The sun., 1903-11-25
THE ELLIS KIDNAPPING TALE
TOLD AFTER "DETECTIVE" DU
VEAU WAS CONVICTED.
Fellow Detective, Now In Jail. Too, Says
Du veau Hired Him to Slug and ShanE.
hal In Canada an Escaped Lunatic
Named Ellis-Case OF Ellis Recalled.

Edgar E. Du Veau was convicted yesterday
afternoon in the General Sessions of at
tempted robbery in the first degree. The
jury took two ballots. The first stood
eleven for conviction and one blank. Du
Veau was accused Of entering into a con-
spracy to slug and rob Samuel Lewis Of
| III Mercer street.
Du Veau was the principal witness against
James Hay, who is in the Tombs on charge
of getting $500 from the Meehan Detective
Agency last summer by sending telegram
for the money from Hamilton. Canada, in
Du Veau's name. The District Attorney
has taken up Hays case and expects that
the complaint will be withdrawn. Hay
made a statement to the District Attorney
! in which he said:
/ was doing private detective work for the
| Meehan agency when | met Du Veau. Finally
| | was laid of and after several days Du Veau
came to my house one night and said that
Meehan wanted me to go to Toronto with him.
! Du Neau. to do some wor k Du Ncau did not
| tell me what the work was until we got 10
! Buffalo. Then he said that we were to shadow
a man named Ellis This man. he said had
| been sent by contrivance to an asylum in this
State. although not insane, BY connvance
Win some of the guards Ellis escaped and
| went to Canada
! Well. we went after him. understood
| that he was to be got back here We located
him Ia the Rossin House. Toronto. last July.
n TO he so dd not dare to
with Ellis. Du Veau told me one night that he
and Ellis were going to take walk down by
fitted into 4 red rubber hose. and said:
You follow US and hang this on his head.
I've got carte blanche up to $500 10 hire Il
boat. and Wen run him over to the United
States"
This Is Canada not the United States
That's all right ne answered: Don't
you know how John +: Gaynor and Benjamin
p Greene were Kidnapped here? It's all
We'll. l followed Ellis and Du veau to tho
Of my part Of the job. and as we got there
was glad t to > see party Of Italian laborers
shook Ellis and hunted me up and went for
NE for nSs dpf da Go o told h ths
the explanation. Then he said that. we would
TO 10 Rs nf thfs n he ows oG Rs ST Ellis
said, Sand ven bundle, i'm m into to- a car.iilass
put 81 seep With hup .@e Shonass
or eGes Int aa 1"s %s 1s ses
S fe n nhd rss En- khH CT hSss p
@ Sew % York a1d ad find % out Sow mueh Meehsn
will give for him Meohan and the Colonel
ought to shell out so that we can make S. 900
Look here" said. III. knock out this
an to Out snd G wan G9S
stayed over in Buffalo day and left the next
Who should see when went into the smoker
but Duyeauy; We had q atm, tiI, end e., of il
got letter from a relative saying that Meehan
was after me on charge Of getting 5000 from
him on teesram 5Sm afni,p1 signed by
him. Meehan sent the money My relative
that i was coming back to face that charge.
and did. It was cooked up JOB on bu
it wa was 6e, and in police court made nc no eso
panation. i was held for the Grand Jury
and Indicted. and now am in the Tombs.
ilton." said Assistant District Attorney
Mott to a Sun reporter. Recorder Goff
has them. do not know who the Colonel
was: neither did Hay"
The Ellis of Hays story seems to have
to that Of William B. Ellis. formerly pros
porous tobacco merchant at Winston
Salem. N. c., and later of the Nutshell
Publishing Company Of Fifth avenue.
William B. Ellis was arrested at the Offices
charged with haying threatened TO kill
Col Frank H. Fries, formerly president of
the Roanoke and Southern Railroad.
Col Friess lawyer made public threaten
ing letters alleged to have been sent by
Ellis to Fries and his lawyers at Winston
Salem. Magistrate Pool committed Ellis |
to Bellevue Hospital for examination. and |
Drs. Allan McLane Hamilton and Carlos F. |
Macdonald reported that he was an incur
able paranoiac.
Elliss friends brought the case up in the
Supreme Court, and referee was appointed |
to take testimony. While on the way back
from hearing Ellis escaped from an at
tendant of the Rivercrest Sanitarium,
where he had been kept by friend pending
settlement. man who knows the at
Iand a nf from whom William Il Ellis esca ned l