The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-08

wcmen's hearts. But not ray Of
light on the crime itself.
The known facts OF how Elwell
spent the night before his death are
few. During the early evening he
was one OF dinner party at large
hotel. Other guests We're Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewisohn, Miss Viola Kraus and
Il South American journalist who met
t.lwell tor the first time that even
ing. Al a nearby table sat Victor
Won Schlegel, the divorced husband
of Miss Kraus and Miss ELY Hope
Anderson, singer whose home is
in Minneapolis.
All who were present agreed after
ward that there was no show of i'll
feeling between Elwell and Won
Schlegel, though they brushed shoul-
ders on the dance floors, several times
with Won Schlegell's former wife
dancing with the sportsman.
After leaving the hotel the Lewis
Ohm party, including Elwel went to
Il roof garden theater, where they
remained until 1880 when all left and
Elwell was seen to start on foot
toward his home. Here ends all un-
asSailable evidence of the murder
victims movements. A man told in
vestigators he had seen Elwell and
a woman in an upper roadway dance
hall at much later hour. A neigh
Dor claimed to have seen Elwell driven
home by a man in racing car at
2:30. A taxicab driver asserted he
had driven the sportsman home di.
rectly after he left the Lewisohn
party.
More important evidence seemed to
lie in the statements OF Margaret
Entler, telephone operator, who
declares she tried to put through two
telephone calls from Elwell's home
between 2 and 2:SO O'Clock on the
morning of the tragedy The num-
bcr called in each case was that Of
William II. Pendleton, a former rae
ing partner Of Elwells. When in,
terrogated he said he could not i'm.
agine why Elwcll should have been
so anxious to communicate with him
during the early morning hours. They
mad not been intimate in many
months, he said.
After two weeks of investigation
and merciless publicity the small army
Of investigators became definitely sep.
arated into two factions. Both pre-
face their theories with the state
ment nothing is impossible and
each clung doggedly to its pet so
luton"
The first faction. including a ma,
jority of the detectives, said, What
if the doors were locked? Some en-
emy, man or woman, killed Elwell."
The second, numbering many of
Elwell's former friends and some Of
the cleverest detectives, retorted,
What if there were no powder burns?
Elwell killed himself and someone
who arrived before the police hid the
pistol
After the funeral, Joseph S. Elwel,
father of the dead man, declared his
unfaltering belief that his son had
been murdered
Elwell's wife, who admitted she
was contemplating divorce proceed
ings when she heard of Elwell's death.
adhered to the suicide theory, and
expressed Indignation that the racing
man made no provision in his will for
their SON
During the course Of the investiga-
ton Assistant District Attorney Joyce
ordered the detention Of Mrs. Lar,
sen, the housekeeper, as u material
witness. Many We're convinced that
the woman's anxiety TO avoid scam
dal' was concealing evidence which
might lead to the apprehension CT the
guilty person. Her release was or
dered by District Attorney Swami, who
said that no evidence sufficient to
hold anyone had been secured.