Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-04
SEEK new WOMAN
IN E[WE[L CASE
Detectives Hope to Get Light
on Mystery Near Wash
ington.

New York detectives, it was re-
ported last night. will endeayor fo
locate an unknown young woman
believed to be resident of MARYLAND
near the District line, to see il she
can throw any light on the mystic
rious murder Of Joseph B. Elwen in
the metropolis.
According to word received hero
last night. Adolph Prossnitz, formerly
head waiter Of the Belvidere Hotel.
Baltimore, and now in New York. told
detectives Of this new feminine ac-
quaintance OF the murdered turfman.
II was reported last night that the
s!eurhs would bring Prossnitz to Bal
timore in few days in an effort to
nno the Maryland woman The
water: reports state, was not able to
gave the woman's name.
Insists Erssen Had Money.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Joseph Bovine
Eiweli. the card expert, was in ex-
ceilent financial standing at the time
ne was mysteriously murdered in the
reception room of his home, 244 West
IOth street, on the morning of June
IL This fact was emphatically stated
Today by Andrew Macrery. attorney
Tor the Elwell estate, following a dis
cussion with Assistant District Attor-
ney John T. Dooling. 1t apparently
BUSINESSES the various reports that
nave been current, that Elwell was
pressed for money at the time of his
murder.
+ Trust Fund for Som Exists.
~ElweH could have raised 100000
overnight at the time OF his death.
1T had been necessary MI.
Macrery stated. = ~ 80
While Mr.. Macrery refuse6 tosxo
INTO details concerning the financial
STATUS OF the slain turfman. or dis
cusS his estate, he did confirm tho re-
port that the trust fund established by
EiweIl Tor his son. Richard Derby FL
well, now student in the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology actually
existed. l-trs-r-, -
This trust fund has been~arspasay
estim ated up to 100000.
District Attorney Swami staten that
ne expected Mrs. Josephine Lewis
feet Wilmerding to appear at hiEs Of
nee early next week. when she will be
ASKED to tell all she knows OF Efwell
or ms acQuainta noes in an effort to
ascertain whether her knowledge win
aio In any way toward a solution of
the mystery. Is -. =
Daughter OF WashfnEton MAN.
Mrs Wilmerding was married to
Sutnoert Mortimer Wilmerding on
June .. 1915, following a steamship
romance. She had just finished three
years educational course in a French
convent when the war compefled her
to return to. America She took mas
sage on the liner Rocham beau. but
Cuthbert Wilmerding had secured the
last cabin on the ship. Hearing of
MISS Peets plight. young Wilmerding
gave up his Stateroom to her, and this
act led to the growth of deeper affec-
eion That culmi mated in their mar
rage: Their marriage was.one of the
social events of 1915
At the outbreak of the Mexican
CRISIS young WIDENING Joined the
lst Field Artillery and left for service
on the border Divorce proceedineS
in 1917 - '"'o
Wilmerding is the son OF Louis
Earle Wilmerding of Paris His moth
er was Miss Sadie 1Schenck. a social
favorite of this city. who left a trust
fnnd of 100000 to her husband on
her death. Mrs. Wilmerttug is the
daughter of George L. Peet; formerly
or washington, d. c.. She has been
lying with her aunt Mrs. Charles
H Pope of this oity, at her Summer
home. Narragansett Pier, r. I. Young
Wilmerding married again after the
divorce.
As far as can be ascertained Mrs.
Josephine Lewis Peet Wilmerding
first met Efweu at Palm. Beach early
in 1918.