Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-17
ElUeU Murder
Battles Police
Continued from Page Ono

Vestlgatl0n last nlght that telephone
connection had been made between Mr.
Elwells home and that of his friend
early on the morning of the murder.
The mysterious lady Of the lingerie
bits OF whose apparel have been dis
covered in Elwelrs late residence, con
tinues to be the central figure in the
search for the noted whist expert and
turfman's slayer. ..
She is said to be the same young so
ciety woman whose photograph in the
one piece bathing costume was kept by
Elwell upon the dresser in his bedroom
and the Importance of her part in the
case is based upon the theory that FL
wells slayer may have been a man
who was jealous of his intimacy with
With crimson countenance Mrs. Marie
Larsen, the Swedish woman who worked
as housekeeper for. Elwell, admitted last
evening in the office of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John T. Dooling. that
she had endeavored to conceal this
woman S connection with the case from
the detectives by hiding her belongings
from them.
Kept Lingerie There
=. She said that this woman had made
"a practice to keep breakfast cap,
snppers, kimono and a few articles OF
lingerie in Elwell's house and that she
was the woman with whom he lunched
N the house about two weeks before
he was slain. ''
with tears dimming her eyes Mrs.
Larsen also made a statement to Mr..
pooling,. which no amount of previous
questioning by the police or other in :
tesugators had been able to drag from
ger. 1t was to the effect that she un :
ISerstood that the owner of the bits Of
lingerie and a young woman who Wis
lted the Elwell residence last Friday
lew hours after the discovery Of the
erime to be one and the same person.
one also complicated matters to n
WSettain extent by stating that ON the
iuissuay aiai preceding the tragedy another
SIl, whose name she did not know, but
Sho who was snort and somewhat stout and
Sno wore gray dress trimmed with
iur, had called upon Elwell and had
lanched with him between the hours
pl and p. m. and that he had seemed
!, very attentive to her.
d Never Saw Her Before
This girl, she said. was about tvor-
T'hree years Of age. She declared
.nat II was the only time that she anor
COW cav ner on the premises. After lunch.
t, ttUn, She said, this girl left In a taIicah
mat ElWell had summoned.
, nrs' Larsen denied knowledge of tba
nSn nSSner9Ms 9 other female acouaiptances
"nG" snS hlwell is credited with having had
NJ Ou expressed the positive belief thar
Nv woman mad keys to the premises.
,ho ou tne Day preceding the tragedy
Sar saia' she had discovered him on
IN In hin arrival at about s 80 a. m, seated
IN tts th reception room reading his mail
fourIe Ie same chair in which she had
deatS MN the following day with Tho
\ persora @ wound in his forehead. To the
Z norton ns investigating the case the I'm
Il tbn OF THIS information attaches
A mae, me iact that 1t had hitherto been
ElwsiII lI'er OF much surmise as 70 how
eYtron, VINO usually went to bed at nv
be nm s i iate hour, had CHANGED 10 to
delivsrod ,ase friday when his mail was
anu "hen the slayer arrived.
Believe Slayer Locked Door
has tN very GY myystifying part of her story
bes'ioule door closed and inctnS ,ns outer
ant @ arrival. She said that ngu Mh upon
n tibepea ba she smelt smoke and tSnun Snen sne
tbe ini rom cigarette. She then nnai ~
Ing rTF V"ry 200 door and heard Elweil brestb btea
be had been IIl1f shct sbs When dSnnhe she saw that
caSrvin ana package that She had Hdnu, hnu.
askaS ana ran out into the straa. oeen
SosoaIa Hea driver of a milk wagon S'teet te and
do 40 ah When he made no n,o M set
an an SSs 80 she ran to Broadway no ana fnoye to
siseI Icer herself, This policeman iLouna
SWSa, quite well, aud said an knew hiw
no answor ans rne matter, Joe?" but he NAM. mim
was esp.te Ions. the fact that the outsr doo.
standiDv in she said, the mill uoor
AlTer tbst IN IN the vestibuie and a sbs ho was
She ysst;hs, ihe mail had been deliverad
'''i0u'e' This led to the thsurea suDa