The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 24

Aa ane eememin nen P wile has confessed to eves Romero, — eon 24 ROY HARRIS FANTS VES UNCONSCIOUS OR HALF AN HOUR fares To-Day His Elwell fession Was Worked © Out of Him by Police. UFFAIA, April §—Roy Harris, ) being a par mit in the killing of Joseph B Blwell in New York City last June, COllapsed in his cell this morning but | e@tinulants restored him in half an| Relir. Referring to the n #h6 police to remard his @iwell murder as a fake, Harris said “I've told my story and the police Rave filled to trip me up on any ma- @efial Met. If they want to kick me “out of; jail now 1 don't care, My wonsciénes is clear dues I've got ithip thing off my chest.” Police officials to-day continued @helr inquiry into the confession that Barris, William Dunkin and a mys- terious “Mire, Fairchild” conspired to kill Blwell, that Dunkin did actually shoot Elwell and that Mrs, Fair ehild and Dunkin “double-crossed” Rim in the matter of $4,000 due -n| Payment for his part in the slaying ‘Two alicnists examined him before the inquiry-was resumed Detective Serst. Oswald, here from} New York, has this to say to-day of theconfeasion: “Tt doesn't taste right.” Martie kused some surprise to-day Wy Aletlaring that he had now made the confession of h will, ‘Dut tha dinary price make of the: Silk Mixtures Woven Madras — MATERIALS Russian and other quality fabrics EXTRA TABLES HELPED TO KILL ELWELL, HE SAYS; HIRED BY WOMAN ROY HARRIS. (Photographed tn Buffalo Yesterday.) he know during a grueling applica- tion of the ‘third degree.” “The detectives said they had the Elwell crime on me, and that if T told I would get off y," he asserted I thought y knew about it, WANTED TO BACK OUT OF THE KILLING. Questioned as to any new details of the Elwell killing, Harris sald: “Well, when Bill Dunkin, who dd the actual shooting, started for the house with me, I felt like backing out. Dunkin said he would kill me if 1 did. When we had got into El- 's house, [ talked again a FOURTEENTH STREET. Gstablis Special Purchase of MEN’S SHIRTS from Marcus Caspar and (Philadelphia, Pa.) This manufacturer, needing to convert his stocks into cash, closed out to us all that he had on hand at extraor- His prestige as a high-class manufacturer is an assurance that quality, style and *» concessions. se shirts are the best. We have divided this vast purchase of thousands and - thousands of fine Shirts into three lots. Lot 1 Lot 2 1.27 | 1.67 3 for 3.65 3 for 4.75 Were $2.00 each Were $3.00 each Cords Madras includes ried for Corded Sizes 14 to 17—Various Sleeve Lengths EXTRA SALES CLERKS be PHIADELPHIA NEW YORK i THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921, © backing out, but Dunkin gave me hell. He said he would kill Biwell sure. We smoked cigarettes and waited for Diwell to come home. “When we heard a key in the door, I hid behind the staire and Dunkin hid in the reception room. Elwell! went upstairs passing right close by where I was hidden. Then Dunkin camo out and gave me bell again for not shooting him “I told Dunkin we ought to beat It We had $600 cinched for the murder, and I wanted to blow. I didn’t want to kill Elwell; ali 1 wanted was the money, “No, L can’t give you a detailed description of the house insi¢ was intersted in getting the money hot in where the windows were cated I tried to leave twice. Dunkin told me that Jerry, the chauffeur who had put us next to the job, was outside to within y shooting distance and |that he would Kil! me sure “Elwell came downstairs in his pa jamas, He sat down In his armehair. In a few minutes I heard a shot. Dunkin had killed bim. Then Dun kin ran out and beat me to the door. We and walked away, fast “Well, 1 quit my job and spent two months trying to collect the money Mrs. Fairchild promised us for kill- ing Plwell, but | was double-crossed and didn’t get it. 1 left New York in August and went to a lot of other towns.” TO DECIDE ON TAKING HIM AWAY TO-DAY. Whether Harris will be taken to| |New York City on the strength of) his confession will be determined to- | day by District Attorney Guy B. Moore, acting for former Gov. Whit- man, special prosecutor of New York and Detective Sergt. Oswald of the New York Detective Bureau While many hours of questioning have brought out discrepancies in the both ran out story of the murder as told by Harris non are of Mecient im hed 18.27 WEST OF FIFTH AVE. Co. Lot 3 2.37 3 for 6.75 Were $5.00 each ASSORTMENT stripes and colors too va- detailed mention portance to justify the police in dis- carding his tale as wholly false, Any of the erroneous or conflicting de- tails, the police say, might be at- tributed to faulty memory. Detective Sergt. Oswald pointed the chief discrepancies in hour's questioning of Harris last The location of the Blwelt in Tist Street instead of 70th Street; the time of the murder, fixed by Harris at 3 A. M; the location of the hiding places of Harris and his alleged pal Dunkin while they were awniting the return of Elwell, and certain inaccuracies in the descrip- tion of the interior of the house. Perhaps one of the most important points brought out by Oswald, and one which would tend to give weight to the confession, was the statement by that his companion smoked cigarettes of in brand out an night: home Harris he and a while lying in wait for Elwell, Stubs of cigarettes were found on the floor by detectives after the murder, While they were said to be of the brand Harris claimed they were smoking, lthere always has been some doubt about their make, because they were smoked so close that none of the name remained on the wrappers. | WIFE DECLARES HARRIS |S JUST | CRAZY. innocent. He whispered in the district attorney's offidt ‘Dont believe that Elwell story; I'm innocent Mrs, Roy Harris made this state- ment to-da Young, smiling, pretty] and evidently not at all nervous, she coolly dismissed her husband's con- fession as the fabrication of a disor- dered mind “He's not guilty Sagi succinctly “Why, | was walking with him on Riverside Drive the night that Elwen was killed. He was broke—he had no money to take us to a show, That's the kind of a hired assassin he Is." She laughed as if vastly amused at affair her Mrs. Harris just crazy,” she ray | \\ i i is convinced of her tusband’s tnno- conce, or #he is a first-rate actress. “A few nights after the Elwell mur- der,” she said. “We walked right down past Kiwell's house. Roy pointed out the house. He wasn’t nervous or anything. He couldn't have done that with a gullty conscience. He waa afraid to go back to a place where he had passed a check. We both read in the paper all about the orime and talked about it. “Roy couldn't keep it from me if he were gullty. He told me about everything. He wrote me about the check he forged; he couldn't keep anything back. “He has fainting fits, headaches and writes foolish letters. ‘The first night we were here In Buffalo he got up In the middle of the night and began singing. “I hope he goes free. 1 don’t care whether we ever live together again, but I'll go back to him if he wants me. 1 think he'll get off because he has an alibl—he had no opportunity to com- mit the murder. After the time of the murder he had no money, He had to borrow fro mhis sister.” WOMAN NAMED I FLWELL CONFESSION CLOSELY WATCHED (Continued from First Page.) and was afraid that recent activities in the District Attorney's office und the Detective Bureau might mean the disclosing of the real secret murder. Turning public attention to the amazing utterances of Harris in Buffalo might be a ruse, he sug- gested, to throw those following the money. Reg. U. S. Pat. Office PERSONALLY acter of this vouch I them in the best homes in one of them. 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From persong who lived at No. 33 West 84th Street, where Harris bed lodgings with his wife under the name of Leonard, detectives have learned that the talked of nothing else than the murder of Elwell for weeks after the crime, He bought all the Inte editions of all the news- papers and made himself a bore going through the house discussing them. He was known in the lodging house to be at work at No. 366 Fifth Ave- nue, as an elevator man. ‘The timebook of the superintena- ent of the Fifth Avenue office butld- ing shows that Harris, known to his employers as Fanchon, worked all day every day for the week before and after the Elwell murder; they were thereby convinced that so much of his story as had to do with bis attempts to meet his alleged accom- plice, Dunkin, during the days fonlow- ing the murder in @he morning and afternoon are untrue. | Pinkus H. 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