Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-24
SLAyER'S DOUBLE
APOL|CE PUZZLE
Insist Man Arrested at San
Francisco Is Not Ellis,
Alias BrokaW.
HIS GlRL-WIFE, IN GRIEF,
TRIES TO KILL HERSELF
Joins Others in Identifying Photo
graph of Suspect Wanted for
Pittsburgh Crime.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, September "a
Either Joseph Ellis, alias Fred Brokaw
alias W. r. Anderson, alias Fred Boley
wanted here for the murder Of Joseph
Schlansky. a secondhand dealer, in a
room in the Oneida Hotel Monday night
has an exact double or he Is not under
arrest in San Francisco, as reported last
night. according to the local police
The photograph of Ellis or Brokaw sent
broadcast by the Pittsburgh police de-
partment after the man had lured a Sec
ond-hand dealer to a hotel and robbed
him was identified positively by four per-
sons here as the man who killed Schlan-
sky. The photograph was identified by
Lewis and Jacob Schlansky, son Of the
murdered man; W. C. Meyer, day clerk
at the hotel, and the clerk in a loan office
in which the watch stolen from Maurice
Ran in Louisville. KY, was located.
Method of Operation.
Captain of Detectives Holtz was posi-
tive in his statement today that the
slayer OF Schlansky would be captured
soon. He said the operations of the man
had attracted wide attention to the case
and police in all cities had been put on
the lookout for him. The local police
do not believe the man arrested in San
Francisco is Ellis or Brokaw.
The operations Of Ellis were similar in
all cities he visited. Here he called at
the Schlansky store. told him he had
some clothing at his room in the hotel
which he wanted to sell. Schlansky ac-
companied him to the room, and it is
supposed resisted the attempt to rob him
hotel and departed from the city before
the alarm was given. In other cities
Ellis succeeded in robbing his victims and
escaped while they were locked in his
room.
Wife Attempts Suicide.
Audra Baker Anderson. who says that
she was married to Roy Anderson, be-
lieved to be Joseph Ellis, the slayer OF
Schlansky. at Danville, ILL.,. attempted
to commit suicide here today. The girl.
who Is 16 years old, told the police
after she had shot herself that she had
married Anderson July 5, and that her
husband had deserted her a week later.
The girl said that she had recognized
her husband from the description Of the
Schlansky slayer. and that photographs
sent out by the Pittsburgh police de-
partment were those of the man she had
married. The murderer registered at a
hotel here as Anderson.
In her room were found letters to hel
mother, Mrs. Iona Baker of Danville. ir
which she said she was going to kill her
self because her husband had murdered
man. 1nclosed were newspaper ac-
counts of Schlansky's death.
tions made by the girl. At the hospita
physicians said Audra probably would
not recover.
Pittsburgh to Claim Him.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, September "a =
Requisition papers for Fred Brokaw. alias
Fred Boley. alias r. White, under arrest
in San Francisco, and supposed to be the
man wanted here for robbery and as
sault, were sent to Gov Tener at Harris
burg today by the police department.
A city detective will start for Califor
mia tomorrow morning. and the paper!
when signed by Gov. Tener will be for
warded to the governor OF the coas
state.
Think He Borrowed Name.
TACOMA, Wash, September 4.-By {
singular coincidence the day OF th'
Schlansky murder in Indianapolis, fol
which Joseph Ellis, alias Fred Brokaw
is sought brought to the Tacoma polic'
real Fred Brokaw. a Tacoma youth. To-
crime in Pittsburgh in which a maj
was robbed by means of the same RUS
employed in the Schlansky murder. It Il
believed by officers here that Brokaw. wh'
has a police record, had chummed will
Ellis and that the latter made use o
| Brokaws name.
| The photograph on the circular sen
out by the Pittsburgh police has beeI
| identified as that of Brokaw, who is
Il Of 10
are at a loss to reconcile this with tn
| reported Identification by Jacob EMS
father Of Joseph Ellis. Young Brokav
| was in Tacoma a few months ago.