The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-17
MURDER PLANNED
Letters Found i'm the Room of
the EIliSeS
He Intended Killing
Wife and Himself.

Chicago Oct 17.-William G. Ellis,
| wealthy leather manufacturer of Gin
cinnati, who was found with three bull
| let wounds and his throat cut in a
room at downtown hotel with the
| body of his slain wife, is recovering
and, according to the police, may be
| booked on a charge of murder The
| inquest over Mrs. Ellis body was to
! be opened today but the police an
! nounced that it probably would be con-
tinued to permit further investigation
of the tragedy. Ellis, who is at the
Bridewen hospital, was able to leave
his bed today and in reply to inquiries
regarding his condition replied:
"Oh, L am all right. I will tell the
| whole story of this terrible affair at
| the inquest L have nothing else to say
a present"
He rose early and after a light
breakfast took a stroll through the
hospital corridors. DR.. D. A. H. Wa
terman, house physician at the hotel,
said today that he was of the opinion
that Ellis mind may have been af-
fected as the result of a disease from
which he had been suffering for sew
eral years
The police have three letters which
Ellis is said to have written at the
hotel Wednesday evening, apparently
indicating that the killing might have
been planned in advance. They read
in substance as follows:
The Letters.
MY Dear Sister: Take care of the
kids. Eleanor doesn't love me any
more. L cannot live with her, SO I
am going to take her with me. My
suspicious are true Make nv act APP
pear as if financial troubles were the
cause.-WilI.'
Dear Philip: Make it appear as if
my act was the result of my business
reversal 1 want Mr. appointed
administrator of my estate without
bonds. You will find my wife's jew
elry, consisting of a brooch, her rings
and other jewelry along with $25 In
money in a chamois bag which is pin
ned in her corset. All my jewelry can
be found on my bOdy-Will."
Dear Morris: Look after the chill
dren. We will all meet in heaven"
Another note held as important evil
handwriting and unsigned. 1t reads:
Am here for a week. What shall
l DO? When you come address Audi
forum Monday
The police believe the foregoing was
the first draft Of a telegram sent by
Mrs. Ellis, but they have been unable
to learn to whom the message was
sent
Throat Cut After Death.
The throat of Mrs. William c. Ellis
of Cincinnati was cut after she was
dead as the result of bullet wounds
according to the testimony of Coro-
AAS oiOieiA1 SPRINGER at the inquest
today. Ellis listened to to the evil
dence while waiting to testify In a
statement to the police, which was
placed in evidence, Ellis said soon
after the tragedy was discovered that
his wife had confessed to him Wednes-
day evening, Is hours before her
death, that she was in love with a
young man named Caldwell she had
met last summer in Brantford, Can
ada. On account of this confession
and his own business losses Ellis said
he and his wife had agreed that life
was not worth living and had decided
to commit suicide together.
According to detectives there were
several things in the hotel room to
show movements of one of the oc-
after at least part of the
tragedy was completed. The window
shade was drawn down and bloody
hand prints were on it's edge. An
empty whisky flask on the bath room
shelf was also marked with bloody
fingers. Ellis said that he drank from
it after wounding his throat The
in the bath room was filled
with bloody water. The telephone
transmitter more hand prints. Ellis
himself was fairly clean when he was
house detectives