Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
TO JAIL WOMAN
IN ELLIS CASE
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again met the woman, whose name is
being withheld by Prosecutor Pope,
at Gladstone station, on the evening
of November 10, and that on the fol-
lowing morning he went to the plant
of the Conkling Lumber Company,
where Mr.. Ellis was pointed out to
him.
At 6 o'clock that evening, he said,
he crept beneath the dining room
window of the Ellis home. When Mr..
Ellis was about to take his seat at the
table, Carl said. he fired a full load
of buckshot into his body.
Woman Suggests His Return.
Following the shooting Carl board
ed a train for Summit, where he
spent the night, going the next day to
Hoboken for Stroudsburg. He said
the woman kept him posted as to the
condition of Mr.. Ellis. At her sug-
gestion, he said, he returned to Ber-
nardsville in January, 1912, and OBJ
tanned employment as a clerk in the
office of Mr.. Ellis.
Prosecutor Pope's version of the
confession differed from that of the
Pinkerton detectives concerning the
woman's part in the crime. Mr.. Pope
said the story of the assault on a
by certain plotters who desired to
have Mr.. Ellis killed and who used
Carl as a tool to carry out their de-
signs.
Prosecutors Statement.
In a typewritten statement, Prose-
cutor Pope said:
while there is much concerning
his statement and this mysterious
affair which the interests of justice
do not permit me to discuss, prin-
cipally because there yet remain some
important portions of the mystery
to be cleared up, thus much can be
accepted as authentic:
Carl was induced to believe that
Ellis had maltreated a woman who
was near and dear to him. In the
light of recent events, however, 1t
may be stated that this was but a
subterfuge, and not founded upon
fact, nor was 1t ever intended by any
of the parties involved in the con-
sniracy that this boy himself should
carry out the design. He was brought
into 1t solely for the purpose of hir-
ing some guerilla to do the trick.
Paul made numerous efforts to obtain
some man of this class to perform
this service, but without success.
HE told me that they refused to do
business with him because he could
not show them the money. He said
one or two Of them told him that he
looked too good to them. and another,
he said, told him to go home to his
mother.
trailing to make the necessary ar
rangements and brooding over the in
dignity which he believed had been
committed, Paul went to the Ellis
home and shot Ellis. He used a three
barreled gun loaded with buckshot"
Prosecutor Pope then explains how
Carl escaped to Hoboken, and of his
return to his home in East Strouds-
burg.
after the shooting of Ellis" the
prosecutors statement continues,
aCarl learned for the first time that
the real motive for having Ellis re-
moved was not as had been stated to
him. There were probably other mo-
tives, which cannot be discussed at
this time"
Pinkertons Differ.
At the Pinkerton detective agency
this version of the confession was
given:
ssCarl told the operative that in the
summer of 1911. while he was work
ing In Jersey City, he met woman
by appointment at the railroad sta
ton at Gladstone, N. J.. where she in
formed him that Monroe +. Ellis. of
Bernardsville, had attacked her and
had not kept certain promises he had
made to her. and that she wanted
him, Carl to hire somebody to kill
Ellis, saying that she would pay $500
to have this done,
Being very much attached to this
Voman, he consented to get a man for