The Washington times., 1913-11-19
W|FE'S MAN FRIEND
KILLED BY DOCTOR
Reconciliation Meeting Results
in Tragedy in Hotel Room
At Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 19-"Ire
done it," said DR.. w. T. Elam. st.
Joseph tMoD physician, calmly, walk
ing up to John T. Glynn. a detective.
and V. D. Rousseau, a lawyer, in the
lobby of the Hotel Baltimore.
Done what?" asked Glynn.
I've shot him. was the reply.
The two men rushed upstairs TO the
room of Putnam Cramer, of Chicago.
He lay on the floor dead. a bullet wound
just under his heart. Cramer was an
advertising agent for an Eastern maya
zine. He came to Kansas City with
Rousseau, cousin, to meet Elam, who
had accused him of paying too much
attention TO his wife. He had come at
the suggestion of Glynn to explain to
DR.. Elam that there had been nothing
improper in heir conduct. While DR..
Elan was being taken to the police
station the detective related the events
that led up to the tragedy.
Detective Shadows Trio.
Three months ego, he said, while in
his office, DR.. Elan overheard on an
extension telephone a message read
by a telegraph company 10 Mrs.
Elam, who was in an outer office.
The message requested that Mrs.
Elan, who is thirty-n;ne years old
and beautiful, meet Cramer at the
Hotel Baltimore the following day.
DR.. Elan employed Glynn to trail
Mrs. EIam TO Kansas City and OBJ
serve the meeting. Glynn followed
Mrs. Elan to Kansas City, where at
the Hotel Baltimore she and a woman
friend met Cramer in the lobby. The
three, after luncheon, went to a pic
ture show. Glynn followed them out
and as they left the hotel he saw DR.
Elan, who had promised not to come
TO Kansas City, step out from a door
way. Mrs. Elan did not see her
husband, who said nothing and re-
turne5 to St Joseph.
The party of three returned to the ho-
tel and talked in the parlor a while,
after which the women returned to
81 Joseph. Glynn, who says he. shad
owed the woman every moment they
were here, told DR.. Elan he saw Moth
ing improper. The husband. however,
did not believe the detective and con-
fronted his wife with the story Of her
visit to Kansas City. After a "scene"
ne told her to go to Detroit and sue for
divorce. Mrs. Elam departed.
Tried to Arrange Peace.
Last week DR.. Elan went to Chicago
to attend a physicians convention.
While there he had a private detec-
live agency look up Cramer's record
Cramer was married and lived at $500
Lake avenue. Chicago. Meanwhile
Glynn, convinced that Mrs. Elan was
innocent Of anything improper, wrote
to Cramer, whose letter in answer sat
isfied the detective that the husbands
suspicious were unjust. He advised
DR.. Elam, who refused to ac-
cept the detectives conclusions, to ar
range an interview with Cramer at.
which everything would be satisfactor-
0lynn arranged the meeting for this
afternoon. He met DR.. Elam at the
station, and the physicians manner and
prompted the detective to
ask him IL he had a weapon on his
person DR.. ELAN denied that he had.
When the detective, DR.. Elan, Mr.
Rousseau and Mr.. Cramer met in the
have the interview there.
"Why I've got a room,' Mr. Cramer
said. come up with me and we will
talk IL over-just you and l." i
DR.. Elan agreed readily and the de-
tective, disarmed by DR.. Elam's frank
ness did not follow them. 1t was only
a few minutes later that DR.. Elam
came down and calmly announced his
act.
DIR. Elam told John Torpey, house
detective at the hotel, that he and his
of accidentally. Later he said that
when he went into the room he charged
Cramer with paying attention to Mrs.
Elam, and Cramer denied it