Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
CONFESSION MAY
AT LAST CLEAR
ELLIS MYSTERY
Prisoner Admits Shooting
SOmeryille Man Two
Years Ago.
WOMAN PAID HIN $500
FOR THE JOB, HE SAYS
Then at Her Suggestion He Sc
cured Work in Victims
Lumber Yard.

SOMERVILI4E, Jan. I8.--The rnvs.
terious shooting of Monroe F. Ellis
wealthy banker and lumber msr-
ehant, as he sat at dinner with his
Wife and children in his home. IN the
millionaire colony. at Baskins Ridge
on November 20. 1911, is at last near
solution.
The key to the solution is thought
10 lie in womans jealousy and de-
sire for revenge.
Paul Carl is in the county jail -
DAY charged with having fired the
siugs that almost fatally injured
Ellis.
According TO the announcement or
a private detective agency this after
noon, he has made confession, but
IN that confession asserts that he shot
Ellis with intent to kill at the behest
Of a woman
The statement issued by the agency
reviews the details Of the Ellis shoot
Ing, and adds:
Met Woman in Jersey City.
We succeeded in having an oper-
atiye gain the confidence of Carl who
was living with his mother at East
Stroudsburg.i Pa Carl told this oper-
ative that In the summer Of 1911.
while he was working in Jersey City.
ne met a certain woman by appoint
ment and she asked him 10 hire some
body to kill Ellis, saying that she
would pay $500 to have this DONE
Being very much attached TO this
woman. he consented to get man
for this purpose Failing to hire
others, Carl decided TO do the lob him
self On the evening of November 20
he went to Ellis's home and saw Ellis
at the table in the dining room with
his family. Taking up a position about
| fifteen feet from the window. he fred
charge of buckshot and fed.
"On the wornan's advice Carl iats<
came to Bernardsville and got en-
ployment. in the Conkling Lumber
Company, of which Ellis was the
head, thus to divert suspicion Then
the strain proved toe great and NJ
left. For the shooting the prisoner al.
Units having received $500. The vo1aAz
in the ease is under surveillancee ?
Frederick A Pope, the proaerzifo.
sIof Somerset county. said today thai
more arrests win follow.
The prosecutor said that il waz
largely due to the Persistence Of John
A. Roebhng, the millionaire Trentof'
wire manufacturer, whose home Il
in Bernardsville THAI Carl was ar
rested. Roebling used bloodhound
in an effort to trace the assaiiant OF
Ellis Immediately utter the crime
| When the bloodhounds failed TO pick
up the real scent, he hired detectives,
who have been at work ever stflce.
Carl was arrested in Camden By
| County Detective George D. Patter
and the private sleuths employed By
Roebling the night before last and
brought quietly here. He is said 70
be a laborer
Ellis Non-commital
When Ellis was asked today If he
was satisfied the solution of the mys-
terry had been reached he said:
Il have nothing to say. ] didnss
know of the arrest of this man unit
this morning and l haven't been IN
communication with the proeecutor.s 9
The Ellis case was one of the most
battling mysteries recorded in the
annals of New Jersey crimes. Ellir
himself insisted that he had no enc
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