elwell's visitors for | ‘several days before death and | said she had remembered that he had breakfust at his home with a woman | visitor on the previous Sunday, She | said she had kiven the name of this woman to the District Attorney Mrs, Willlam H, Pendleton of Ce- 1 was 8 darhurst, L. L, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Bird of No, 64 East 86th Street, and George W. Post, jr, of Post & Flagg, were to be interviewed to-day by District Attorney Swann, He and Assistant District Attorney Dooling went to the Bird home this afternoon. | One of the discrepancies which the | District Attorney's office wants to} clear up concerns the whereabouts Of Mr, Pendicton's automobile during the hours just pre ng and follow. ine the death of Elwell, Mr, Swann ft tion thai the ear gar. 2d Street until soon after & the Morning of the shooting, when some Fane not yet identified, too it away, Mr. Pendleton says the car was in Fuse that morning at Cedavhurst and §hatyhe himself used |t ln what Mir, Pendleton character- K oO on | yesterday by Mr. ized ag his “last yoluntary state-! ment” he says that Mr, Swann’e in- formation {is correct as tu incidents but wrong as to dates—that what Mr, Swann describes as occurring on the | night of June 10 and the morning of June 11 (the time of the triredy), really occurred on tho night of June 7 and the morning of June 8. He says that on the night of June 7 he drove to town In his car and picked up his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Bird and Mrs, Bird's sister. They all! drove north, he said, to the Wood-! mansten Inn for a late dinner, then back to the Bird home, where Pendle- ton spent the night. It was then, he} said, that Mr. Bird yolunteered to take the car to the garage for him. Bird was hailed by George B, Post jr, who was given a lift. Then the mechaniclan took the car to the ga- rage and Bird went home, wheres he was met by his wife and Pendleton, the latter says, early in the morning of Juno 8. ‘hat was Tuesday morning, not That afternoon (Tuesday) he gaid he drove bis car to the races kt Bel-| mont and later to his home at Cedar- hurst. Coming down to the day be- fore Elwell’s death, Mr. Pendleton described his own movements as fol- lows: SAW ELWELL AT RACES AFTERNOON, “I drove to the Belmont races in my own car that afternoon, (Thurs day, June 10), and casually met EI well there, just long enough td say hello, From tlie races 1 went to the Rockaway Hunt Club and met Ray- mond D. Little who dined with me) and spent the evening with me, We dined at a roadhouse not far from the club, listened to the muste until after 11 o'clock, then drove back to) the club, where he lives. I drove alone to my home, Mrs, Pendleton was there. 1 pyémy car in my own garage before retiring, so it could not have been in New York, “I was in bed from about midnight (Thursday, June 10, until $.30 the next morning, when our maid served break- fast to me in bed. I took my wife to the 9.26 train for New York. Before we left the house an extra maid, who comes in once. a week, saw me as 1} passed through the parlor, where she was at work with a vacuum cleaner.” Among the witnesses questioned Dooling was Mrs. Josephine Lewis Peet Wilmerding, the divorcee who has admitted that she “played around with Elwell.” After her examination, Mr. Dooling said: “Mrs, Wilmérding has made a cate- gorical denial of practically every- thing that Mrs. Kane has said about her. Mrs. Kane has said that Mrs. Wiimerding was the rival of ‘Miss Wilson.” This has been dented by Mrs, Wilmerding. She told us she never saw or knew the housekeeper, Mrs. Kane, and that Mrs. Kane could not have seen her unless possibly at Palm Beach, and then not later than 1918." To a reporter Mrs. said: “Why this woman should have sald that Iwas the rival of ‘Miss Wilson’ I cannot understand, It’s awful to think of any one saying a thing like that—so untru WILLED $15,000, HE WASHES DISHES | Wilmerding Aronson Asks Surrogate for Aid in Finishing College With- @ out Labor. Moses Aronson, whose father left jah $15,000 on condition that he remained loyal to the Jewish faith and marrled | a girl of that faith, to-day potitioned | Surrogate Cohalan to solve the knotty problems which the conditions of this Moses said that despite his wealth, | he would have to work his way i to Berkeley, Cal., and Anish hie colley course there “by washing dishes nnd waiting on table unless at least $300 | year from his inheritance was available to him, He said he washed dishes there last year, He declared he had no intention of violating his father's injunctions, but that, at present, he has ‘no thought of marrying: iwhile, his father's con- ditions tle up his inheritance, | Surrogate Cohalan reserved his de- cision. | FALLS FIVE STORIES, GETS UP SMILING Crap Shooter Whe “Always Was Lucky” Suffers Only an Injured Leg. "1 always wasslucky with the bon laughed Benjamin Norman of No. West 189th z 63 Street tn Harlem Hospital day, after a fall of five stories. According to the police, a crap game was broken up late last night on tho root df No, 489 Lenox Avenue by cries of “Lotk out, the police!" Norman was getting AWay from there with such speed he ran through a fifth floor Window on his way down, plunging to the bottom of the alrshaft, He got up amiling and did not want to go to the huspital to have an Injured leg attended to, TO BE ASKED ON |the three surface line companies are 'S-cont fare fight. Douras. They are Harry Bender, Ni South Fourth Street, Brooklyn: Harold Gourley. No. 855 West 60th ‘Street; Martin Weltzman, No, 121 At- “ THE EVENING WORLD, TH HIGHER CAR FARES SOMEB.R.T. LINES Announcement by Receiver Follows Court Decision on , Powers of P. S.C, Lindsley M. Garrison, Receiver fdr the B, R, T. and Brooklyn City Rail- road Company lines, | na statement to-day announced that he make application for fare increases for those companies which the decin- fof of the Court of Appeals, announ- ced yesterday, holds are under the Jurisdiction of the Public Service| Commission, After reviewing the decision of the court, Receiver Garrison sald: “I shall immediately comply with the privilege extended to me by tho court and present to the Public Ser- vice Commision a proper applicat'. for action in respect of the franchises that the court holds the Public Service Commission has jurisdiction over. “Of course, the opinion of the court only dealt with surface line com- panies, because it was only applica- tions of surface line companies that were under review. Tho decision, therefore does not directly affect the subway or elevated lines. “All but few of the franchises of would held to be within the jurisdiction. of | the Public Service Commision by his decision.” The court decision upheld the stand of the city authorities in the It held that the Public Service Commission has no authority to release a raljway com- pany from obligations it undertook to charge only a b-cent fare agreed upon in contracts with municipal au- thorities as a franchise condition, The decision means that aubway and sur- face carfares will remain at 5 cents for an indefinite time. Purther litigation may be expected, but it is mot believed it can affect materially the ruling that the fare will remain unchanged for the great | body of city passengers. “In all its main contentions the city has been uphelf by the Court of) Appeal Assistant Corporation Counsel O’Brien said to-day. “The Court of Appeals has reaffirmed its Rochester, decision in terms so clear| as to leave no room for speculation in the matter of 5-cent fares for New| York. We were represented in the cases now decided. “While it is true that the court has (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) COURT CALLS SLUR ON “GAS LOGIC” MEAN Judge Hand Reproves Counsel for Reference to Cost of Magazine. “A mean, cheese-paring attack for a great municipality to indulge in," was the opinion expressed by Federal Judgs Learned Hand to-day when Wilbur Chambers, for the Attorney General, made the expense of publishing G: Logie an issue in his argument that gas prices should not be Increased, Mr. Chambers declared the Gilbert re- port, which holds the 80-cent gas law unconstitutional because conflacatory, should be thrown out because Mr, Glibert admitted the printed testimony of three oMctals of the company who had dicd since testifying, and the defense, which | the includes the Attorney General, District Attorney and Public Service sion, had no opportunity to examina them. | Corporation Counsel O'Brein opened | his argument with a general impeach- ment of Special Master Gilbert to whom he referred as harboring “an inher and tconoclastic spirit und a high gard for high cost of living and a sner ing attitude in his references to the cisions of courts.” Tht trial often solved Itself Into a debate between th witness and the Master, O'Brein said. > = TRACING CORONA BANDITS. Man Suspected of Neing Chauffeur in Attempted Robbery Detained. Abe Weinberg, agchauffeur, No, 63/ East 99th Street, was arrested to-day by Detectives Knapp, Barrett and Ca- puto, and taken to Long Laldhd City for identification as the chauffeur of the | Packard car used by seven bandits who | tried to hold up the Corona Brangh of the Bank of the Wanhattan Compndy in Queens County yesterday, The robbers | were routed by a hail of Inkatands and sponge cups hurled by bank employ Weinberg was partly identified by th bank employees, and they were poaltiv, in thelr Identification of a ackerd car driver, East machine, He obtained p car for the du he had not been near ¢ taken a party of thr women to Rockaway f the day “driving a oe FOUR CLEARED OF BURGLARY Prisoners Released When Police Fall to Four men arrested June 25 on sus- picion of attempting burglary at 180th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue were discharged last Saturday by Magistrate and Charles White, who # the Somerset Hotel arrested in an auto! carly morning hous Frank Siekman, shortly ttempt had been made to shirt shop, riaonera denied the charge at time of the arrest and the. police d"to ‘produce ‘wvidence to” sustity Commis- | PB Lipton and John Challenger and Yachting Writer John R. Spears, Yachting R. Spears, Expert, to Describe Cup Races for Evening World Noted Authority Has Studied Great Contests for More Than Forty Years and Written Navy Histories. John R. Spears is to describe for the readers of The Evening World races between Resolute and Shamrock IV. for the America’s Cup, beginning a week from to-morrow. Mr. Spears has followed the sea by sail and steam since he first wore Knee pants. His boyish ardor for the glorious open reaches of the green waters and the skill and strife of yacht racing as the greatest sport of all has grown as his years have In- creased. He is old only in experi- ence, knowledge and writing skill, as Evening World readers ewill soon know. No man has the confidence of yachts- men in America and abroad more than John R. Spears; he has studied racing yachts and watched their contests for more than forty years, not only in the championship races, but in trials and smaller tests, He has been the cher- ished guest of every foreign yachts- man who has come overseas in his lifetime with intent to “lift the cup.” A photograph here printed shows him in smiling company with Sir Thomas Lipton, who has more than once in trials invited him to take the wheel of one of the Shamrock sisterhood. ‘The dean of all the experts on yachting and sailing craft, John R Spears his done notable things as a historian of the United States Navy and merchant marine, He has travelled around the world and into its odd corners before the mast and in the cabin and at the wheel. Not only are his navy pries, “The His- tory of Our Nav ‘Our Navy in the War With Spain” and “History of the American Navy,” standard reference books but they are as inspiring and blood-stirring reading as are his “Gold-Diggings of Cape Horn” and Port of Missing Ships" and as care~ fully considered as his “History of the American Slave Trade" and his biographies of Farragut and Anthony Wayne. r twenty years and more "John .* was a staff man of the Dana- edited New York Sun. The story of his live-wire achievements as a getter of news and a portrayer of events in print is part of a picturesque record. | Those who read his chronicles of the | great yacht races will be interested to know that they are written on his knee or on a pad laid across the crook of his arm, as the race moves before Huptey | “nonm so, coop CLEARANCE SALE ' NowinProgress EXTREME REDUCTIONS 1434 Broadway 1357 Broadway 1177 Broadway 215 Broadway 41 Cortandt 254 Filth Ave. Factory—Hockland, Mas, HURLEY SHOES fi) his eyes. When the race is over his work is done for the day, except for a brief summary, which he seribbles on his way to The Eveaing World office, The first two paragraphs in Jobn R.'s creed as a recorder of inter- national contests in peace or war run something this way: 1. If a Yankee is eaten it 1s be- cause he has not been as true a Yankee os he should have been. 2. Fair play, Yankee or no Yankee. John R. Spears retired to his home in the woods near Little Falls several years azo ve in the open as much as his literary” work woutd let him and enjoy himself with his son, Ray- mond, also a noted writer on all out- doors, But the merest whisper of an invitation to see the yacht races for the benefit of the readers of The Eve- ning World brings him roaring out of the woods like the six-foot boy that he is, fifty of his seventy years left behind him on his library desk, B. Altman & Cn. A Special Offering of Wool Suitings & Coatings gpecially arranged for to-morrow (Friday) will present an opportunity — possible only in Summer-time — for the ‘“fore-handed” shopper to secure fine-quality materials for early Autumn clothes at prices that make lavish buying a real economy. Several velours and serges—in will be on sale in Lengths suitable Skirts and Coats i at decided concessions from regular prices Exceptional Values | are now being offered in | Bathing Costumes for Women, Misses and Ch Also in Bathing Caps. accessories of the sea-bathing outfit. (Third Floor) Madison Avetue- Fifth Avene Mth aid 35th Streets URSDAY, JULY 8, 1920 NAME COMMITEE OF 11 M EFFORT 0 SAVE NTERCHURGH Steel Report to Be Published: Whether or Not Movement Is Continued. Plane save the Interchurch World Movement are being made by a committee of 11, appointed at the! session of the General Committee, at No. 25 Madison Avenue to-day. Tho| committee was directed to confer) with the Business Men's Committee and if a feasible miggestion can be formulated, to report back late to- day. The members of the committee are Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago, Methodist Episcopal; the Rev, H. B. Swearingen, Presbyterian; the Rev. William Horace Day, Congregational; James H, Mohorter, Disciples of Christ; the Rev. W. BE. Lampe, Reformed Church of.the United States; the Rev. A. L. Warnshuls, Reformed Church! of America; W. D. Anderson, United Presbyterian; the Rev. J. F. Allen, Reformed Church of America; the Rov. Fred C, Klein, Methodist Protent~ ant; Bishop Caldwell, African Metho- dist Episcopal Zion, and Bishop §. C. Breyfogel, Svangelical Synod. | The committee was appointed after reports had been heard from the North- | ern Baptist Conference, which voted to withdraw from the movement. Then Bishop Nicholson sald: “We age hero following the holding of two great conventions, one at San Francisco and the other at Chicago, at both of which a strong reactionary tendency was showh, ‘fhe sane tend- ency will be manifested by the church if we permit this movement to énd. Only $900,000 of the $40,000,000 budget for the general work has been collected, There is $3,000,000 in pledges, Te denominations particl- pating underwrote $9,500,000 of the general work fund, with the under- | standing efforts would be made to) raise the entire amount by subyer!p- | tion. Three plans suggested for the com- mittee, immediate suspension, grad- ual disintegration, or reorganization and renewed activity, are to be re- ported on by the Committees of Eleven, Liabilities of the General Commit- tee will be about $6,000,000 in the event of immediate suspension; to run until next June on a diminishing scale, will be about $9,000,000; the re- organization plan would entail raising a large part If not all of the $40,000,000 | to, thousand yards woolens—including plain and novelty fabrics, checks, plaids, basket-weaves, homespuns, (First Floor) fund. Officials say the forthcoming report of fashionable all the wanted colors, for Suits, Frocks, dren , Shoes and all the New York | __open Daily TUG P.M. Saturdays TI 9 P. Se ore Pe ee eee Pes 1. D. PARKER, FORMER POLICE HEAD, DEAD STOCKING BANK MAY COST WOMAN LOSS OF ONE LEG Simple Funeral fo. Man Who Doctors Give Germs in Money Fought Rooseveit on Bipartisan as Cause of Possible Board. Amputation. The funeral of former Polles Com- EAST PLYMOUTH, Conn, Jnly [missioner Andrew D. Purker, who 8.—Mra, Ella MoWoodson of this {died at his Jate residence, No, 199 town may have to submit to ampu- tation of a leg, which is affected With blood poisoning, because she had the “firat national bank” habit of 80 many women, keeping a big roll of money in her stocking. Physicians say her ailment js due ‘to germs from frequently hand'ed bank bills, West 94th Street, on Tuesday after an illness of ten weeks, was held this afternoon, the Rey. Dr. Sawyer, rector of St. Agnes's Chapel, ofidinting. The body will rest In Greenwood Ceme- tery, Brooklyn, f Mr. Parker was In his sixty-first year and was unmarried, So far as could be learned at his home ‘he leaves no relatives save one distant cousin, who‘was at the faneral. The services were of the simplogt char- acter, Mr. Parker, a Democrat, was ap- pointed to the famous bipartisan Police Board, of which Col, Roosevelt was the head, by Mayor Strong after the exposures of the Lexow Commit- on the steel industry is not the real reason for the drive's failure. “The public is tired of ‘drives,’ and we counted on getting the money that way,” sald one official. “Industry ta in a delication condition just now, Business mon have given to so many good causes their onthusiasm has waned.” i tees investigation. Krom the first Tho denominations that have raised rat he large sums to make up the $155,000,- [Was tcmbenmentally opposed to 000 fund estimated necessary for the © battled almost continuously until the board won the entire movement will spend the money Iu y 4 0. lon church work n their own way, this aie: nickname of “The Happy officia, said, The first estimate was $08, t ° for $336,000,000, which later was re- |]... Pacher Waa ohana ote Guced. neglect of duty and tried, Later ‘The publication of the complete|Mayor Strong asked his glismianal, 90,000-word report of the Steel Strike Inquiry Commission will be carried out no matter which of the threo plana under consideration {x chosen. but Gov. 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