New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-07
RICH COLOMBIAN
MURDER VICTIM
Police Believe Guell Was
Killed by One of Many
Enemies He Made.
CARRIED BIG KNIFE
READY FOR BRAWL
Boy. Former Boarder, Tells
Tales of His Violence-Detec-
tives Hunting for Wife.

Louis Carlos Guell, a prosperous 20
lombian, who had home at Floral
Park, l.. l., and whose body was diseov-
cred Sunday in the sedge grass on the
shore of Motifs Creek, at Woodmere'
L. l., was murdered. An autopsy per
formed yesterday afternoon at Law
renee, L. l., by Coroner's Physicien D.
F. Hutcheson established this fact to
the satisfaction of Phineas A. Seamon'
Nassau County detective, who is in
vestigating the crime.
1--WE think he was murdered for re-
venge," the detective said 1--WE are
searching for Joaquin Orrantla. SIX
teen years old, who formerly boarded
with Guell and his wife at Floral Park.
Jorge NJ. Vasquez, the Columbian
Consul In this city, gave the number OF
a house in West Sixty-fourth Street
where Orrantia has been staying with
friends since he left the home OF the
murdered Colombian early in Septem-
Der.
I'm not surprised that he was muir
dered," were the boys first words. he
had terrible temperate was always
getting into trouble with his neigh
bors-and often he picked fight with
foreigners he met in saloons at Floral
Park. Everybody hated him.
This is how it probably happened:
He boasted in the saloon OF his VIC
tories over every one who ever fought
with him, and some of the men who
heard him were mad and they lay In
wait for him. After they had beaten
him up they could have carried his
body to the marsh. 1t must have been
gang that did it, because Guell was
too big and powerful to be beaten by
any one man.
"He always carried his big, long
Mexican knife with him. ! have often
seen him practising throwing the knife
in his kitchen at Floral Park. He was
what you call expert at this knife
throwing game. And he feared secret
enemies. Last summer he had me buy
him a rife. Every night he made me
sleep with the rife right by my bed.
Sometimes in the night there would
come a rap at the door. | would grab
my rife, Guell would take his knife,
and we would creep TO the door. Al
ways there was nobody there. but these
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worry"
Guell, a salesman, thirty-fve years
old, employed by Warner Brothers. Of
225 Fifth Avenue, had been missing
since November %. His wife had given
up hope OF finding him and was about
to have the police send out general
alarm when two Boy Scouts CHANGED TO
stumble on his body Sunday. At the
inquest it was discovered that there
was a blood clot on the brain, deep cuts
in the side OF the head and chin and a
depressed fracture of the skull.
81 think Guell was murdered by
Poles who live near him." said DR.. G.
Wills. of 172 West Seventy-seventh
Street, a friend who has visited at
Floral Park. "He had had several
quarrels with them in saloon in my
presence"
Detective Seamen is searching fol-
Mrs. Guell, who disappeared shortly
before her husbands body was found
Il is reported that she is in hospital
in Manhattan. A woman considerably
Younger than the murdered salesman
She IS noted for her beauty. She is
the daughter of prominent family In
Berranquilla, Colombia They were
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