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the purpose, and before leaving her
she gave him $40 as a sign of good
will. Carl stated that he saw a num-
Der of rough characters in New York
and had tried to hire them to kill FL
lis. but he failed.
about the middle of October he
met this woman in New York by ap-
pointnlent and she urged him to find
someone to do the shooting as quickly
as possible, and on November 10 he
again met her at the railroad station
at Gladstone and told her that he had
engaged a suitable man, but never
animated that he was going to do the
shooting himself"
The statement then goes into details
as to how Carl lay in wait for Ellis as
the lumberman went from his office to
his home. When he failed to see Ellis
coming along Carl decided. according
to his confession, to go to the Ellis
home.
"On reaching Ellis's residence about
$3.50 D. m.," the statement continues,
"he saw Ellis at the table in the din
ing-room with his family. Taking up
a position about twelve or fifteen
feet away from the window, he fired
at Ellis"
After Carl had been taken to the
Ellis home last night and questioned
by Prosecutor Pope, Mr.. Ellis said:
"Frame-up," Says Ellis.
81 do not believe this boy shot me.
I cannot help but believe that this
whole thing is frame-up."
Mr.. Ellis refused to give the name
of the woman who had been called
into the conference in his Office. while
Carl was there. He would not say II
he was aware of the identity OF the
woman referred to in the statements
issued by Prosecutor Pope and the
Pinkerton agency.
Mrs. M. d. Wilson, with whom
Young Carl and his aunt, Mrs. Holly,
boarded. said:
1.-THE arrest of Paul Carl is an out
rage. He is as innocent of the crime
as I am. He did not come to Bern
ardsville until two months after the
shooting, and l do not believe he had
ever visited Bernardsville until Janu-
airy, 1912"
John Chrisman, freight agent for
the Lackawanna railroad, where Carl
was employed for f1ve weeks in the
summer of 1912, after Mr.. Ellis had
dismissed him, said:
'Tt is silly to accuse this boy of
shooting Mr.. Ellis. He would never
have had the courage to have car
ried out such a plot"
Carts aunt, Mrs. Grace Holly. has
been employed for several years at
the Ellis Offices She is q widow with
a son fifteen years old, who Is at
school in Stroudsburg, where Carts
mother, who is Mrs. Holly's sister,
lives.
Mrs. Holly, the aunt employed in
the Ellis offices, could not be seen.
She was said to be too deeply dis
tressed over Carts predicament to
discuss it, but Mrs. M. d. Wilson, her
closest friend, spoke for her. She
said
ut is ridiculous to bring Mrs. Holly
into this. / hope no one thinks she
is the woman referred to in this So
called confession. If she had ever
suffered any wrong she would have
told 1t to her own son, who lived here
with her at the time, not to her
nephew.
81 think this poor boy has been
kept awake day and night until he'd
say anything to be allowed to 30 TO
sleep. He was splendid young fell
low, with only the one fault os stay
ing out too late at night. He didn't
even know his way about Bernaris-
vile or Basking Ridge until January,
1912, long after this shooting. l am
going to take care of his aunt and
engage q lawyer for him."