The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-24
Girl Says She is the Wife oil
Joseph Ellis, Suspect in
the Hotel Murder
Mystery.
POLICE ARE DOUBTFUL
Slayer Of shalansl<y Left indianapolis.
for Cincinnati and VIII
Soon be Ar.
rested.

United Press Leased Wire Servfoe.1
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 24.-De-
claring that she was married to Jo-
seph Ellis, suspected murderer OF
Joseph Shalansky, sixteen year old
girl giving her name as Aurda Bak-
or Of IL Nicholas avenue, Danville.
H., shot herself today at her rooming
place here, In an attempt at suicide.
At the city hospital where her condi.
tion is reported serious, the girl said
she married the supposed murderer
under the name of Roy Anderson In
her Danville home, July 8.
The police scout her story of her
being Anderson's wife and have begun
a searching investigation of her own
identity. In her room at 834 East
Georgia street, the police found let
ter addressed to her mother, Mrs.
Iona Baker. in which the girl said
her husband had murdered man
here. In another letter to her mother
were newspaper clippings about Shall
ansky's murder. She tolu detectives
at the hospital that sne recognized
her husbands picture In local news
paper as the clothing merchants slay-
er. She said she lived with Ander-
son for one week and that he then
deserted her. Trouble between herself
and her family, she said caused her to
leave home and come to Indianapolis.
Determined upon suicide she went to
another roomer's bed chamber after
he had left this morning, got his re
volver and seated on the edge of his
bed, fred bullet into her left side.
She staggered to her own room. leav-
ing a trail of blood.
Weak but still able to walk, Mrs.
Anderson then left the rooming house.
went to corner grocery and told the
grocer she had shot herself. He call
ed the police and the officers had her
taken to the hospital. Frank Della
tore the rooming house keeper, said
that visitor to the young woman last
Monday, the day when Shalansky was
found dead in local hotel, resembled
Joseph Ellis, the youth the police are
lseeking for the murder. Mrs. Ander-
son was not IN when he called. She
! told the police at the hospital that
she had never seen her husband since
she had been in Indianapolis
Dellatore said the girl had not paid
him much rent since she came here
six weeks ago and had been ordered
to move. He said he did not know
she was married and that she never
intimated to him or to his wife that
she had husband.
Pfnning their faith to the wide
publicity given Joseph Ellis. of Rich
mond, Va, suspected murderer Of
Joseph shalapsky, Monday, the local
police were hopeful today that Ellis
will be captured shortly. When he is
taken the police confidently expect
him to confess to hotel robberies In
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Toledo, and
louisville. The gold watch taken
from the Louisville victim was pawned
here by Shalansky's murderer which
convinced the police In spite of Ellis
many alias that he Is under arrest In
San Francisco, that young Ellis, a
Jew, committed the entire series OF
holdups. A curious fact pointed out
by the police today Is that all of his
victims were Jewish second hand
clothing dealers. Shalansky's funeral,
held today, attracted large crowd.
His widow and six sons We're among
J the mourners.