South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-26
Man Wanted at Indianapolis
For Murder of Clothing Mer-
chant May Have Passed
Through This City tuesday.
PROBATION OFFICER
RECEIVES POSTCARD
Dated Indianapolis and Signed
Joseph EIIiS-Said That He
Attended Fair at Louisville
and Had a Coed Time.

Northern Indiana and southern
Michigan have been brought into the
limelight in the search for Joseuh
Ellis who is wanted az indianapolis
for the murder of Louis Schfansky az
an indianapolis hotel last Monday.
A clue from Goshen turned the In
dianapolis police towards this section
of the state and they think that Ellis
who is Thought 10 be W. r.. Anderson.
may be in hiding in some city in this
section
According to the Goshen story. "A
young man. who fts the description
sent out by the capital police called
al the general delivery window there
on Tuesday and asked for mail for
w. X. Anderson He appeared 10 DE
nervous and seemed I'm a hurry 10 get
away from the window.
After leaving the window he in
quired of several persons the route 10
Three Rivers Mich. Tie was not seen
later and ii is presumed that he went
farther north.
South Bend may have had Ellis for
a visitor Tuesday night of "Wednesday
morning, although the local police
heard nothing OF his being in this
the Michigan Central railroad and
Ellis would have TO pass through
South Bend If he took the lnterurban
to this city TO catch the train here.
or If he wanted 10 catch &c at Niles.
RECEIVES : CARD.
Los ANGELES. calf. Sept 26.-
Probation Officer Roland Murphy OF
the Los Angeles Juvenile court FeceiN-
ed a post card Thursday from Joseph
Ellis, accused of murder I'm Indianap-
OILS. The card was DOstmarked In
Sept Z1-Sunday. the day
before Joseph Schlansky. the second
hand clothing dealer. he is charged
with having murdered. was lured TO a
hotel room and slain.
At the same time Mr. Murphy VINO
saw Ellis july 10 last declared the
photograph in the rogues gallery of
the Los Angeles police department
was not that of Ellis. VINO he said WAS
only Z years old. Until then de-
tectives of the Identification bureau
were confident that Ellis was the Erred
BrOkaw now in Jail ia SAN Francisco.
who was arrested here in November.
1909. ana identified ass "A deserter from
the navy. The confusion OF the two
was due 10 the fact that the photo
graph produced on police circular
from Pittsburgh while really one of
Fred BrOkaw. was Identified bv Ellis
father as that of his son
Shows the Postcard
Mr.. Murphy showed the postcard he
received from Ellis THURSDAY. II
read
Was i'm Louisville There was
fair there. Am having good time.
Toe Ellis"
This was bat one of "a series Of post
ards received by Murphy from Ellis.
The others were postmarked Pitts
)ureh, Boston. Detroit and Minncap-
llis. isaac Snyder. "a neighb0r 81 the
Ellis family. when they lived here. and
his sons. also received number ~
postcards from the same cities.
Ellis became ward OF she juvenile
curt early this year. when he was ar
rested for stealing newspapers from
loOrsteps
I'm july" said Mr. Murphy. ~Joe's
ather. Jacob Ellis. came into the ju-
'enile court with = complaint that his
BOY was incOrrigible. He wanted us
20 send him TO Whittier. but we learn
sd that he had sent his family 90
Richmond. Va. aud was prepared 20
go there himself and Judge Wilbur.
presiding In the juvenile court sold
him ne would have 90 take the boy
with him"